Ok, it's time stir the pot and muddy the waters with my near perfect mid-season baseball predictions. This particular blog always gets the most reaction so let's hit it!
THE CUBS will win their division. WHAT???!!!??? yes, it's true because they have too much talent and that division really sucks. the brewers strong bullpen is starting to waver and can JOSH HADER pitch every day? the cardinals need a monster second half from goldschmidt and a healthy molina to contend. pirates & reds will fade but with bright futures. i picked the cubs to win 88 games and if they do that..............
The other two division winners are/should be the LOS ANGELES DODGERS and the ATLANTA BRAVES, who are starting to flex their muscles in the NL east and look to be in line for a few division titles in a row.
the phillies are learning all about the definition of "OVERPAYING" as BRYCE HARPER chugs along with a .253 average with 16 home runs and 62 rbi's.
just to put it in perspective, ANTHONY RIZZO's numbers are .272/16/58, a gold glove and makes a whole lot LESS money. the fun part is that the phillies signed pretty boy to THIRTEEN FREAKING YEARS!
and in case you're wondering, the other overpaid mutt who is now playing for san diego isn't doing any better. MANNY MACHADO is .266/20/58 and is also signed for a generation. ouch to both.
so fill out the NL playoffs with the WASHINGTON NATIONALS and THE COLORADO ROCKIES as wild cards with the dodgers advancing to the big show in october.
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The american league has the astros, yankees and minnesota streaking to the playoffs which leaves the two wild card spots to the CLEVELAND INDIANS and the TAMPA BAY RAYS. oakland, boston & texas will fall short. look for the HOUSTON ASTROS in a rematch of the 2017 world series with the DODGERS wearing a ring for the first time since 1988.
Friday, July 12, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
the beat goes on.....
Mayor elect LORI LIGHTFOOT learned a lesson over the holiday weekend when, despite 1500 extra police officers being on duty, the members of the concrete jungle went crazy and shot 68 of their own but continued with their bad marksmanship by only killing six.
YOU CANNOT CONTROL THE JUNGLE!
Take the sobbing mother of seven who mourns the loss of one of her brood for the tv cameras and cries out against the violence, a quick background check on her reveals that she grew up in the hood, ran with the gangs, has an arrest record and is known to NEVER CO-OPERATE WITH THE POLICE when violence happens in her neighborhood.
I said it before and now once again: These uneducated people live by a violent code, one whose credos are "survival of the fittest" and "snitches get stitches" so the general population won't help the investigations which leaves criminals on the street forever (until they get whacked by an up & comer).
I feel sorry for police superintendent EDDIE JOHNSON, who is a fine officer and a good administrator and an even better human being but he won't survive lightfoot's term and he'll soon announce his retirement so she can bring in her "hand picked" person.
and that person will also fail if the priority is to tame the jungle.
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WOW! the girls had a tremendous weekend! No, not the obnoxious and poorly behaved women's soccer team but rather, for the first time, girls 11-17 were allowed to march with the boy scouts in the annual 4th of july parades. Since February, 20,000 girls have signed up to be members of SCOUTS BSA, formerly know as simply boy scouts. it's not co-ed and the females have their own troops (2500 new ones this year) but it's a start and have you heard a peep about the girls being allowed to join? neither have i.
good for them
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and sincere CONGRATS to the U.S. women's team for winning the gold. they've established a dynasty over the last twenty years and are the gold standard in the sport. but their behavior? ugh. the ironic part is that most of them don't like donald trump but then they act like him by dogging the teams they've defeated. bring back old school, where you win the game, shake their hands and shut up.
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Presidential candidate JOE BIDEN apologized for his stupid remarks of a few weeks ago and he did it in south carolina. that took guts but is the horse already out of the barn?
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newest way to ruin your summer? rent an electronic scooter from the city of chicago. In the first two weeks, just 6 city hospitals reported 21 injuries and four of those needed surgery. i hate this idea because with potholes and people wearing ear buds and crazy traffic, it's a recipe for disaster. i vote no.
