Cubs win!
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) May 20, 2018
Final: #Cubs 10, #Reds 0. #EverybodyIn pic.twitter.com/RTJn8FACfo
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) May 19, 2018
Previously, Cub Tracks passed on the chili. Weak sauce with cinnamon isn’t my favorite — I prefer meat loaf. Addison Russell made like Clark Kent and changed in a phone booth for that game. Good thing it wasn’t a Tardis. Tom Baker would look really funny at short. He’s supposed to be at first, but perhaps he didn’t succeed there.
(cue laugh track)
Moldy and Scowler forgive me. Marvin too. I’m sure I’m not the only one that’s puzzled by the current power outage. Where’s the kaboom? Ok, Ian Happ went kaboom, twice...but not enough kaboom, I say. Not enough baseballs in orbit.
Let’s file new coordinates and return to earth for today’s game. As always * means autoplay on (directions to remove for Firefox and Chrome).
Cubs news and notes:
Thanks @PF_Flyers. I knew you’d understand. https://t.co/uXVP1aDsML
— Ben Zobrist (@benzobrist18) May 13, 2018
Jon Lester likes to use the roller coaster analogy when talking about a baseball season though he’s not a fan of real roller coasters: “Some seasons are going to be the kiddie rides and some are going to be the Six Flags not so fun ones...I’ll stay with Dumbo. The Goofy one I rode this off season. The Seven Dwarfs one was a little much for me but I got through that with the 7 year old. He made me go on that. I don’t do Tea Pots. I don’t spin.” Lester was then asked if It’s a Small World is more his style: “I stay away from that one. That song will be in your head for the next 3 days.” — Jesse Rogers
Maddon on A.Garrett's reax to Baez K ahead of 50-man scrum: "He let out a Lion's King type of roar. The Lion King should be reserved for Broadway or a movie theater."
— Gordon Wittenmyer (@GDubCub) May 19, 2018
Joe Maddon, after the Cubs lose 5-4 in 11: “It was not a good game. One of my worst sitting in that dugout.” — Jesse Rogers
Addison Russell: "This is a great organization. The Cubs have stuck with me whenever I went through a lot of things. I think that would be sad if I had to leave, but I’m really thankful for the Cubs, for giving me an opportunity to play."
— Patrick Mooney (@PJ_Mooney) May 19, 2018
- Patrick Mooney (The Athletic {$}): How Jon Lester is riding the rollercoaster of this Cubs season. “We really haven’t clicked yet, so we’ll keep plugging away.”
- William Rettig (MLB.com*): Jose Quintana dominates, Cubs coast to G2 shutout. “Veteran lefty allows one hit, K’s 7 in seven 7 brilliant innings.”
- Duncan Wallis (Msabr.com): Where did Yu go? “...what did the Cubs see in Yu Darvish?”
- Mark Gonzales (Chicago Tribune* {$}): Maddon sticking by reliever Justin Wilson despite bout of wildness. “We’ll get him ready for Cleveland,” Maddon said.
- Jessica Kleinschmidt (Cut Four): Scooter Gennett and Anthony Rizzo shared a fun moment on first base. “It appeared Rizzo was attempting to pull a hidden-ball trick on Gennett, but this isn’t his first rodeo.”
- Michael Augustine (Pitcherlist): Going Deep: Anthony Rizzo has become an enigma. “...he’s pulling the ball much more than he normally does and at the expense of his opposite field contact.”
- Mark Gonzales (Chicago Tribune* {$}): Cubs say Amir Garrett went a bit too far in celebrating strikeout of Javier Baez. “He’s frustrated because I hit a (grand slam) off him last year,” said Baez. Mark Sheldon (MLB.com) adds on.
- Mark Gonzales (Chicago Tribune* {$}): Addison Russell not paying attention to Manny Machado rumors. “It doesn’t bother me,” he said.
- William Rettig (MLB.com*): Happ hits 14,000th homer in Cubs history. Happ has reached base in 11 of his 13 plate appearances.
- William Rettig (MLB.com*): Cubs’ rally not enough as Reds walk off in 11th. “It looks like we walked a run in, but we had that game so many other ways before that,” Maddon said.
Food for thought:
Behold: see galaxies like never before! Astronomers have used the unparalleled sharpness & spectral range of the @NASAHubble telescope to create the most comprehensive, high-resolution ultraviolet-light look at nearby star-forming galaxies. Take a look: https://t.co/QEkR0EaRSp pic.twitter.com/L7mxrroncR
— NASA (@NASA) May 19, 2018
A star contains a list of ingredients that its orbiting planets had to work with. https://t.co/Lz5XFMzYpN pic.twitter.com/FZnvfthUsi
— Science News (@ScienceNews) May 19, 2018
Octopuses are not aliens, but boy are they a bunch of beautiful weirdos https://t.co/xCZTdbsVSR pic.twitter.com/ArPW0pnQOi
— Popular Science (@PopSci) May 19, 2018
Thanks for reading, Houston, and good night.