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  1. Sammy Sofa
    I find BR easier to read and I am set in my ways.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    They messed up; it wasn't supposed to air until Baez shows up.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    For a guy who can't top 90, back end of the rotation seems like a best case scenario unless his control is simply amazing. I was being diplomatic. I don't want to be Mr. Everything Sucks ALL of the time.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Jackson hasn't been this bad, but he's been bad before. The argument was made by people smarter than me that Wood's previous success was him overperforming. That either will bounce back, much less both, is nowhere near a sure thing. And I'm not giving up on Hendricks, but ultimately I think he'll settle in as a back of the rotation guy if he sticks as a starter.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Kenny Lofton?
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I'm just concerned because I figured we'd have Dopirak play DH when it started. Where are we going to move him to? your trolling has no effect on me because i didn't care about minor leagues back then so HA http://replygif.net/i/1521.gif But seriously, I miss the days when we could mostly ignore the minor leagues.
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    I'm just concerned because I figured we'd have Dopirak play DH when it started. Where are we going to move him to? your trolling has no effect on me because i didn't care about minor leagues back then so HA http://replygif.net/i/1521.gif
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Here, use this one: http://i.imgur.com/OsAdPaj.gif s.hittytumblrgifs are a pet peeve of mine, sorry. Where do you get yours? mostly http://www.reddit.com/r/highqualitygifs Also a great resource: http://replygif.net/
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Well that's not true. Who are you banking on? Arrieta? Edwards? Arrieta (who has been elite and has a ways to drop off and still be good), Hendricks (strikes and groundballs FTW), and as much as I don't love them, I doubt both Wood and Jackson continue to post mid 5 ERAs. Then there's the bullpen - Rondon, Strop, Ramirez, and Rivero all are currently/should be good relief pitchers. There's also a lot of money to be spent and a pretty good group of free agent starting pitchers to spend it on. I guess I'm not THAT worried about the pitching. I'm not talking about the bullpen, though I guess I should since this year's seems to be the exception, so it's not even like that is some kind of sure thing. My concerns with Arrieta are injuries. I think Hendricks' lack of speed is ultimately going to catch up to him. Wood and Jackson not bouncing back shouldn't be surprising to anyone. The team development is HUGELY lopsided right now.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I agree with all of this; I kind of expect at least a couple to not make it for whatever reason, and then ultimately what does show up to be pretty good. Seems a lot more realistic than a world-beating team of offensive monsters.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Well that's not true. Who are you banking on? Arrieta? Edwards?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    we have an elite positional prospect (either in terms of offense alone or some combination of offense and defense) or elite young player slated to play at every position as soon as next year. that's pretty insane and I have to think it's a near unprecedented situation to be in. Which seems to belie that it's likely to not work out that way. The fact that teams never have this many of these types of assets? Obviously there's been plenty of collections of amazing prospects over the year. Is this the mythical greatest of all time? I have no idea, but it just seems unlikely that all of these guys will pan out to be amazing players. Baseball is brutal like that.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    And absolutely no pitching.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    we have an elite positional prospect (either in terms of offense alone or some combination of offense and defense) or elite young player slated to play at every position as soon as next year. that's pretty insane and I have to think it's a near unprecedented situation to be in. Which seems to belie that it's likely to not work out that way.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    I'm pretty sure I can wrap my head around about 75% a good team.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Would have preferred Friedman, too. Definitely someone used to having to deal with these limitations for a sustained period of time. Part of my excitement over the Theo hire (and subsequent frustration) was it seemed to signal the Cubs were going to act like big boys while fixing things. But isn't Friedmans approach basically also to just suck and stockpile prospects? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Lowered expectations, plus I'd rather have someone used to doing it as opposed to the GM equivalent of 1%-ers deciding to slum it for kicks. You bring in a Friedman or a Beane and of course there's the hope of "oh yeah, let's see what these guys do with money," though it makes more sense/hurts less when it becomes obvious that they're just doing their same ol' thing.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Would have preferred Friedman, too. Definitely someone used to having to deal with these limitations for a sustained period of time. Part of my excitement over the Theo hire (and subsequent frustration) was it seemed to signal the Cubs were going to act like big boys while fixing things.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Agreed. I think from the standpoint of, "hey, we want to build a team 'the right way,' but we're gonna have some serious money issues while it's happening" I think most people here would rather have Beane.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Fair enough. It's not like I actually clicked the link or anything.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    And again, hand-waving away all the ways the FO has managed to add value to the franchise as both meaningless and easy understates the job they've actually done. I do suppose, though, if they hit on every successful FA over the past 3 years, the team would be better. Course, the worst case for that scenario puts the team in far worse shape than they are now. What am I hand-waving away? They deserve credit TO A POINT for what they've done. It's incredibly hard to have the sustained playoff success people seem to just assume the Cubs will be having, so it's not like being the worst team in baseball is just going to be cancelled out by some kind of baseball juggernaut.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    The problem is that as a Blackhawks fan, I've noticed over the last five years how many other teams' fans thought they were about to be the next Blackhawks. None of them so far have done it. None of them have 2 of top 10 players in the league who are both under 27. Of course, the Cubs don't either...... We might have two of the top 25-30 under 25, though. With more of that level of talent on the way. Maybe. Weren't people just laughing at a top 20 prospect list from several years ago earlier today?
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Yup. Our 2015 starting rotation right now includes: Jake Arrieta (massive health red flags) Kyle Hendricks (failed to hit 90.0 in his last start) Edwin Jackson Left-handed Edwin Jackson That's it. Teams with good starting pitching depth get sunk by runs of injuries. We're going to have to do an *amazing* job this offseason just to have OK starting pitching depth. I feel like you'd argue either side of this particular debate depending on who you decided to argue with in a given conversation. Come on, the pitching isn't a huge question mark? Are you that confident in Bosio?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    And I swear to Christ, the first person to come in her complaining that they thought there was some big trade because of all the discussion... http://wearable-technology.co/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/b4084_LJJcT.gif
  24. Sammy Sofa
    What does a bandwagon have to do with anything? There's instantly going to be no stink is my point. If the team is popular, winning, making money, etc., who is sniffing up this metaphorical stink? Damage to fan psyche? Again, this only matters in debates (like the one the past few pages) about how the FO's or ownership's tenure ultimately gets perceived, but why do we really care about that? I don't give a damn about legacy; I give a damn about a super lopsided approach to building a team and being too in love with their prospects. I'm still hugely wary that we'll see them bother to try and make any kind of major trade using these guys before it's maybe too late to do so. And how about just establishing the precedent that this is an acceptable way to run a [expletive] baseball team?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not predicting it, either, but I also wouldn't be surprised by it happening. I'm thinking/hoping more in the 80-83 realm.
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