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and RIP to a long time friend of mine who passed away on saturday after a long fight with cancer. HELEN TODD was 92 years old and the mother of JAN TODD LOSSON, my friend from the police department. Helen was always very nice to me (and everyone else for that matter) and could talk your ear off when you visited her house and we constantly laughed about that because her late husband LEON rarely said a word but you couldn't meet two nicer people. Godspeed, Helen and say hello to Leon for me.
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adios for now
YOU CANNOT CONTROL THE JUNGLE!
Take the sobbing mother of seven who mourns the loss of one of her brood for the tv cameras and cries out against the violence, a quick background check on her reveals that she grew up in the hood, ran with the gangs, has an arrest record and is known to NEVER CO-OPERATE WITH THE POLICE when violence happens in her neighborhood.
I said it before and now once again: These uneducated people live by a violent code, one whose credos are "survival of the fittest" and "snitches get stitches" so the general population won't help the investigations which leaves criminals on the street forever (until they get whacked by an up & comer).
I feel sorry for police superintendent EDDIE JOHNSON, who is a fine officer and a good administrator and an even better human being but he won't survive lightfoot's term and he'll soon announce his retirement so she can bring in her "hand picked" person.
and that person will also fail if the priority is to tame the jungle.
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WOW! the girls had a tremendous weekend! No, not the obnoxious and poorly behaved women's soccer team but rather, for the first time, girls 11-17 were allowed to march with the boy scouts in the annual 4th of july parades. Since February, 20,000 girls have signed up to be members of SCOUTS BSA, formerly know as simply boy scouts. it's not co-ed and the females have their own troops (2500 new ones this year) but it's a start and have you heard a peep about the girls being allowed to join? neither have i.
good for them
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and sincere CONGRATS to the U.S. women's team for winning the gold. they've established a dynasty over the last twenty years and are the gold standard in the sport. but their behavior? ugh. the ironic part is that most of them don't like donald trump but then they act like him by dogging the teams they've defeated. bring back old school, where you win the game, shake their hands and shut up.
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Presidential candidate JOE BIDEN apologized for his stupid remarks of a few weeks ago and he did it in south carolina. that took guts but is the horse already out of the barn?
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newest way to ruin your summer? rent an electronic scooter from the city of chicago. In the first two weeks, just 6 city hospitals reported 21 injuries and four of those needed surgery. i hate this idea because with potholes and people wearing ear buds and crazy traffic, it's a recipe for disaster. i vote no.
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and RIP to a long time friend of mine who passed away on saturday after a long fight with cancer. HELEN TODD was 92 years old and the mother of JAN TODD LOSSON, my friend from the police department. Helen was always very nice to me (and everyone else for that matter) and could talk your ear off when you visited her house and we constantly laughed about that because her late husband LEON rarely said a word but you couldn't meet two nicer people. Godspeed, Helen and say hello to Leon for me.
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adios for now
Sunday, July 7, 2019
THE FAT LADY IS WARMING UP
Picture one of those modern buildings where you can stand on the sidewalk and see the elevators as they activate. You look up and see two of them in motion and one is slowly moving up while the other is heading downward. And with that, you have the entire story of chicago baseball as the WHITE SOX continue to climb for the future while the CUBS have become.......the cubs.
It's pretty obvious that the six million dollar man, aka JOE MADDON, will out of a job at the end of the season and spends his days mentally flipping off THEO EPSTEIN, who gave a long radio interview on saturday and had several chances to endorse maddon for the future but failed to do so and avoided the question about a contract extension like the answer was radioactive.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if maddon was relieved of his duties before the end of the year. The cubs don't catch the ball, they run the bases like tee-ballers and are the worst team in baseball when it comes to getting hits with runners in scoring position and when you fail in the fundamental categories, that's on the manager.
i think Maddon sealed his fate in Pittsburgh this past week when he left catcher WILLSON CONTRERAS in right field in the ninth inning rather than switching him to first base and letting GOLD GLOVE ANTHONY RIZZO play right field.
if you can walk and chew gum, you can play first base for a few innings. now you may not dig a bad throw out of the dirt but normal throws by an infielder would be certain outs. yes, contreras made a great throw the previous inning to get a runner at home but late in the game, you field your best defensive team and maddon failed to do that. it's time for joe to start packing and let bench coach BRANDON HYDE finish out the year.
