NL CENTRAL PREDICTATRON 2019

they have kind of a fraught relationship. as if you couldn't tell

sort of impressive to give up 17 runs without allowing a homer tbh

Those Whitey Herzog Cardinal's teams were really good at scoring runs without a homer, but that was as fast a running lineup as you would find ever in baseball and half of them were switch hitters.

Bob Walk would probably tag on his own guy for not tagging up and doing the right baseball move in the 6th inning if the Pirates were up 12 runs. "Three innings to go, anything could happen..." You just know it is true.

the gentlemanly thing to do would be to stand between 2nd and 3rd base and wait to be gingerly tagged out, then tip your cap and jog to the dugout knowing that you helped your fans go to bed 2 minutes earlier

then tip your cap ^in the direction of Bob Walk^ and jog to the dugout knowing that you helped your fans go to bed 2 minutes earlier

just a small edit, otherwise accurate

joe block (frogbs you may remember him, i think he did brewers games for a while) is a dweeby bald dude who has at least a passing understanding of advanced stats.

bob walk is protective of the pirates and otherwise just bitchy about literally everything in the vein of jim kaat or (i'm told) cardinals color guys.

it is legit uncomfortable to listen to them work together, which is why i never do it. (and the other pxp guy, greg brown, is just corny as hell)

i mean at least when keith hernandez is bitchy you can sense gary and ron laughing at him; with block and walk it's just tense

yeah I remember Joe Block - he was kind of a wet blanket personality wise but he was a good announcer who seemed fairly smart

Brewers are lucky to have a good TV broadcasting crew - so good in fact, that Brian Anderson is out a bunch of the season because he gets poached for NBA playoff games. Bill Schroder is sort of your standard "cranky ex-player" type but he's still pretty good. Between his thick Midwestern accent and the name "Bill Schroeder" I don't think you could hire anyone more appropriate for the Milwaukee Brewers. You can practically see the case of Miller Lite under the desk.

from what i've heard, the cubs have a decent broadcast team

otherwise, without hearing all 30 teams' broadcasts, i will nonetheless confidently declare that the NL Central is the worst division for broadcasting

from what i've heard,

that was very ambiguous, but by that i mean what i have literally seen and heard

firsthand. while watching their games. fuck

i don't even know, because if i'm watching a game at home, i rarely have the sound on or up. i am very fond of the radio broadcast team of pat hughes and ron coomer though.

i keep getting reminded that starting next season there are basically going to be no cubs games broadcast on over-the-air local TV, and it feels like a gut-punch each time. it's such bullshit

yeah i like the cubs guys a lot. except when kasper does 'cubs win! . . . cubs win' i mean

i keep getting reminded that starting next season there are basically going to be no cubs games broadcast on over-the-air local TV, and it feels like a gut-punch each time. it's such bullshit

i keep forgetting about that. "i don't even have a tv", and i watch everything through mlb.tv (+ a VPN making it seem like I'm browsing from a different time zone when I want to watch a local game)

even when i hear non-Mets broadcasters on mlb.tv, so few of them register, except Kirk Gibson sounds semi-comatose on Tiger games

i can now watch everything on my tv *except* mets games, which is unfortunate

need to figure out how to make roku work with a vpn

Yeah, it sucks not having all games on local TV, but the MLB Streams subreddit is a savior, in case anyone is interested.

pirates are out here defying pythagoras

my prediction of jon lester's decline appears to have been premature

Bryant has been absurd lately, i was out for dinner and the cubs game was on and i pointed out to my kid that Kris Bryant was up and mentioned, "he's been on fire lately" and he immediately hit a home run.

keston hiura comin up (to milwaukee)

drink every time someone calls him 'a professional hitter'

#Brewers prospect
Keston Hiura is a hitting machine.... Look at this beautiful base hit spray chart from all his @milb games 😍😍😍 pic.twitter.com/TOIjZ9AzmS

— Daren Willman (@darenw) May 14, 2019

could be the end of the road for Travis Shaw, who has put up -0.7 WAR so far

he seems to have conveniently developed a wrist injury, but yeah. lets them move moustakas back to third too

almost killed a pitcher for his first hit

I pitch in softball and that shit hurts

NL central has the top three wildcard teams

BDIB

Kris Bryant, 3 HR tonight...

i know willson contreras can't catch every cubs game but why have they consistently paired yu darvish, the wildest pitcher they have, with back-up back-up catcher taylor davis?

oh wait, back-up catcher victor caratini is back and catching tonight, that's a little better

1915 Reds threads are pretty nice I think.

http://cdn1.creativecirclemedia.com/kentuckytoday/original/20190519-214256-reds.jpg

ooooh yeah

this reds/brewers game is odd (luis castillo and zach davies both out after three innings) but entertaining

these two teams have played some weird-ass games over the last couple years, I love it

just like that we've got an RBI HBP to bring it to 9-11

so much MANAGING going on in this game

Something Wick This Way Comes (to the cubs)

Fugly game by the Reds pitching. Hernan Perez and Orlando Arcia deserve today's Bill Hall Award (tm) for down lineup Brewer to hit like they are going to the Hall of Fame against the Reds.

Thames seems to like hitting Reds pitching. I think a couple of years ago he hit like 10 HRs against him.

And all of this is without Braun, who is a long time Red nemesis.

Jay Bruce used to be the guy that hit a ton against the Brewers.

Yelich was out too

Anthony Rizzo hit one out that would have gone about a mile if the Budweiser sign above the Wrigley video screen hadn't gotten in the way.

https://www.mlb.com/video/anthony-rizzo-homers-12-on-a-fly-ball-to-right-field-kyle-schwarber-scores-kris-?t=most-popular

<3 david freese

who told yadi that neck tattoos and white hair was a good look

bengie

His new neck tattoo is actually a lot better. Before it was just a set of music notes 🎵🎶

I'd like to know how much the Reds team batting average went up this weekend as they went (42-116) .362 at the plate in the 3 game series. Cubs now have lost 2 series to the Reds in May.

Not that it matters in the big picture as Derek Dietrich has pretty much emulated his success in some ways both with the home run power and certain panache, but Scooter Gennett must have been hurt pretty bad in spring training. He was out 1/2 of spring training and is heading into June, out two months without starting back playing yet. Don't think they expected it to go this long.

yadi looks like he’s seen attack ships burn off the shoulder of orion

when he makes his big league debut tonight, génesis cabrera will become the 2000th player to appear in a game for the cardinals since they joined the NL in 1892

(mitch keller recently became the 1979th player to appear for the pirates)

cubs sign carlos gonzalez to a minor-league deal. local sports radio dudes point out this shows how the team feels about ian happ.

just a head's up - one of the cardinals top prospects is Dylan Carlson, which is the same name as the Earth guy.

could be cool