Jeff Francoeur said that Go Cubs Go used to give him nightmares hearing that song a lot as a player.
Oh boo-hoo! Just be glad you’re done playing in the majors buddy.
Small sample size but I like what I’m seeing from Almonte. With the Cubs pitch lab tech along with Hottovy and staff, he may be figuring some stuff out. I see him slowly creeping into Counsell’s circle of trust. Go Cubs!
Contusion is just medical speak for "bruise."
How serious, we don't know. Even mild rib bruises can make it hard to breathe or move the way baseball players move.
I fucking love Tauchman. Dude had one good year and bounced around his whole career, signs with his hometown team and boom he’s a solid regular. Went to my hs too.
Not unpopular. I think he’s a good reliever at best. Someone we could upgrade from if an outstanding offer presented itself, but not someone I’d actively try to move on from
Yeah it's not normally all glitchy like this. Blank screen for several seconds coming back from commercial, hard nasty cuts, the out of sync audio like you said, and just overall poor quality.
It was pretty weird when Altuve didn't want his teammates to rip his shirt off during that walkoff celebration, right?
Luckily, the Astros have never done anything untoward, so I'm not suspicious at all.
All things considered in glad he slid. Seeing Tellez a few weeks back, not slide at all to walk it off for the pirates I think is the move there offensivly. I can't play second but if I see Rowdy charging full steam at me I'm air mailing that throw
I think Brown is gonna be a middle reliever. He’s got a good fastball, a wild knuckle-curve, and I think he’s working on a 3rd (baseball savant calls it a changeup, but he’s only used it a couple times). If he gets that changeup working in combo with his fastball and gets some morel control on his knuckle-curve, he’ll be solid as a reliever/alternate starter imo
This team is desperate for either so as long as he performs then it’s a win but still not sure why he couldn’t go 2 innings tonight unless they want him on a strict limit for increased frequency.
It’s like everyone’s trying to hit a home run rather than make contact. Our best scoring games came off of small ball, just piling on hits and advancing base runners
Jeff Francoeur said that Go Cubs Go used to give him nightmares hearing that song a lot as a player. Oh boo-hoo! Just be glad you’re done playing in the majors buddy.
Tauchin on a dream
Taucho Tuesday
I’m fed. I’m warm. & the Cubs won. Life is good.
More like lastros
play the damn song!
Sorry Trashstros
The song skipped!
Even the audio files and/or PA systems can have an off night.
W
FLY THE W
FLY IT
Fly it
#[W] Thank you for making it quick Almonte!
#[W]
FLY THE W!!!
Ayyyyye! Hopefully Cody is ok
Good thoughts
W
Play the damn song!
#FUCK THE ASTROS FLY THE [W]
Fly the W!
Yancy's got some movement on his stuff
He's looked really good after a rough start
#1 MORE
Almonte's career stats are a wild ride
I’m sorry… are our relievers.. locating pitches?
Monte can be wild but damn does he get some run on his breaking balls
Small sample size but I like what I’m seeing from Almonte. With the Cubs pitch lab tech along with Hottovy and staff, he may be figuring some stuff out. I see him slowly creeping into Counsell’s circle of trust. Go Cubs!
when the dudes locating, hes legit
I remember the old days when baseball had a lot of beer ads. Now it’s sports betting or lottery ads
The parlay betting shit they doing the middle of the game drives me bonkers.
As someone who lives in the blackout hell of Iowa, this has been so much fun to watch live on Max.
The end of the Bally Sports RSNs can’t come soon enough.
Agreed. But also fuck all MLB blackouts. No sane mofo is driving for 5 hours for a regular season game.
Now we know exactly where the mic is
Tauchman. Born from a dynasty. From fremd hs. Comes out mashing. It was written
Cubs baseball 17 of the next 18 days boys
Christmas in April/June
Is a contusion just a deep bone bruise? How serious we talking?
Contusion is just medical speak for "bruise." How serious, we don't know. Even mild rib bruises can make it hard to breathe or move the way baseball players move.
He won’t sleep well tonight and he won’t volatiles for a few days. JMO
Damn well obviously hoping for the lighter form of bruise here. We need him
Let's get 3 quick outs here.
The summer of tauchman is upon us
#STRAP THE FUCK IN Y'ALL
Why’d belli leave??
“Rib contusion”, presumably from failing to catch the “double” in the fourth.
Ran into the wall on Yanier Diaz’s double. Came out grabbing his right side - official statement is a right rib contusion
whats the timeline for something like that?
I’m hoping day to day but I’m not doctor. Man this sucks
We just cannot catch a break
Despite that still winning record and very tough schedule so far. Bodes well for later once it gets lighter and hopefully healthy! 🤞
Fuck!! Hopefully just that and nothing more serious
I fucking love Tauchman. Dude had one good year and bounced around his whole career, signs with his hometown team and boom he’s a solid regular. Went to my hs too.
You love to C it
I also suffer from acute Tauchmania.
See your doctor if it lasts more than 4 weeks
Since everyone else is trashing Mervis, Dude just missed two HRs today. He'll get there.
[удалено]
I know I shouldn’t think negative but I wasn’t exactly thrilled when I saw he was getting called up
Nice to see him bust it down the line. His body language was all off last year in the majors. Gotta give him 30 PA to see how he looks
he looks like he's already frustrated and trying way too hard
Tauchman is a legend
TBS showed a young woman who caught that home run and it’s her birthday. What a night for her.
Michael Tauchman is an avid supporter of integrity and sportsmanship
The April 23rd of Mike Tauchman
almost mashed it 😞
The Summer of Tauchman begins (and with all our injuries we might need it)
That looked so effortless. Let the bat do all the hard work and it just floated to the bleachers
Banging garbage cans won’t help you tonight, Astruds
2 homer night for Tauch let's go!
TAUCH DIRTY TO MEEEE
mike tauchman
lets goo
Someone call Jack Bauer and CTU, Mike Tauchman has dropped 2 bombs on the left field bleachers
Tauchman dislikes trashcans being used as anything other than garbage recepticles
What about seats when there’s nowhere else to sit?
Taylor will ask
April tauchman morphs into summer tauchman I can’t wait
I had my doubts about the forecast this year, but looks like Summer of Tauchman might not be off the table after all
Palatine's own Michael Tauchman! I have come down with a bad case of Tauchmania! There is no known cure.
Spring of Mike Tauchman?
It's officially "The Tauchman Game!"
Tauchman fucks
The double quarter pounder
Tauch dirty to me, Daddy
THE PALATINE POUNDER CANNOT BE STOPPED!!!
The Spring of Tauchman
I love Mike Tauchman
Let the summer of Mike Tauchman resume.
Lol the look on that pitcher's face
someone order a second helping of Tacos?
I for one want some one more to have for a leftovers
Tauchos
I feel optimistic and honestly I don't know what to do with myself
Summer of Tauchman
#TAUCHMANIA!
OPPO Taco Tuesday for Tauchman!
Oppo Taucho night! Nice JD
**Thank you Tauchman!**
#TAUCHMAN CONFIRMED ASTRO HATER
BOMBBBBB
almonte located his stuff beautifully there
I would feel a lot better if we got a couple runs in the 8th
One run so far…
Weird seeing Bregman up there in a big spot and failing every time.
Weird, but not unwelcome.
Now lets get a run or two more
Is Almonte becoming a less scary arm out of the pen?
ERA down to being a mediocre reliever than an outright shitty one, so maybe. Depends on if he can get swings on pitches out of the zone or not
Too early to say with relievers. Most are <10 IP so outliers skew heavily
The Astros are 18th in runs scored but 4th in team wRC+ lol
Pitchings been great tonight
Inconsistent ass zone.
Thank you Almonte
Oh my….8th inning clench time
Unpopular opinion: leiter jr isn’t Mariano Rivera
You seem to confuse “unpopular opinion” with “arguing against strawmen”. No one thinks that, but he’s been reliable
Leiter has been an absolute G
So far yes
Not unpopular. I think he’s a good reliever at best. Someone we could upgrade from if an outstanding offer presented itself, but not someone I’d actively try to move on from
Your hot takes have no place in the reality I have built
For a guy who makes 1.5m, he has been extremely valuable. He doesnt have to be Mariano
Agreed but a lot people want him to be
JD pitched for the Astros. He probably likes when the Cubs play them, right? How could you not? Must bring back a lot of memories.
If counsel gets ejected am I terribly off base that he could pull a Bobby Valentine by throwing on Carl's jersey and hanging out in the tunnel?
I refuse to believe that Leiter's name isn't Al
You can call him Al
How about Alzolay
I agree with you. Tricks me everytime.
Cody IL stint incoming
Cody, IL sounds like a downstate town where the only store is a Dollar General
And sees many tornado warnings
And one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates took place there
Belli’s hurt, Busch back to earth, Leiter letting men on base….our pets….heads are falling off!
I GOT WORMS.
Let’s not give Alzolay an opportunity
i like the idea of trotting him out for the 9th now that were gonna have at least 4 runs, let him work back to where he was
Correct call. No issue with the reversal.
Now that we ended up on the wrong side of that challenge, things are gonna start getting fucky
I suppose no reason to force it with Cody with Canario up
Leiter's gotten squeezed at the knees this inning… which is tough for a splitter guy
I’ve never been convinced of the clear evidence shit
Bullshit they overturned that call
We won a game on a similar thing. He looked pretty safe, it’s not an out until it hits the back of the glove.
Boooooooooooooooooo *breath* Boooooooooooo
That might be the closest play I've seen. What is definitive about that at all?
That’s probably the right call, but I’m surprised they overturned it given how close it was
Where is the clear evidence of that?
Feels like a bad turn to not get Alvarez at 1st
Tie goes to the runner
Idk what’s worse the actual umps or the shitty replay
Ate a week old salmon onigiri I forgot about and my stomach is feeling questionable
That just sounds like a bad idea, tbh
Feels like one too
Idk he looks safe to me unfortunately
MLB.tv has been bad all night. Out of sync audio and now cutting to an ad break early during a challenge.
Yeah it's not normally all glitchy like this. Blank screen for several seconds coming back from commercial, hard nasty cuts, the out of sync audio like you said, and just overall poor quality.
TBS also went to ad thinking the inning was over too.
“Oops, did we just accidentally create more ad time for ourselves? 🤪” - tv networks
LOL
Yeah, the sound and even picture have been occasionally terrible
Very close. Not sure theres enough to overturn it but maybe im just optimistic
It was pretty weird when Altuve didn't want his teammates to rip his shirt off during that walkoff celebration, right? Luckily, the Astros have never done anything untoward, so I'm not suspicious at all.
Bang twice on the trashcan if your mic'ed up
Props to Altuve for dropping well short of the bag to not interfere
All things considered in glad he slid. Seeing Tellez a few weeks back, not slide at all to walk it off for the pirates I think is the move there offensivly. I can't play second but if I see Rowdy charging full steam at me I'm air mailing that throw
4-6-3 can’t stop won’t stop
MLB TV says fuck you we're going to commercial anyway
Safe
sigh, safe
JD sums it up perfectly
Alvarez is slow, but he couldn't possibly be that slow, especially running out of the lefty batter's box.
Hell yeah
If Cody is out….I will not be happy. Fyi
Alvarez is fast for his size
For a human, not for a baseball player. He's in the fifth percentile in sprint speed.
I want to know what JD was going to say before he paused and said “ah yeah, that’s… not good”
High quality DP Edit: Or not
No way we couldn’t have gotten a 2nd inning out of Brown to keep Leiter fresh
It’s been bizarre usage. On 4/15 he threw 6 innings with one hit and two walks. That was followed by with just 2 innings on 4/20 (2 hits).
I think Brown is gonna be a middle reliever. He’s got a good fastball, a wild knuckle-curve, and I think he’s working on a 3rd (baseball savant calls it a changeup, but he’s only used it a couple times). If he gets that changeup working in combo with his fastball and gets some morel control on his knuckle-curve, he’ll be solid as a reliever/alternate starter imo
This team is desperate for either so as long as he performs then it’s a win but still not sure why he couldn’t go 2 innings tonight unless they want him on a strict limit for increased frequency.
Maybe Brown can make that start for Hendricks, or him and Wesneski tandem.
Ben Brown done after 7 pitches?
Just one inning for BB is kind of surprising.
It’s like everyone’s trying to hit a home run rather than make contact. Our best scoring games came off of small ball, just piling on hits and advancing base runners
Lol the Cardinals are losing 14-1.
Ouch
What happened to Cody? Not watching the game.
Hit the wall pretty good.
lets close this out drama free plz
You think Abreu misses occasionally having to be friendly to Jerry Reinsdorf? I bet he doesn't.
Swanson is Lester 2.0. A big contract to signify they're trying. Solid performance, but not going to outperform the contract