Alfonso Soriano and the Kaplan Conspiracy

crunch 04/23/2024 - 04:40 pm (view)

excited to see more power in the lineup.

HOU going with 3 righty starters vs the cubs and their only lefty pen arm is hader.

unless busch has a mystery injury, we should see busch+mervis working all 3 games.

fullykräusened 04/23/2024 - 04:39 pm (view)

More than 50 years ago (I'm old), I was in the audience when my HS choir performed the whole thing. (It was a really elite choir and director.) That was my first exposure to the piece. You're right, Sonicwind75, there is a lot more to it than "O Fortuna," just like there's a lot more to Beethoven's Ninth than the Ode to Joy, etc. Much if it, as you say, is bawdy: "O! O! Totus florio! Iam amori virginali, totus ardeo!" Basically, "I'm really horny for these virgins!" And the guys in the choir adopted the "Skoal"- type greeting from the tavern scene: "Wafna!" 

crunch 04/23/2024 - 04:28 pm (view)

i would have pause if the cubs had a pitching squeeze.   as it is, they have more guys than they have roster.

Childersb3 04/23/2024 - 04:42 am (view)

Maybe Brewer

He'd be able to leave the Cubs. He's out of options. That would open up a 40man spot.

I don't think Jed would do that.

crunch 04/23/2024 - 04:30 am (view)

brewer has done nothing to keep him on the big league roster...imagine that's 1 guy gone.

yeah, it's only 2 appearances, but they were both unimpressive.

Childersb3 04/23/2024 - 04:09 am (view)

Yeah it is.....sorry......closers don't throw 89mph

It would be unique for sure.

But CP can't be HR susceptible

That's what Alzolay has right now and that's what Kyle has no matter the situation.

Childersb3 04/23/2024 - 04:05 am (view)

Supposedly Happ said on a radio show he's good to go

I hadn't read that anywhere from the usual accounts, so this could be off.

If true, Canario goes down.

TarzanJoeWallis 04/23/2024 - 04:48 am (view)

Hmmm. Maybe my idea of transitioning Hendricks into a closer role isn’t so crazy.

Childersb3 04/23/2024 - 04:38 am (view)

Mervis and Wesneski getting promoted aaccording to Tommy Birch from Des Moines Register.

So Happ to the IL

Maybe Hendricks to IL ????

Mervis/Cooper are DH platoon

Wisdom, Canario, Tauchman share LF/RF

I wonder if Busch has ever played LF?

I don't believe he has

crunch 04/23/2024 - 04:14 am (view)

“I respect his track record of what he’s accomplished,” Counsell said on Sunday morning. “And you go through these. He’s gone through -- maybe not this particular stretch -- but stretches where you’re not pitching the way you want to and struggling. And you figure it out.” -- Counsell on Hendricks

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

i respect his track record of no longer being in the rotation.  in 2016 he threw 2 innings out of the pen, his only work out of the pen.  the cubs won the world series that year.  let's repeat that magic.  the formula is obvious.  stats don't lie.  etc etc whatever...

small sample size and all, but how about this craziness...

"Entering Sunday, Hendricks had allowed an .843 OPS against hitters in their initial plate appearance, followed by a 1.056 OPS in a second meeting and a 2.449 OPS when seeing batters for a third time."