whats goin' on with pat? Last night Zaidman was doin the play by play, and I think he did it a couple games before that. I seem to hear more of Zak lately and not Pat.

Whats goin' on? Is Pat takin' games off? Is he not healthy?

I'm kinda getting worried.

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Pat was back for the Thursday afternoon game, took Tuesday and Wednesday games off after the Monday off day. Just negotiated time off. They said repeatedly during the broadcasts the "Pat is okay, he'll be back for the series finale".

ZZ has been in for a while. What is up?

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They just said Pat is back tomorrow. Just dealing with family stuff.

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This guy gets 4 months off every year, how the fuck do you ask for more days off during the season?

You try singing play by play and see how long you last.

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Perhaps if a spouse, child, or parent is very sick.

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Pat is a Chicago treasure - leave him alone. ZZ is obviously being groomed to take over.

Much more likely that ZZ is a groomer than he is being groomed.

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And what is with the maniacal cackling every time Pat says something non-baseball related? Is that ZZ or are they pushing a button?

That's ZZ. It's very obnoxious.

God I hope not. He's barely able to handle one damn inning. I can't handle years or this clown every day.

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I hate to break this to you....someone in the Cubs organization loves ZZ...I think you're stuck with him for many years to come.

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Maybe not if 670 gives up the rights deal when it is up for renewal.

They need to get the AAA TV guy, Alex Cohen to at least do some of the Monday night games that Pat takes off. (All of the minors are off on Mondays except the week of July 4th.). Cohen did Spring Training games off of a teleprompter with an idiot in Ryan Sweeney doing color and was still better than ZZ.

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It's the team's call, not WSCR.

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whistler missing ?

he's been making more mistakes than usual - hopefully, just harmless stuff. longevity is nice, i guess it guarantees HOF status. the same low criteria of making 1 all-star game and calling someone an all-star in his title.

Coomer's career WAR was 1.4 and in the season of his lone all-star appearance, his OPS+ was 87.

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thanks for that info, former all-star poster, jawbreaker.

What is the best Italian beef in Chicago?

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there's no way that's going to happen. No way.

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i'm thinking that steve swisher's all-star year stats were worse. was it sparky that selected swisher? the reds were in the 1975 world series and i believe the manager would pick the bench....and each club had to be represented?

1976, Swisher’s “all star” season:

.601 OPS
65 OPS+



Madlock and Monday both had great years (Madlock won the batting title!), so I don’t know what Sparky was smoking.

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Shouldn't this be a top story by the media critics/sports journalism experts on the Score?

agreed. i had mentioned this about the wscr broadcasting tribunal investigating and condemning schriffen and not zaidman. hughes, well...he's been messing up on the exact baserunners, after a hit and movement on the bases. even if i watch a cubs game, i also try and watch the packaged highlites the next day and you get other team's broadcasters, along with cubs tv and radio.

the nuremberg tribunal sent keitel to the gallows, but not field marshals von rundstedt and von manstein nor generaloberst guderion. schriffen or zaidman? hughes is untouchable. he comes off as desperate to make ancillary income off his cubs job, but he's allowed a mistake here and there.

yeah, wow.

i also believe the cubs wrigley field PA man mispronounced gary matthews' name, when he sung the 7th inning stretch the other day. he announced him as 'jerry' matthews.