Somebody had to start it. I'm eating fried chicken so I ain't making a thrilling opening post.

The military uniforms look especially terrible on a Pirates uniform ... awful. I guess a person now knows what color-blind people see.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Nova pitching ok. Boring game.

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Scub vs Bucs?

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Anagram, I missed that at first. Lester looks great.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Tough play for 1b on rizzos grounder. Pitcher should have caught the throw. Jim and Len are cookoo.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Nice to see Lester pitch well.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Been busy..haven't seen a game in awhile...nice to see a win.

They (hickey , score host) were really kissing Hendricks dick for a " great start" yesterday..I didn't see an inning but 4 runs in 6 or 7 innings is garbage..not praiseworthy..what am I missing?

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Solid outing from Lester, but another shit night at the dish for the Cub. If not for the shit play by the Brewers yesterday, they would be in a real dry spell.

Don't get the Hendricks comments either. One of the guys that cover the Cubs said on twitter that Hendricks has been awesome his last 4 starts, eh. The media is just dying to justify someone of the nonsense that has been said that he is a #1 or #2 pitcher.

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

Schmitty. Sort through these stats and get back to us.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting/sort/onBasePct/order/true

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Monty to the DL, Shatwood back in the rotation, FML

You guys really should waiver deal for Shields.

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I don't think that Shields get to the Cubs slot. I think one of the teams fighting for a wild card slot in either league would put in a claim.

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Rain Delay Theater: Beer Money.

I could watch Kelly Crull read the Koran for 3 hours straight if I had to.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

If they need to play 2 tomorrow thus allowing them to call up a 26th man to start and avoid chatwalk im all for it.

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I don't find her attractive in the least but hey, have at it.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Hamels has one of the best high back leg kicks in the game.

Schwarber hitting a bomb in Pittsburgh just never gets old.

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- Henry George

I was gonna say they better try. Even more rain tomorrow is the forecast. Sunday to be good.

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You don't see that happen very often.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I’m hoping the best for Darvish and expect things to work out. But I wish the Cubs would’ve taken a flyer on Verlander and/or Gerrit Cole. They were both in shitty situations and immediately came back to form once they moved to Houston. Seems Hammels is another guy where this happened. Not much was given up for Cole right? Much less than what the Cubs gave up for Quintana?

Either something is wrong with pitchtrax or that was the highest zone I have ever seen. Happ, Heyward and Baez all had called strikes on a pitch that was a foot above the zone according to the mlb pitch trax.

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Baez is back to swinging at shit. He might actually see something over the plate if he wasnt hacking at everything.

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I'm sure he'll be fine.

5 double-plays in one game (so far) ... amazing and funny.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

In the old days Baez would be sat down for half his shit. Just an extension of parents letting kids do whatever.

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He's kinda done this all year. He gets to about .305 and then goes ice cold for a week, hits a bomb and is on fire again.

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Even the great Bote has fallen victim to the runner and 3rd with less than 2 outs Cub disease.

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Why did Maddon take out Cishek for another right hander after he just struck out a guy?

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because he's maddon. why the hell did he bat Happ leadoff? Why does he do anything? Cishek is a machine out there. I would have left him in. Now Chavez can't find the plate and off we go.

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7 double plays in 9 innings.

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