Sammy Sofa

God, I hated it when we drafted him. Yeah. I did a Kyle Long-esque turnaround on him. It took me a little longer with Noah, though. Loved it just for the personality and the draft outfit alone, but hated it at the time in the idea of the Bulls getting better. Just felt like the aughts-Bulls being the aughts-Bulls.

He deserves all of the love...all of it. Everyone else in this city is a [expletive] bum in comparison.

Are you talking about the long term prospects of the ricketts family trust? Hey man, it's only 2010; taking a decade to actually fully own the team and to be able to just spend like they did...ten years prior...that.s just how it's done. Baseball works like a 401k, ah-doy.

And you're basing the bold on....what, exactly?

[expletive], if Olt is cured and Baez shows up this year...something bad has to happen, right?

How dare you use my trademarked creation "doom boner." Where was this "2015 general consensus" here? Seemed more like people were expecting/hoping for 2013-2014 to be showing signs of life or more. 2015 is by no means any kind of a sure thing for the team to be competitive. It's been a shitty time to be a Cubs fan; it's an amazing time to be a fan of minor league baseball and FO-watching. Hopefully the rest will be exciting soon, too.

Nice. The crowd almost seems appalled.

I'm not saying it was karma for making fun of Count Sosa...but I'm not NOT saying it was.

Fair enough. Like I said, I'm less inclined to think that that particular issue was something they were betting on getting, but given their overall crappy dealings with the city I think you can group it in under the general heading of "Chicago Sucks but Nobody Told the Ricketts."

I'm honestly completely lost with what you're trying to say here. Took me a few readings, probably the most overly worst thing I've ever seen tt post. Think he's saying that it's not a guarantee that they expected it rather than just taking a shot at it. He must've been watching football at the time Right. "Expecting" carries the connotation that not getting it put them behind schedule or caught them by surprise. Maybe that was the case, but anyone in that position would be crazy not to at least try to get public money. The delays that have come after that are due to the abject lunacy of the rooftops and Tunney, which I doubt anyone could speed up unless a different owner gave zero craps about a lengthy court battle or possible injunction on renovations. So the various broken deadlines and missed projected start dates have been...what? Ploys? Smoke & mirrors? Just wishful thinking? I don't think it's too much of a stretch to ultimately think that they've been over their head in some areas. Honestly, it often feels like some just don't want to admit that the idea that the Cubs' current owners might not be very good at owning the Cubs is a real possibility. I don't think that's something anyone can definitively say right now, but there sure seems to be some real defensiveness in terms of explaining away things where it seems like the Ricketts have either misjudged the situation, screwed up or just plain dropped the ball.

Nice. Or maybe he was in a bar.

I'm honestly completely lost with what you're trying to say here. Took me a few readings, probably the most overly worst thing I've ever seen tt post. Think he's saying that it's not a guarantee that they expected it rather than just taking a shot at it. He must've been watching football at the time That I agree with; I've stated several times I doubt the Ricketts were hinging on getting outside money, but I do think it was something they were really hoping to get, and their overall dealings with the city seem to a betray a...naivety (if that's the right word) in what they were hoping to get done. I agree that the answer is more of a middle ground, but it's still a pretty shitty place to be, whether they actually tried or were just expecting it.

I prefer Kalish if only because his name makes it sound like they have a [expletive] Kilingon death-god manning the OF.

I'm honestly completely lost with what you're trying to say here.

Yeah, how is anyone at this point denying that they didn't expect to get some kind of city and/or state assistance? Plus they clearly expected to have been able to get underway with the major renovations and advertising changes and the like based on their own deadlines that they have no missed several times over. It's not a stretch at all to think that Ricketts miscalculated their hand badly.

You hate the truth.

Effortless CF and opposite field power back to back? Good Lord. Stop getting my hopes up, you assholes.

LIVIN' THE [expletive] DREAM.

BASEBALL HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

Mine arrived at the end of last week.

I so very badly want for this to be a real thing: http://deadspin.com/brian-scalabrine-gets-his-own-30-for-30-trailer-1544943134

I think the switch from Lovie and Marinelli to Trestman and Tucker (and the Canadian/inexperienced staff) definitely played a major part. Peppers, who by all accounts needs to be motivated to perform, did not perform as well as he could last year. Briggs barely bought in to the new regime and seemed to hold a grudge all year long. Has Briggs ever not held a grudge? I just think when an older player falls off like that it has more to do with him simply getting older as opposed to not being motivated; Smith's main point centered around the Bears' terrible run defense, so Peppers basically didn't get a lot of the opportunities he had before, but it was pointed out right away that when Peppers was good he was effective against both the run and the pass.

Stephen A. Smith thinks that the reason Peppers (and the Bears' defense as a whole) stunk last season was the switch from Lovie to Trestman.

This is what we've been reduced to.

for the record, i wasn't with kyle on that part...just on really hoping he doesn't break camp (which he will) literally who cares if he "breaks camp." what in the world do we have to lose in this scenario i still want the team to be as good as it possibly can be Oh, NOW you do. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeez.