OT: Other Chicago & General Sports Thread XXVII: Baez Time!

[RayP]

I literally stopped watching the Cubs the day they traded DeRosa away...that one to this day still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

That trade also when I gave up on the Cubs, and then spent a season or two following box scores and playing fantasy baseball, but not watching games anymore, and then gave it up entirely.

 

[AmericanDream]

2014 CHC NL MLB

72 187 20 26 66 4 0 12 30 19 0 84 0 1 .139 .222 .353 .575 0.91

for those who don't know what this is, it is Mike Olt's stat line....

.139 BA
84 SO
187 AB

the guy has struck out 84 times in 187 plate appearances....

I had hope for this guy, but I don't think you can keep this guy up in the bigs with a .139BA despite 12 homers...

 

[Kurtosis]

I think the Cubs share your concerns.

 

[AmericanDream]

I think the Cubs share your concerns.

I didnt even know they sent him down until I just looked now!

thank the lord we got Edwards and Grimm out of that deal as well...also Ramirez was a nice throw in as well..

come on Bryant!! third base is wide open for ya!

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Olt did his job for Chicago this year, and that's help us get a better draft pick.

 

[Cullksinikers]

Olt was the biggest name in the trade coming to the Cubs last year, and one year later, there are three guys in that deal more valuable than him.

 

[ColdSteel2]

Olt was the biggest name in the trade coming to the Cubs last year, and one year later, there are three guys in that deal more valuable than him.

It wasn't exactly a surprise. He had lost his way before we got him. Everybody was hoping it was the vertigo or whatever, but it looks like he just isn't good enough.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I'm not even mad at that catch.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Damn did the Sox knock the crap out of the ball tonight

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Nothing like a 14th inning stretch....

 

[Taze em]

Olt was the biggest name in the trade coming to the Cubs last year, and one year later, there are three guys in that deal more valuable than him.

He wasn't really the biggest name. Even then everyone said that CJ was the biggest piece in that trade. Olt was a lottery ticket with messed up eyes.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Cubs win!

Bedtime.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Longest game by time in Cubs history, apparently.

 

[Illinihockey]

Bob Nightengale‏@BNightengale·25 mins
The #Dodgers are trading RHP Jonathan Martinez to the #Cubs as the player to be named later in the Darwin Barney trade.

 

[Cullksinikers]

The Cubs just got Felix Doubront from Boston.

 

[Cullksinikers]

Looks like Lester to Baltimore! Wow.

 

[Illinihockey]

Jon Morosi‏@jonmorosi·5 mins
Red Sox and Cubs have agreement in place that sends Felix Doubront to Chicago, source says.

 

[hisgirlfriday]

Longest game by time in Cubs history, apparently.

Just saw this in the Trib recap story:

This game, which took six hours, 27 minutes, was the longest game (by time) in Cubs’ history. It surpassed the previous record of six hours, 10 minutes that it took the Cubs and Dodgers to play 21 innings on Aug. 17-18, 1982.

That 16-inning baseball games in 2014 are taking as long to play out as 21-inning baseball games in 1982 is a big part of why baseball has lost so much popularity in the last 30 years.

 

[Illinihockey]

Bonafacio about to be gone

 

[ColdSteel2]

Jon Morosi‏@jonmorosi·5 mins
Red Sox and Cubs have agreement in place that sends Felix Doubront to Chicago, source says.

Why not.

 

[Gootie]

IIRC he wanted to start. Why not is right.

 

[MurrayBannerman]

Bosio will fix him.

 

[Nothingman*]

Wesley Wright. The guy who cannot get a first pitch strike if his life depended on it.

 

[Cullksinikers]

Bosio will fix him.

Maybe he should about Travis Wood first.

 

[MurrayBannerman]

Maybe he should about Travis Wood first.

He did. The magic wore off.