By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
This is his mess. Plus: Trade Shade; Cubs Narratives We Can Put To Bed; Kimbrel Is Killing Us; Missing Maldonado; Cubs Farm System Still Sucks; Here Come The Brewers; Evil Sports Programming Network; The Ex-Cub Factor; Rickey Ventura; Seeing (Soccer) Stars; and Trubisky Continues To Be . . .
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SHOW NOTES
* 263.
:25: This Is Theo’s Mess.
* Road woes.
* Unrepaired offense.
* Maddoning.
* The Slumpy Slumpster!
9:26: Trade Shade.
* Two players who were DFA’d, one utility player who was in Triple-A, and a butcher in the outfield who should be a platoon player and is a free agent at season’s end.
* Make or breakers all broke.
* The shittiest defensive outfield in the league?
23:46: Cubs Narratives We Can Put To Bed.
* Rest.
* Tone-setting.
24:28: Kimbrel Is Killing Us.
29:40: Missing Maldonado!
* Descalso is on the IL.
32:51: Cubs Farm System Still Sucks.
34:15: Here Come The Brewers.
35:15: Evil Sports Programming Network.
38:11: The Ex-Cub Factor!
* Trevor Bauer’s goodbye to Cleveland:
Thank you, Cleveland. pic.twitter.com/OJ4mxCKbq4
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) August 1, 2019
* Isaac Paredes.
Shined In MLB Futures Game.
* A Pitcher’s Dazzling Show At A Stadium Speed Pitch Challenge Earned Him A Deal With The A’s.
44:48: Rickey Ventura.
* Netscape.
Jeff McNeil made a sick catch thanks to the White Sox’s new nets: https://t.co/RYlboqz22M pic.twitter.com/BPB4g7TWSw
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) August 1, 2019
* Just wait ’til next year!
53:00: Seeing Stars.
* USA Today: Christian Pulisic’s first two goals for Chelsea.
* ESPN: USWNT Players Draw Sellout NWSL Crowd To Chicago Red Stars Game.
* (Forget the Fire.)
58:01: Trubisky Continues To Be . . .
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STOPPAGE: 7:47
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Posted on August 2, 2019