Sammy Sofa

Until it becomes some kind of included default in a standard cable package I am SD for life. No DVR, too.

Because he looks like warmed over death and I haven't seen a picture of him in a decade. You didn't see any photos of him during his Gordon Gecko rise to fame and fortune then fall from grace? I didn't even know he was in jail until this. What a turd.

Ah, yes, the "it was my brother"-defense, beloved of banned online gaming trolls everywhere.

In like two years he'll be somebody else's Ian Stewart. http://i.minus.com/ibrvWgIuLwLagI.gif

But Samardz did :) This is true. Pretty awesome to see.

Holy Hell, you know how to make everyone realize you've been quite for a while. Who the bloody blue [expletive] is even talking about Brett Jackson?!?

What a fun game. Unfortunately Castro and Rizzo and Castillo had nothing to do with it.

Who, the Naperville guy?

Yeah, but that they wouldn't have to delay the game for at least 5 solid minutes of love from the crowd is a crime.

Pretty sure Aram got a standing O in his return. Eh, the Aramis one was a lot more "mixed" than it should have been (in the amount of people simply not cheering). Really nobody booing outside of a couple of jackasses, but I'd argue DeJesus just got a bigger/louder/whatever moment than Aramis did.

Yuuuuuuuup. Jesus [expletive] Christ, Murphy is some kind of sorcerer.

I wonder if they'll send him somewhere this fall/winter to work on his mechanical issues. Something...ANYTHING...I want to love again. He's so much fun to watch when he's hitting.

Aw, nicely done for DeJesus.

Meanwhile every Castro PA after Schierholtz is like a sobering slap of reality.

What a sexy beast.

Again, not really; even if all of the "likely" guys panned out (Bryant, Almora, Baez, Soler) you could fit all of them into the lineup without displacing Rizzo and Castro (Yeah, someone moves to 2B instead of SS, but nobody is getting kicked out). Vogelbach and Olt are long shots for different reasons, but still long shots.

I don't know that Theo and Jed foresaw Nate being as good as he has been, but signing him to that deal and protecting him in a platoon has looked like a pretty [expletive] prescient move. It'd look a lot better if they had found a better other half of the platoon. Hey, no shame in taking a shot at someone like Hairston. If that had worked out the production would have been epic.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8o3vhxlyj1r0ott6o1_500.gif Murphy, seriously, how the [expletive] are you doing this.

It's amazing. It makes me sad they didn't have cartoons like that when I was a kid. Well, we at least all had the old MGM/Warner Bros./etc. cartoons, but yeah, being a child of the 80's it was a lot of lame half hour toy commercials and not much else. I grew up on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies luh dat ish Well yeah, but that, while very funny, is all mindless slapstick and pratfalls. That's selling a lot of it, especially the Warner 'toons, pretty short. Remember, a ton of those shorts were made with kid and adult audiences in mind like AT since they were being shown in theaters.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/3076973/dugoutcatch.gif

GIVE NATE A BOBBLEHEAD.

http://www.obstructedview.net/news-and-rumors/jed-hoyer-confirms-money-the-big-issue-in-david-dejesus-trade.html

It's amazing. It makes me sad they didn't have cartoons like that when I was a kid. Well, we at least all had the old MGM/Warner Bros./etc. cartoons, but yeah, being a child of the 80's it was a lot of lame half hour toy commercials and not much else.

I'm kinda mad I put off watching that show until about a month ago. It's pretty great.

DeJesus is 1.5 WAR player. Whether or not we contend next year is almost certainly not going to be affected by this. The best available FA are OF, if we don't sign at least one of them it doesn't matter, if we do the DeJesus' trade becomes completely irrelevant. that makes no sense. even with a 100-110 million payroll, the cubs have tons of money to spend. this is still baseball and there are 2 wild cards, you can still go from trash to good in one offseason while other teams go to [expletive]. by your logic, what's the point of any team ever signing a 1.5 WAR free agent? or what's the point in the cubs signing anybody this offseason? 1-2 wins could be huge. it could decide a postseason spot. mostly, he makes the team better and i think we should try to make the team good His production is easily replaced. A Lake/Sweeney platoon would likely be cheaper and potentially more productive. If they plan on signing an OF this offseason, then DeJesus would be an extraneous piece. Final judgement on this should be withheld until we see what happens this offseason, but DeJesus isn't a guy who you look at and say "where are we going to recoup the production from?" either way. No, but he was a guy you could count on pretty reliably, and the Cubs can actually use guys like that. Again, he's not making or breaking the team, but he was a reliable player who didn't cost a lot, wasn't blocking anyone and now you're potentially left hoping that Lake can be as serviceable if they aren't out there looking to spend. Again, it's less DeJesus himself and more what this trade possibly represents.