By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
Ten games from now, they’ll be in the same position they are in today. (It will still be fun, though.) Plus: Giant Flop; Addison Russell Sent Down To Learn The Signs; Boy Scout Kris Bryant Piling Up Merit Badges; Mea Culpa: Maybe Maddon Was Right About The Happ-Almora Platoon; Pedro Strop Is Carl Edwards Jr. Jr.; Robel Garcia Is Not Totally The Answer; Daddy BenZo Speaks; Road Woes; Darvish Delusions; Roadish Games; White Sox Suck; What’s Really Behind The Home Run Surge; The Only Real News From Training Camp, Ever; Andrew Shaw’s Crab House; and DePaul Finally Trying To Win.
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SHOW NOTES
* 262.
* Jim Otto.
* Aja.
* Miniature scissors that briefly enthralled us:
1:39: Giant Flop.
* San Francisco series cost them Bumgarner!
10:36: Addison Russell Sent Down To Learn The Signs.
* Rogers: Cubs’ Russell Says He Can’t Be Missing Signs.
25:04: Mea Culpa: Maybe Maddon Was Right About The Happ-Almora Platoon.
* Second-half management will be brutally optimized.
32:52: Pedro Strop Is Carl Edwards Jr. Jr.
* Brandon Kintzler is not (anymore).
35:37: Robel Garcia Is Not Totally The Answer.
* But still an amazing story.
37:30: Daddy BenZo Speaks.
* Clock is ticking on his conflicted son.
41:27: Cubs Counternarrative.
* Rhodes: Ten games from now, they’ll be in the same position they are in today. (It will still be fun, though.)
49:22: Road Woes.
* Know your team, Joe!
51:22: Darvish Delusions.
* Media continues to grade Yu on a curve – against himself.
52:21: Roadish Games.
* Milwaukee is half a road game. St. Louis is a fourth of a road game.
57:28: White Sox Suck.
* 3-11 since the All-Star break.
57:48: What’s Really Behind The Home Run Surge?
* Climate change, for one thing!
* Cork.
59:31: The Only Real News From Training Camp, Ever.
* Ha Ha Clinton-Dix can’t prove it on the PUP.
1:04:55: Andrew Shaw’s Crab House.
1:06:22 DePaul Finally Tries To Win.
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STOPPAGE: 8:10
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Posted on July 26, 2019