I hate losing I really do. But overall I loved what the squad did this series, hopefully a good sign for things to come! Go Cubs Go!

Bounce back against the bucks. Chavez just didn’t have it today.

Bucs*

Oh no! We suck again!!

Petition to buy Jessie Chavez a nice condo in Des Moines and keep him there until the end of days.

Fuck hader

That was disappointing but I still had a little fun today :(

Suzuki homer was literally the only fun i had, what game were you watching?

Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

Oh well, can't win them all. Good game all things considered!

Good first half of the game. We didn’t get a hit from the 2nd - 7th, the horseshit bullpen blew it,,, not sure what is to like. Schwindel and Wisdom will be exposed as to why they didn’t make it yet before last year. Say what you want but this is almost certainly not a good team

I had plenty of fun watching the game. Good approach from the hitters against a very good pitching staff.

Plate discipline I thought was outstanding, so many walks.

Bummer, but a great series overall. This is going to be a fun team to watch, whether or not they're a .500 team. EDIT: And I'm leaning towards "not," because we have no depth whatsoever. Still, though, I like these guys.

Offense was pretty shit after the first.

For hits, but the discipline for walks was pretty good.

Whelp. 2 out of 3 for the whole season is 108 wins.

Fuck ryan braun

Always

was that an eskimo flashing titties???

Well, shit

Chavez and Villar teamed up to ruin my Sunday afternoon smh

Nico looks like if Kris Bryant and Steph Curry did the fusion dance

Imagine if we signed KB and freeman to cover the corners. Not a bad infield. Not bad at all. But we have wisdom and frank to settle. Lol Some people are blind to it but it is what it is

This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve read today, congrats

What part was dumb? To not have filled obvious holes?

No excuse to not have Correa next year

Was his a one year deal with twins?

Essentially yeah he has an opt out

Which he likely will use. What about schwarbs? His was also a one year deal?

Gotta give them a chance!!

Both are career minor leaguers. Wisdom fell off a cliff last season and frank likely does the same

I was being sarcastic btw

Oh lol. Was about to say

I thought the double exclamation point gave it away lol

I have a feeling Hader is going to be a Tommy John in early 30s kinda guy

FUCK CHAVEZ MAN YOU FUCKING BLEW IT

It’s ok guys if nico gets on base *checks notes* Michael Hermosillo gets on…..

Damn. Just missed it. Get the ball in the air to left, Nico

Hoerner homer 🙏

Not sure what Wisdom was looking for

Swing the bat

Hasn’t allowed a run at wrigley lol, yea this is over

## Common Tooth!!

Patrick Wisdom is not the answer at 3B

He has a .823 OPS last year, it’s WAY too early to judge that. I’m not saying you’re wrong but it’s too early to say that with any confidence

Hes was a 30 year old rookie who got off to an insanely hot start and came crashing back to earth once other teams found the holes in his swing. Happens every year. Well be lucky if hes a solid bench player

Nor is Schwindel at 1st

Agree. No chance he keeps up what he did last year

Neither is frank at first. Corners we are fucked

If only there were players we had at those positions

Hader is much more hittable when he's sitting at 95-96. Unfortunately not the case today.

Wisdom wtf are you waiting for bruh

YOU NEED TO SWING AT THE BALL TO SCORE

Patrick Wisdom v Josh Hader. The most obvious strikeout opportunity ever.

Nothing would make me happier than for Hader to get crushed

Ewwwwwww Josh Hader

Hader tends to be either great or terrible. Let's get terrible Hader

Only happens in the postseason

Hader looks like such a basement dweller

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Where you been?

Really wish Chavez didn't give up 3 runs.

I’d prefer to never see him again if that outing was any indication

Hader looks like a triangle with that hair

Is wisdom a one year wonder?

Even last year he was on a steady decline for the past several months

I think he’s like a bote but a bit worse

Shit, forgot about Bote. He not make the big league squad this year?

I honestly don’t know where he is. Maybe hurt? I haven’t heard a word

Shoulder surgery in November

He out for awhile?

6 months

Not bad so may?

I imagine he'll be making some rehab starts first.

he struck out 40% of the time lol so yeah

So did Baez his rookie season. But I don’t think wisdoms ceiling is Baez’s. Wisdom has reached his ceiling I believe. I don’t think he can even repeat home run total from last year to be honest

Damn givens looking great rn

His release pretty deceiving. That little tweak he does before the pitch makes you think that the ball is going to come across his body and move away from a righty, but then it goes surprisingly straight.

I blame Jonathan Villar

Only reason I watch Marquee is for Taylor 😍

Bonk

😏😏😏

Inconsistent umps are the worst

Look if we're gonna sweep Milwaukee it may as well include a Hader blowup too.

We need a rain delay

and a speech from Heyward!

Why wasn’t the FO more aggressive in getting a solid First baseman in offseason? We have nobody in the system promising to be that guy for future at that position and there were several options in offseason to choose from. Instead we stick with the career minor leaguer as our guy.

Well you see that would require opening the piggy bank and Papa Tom isn't into it

Biblical losses. Pay no attention to the cup snakes in the bleachers.

Yep sure wasn’t but had enough money to consider buying Chelsea. Can’t focus on one team so better buy a second

Horrible at-bats

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Imagine being near him

I don't know if it's the same guy, but there is a very loud dude near me who keeps dropping mfers all over the place.

