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The Iowa Cubs have applied for a re-brand. The trade talk and position-change talk is ongoing. Nico’s leaving, and Michael Busch is taking over third don’t you know, and Moises Ballesteros is going to use Harry’s old fishing net to play first.
Yeahh. That’s gonna happen. The Cubs proudly bore their meatloaf into Wrigley Field for the rubber game of the three-game Go Fish series, hoping to sweep the Marlins into the chum bucket and move on to the White Sox.
Jameson Taillon took the hill, opposed by Ryan Weathers. Dansby Swanson assumed leadoff duties against the southpaw, son of former Cub David. Taillon again demonstrated how to squeeze meatballs. Seiya answered with a seeya.
And that was it for the scoring. In all fairness, Taillon is hitting the strike zone on the regular, and that’s why the solo homers, but three, as Ryan Dempster said, can beat ya. And they did.
Off-day today, and then the mighty ChiSox visit for three.
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“Obviously, I’ve been going through it, and I’m not going to make any excuses, But at the same time, you’ve just got to show up and put in the work every day. I finally got a good result.” — Justin Turner.
Food for thought:
Most hailstones that fall to Earth range in diameter from that of a pea to small pocket change. Once the diameter of a hail stone is about 1 inch it is labeled “severe.” Scientists predict climate change will make larger hail more common.
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