I am excited to see him pitch. I wonder if he will be a contender for closer at some point.

Yeah, don't mention Coleman or he won't like you anymore.

He's never liked me and we probably won't see Coleman for a while, if at all. Note, that comment is made assuming that the entire rotation doesn't go on the DL.

In that case, I AM encouraged.

We have to watch your boy struggle every 5th game. I can't believe you used Maholm and viable in the same sentence.

I seriously doubt that Bowden can make this BP worse.

He has a 5.61 ERA in 60 ML innings. Am I supposed to be encouraged by that ?

Yeah, Maholm looked terrible last time out. It must have been a fluke.

He doesn't like it because he knows that his high school sweetheart, Coleman will probably never get to pitch again with a Cubs team outside of Iowa.

It was ---about every 5 or 6 starts he'll pitch like yesterday.

First of all, those are a bunch of isolated appearances. Second, he's been converted from a SP to a RP. Are you saying that he's going to make the Cubs' BP worse?

But that is a 5.61 ERA in a hitters league and not to mention in the AL East.

You , no. You're basically here just to argue.
But others might be, or they just might want to learn something about the newest Cub.

You said the same thing about Frankie De La Cruz. He really blows.

Who did I argue with Timmy ?

He sees it as yet another guy ahead of Coleman, so it will be all negativity from him.
Dude must have a Casey Coleman shrine in his house.

Is it really any worse than a 5.48 major league era in 141 innings ?

Maybe De LaCruz should legally change his last name to Coleman. Would that help?