Cubs Playoff Baseball, Kind Of!
It's not all doom and gloom in the Cubs' system. No, the team's Double-A affiliate, the West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx, have qualified for the postseason by virtue of winning both the first and second halves of the season in the Northern Division of the Southern League! Today, the Jaxx commence a best-of-five series against their biggest rivals this season, the Carolina Mudcats, a Florida Marlins affiliate, and given that the Cubs aren't giving us much to cheer about at the Major League level, why shouldn't we revel in the fact that the Jaxx have enjoyed a terrific year? It's pure escapism! The Diamond Jaxx are... SP: *Renyel Pinto, Ricky Nolasco, Carlos Marmol, Jae-Kuk Ryu RP: David Aardsma, Randy Wells, Andy Shipman, Jon Searles, Thomas Atlee, Victor Ramos, *Ryan O'Malley C: #Jose Reyes, Casey Kopitze IF: Brandon Sing, *Eric Patterson, #Matt Craig, Casey McGehee, *Buck Coats, Ryan Theriot, Aaron Sisk OF: *Adam Greenberg, Matt Creighton, Luis Montanez, #Dwaine Bacon DL: Jemel Spearman, *Felix Pie, *Sean Marshall, *Jon Connolly, Lee Gwaltney, Rocky Cherry And today they line up as follows...
Renyel Pinto, LHP 10-3, 2.78 ERA 123/58 K/BB, 3 HR in 129.2 IP |
Ray Aguilar, LHP 5-2, 3.20 ERA 49/17 K/BB, 6 HR in 84.1 IP |
2B *Frank Moore | 2B *Eric Patterson |
LF James Shanks | SS Ryan Theriot |
RF Juan Carlos Muniz | RF *Adam Greenberg |
C Jason Hill | 3B Casey McGehee |
CF Reggie Abercrombie | 1B Brandon Sing |
1B Angel Molina | CF *Buck Coats |
3B #Drew Niles | LF Luis Montanez |
SS Rex Rundgren | C #Jose Reyes |
P #Ray Aguilar | P *Renyel Pinto |
Recent comments
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Arizona Phil 25 min 7 sec ago (view)
The fact hat the Cubs have not run him through waivers by now tells me the Cubs know Duane Underwood Jr is a lock to get claimed and so they are hoping to find a club that would be willing to give the Cubs something more than the $50,000 waiver price in return for Dunderwood (either more $$$ and/or a player).
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Arizona Phil 1 hour 6 min ago (view)
Today's pitchers, most of them the same guys who threw last Tuesday:
Alec Mills:
FB: 89-91
SL: 81
CH: 81-82
CV: 67-70
COMMENT: This just in: Mills heater now sitting at 91!!!!... had two easy innings and looked very good... threw only a handful of his "Bugs Bunny curves" but they are fun to watch because hitters don't know how to deal with it... ...
Craig Kimbrel:
FB: 93-96
CT: 87-88
SL: 82-84 -
Arizona Phil 1 hour 41 min ago (view)
DJL: Jason Adam sustained a right elbow fracture a few years ago and missed two full seasons, and when he returned to action he started using a "short-arm" delivery.
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crunch 1 hour 41 min ago (view)
baez "soft tissue injury"...no biggie...it's spring. he'll be back in a day or 2.
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crunch 3 hours 50 min ago (view)
kimbrel...K, single, HBP, 3 more hits...inning called due to pitch count. 4 earned.
also, baez removed after being HBP on the hand.
neat.
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First.Pitch.120 10 hours 3 min ago (view)
Cotton McKnight: In 23 years of broadcasting I thought I'd seen it all, folks. But it looks like Peter La Fleur has actually blindfolded himself.
Pepper Brooks: He will not be able to see very well, Cotton.
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First.Pitch.120 10 hours 4 min ago (view)
Yes! Exactly... I'd love to be able to watch coverages in football or just key-in on a great WR to watch them work.
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First.Pitch.120 10 hours 7 min ago (view)
Wow... this is the most engagement I have ever received on any topic on social media platform. Please stay tuned for my opinions on the Oxford Comma, the APA Style Manual for Academic Writing, and the auto-correct on my iPhone.
I am an awesome guy at parties....
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bradsbeard 20 hours 31 min ago (view)
I watched some of the Puerto Rican Winter League games that Miguel Amaya played in this winter. At least one broadcast had a super wide shot for balls in play that let you see the OF and the baserunners at the same time. It was awesome.
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Wrigley Rat 23 hours 37 min ago (view)
3 dots on this evening's Cubs-Dodgers game - makes sense & they do color in the 3rd dot as they're going to commericals (Spectrum Sportsnet).
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crunch 1 day 1 hour ago (view)
3 dot crew represent. i didn't have an opinion, but now i'm 100% on board.
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Charlie 1 day 1 hour ago (view)
I agree on most of this, but I especially support three fillable dots for the outs--and fill in the third before cutting to a commercial!
Not doing homework on the players in a Spring Training broadcast is pretty forgiveable, but ESPN is really bad about it pretty much all year. It would be nice if they made a habit of picking up a local color commentator and sort of interviewing them throughout games.
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George Altman 1 day 6 hours ago (view)
The single thing I want in a sports broadcast is to become smarter about the sport, to learn something from the broadcast crew.
Stone does that, Romo does that, Eddie O on hockey, and that's about it. I watch sporting events with the sound down very low or off. I forgot more about baseball than most broadcasters will ever know, and I'm always shocked when I see something in a football game that the crew doesn't, and I know about NOTHING about football.
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First.Pitch.120 1 day 8 hours ago (view)
Also... what is with only having 2 dots as the outs counter? I know that you don't really need the 3rd dot, but I find it counter-intuitive. If the dots fill in, then only having 2 throws me off b/c it's natural to subitize "3" associated with outs. You quickly see 0/3, 1/3, 2/3. If the graphic does not have fill-in dots, then just put the #. eg - OUTS: 1 It's minimalism for the sake of minimalism, not graphic design for effective communication.
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crunch 1 day 8 hours ago (view)
tight shots + insane amount of screen real estate being taken up with graphics is a bit of a plague...especially the ones with a non-stop bottom news ticker.
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First.Pitch.120 1 day 9 hours ago (view)
General comment on baseball broadcasting... I think that the color comentator (CC) needs to talk about 30% more & the PBP about 30% less. I would love a more stream of consciousness from the CC outlining what they would be looking for in a given situation. To that end, why not have 2 CC for national broadcasts - one a pitcher & one a position player. Would love for them to banter back & forth on micro strategy from their perspectives. I think this would turn the game's pauses between action into more of an asset.
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