Sosa/Burnitz comparison

[NCCubFan]

If you think what happened to him is just "normal decline" you can have your blinders on.

Do not insult other posters by accusing them of having blinders on just because they don't share your opinion. Other posters are entitled to their opinions and you are entitled to yours, but you are NOT entitled to ridicule others just because they don't share your opinion.

[Roast]

Check this site out - http://www.sammyisgone.com

 

I saw a bunch of people at Wrigley on Friday wearing these shirts. I picked one up for $10. It's a funny shirt.

 

No, its not.

 

Pretty lame really. He's gone, but people are still hanging on all this negative crap. pretty pathetic.

[nilodnayr]

with or without the ridiculous shenanigans at the end of the season.

 

I have to disagree. I think If the managment shuts their traps, and deals with it in house, his trade value is higher. Yes he was in a decline. But He was still Slammin Sammy. Despite the fact he only hit in the low 200's, he still had quite a few HR's. I'm sure alot of teams would accept the lower average for the power. The club decided to make him into CLUBHOUSE CANCER SAMMY SOSA, however, and i beleive that hurt his value.

 

If the team didn't reveal his surly dispossition at the end of the year, another team would have surely investigated why the Cubs were trading him and discovered the truth anyway.

 

In addition, there is no way Sosa drops the next guaranteed year unless he has to eat some value do to his poor reputation. No team was going to give us much value for 2 years of an inflated contract.

 

You also have to consider the business/marketing side of it. If the Cubs just keep everything quiet and trade him there would have been an uproar among the "average" fan who still remembers '98 Sosa. Those "average" fans are who buy a majority of the tickets and an awful lot of merchandise. It may be cold, but business can be that way, and the Cubs needed to "sell" their fan base on the idea of Sammy no longer being part of the team. He just happened to make it very easy for them.

 

Those "average fans" were booing the hell out of sosa every day for half of the 2004 season. If the last game would have never happened no one would have batted an eye if the cubs traded sammy in the offseason.

[hardcorecubfan]

how much money did we waste dumping Sosa?

 

 

i'd still rather have burnitz in RF over Sosa at this point in time, but that money would have been nice to have.

 

Was it your money they loss...no, and it may have given us a few more wins for the year. If we are there at the end of the year they won't hesitate to spend some cash to get more.

[fiver]

how much money did we waste dumping Sosa?

 

 

i'd still rather have burnitz in RF over Sosa at this point in time, but that money would have been nice to have.

 

Was it your money they loss...no, and it may have given us a few more wins for the year. If we are there at the end of the year they won't hesitate to spend some cash to get more.

 

 

well, technically one could say yes to that question if they buy tickets to wrigley, cubbie merchandise, etc. The underlined protion remains to be seen. That said, I think we'll pickup someone before the deadline, but don't count on it being a major addition.

[Sarcastic]

how much money did we waste dumping Sosa?

 

 

i'd still rather have burnitz in RF over Sosa at this point in time, but that money would have been nice to have.

 

Was it your money they loss...no, and it may have given us a few more wins for the year. If we are there at the end of the year they won't hesitate to spend some cash to get more.

 

I think his point was that the money could have been spent in a way that would have resulted in a better team. But that would only be true if we could have gotten someone to take on a lot more of Sosa's contract. I don't think that would have possible given his decline, but none of us really know what the best offer Hendry could have gotten was.