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  1. Sammy Sofa
    On the other hand... https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=starlin%20castro%20gaffe Do a search for "Anthony Rizzo gaffe" and here's the second result:
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Huh? Is he invisible to the camera or something? When he screws up it's on TV just like Castro's. viewers have trouble making out whose tiny face it is screwing up http://i.imgur.com/iigLQ0T.gif?1
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Huh? Is he invisible to the camera or something? When he screws up it's on TV just like Castro's.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Not a single person here has said Castro didn't screw up tonight.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Len is awesome, but he's not perfect. His word isn't the final say on anything.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Kaplan just has no idea of perspective; everyone was annoyed over what happened, but he has no idea how to express something like that without going off the deep end. Even Hollandsworth seemed put off by it and was defending Castro a couple times after the game. Again, Castro made a mistake. Nobody is saying he's blameless, but Kaplan is providing a textbook example of how people flip out WAY too much over him when he makes a mistake.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I hope it doesn't bug them. All I know is that it annoys the piss out of me. I don't think being some kind of playoff hero would end this unless he won them the WS in walkoff fashion and then immediately retired.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Like people are saying, it's not that he doesn't make mistakes, but it's that the few times he makes genuine big mistakes, like the incident above, ends up blowing up EVERY mistake or maybe-mistake being a big deal regardless of how common or harmless it is. Take Kaplan and Hollandsworth right now; I'm pissed that Starlin watched his hit, but that happens. It's not unique to him, a ton of players do it and it's not going to go away. Benching him isn't going to stop it, yet these two are ranting like it's some kind of crippling issue that's going to infect the other players and "someone needs to act." It's an absurd overreaction to something frustrating but ultimately not a serious issue. He shouldn't have to do something Herculean like carrying the Cubs to the playoffs or beyond to simply be evaluated like most other players are.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Does Hollandsworth talk more about Soler or Castro?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Hahahaah! Chapman slapping Baez' ass as he heads off the field.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    OH MOTHER HUBBARD.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I slightly fear that his swing colliding with that fastball will tear open the fabric of time and space.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    BAEZ IS HERE TO DESTROY CHAPMAN.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Al Contra getting it started.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    This fight they're showing is a perfect example; I highly doubt the narrative would be nearly as praising if Castro had been the instigator as opposed to Rizzo.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    That doesn't make it not racist. The narrative can be racist on some level locally because I believe if it had been Rizzo you wouldn't read about it tomorrow but JD would've still gotten on him. However, Castro has had too many instances where his mental lapses have cost his team and lost games. And guess what? That's not because he is brown, that's because he doesn't keep his head in the game at all times. Other players have issues with that too, but it doesn't seem to show up in situations that directly cost teams ballgames. He has earned the reputation and it's easy to keep it when it happens on a regular basis. I still think he's a stud and I love his game, but those little plays right there need to go away and that has nothing to do with skin color. How many games has it cost them again? And why don't Rizzo's defensive and baserunning lapses count as much? (And yes, I know you pointed out that he wouldn't get the same crap) It's sadly a narrative that will dog Castro for the rest of his career. Even if he never did something like staring at his hit tonight again he'd still get too much [expletive] thrown at him for minor mistakes every player makes. That's where the imbalance comes in.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    No, he's had a couple of genuinely bad mistakes that have been blown to be "recurring issues" when 9 times out of 10 it's him doing something every other player will do. He fucked up bad tonight (watching the hit, but also stupidly charging that Hamilton grounder), but he gets a ton of [expletive] for things that should be complete non-stories and are non-stories with players like Rizzo.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Castro straight up stopped and stared after hitting a deep fly ball off the wall in CF and only ended up with a single because of it. It's not like he was admiring it or anything; he honestly looked like he was just trying to see if it was out or not like it was [expletive] BP or something.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I hate anti-Castro meatball-ism with the best of him, but come on, Starlin. It's not like that was some kind of no-doubter.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    That was a [expletive] sexy AB.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Baez is going to do something splendid here.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    No.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I don't know what that is referencing.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Recognize the GREATER GOOD before I have you slain for wearing a crusty jumper. my post wasn't an indictment on his future It still angered me.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Recognize the GREATER GOOD before I have you slain for wearing a crusty jumper.
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