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  1. Sammy Sofa
    I would have settled for "not horrible" and "working towards improving" while somehow magically using the sorcery other teams have used to build their farm system without tanking.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    The only thing that will persuade me is the team not being terrible. I cannot possibly make it more clear than that. Until then this is brutal and if it was a somehow a test to be a fan "the right way" of baseball or whatever then I have failed miserably and have completely regressed back to the fan I was when I was 14.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    See? That new guy is pretty level-headed; I can revel in my big bowl of hate and the new guys can be the rational ones.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    It's being all about hating the world until these dicks actually gives us something good. Then it's cool. But let us call them on their [expletive] in the meantime and be prepared to destroy them with a righteous fury if it fails.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I'm going to write a beautiful piece called How I Stopped Thinking Positive and Came to Love the Meatball and give it to Tim to put on the front page. When guys end up being hack machines and getting hit by balls and other players and cars and the TV bubble bursts and Chicago goes bankrupt and takes the Cubs with them it will be seen as prophetic. The farm system simply is the one that thing that hasn't gone wrong...yet. This is anti-logic and insanity and deep down inside of you you all know that it's true. Embrace the meatball and realize what we are trapped in.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    You take it as sandbagging 2015, I take it as eyeing a specific acquisition that isn't a FA until the 2015 offseason. Oh good; they're laser-sighted in on the one guy they want and if they don't get him then they have this awesome track record of backup plans that worked out (or even existed at all). You are either having some serious reading comprehension issues tonight, or you just feel the need to intentionally misread things in an effort to complain because it just makes you feel better about things. I'm just explaining the reality of the situation based on their past efforts when it comes to eyeing specific FA acquisitions.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SV2t29C9Hc4/Udip0f3dFUI/AAAAAAAAAS4/6Kjr827vRPw/s1600/Strawman+playbackups+com.jpg Nooooooooooooope. Unless that's some kind of Austrian thing that means something sideways over there.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Go sniff a cork.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Why are you so convinced they won't be able to get Baez into a team-friendly deal?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Fine, I just imagined the no holes thing.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    And praying for no holes. yeah, good luck with that Chris Davis hit 53 HR last year, and he's sitting at replacement level right now Proven Veterans™ Matt Kemp, Jay Bruce, Allen Craig, Carlos Gonzalez, Prince Fielder, Billy Butler, Alfonso Soriano, Aaron Hill, Eric Hosmer, Carl Crawford, Carlos Beltran, Shin-soo Choo and like 100 other players with a track record, have all been pretty dismal this year...and this is to say nothing of the volatility of pitching looking only at prospects that have floundered and drawing broad conclusions is ignorant of the greater unpredictability in player performance and serves as confirmation bias for an ill-informed mindset So your argument against me being wary of thinking the all prospect team is a lock...is to point out the fluctuation in "proven" talent? Alright then.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    You take it as sandbagging 2015, I take it as eyeing a specific acquisition that isn't a FA until the 2015 offseason. Oh good; they're laser-sighted in on the one guy they want and if they don't get him then they have this awesome track record of backup plans that worked out (or even existed at all).
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Were you born under a bad sign or something? http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TD65lQUj--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/18j4z6k55jio1jpg.jpg
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Imagine the scrambling when that $40 million isn't spent. Get read for another Jackson-esque signing and some scraps.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    And praying for no holes.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    I do; they'll want him as dead meat if they don't manage to be competitive.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Agreed. They very likely could be holes. But, that's what makes next year exciting and terrifying at the same time. But that's not what Tim said. There may be holes, but there's no reason to spend heavily on them this off-season because of all the young talent available. Nobody said to spend heavily on position talent.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Why not have him learn 2B at the level you want him at when there are literally zero stakes with the major league team? Why are people so convinced they won't be able to sign him to a team-friendly deal a la Castro or Rizzo?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Very valid points, and much more reasonable than "the Cubs have no position holes (except for maybe catcher)."
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I keep forgetting who the Cubs' manager is, so I guess that's a good thing.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Bill James is a false prophet and should be drowned in a lake.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I want him up now; the guy has shown he needs time to adjust and I want him to do it sooner rather than later since it's a given we have to wait for Bryant. Seems like that could significantly improve the team's chances to start the year next year if they launch with Baez and Soler having had some pro time.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I said "few." I can count 7 and then I got bored.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    they'll both show up but i already [expletive] hate the CBA that incentivizes this, if that answers your question It does; I have kind of an apathetic disliking and broken spirit right now, but if Baez doesn't show up this season that will mutate into actual rage. I really want to see Soler, too, but I'm more confident in him panning out so if he was stretched out a bit more and just started with the team next year I guess I could livie with it, but I want Baez to be given time to work through his [expletive] ASAP.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    http://www.alwayssometimesanytime.com/images/26301.gif
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