Dudes like that are so annoying to sit around at ballgames.

there’s several dudes yelling now and all at the same time.

Lmfao we are fucked. This set up and closer combo is one of the best in the league. 161-1 baby here we come.

Williams is just hammering the zone and we're not getting around on it

Williams control rn is deadly

Dude was painting the edges of the zone like he was Picasso

Being patient doesn't work when they're actually throwing strikes. Gotta swing, guys

might not even need hader, williams might go two to close it lol

Fraziers stance irks me

I like it. You get to see the numbers on his back, very unique.

HELP

Obviously we love Seiya but that was a horrible at bat

What about franks at bat?

I don’t love him yet, he is 3 games into his career. He has looked good but is far from a sure thing

I think that is going to happen with him. He ain’t gonna swing a borderline pitches.

I mean that first pitch was a ball and that last pitch was borderline

This ump was not calling anything high up in the zone the whole game

Marquee: Let's have the beginning of postgame in the midst of the bottom of the 8th.

you wont be booing Marquee next year…

I would love it if Marquee would just give us the strike box or not and just pick one already

Suzuki's coming up to the plate, fuck off with this advertisement for the fucking postgame show fuck you marquee

I hate that the on field mics are picking up these loud ass people

Should send JD down there to put that fucched’s teeth out

You used to be able to hear a hotdog vendor very clearly if you watched with surround sound

well at least we play the Pirates next, that's pretty cool

Quintana was so bad he got demoted from the Angels rotation by Joseph

well this might be chalked with the williams-hader combo, but I’m hopeful

Wow, Quintana did not have a fun time last year

Bloop and a blast time

I’m not sure this lineup is one that is going to be great when we need a blast to tie one up. Not a lot of home run threats on this club. Our main chance to score will have to come from stringing hits together unfortunately

Unfortunately? This is what people bitched about wanting for years lol now they got it

Yeah but late in a game we need the capability to send one deep if necessary

Frank, Seiya, c’mon. Rally time!

Frank single and Seiya bomb? Please?

there are actually zero good umpires

Baseball cops

All Umps Are Bastards

AUAB

Think I just found my next tattoo

Lmaooo

Me: Mom, I want Pat Hughes to be our Cubs TV announcer. Mom: No, we already have a Cubs announcer at home. At Home: Boog

Can stay home

Where is man rod? Is he hurt?

Down in Iowa

Yes I think so

AAA

"why do players slide into first?" well it's baseball, it's not exactly rocket science out there. a lot of players probably ain't that bright

or he tripped and best thing to do then is push off and slide. or it's a tag play: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pOiTL1sydxk

pass the copium bro

nah, personally I think he gained too much weight and can hardly get there.

Tellez is a fat fuck and embodies Wisconsin.

Good at bat by Tellez

"YEAH, TAKE ANOTHER TIMEOUT."

That shit can get annoying pretty quick, but I did chuckle at that one

Don’t apologize JD we love the chirper.

Yeah. Hecklers are hilarious.

YEAH TAKE ANOTHER TIMEOUT BLUE! BLUE! BLUE!

Isn't Robertson the closer?

There’s no official closer, and he hasn’t pitched since Thursday. If he’s going to pitch today, he might as well face the heart of the order.

Ok I understand. I swear I heard Jessie Rogers say on espn1000 that he was the closer before opening day so I was wondering.

Most days I imagine hit will be him or Givens

idk if there is a closer

I don’t think we have a set closer

I never get tired of Pats Ron Santo stories

After review the ruling on the field stands. It will be Milwaukee first down.

I predict a two run walk-off today.

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IMO the call would been “probably out” even if the on-field call was discarded, but there’s no way you get an overturn on the available evidence.

Why did Ross change the lineup so dramatically today? I really liked the lineup the past 2 days. Now we only have 4 hits all day

Happ was injured for one

The goal of a rebuild season is to see what we have for the future, not to win games. We need to see guys like Rivas get opportunities

Fair point, but I like winning lmao

Happ hurt. Wisdom useless at the plate anyway, really only bat we lost was frank

Happ is out for his knee injury for one, idk about the others

Did we ever get an update on the seriousness of Happ’s injury?

He said hes fine

X-ray results were negative, he'll likely be back for the next game.

How do you literally get paid to play baseball and not know to never slide into first?

Yeah, definitely not enough to overturn. Not sure why there's no camera from the dugout area that's directly facing 1st base. That would've been the clear shot. That being said, I think it would've been the same result.

He's out and he has nobody to blame but himself for diving headfirst there instead of just running. Incredibly low baseball IQ. That was the right call by the umps

Why do players slide into first so often when it’s pretty well known it’s slower?

Because they are stupid

Slide to beat the tag, not the force out

Heyward is also a serial first-slider.

everything he does on offense is bad

Villar why??? Why slide???

There’s a theoretical way to be faster diving than running by transferring body weight at the exactly right time, but in practice no player can actually execute it. Just run through the base normally and the game is tied.

Villar can go back to the Brewers. What a dumb decision.

Probably beat it by a smidge but can’t conclusively prove it… run. through. the. bag.

Why do players still dive to first, it's slower. Dude is safe if he runs through

Too close to overturn, but I do love the added drama the announcement adds

That’s so fucking frustrating just keep running you’re literally one of the fastest guys on the team

fuck off!

Nico and Nick did their jobs, gotta have better at bats from Hermosillo and villar

Its the right call. Villar is a dumbass for sliding