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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Who the [expletive] cuts Omar like that.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    They're a bunch of ungroomed freaks.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    The only possible way there would be at least 3 new pages with actual news about Cubs prospects in that short amount of time is if their bus crashed or there was some kind of Last Boy Scout-type situation.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    That's not hate for him personally. That's hate for the double-standard. He's a douchey ex-athlete, but if I hated every douchey ex- or current athlete, I wouldn't have time for anything but hate. Certainly not making enough message board posts to meet my daily quota. Seriously though, can you imagine that story happening today? Was it one year after he signed what was then the biggest contract in MLB history? A perennial all star on the HOF fast track with what was a pristine reputation just quitting out of nowhere to spend time with his family, only to divorce his harpy wife and come back a much worse player. That ranks right up there with any interesting baseball story, although baseball players, by rule, are not interesting. I love Sandberg the player and wish I could somehow transport back to a time when I knew absolutely nothing about him except him being awesome at baseball because everything else he does and says just annoys the [expletive] piss outta me. Just the Palmeiro trade rumor stuff alone is enough to bring the hate.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    This is going to be a hilarious disaster.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    You joke about it now, but for the longest time the home run was basically shunned as being "unsportsmanlike" and pitchers were expected to essentially always pitch entire games. Things change. Totes, bra.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    what about little league and the japanese central league? Who cares? well, little league is the largest organized baseball system on earth, and the central league is half of japanese professional baseball's highest level, so that would tend to contradict your statement about it existing at every level and in every organization except the NL. not to mention all the times that pitchers bat in AA and AAA when national league affiliates are facing each other. Bringing up little league in the first place is just ridiculous. Basically the development track for any player worth a damn after high school is to take the bat out of their hands outside of bunting if they're a pitcher. I know you don't honestly believe that the DH trend is inexplicably going to reverse itself, so why are we talking about this like there's some kind of argument that's going to stop the use of it?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I hear there's some teams that actually put the balls on tees, too.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    what about little league and the japanese central league? Who cares?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I guess we know who to blame for pitchers not being good hitters then. http://etrangermysterieux.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/3.jpg
  11. Sammy Sofa
    And for the longest time the home run was basically shunned as being "unsportsmanlike" and pitchers were expected to essentially always pitch entire games. Things change. It basically exists in some capacity at every level and in every organization except the NL; the tide clearly isn't going to shift the other way.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    That's like winning a biggest pile of garbage contest. I'd much rather to be able to sign piles of meat who can only hit vs. stumbling across the rare Zambrano or Travis Wood or Jason Marquis. It's not like you'd be depriving a starting pitcher of their chance to be actually valuable.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Because teams are about to get that national TV deal, in general are more profitable, and there's less competition from other top FAs. It was a cruddy FA class last year and there were a bunch of teams with money to spend. There's still more money this year. Bourn was the 7th-highest FA contract of the season. Are there six guys in line to get a bigger payday than Ellsbury? Maybe. Or maybe none of them get a humungo payday. There was more than enough money last year to drown Bourn with cash. Just because there's more money now doesn't automatically mean someone like Ellsbury is going to get a contract twice as big.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    I mean, if this is some kinda roundabout way of calling out racists, I'm all for it.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Because teams are about to get that national TV deal, in general are more profitable, and there's less competition from other top FAs. It was a cruddy FA class last year and there were a bunch of teams with money to spend.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Orrrrrr they spend it on a really good DH.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Why is Ellsbury going to blow the Bourn contract out of the water? I could see Ellsbury easily getting more, but 2 years and $52 million more?
  18. Sammy Sofa
    I guess I read it wrong. Still don't think he's getting $100 million.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    at least a few years ago, DH had the highest average compensation of any position in baseball. not having the DH keeps their payroll marginally lower, rather than needing to find/pay another very good hitter. That's horrible logic and I want to fight you for it, you Ricketts narc.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I think people are going to be surprised when they see the offseason contracts this year. There's very little to spend money on, but a lot of teams have a lot of money. Most of them aren't going to just not spend it. Total money available is going to be divided among the available free agent class, even if it's bad. We're agreeing too much. But that's not agreeing with you.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Ellsbury isn't getting 6/$100 million. You go after a guy with his history because it's going to allow you to get him for a more a manageable contract. Teams aren't tossing out stupid huge contracts for guys like him.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Crap, if a player doesn't play well it's detrimental to the value of his contract? How did I never see this before?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    But it does give the Cubs an inherent advantage over the current situation; they'd suddenly have another position they can fill with someone like Aramis or Abreu or Vogelbach instead of having to go, "welp, they're monsters defensively/fat turds/old guys, can't take advantage of how they can hit." It's not like it's something unique to them, but I'd prefer to have more offensive options over trotting out a pitcher just because. The NL is basically the only holdout in this regard. And you'd still have plenty of batting changes based on which relievers are out there. I mean, yeah, it's what I grew up preferring, but right now I'm for anything that helps the Cubs have a better team.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Hurts...so...BAD.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    i like those guys a lot, but don't you have to sort of just think this franchise is in serious trouble? there's just no way all of the top guys pan out, and even from the top four, aren't you realistically doing well if you get a very good (though non-star) player and a couple acceptable starters out of that group? Despite the all prospect team nonsense being tossed out, you have to assume some of these guys are going to be traded. Not all of them are going to be here to have the opportunity to bust.
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