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And while we're pointing fingers, epstein should get thumped right in the middle of his forehead for his player acquisitions like EDWIN JACKSON, YU DARVISH, MIKE MONTGOMERY and JASON HEYWARD, (although having a good 2019.....but 23 million a year? yikes).
my personal favorite, the JOSE QUINTANA trade which brought the WHITE SOX ELOY JIMENEZ & DYLAN CEASE and two others which effectively emptied the cubs farm system and left them bobbing in the water.
The cubs have needed a second baseman and a leadoff man since DEXTER FOWLER left in 2017 but neither maddon or epstein could recognize what was right at the end of the bench for three years.....TOMMY LA STELLA. or should i say 2019 ALL STAR STARTING SECOND BASEMAN TOMMY LA STELLA, who is currently hitting .300 in the leadoff spot for the angels and has 16 homers and 44 rbi's. and they gave him away for nothing.
maybe it's also time for theo to start looking for future employment.
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The cubs are an aging, slow team that can't play defense. this team looks like they're just going thru the motions and the only factor saving them this year is that the entire central division has turned to crap but at least cub fans are finally realizing that the "DYNASTY" is over.
This weekend saw the city series end in a draw at 2-2 which is making cub fans even crazier especially when the guy they used to have in their system beats them twice in lass than a month. i promise you there's more of that to come.
hope they don't get stiff necks watching that south side elevator.......
later dudes
It's pretty obvious that the six million dollar man, aka JOE MADDON, will out of a job at the end of the season and spends his days mentally flipping off THEO EPSTEIN, who gave a long radio interview on saturday and had several chances to endorse maddon for the future but failed to do so and avoided the question about a contract extension like the answer was radioactive.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if maddon was relieved of his duties before the end of the year. The cubs don't catch the ball, they run the bases like tee-ballers and are the worst team in baseball when it comes to getting hits with runners in scoring position and when you fail in the fundamental categories, that's on the manager.
i think Maddon sealed his fate in Pittsburgh this past week when he left catcher WILLSON CONTRERAS in right field in the ninth inning rather than switching him to first base and letting GOLD GLOVE ANTHONY RIZZO play right field.
if you can walk and chew gum, you can play first base for a few innings. now you may not dig a bad throw out of the dirt but normal throws by an infielder would be certain outs. yes, contreras made a great throw the previous inning to get a runner at home but late in the game, you field your best defensive team and maddon failed to do that. it's time for joe to start packing and let bench coach BRANDON HYDE finish out the year.
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And while we're pointing fingers, epstein should get thumped right in the middle of his forehead for his player acquisitions like EDWIN JACKSON, YU DARVISH, MIKE MONTGOMERY and JASON HEYWARD, (although having a good 2019.....but 23 million a year? yikes).
my personal favorite, the JOSE QUINTANA trade which brought the WHITE SOX ELOY JIMENEZ & DYLAN CEASE and two others which effectively emptied the cubs farm system and left them bobbing in the water.
The cubs have needed a second baseman and a leadoff man since DEXTER FOWLER left in 2017 but neither maddon or epstein could recognize what was right at the end of the bench for three years.....TOMMY LA STELLA. or should i say 2019 ALL STAR STARTING SECOND BASEMAN TOMMY LA STELLA, who is currently hitting .300 in the leadoff spot for the angels and has 16 homers and 44 rbi's. and they gave him away for nothing.
maybe it's also time for theo to start looking for future employment.
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The cubs are an aging, slow team that can't play defense. this team looks like they're just going thru the motions and the only factor saving them this year is that the entire central division has turned to crap but at least cub fans are finally realizing that the "DYNASTY" is over.
This weekend saw the city series end in a draw at 2-2 which is making cub fans even crazier especially when the guy they used to have in their system beats them twice in lass than a month. i promise you there's more of that to come.
hope they don't get stiff necks watching that south side elevator.......
later dudes
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