It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

If Q is who the Cubs think he is, then there is no way a manager has that quick of a hook with the guy. I guarantee Maddon doesn't pull Lester or Hendricks (or Jake last year) in a similar situation.

If Q is who the Cubs think he is, then there is no way a manager has that quick of a hook with the guy. I guarantee Maddon doesn't pull Lester or Hendricks (or Jake last year) in a similar situation.

He used to do it with Hendricks (Almost cost them a World Series) but I agree. Not a good feeling when you know that your manager doesn't have any confidence in you.

He used to do it with Hendricks (Almost cost them a World Series) but I agree. Not a good feeling when you know that your manager doesn't have any confidence in you.

Nothing pisses me off more than that move. "Let's bring Lester in during the middle of an inning with a guy on base."

If Q is who the Cubs think he is, then there is no way a manager has that quick of a hook with the guy. I guarantee Maddon doesn't pull Lester or Hendricks (or Jake last year) in a similar situation.

Could NOT be more wrong if you tried.


And I agree with the larger thing on Quintana. Joe is the fastest hook in the West.


Joe would pull Steve Nebraska after his 78th pitch.

Could NOT be more wrong if you tried.


And I agree with the larger thing on Quintana. Joe is the fastest hook in the West.


Joe would pull Steve Nebraska after his 78th pitch.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

6 IP, 2 ER and a no decision. Not ace stuff but we'll take it. ERA down to 4.09.

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

Go 8 miles south and thats a loss instead of a ND

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Just needs to throw a shutout each start and solve the 8 LOB from last night. Problem solved

Back to hard luck Q tonight. Gives up zip through 5, gives up 2 hits and the bullpen allows them to score in the 6th while the offense scores nothing.

It's the terrible White Sox offense.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Or pitch better against a weaker offense than the guy he is facing who is pitching against a stronger one. What you're really describing is a pitcher who simply isn't as good as the pitchers he faces, right?

63-62 for his career.

6-5 on the season.

Funny how that works.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Nope.

James Shields is 140-131 for his career.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Sad to see a Cubs fan so worked up about the White Sox he is posting about their prospects in a Quintana thread.

JoRR, were you molested by run support as a kid?

Some nights his teammates pick him up, but more often then not, they do not and he ends up with the L.

Impossible. "Run support" doesn't exist.

Run support is the number of runs a team scores when a given starting pitcher is on the mound. Over the long run, there should be little difference between pitchers in this category, but from year to year, the number can vary significantly, and even members of the same starting rotation can have very different numbers, which can range between less than two runs per game at the low end, to six or more at the high end. It is obviously very difficult for a starting pitcher to post a winning record with low run support, no matter how well he pitches, while a high run support can make a pitcher a big winner in spite of otherwise poor statistics.

Run support is considered to be largely a result of luck, even though to a small extent, a good-hitting pitcher can contribute to his own run support. This is why it is expected that a pitcher who has benefited from particularly good or poor run support in one season will revert towards the mean the next year, other factors being equal. Some pitchers do seem to escape this rule, but they are merely outliers: for example, Brian Meadows had outstanding run support for a number of years, giving him high win totals in spite of mediocre pitching, while on the other end, Jose Quintana has been notorious for having poor run support year after year.