Sammy Sofa
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[expletive] OFF, BARNEY. -
If you're putting 2014 in the books already, then yeah. Sweeney, Schierholtz, and Bogusevic turned Ruggiano being specific examples of guys likely to provide value covering multiple years. I think we (obviously) have wildly different expectations; to me those all seem like guys signed as obvious placeholders or who have effectively amounted to being decent bench options. Even Valbuena is largely seen "just" as the strong side of a platoon. I guess I was just hoping that they'd either target or stumble across a single player this way that turned out to be even just a serviceable everyday option.
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This is the scary part. Someday when we're trying to be good, we're going to need a cheap RFer or 3b or 2b and we're going to get a Nate Schierholtz (-0.6 fWAR this year) or Ian Stewart of Brent Lillibridge, and that might just cost us a playoff spot or a division. Or maybe we'll get a Luis Valbuena. He was literally the only one I could think of. Is that really what we should be expecting over 3 seasons (yes, I'm already assuming that nobody is breaking out from the current crop of mutts)? Making decisions on moves that panned out on May 13 seems a bit silly. In past years you've had Valbuena, Sweeney, Schierholtz, Murphy, Ransom, and Bogusevic(who became Ruggiano) turn out well; and if we must judge this year already, Bonifacio goes in the plus column too. I'm wrong in my expectations that given the glut of needs on this team they would have found someone beyond Valbuena in terms of having sustained offensive success?
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This is the scary part. Someday when we're trying to be good, we're going to need a cheap RFer or 3b or 2b and we're going to get a Nate Schierholtz (-0.6 fWAR this year) or Ian Stewart of Brent Lillibridge, and that might just cost us a playoff spot or a division. Or maybe we'll get a Luis Valbuena. He was literally the only one I could think of. Is that really what we should be expecting over 3 seasons (yes, I'm already assuming that nobody is breaking out from the current crop of mutts)? Guessing you're just limiting it to position players then? Well, yeah, I was trying to make it clear that I was focusing on the offense; from a pitching standpoint they've done a very good job in the regard, but the end product is EXTREMELY lopsided. I never thought we'd see them field an OF this destitute of any kind of sustainable talent this far into their tenure.
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This is the scary part. Someday when we're trying to be good, we're going to need a cheap RFer or 3b or 2b and we're going to get a Nate Schierholtz (-0.6 fWAR this year) or Ian Stewart of Brent Lillibridge, and that might just cost us a playoff spot or a division. Or maybe we'll get a Luis Valbuena. He was literally the only one I could think of. Is that really what we should be expecting over 3 seasons (yes, I'm already assuming that nobody is breaking out from the current crop of mutts)?
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My first thought when I saw the final score was, "Jesus Christ, they REALLY are trying to tell Samardzija that they can't afford him."
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I still read his posts like he's the asthmatic kid from Malcolm in the Middle.
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Right.
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It's like he saw davell's obviously sarcastic "quit playing him" post, took it seriously AND that it was the general consensus of the board and then had to give us a 6-part breakdown arguing against a standpoint nobody was taking.
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My main takeaway these days has been that unless we're talking about Castro or Rizzo, any offensive success on the Cubs is managing to come from a, at the very least, staggeringly flawed and unsustainable player. I thought a big plus of this FO was that they were going to be able to find diamond in the rough types and not just "OK, this person maybe will be serviceable for the better part of a season."
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Oh my God, AGAIN with the "oh yeah, well Rizzo did/didn't do this, AH-HAAAAAAH!" response. Why the hell is Rizzo your metric for player success or failure? And nobody was "fired up" over Schierholtz or Valbuena last year; the former got a "wow, who expected this from Nate Schierholtz" reaction and the latter a "hey, he might be serviceable at 3B or 2B until a better option comes along."
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Who are you talking to.
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"A Hendry-esque monster" is a [expletive] myth. He put together some flawed teams, but they weren't these bizarrely crippling monstrosities that people love to pretend they must have been.
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That have other [expletive] in their lives. Ban hockey.
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That and that whoever is playing in if the OF is usually dog [expletive].
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NFL coaching carousel/NFL Offseason thread
Sammy Sofa replied to dew1679666265's topic in Other Sports
You'd inject heroin into your forehead too if you just found out Johnny Manziel was throwing to you Yeah the guy who threw 7,820 yards at a 68.9% completion rate. What a bum. their previous starter threw 9,260 yards at a 69.5% completion rate http://replygif.net/i/1123.gif -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-11-14
Sammy Sofa replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He won't escape it when he makes it to Chicago. No doubt, I thought that too. But it's as though these particular fans don't understand the purpose of the Iowa Cubs. This is true; you'd think people that actually went to minor league baseball games would have a better grasp of the purpose. That said, I really do dread when guys like him and Bryant show up and if they have prolonged struggles. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-11-14
Sammy Sofa replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He won't escape it when he makes it to Chicago. -
Thank goodness they won't be wasting too many cheap productive years from these two! Jeepers!
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Hahahahahah!
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-11-14
Sammy Sofa replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
So we have a 21 year old kid who's had attitude issues in the past, and now he's being heckled by hillbillies during what I can only assume has been the roughest patch of his baseball career. I just hope it doesn't escalate into a prospect goes ape [expletive] situations. Shocker that dumb things like this happen when your organization puts not just the expectation, but the NECESSITY of you being amazing or else it's a huge catastrophe on a kid's shoulders. -
It sure does sound like 2019 now, and it's going to drive me bat [expletive] crazy waiting that long to behave like a big market team. I would wait until we hear about this slate of WGN games before coming to that conclusion. I still think the big Fox deal with the local bridge makes the most sense. The fact that we haven't heard a word about it in the past 4 months is mildly disconcerting We don't even have the radio deal in place that was supposed to be announced prior to Opening Day. The large Fox deal? The conjuring of an active imagination from someone who hasn't been right nearly enough to take seriously at this point. Yeah, given how impressively the Ricketts have seemingly fucked up every single part of the rebuild outside of the farm system I have little faith that they're going to get maximum value from any kind of placeholder deal. These desperate idiots are going to get locked into another terrible contract.
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Holy [expletive], they're 12-24. This is a [expletive] debacle.
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