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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3885 on: September 11, 2018, 02:05:45 pm »
Good news from Nationals beat writer for MLB.com:

Jamal Collier @JamalCollier
As of now, the Nats are planning to start Joe Ross on Thursday against the Cubs
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3886 on: September 11, 2018, 02:45:00 pm »
With the current weather forecast, a lot of teams are going to be rescheduling or not playing a bunch of games.
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3887 on: September 11, 2018, 02:58:04 pm »
If the Cubs get rained out of Washington then only 3 of their remaining games this season are outside of Chicago. After Milwaukee leaves town the Cubs have the last place Reds this weekend, then travel to Arizona for three. Then a day off before returning to play against the White Sox and home against Pittsburgh and St Louis. If they lose this division to Milwaukee then they deserve to. The Brewers are as hot as a firecracker right now. That is hard to sustain over a 3 week period. Even against subpar competition. The Cubs are up 1 in the division but up two in the loss column. If they can take just 1 of the remaining two then get healthy against the Reds they are still in the driver's seat.
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3888 on: September 11, 2018, 04:27:32 pm »
Quote from: Robb on September 11, 2018, 02:58:04 pm
The Cubs are up 1 in the division but up two in the loss column. If they can take just 1 of the remaining two then get healthy against the Reds they are still in the driver's seat.

The Cubs have two extra games to play. Being up in the loss column is helpful to the team with more games played. The Cubs have to win at least one of their extra games to end up a game ahead. Two losses there means a tie.
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3889 on: September 11, 2018, 04:28:59 pm »
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« Reply #3890 on: September 11, 2018, 07:43:26 pm »
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3891 on: September 12, 2018, 11:52:41 am »
 A state of emergency was just declared in DC ahead of the hurricane. In related news, the Cubs are still scheduled to fly to DC tonight and play tomorrow.  Very smart.
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3892 on: September 12, 2018, 12:16:15 pm »
I think most pilots have the right to say, "Nope.  Not taking my craft into that."
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3893 on: September 12, 2018, 01:01:00 pm »
State of Emergency declaration only means funding can be disbursed in advance right?

But likely to be rainy and windy anyway - certainly not good baseball weather
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3894 on: September 12, 2018, 05:00:23 pm »
Davish update

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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3895 on: September 12, 2018, 05:33:49 pm »
Wait, wasn’t he faking?
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« Reply #3896 on: September 12, 2018, 06:00:00 pm »
That's really encouraging.  I'd been kinda assuming that he'd need TJ or something major, and would spend all of next season doing rehab kind of like Smiley has this year.  The concept that DArvish might be "completely healthy" in spring sounds good. 

I wonder if whatever was wrong with him impacted his pitching before he went DL?  He didn't seem to have any command of any of his pitches, not even his fastball.  I suppose it's hypothetically possible that if his arm wasn't extending correctly, or was hurting and thus causing him to do weird stuff to moderate the discomfort, maybe that might optimistically be remediated next season? 

Not likely, I assume he's just wild at this stage of his career.  But would be fun if he could throw strikes more consistently....
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« Reply #3897 on: September 12, 2018, 06:02:03 pm »
I think it’s very likely, actually. His elbow was probably not quite right from the beginning of the year but because he had ligsmet issues in the past and it didn’t feel the same, he tried to pitch through it.
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Re: Cubs in '18
« Reply #3898 on: September 12, 2018, 06:12:42 pm »
Mark Gonzales  @MDGonzales  21m21 minutes ago

The Cubs are in discussions with the City of Chicago to move the starting time of Friday's game against the Reds at Wrigley Field from 1:20 p.m. to 7:05 p.m.
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« Reply #3899 on: September 13, 2018, 10:41:17 am »
Supposedly Maddon isn't taking the whole team to DC for today's game. The other starters, Schwarber with his bad back, and the other unavailable relievers are staying behind.  I like this idea. Might as well give some of the team a much needed day off.
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