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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Meh return. I'll miss the guy. He was at the gate my dad and I entered at RFK Stadium on a player meet & greet day and he gave us a big laugh and a "who knows?" when we said he should sign with the Cubs. The actual deal was pretty appalling from day 1, but still came with a sense of excitement where I was really hoping the Cubs were putting on their big boy pants when it came to spending like the big market team they are (yeah, the sale stuff was looming in the background, but still). He's had some VERY frustrating stretches, but overall I liked him as a Cub and I loved how he drove the meatballs insane.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Devil metal birds. If I go the rest of my life without ever flying again I will die a happy man.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I promised whatever god there is that I would start going to church if Aramis came through in the Brewers game. That I did not actually live up to that promise is probably why they've been doomed to suck or something.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Keith Law really hates Junior. I know it's just Law being Law, but I still think it's his way of blowing off steam at 2-3 years worth of Cubs fans bombarding him with questions about Lake and then lashing back at him when he's suggest that he was anything short of a mega-prospect. Nobody expects him to keep up anything remotely resembling his pace, but not a very good player is quite a stretch. It's fun watching him right now, but he could very easily end up stinking.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Nice management by Samadzija to minimize a really shitty situation.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Jackson's not good enough to get that kind of return. Just repeat the hypothetical trade discussions in regards to Travis Wood, except now do it with an older pitcher having a bad year and who is a LOT more expensive.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    For [expletive]'s sake, Barney.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    The Cubs need Jackson too much to trade him.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    It would have to take a overpay to trade him, imo. He still has a year of team control, iirc. We still need to field a team next year and it's not like the minor leaugers will be ready to break through to fill his spot. Yeah, that too; trading Hairston and now with it looking like Soriano being gone I'd be very surprised if they move Schierholtz. I never understand why anyone would bring up Valbuena as being trade bait right now; despite the prospect parade they don't have anyone to replace him now and nobody to replace him at the beginning of next season. He's young, he's cheap and he's productive in a position of need; no need to move him yet.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Some part of me still believes this team can make a run at .500. All it would take is some good production from the 5th spot in the rotation, IMO. If Valbuena, Schierholtz, and Soriano are traded then it's probably not going to happen - but if Lake keeps it up, it could easily happen. Guerrier and Strop have made the pen ten times better. Seriously doubt that they're going to trade Valbuena.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    I like how you talk about the Giants like NOBODY ELSE on the team could possibly have been using and they were all surprised or aghast once they put everything together. Look, forget about Bonds; he's an extreme outlier in pretty much every category we're talking about, including looking like a monster. I don't know why you're so hung up on it, but just move on. Probably a good 90%+ of PED users never bulked up to a suspect level.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    PLEASE DESTROY ALL BRONIES.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I don't think Bonds, Sosa, or ARod used a legal PED alone. There was always something illegal they were taking in addition to any legal ones. I don't have a problem if you have a prescription. I don't think they did. There's so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    The point is that "looking for huge guys" isn't an accurate way of guessing who was and is using PEDs. Not everyone hulks out. When do you think Sosa started using? Sure, not everyone does. But Bonds did. That is really not debatable. Nobody has disagreed with that point, so I have no idea what you think you're arguing. So his power and build increase from 1993-1997 was just one of those things?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Right, and not all of the drugs you're decrying were illegal at that point, and tons of the players using the "banned" ones were getting prescriptions.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    The point is that "looking for huge guys" isn't an accurate way of guessing who was and is using PEDs. Not everyone hulks out. When do you think Sosa started using?
  17. Sammy Sofa
    During the 1998 season? No. Starting with the 1999 season and onward? Yes. Definitively he wasn't busted until a 2000 test.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, you think ALL "steroids" were made illegal in 1991?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I said it was rare. There is no evidence that Hank did PED's other than trying them once, despite the fluctuations and his home runs staying on a level plane. Why do you think Aaron's numbers were so great toward the end of his career? There's no evidence that Sosa did either, but here we are ? http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4264062 Yes, in 2003. He never tested positive or was busted before that. You're the one that keeps railing on about evidence, and then people bring up the tests and you turn around and say the evidence is "Wilson looked at his TV and decided that guy was too big."
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I said it was rare. There is no evidence that Hank did PED's other than trying them once, despite the fluctuations and his home runs staying on a level plane. Why do you think Aaron's numbers were so great toward the end of his career? Probably because he was using PEDs. Why him saying he didn't keep taking speed means to you he definitively didn't ever take it again or didn't use anything else makes no sense.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    And man, the point you're trying to make is even worse the more I think about it...so what if his numbers fluctuated regularly? That still doesn't explain an old-ass player having a career-high power surge that late. One would expect the fluctuations to continue on a decreasing scale, not increasing or staying level.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    So if he was playing now he'd either be hitting 97 or -16.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    A lot of the PEDs used over the last 50 years or so have been legal.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    So you don't have a problem with "cheating" as long as the "cheating" doesn't help too much. No, I said both were wrong and I would hold Aaron and Bonds to the same standard. But greenies and modern steroids have far different effects. That's debatable, especially given how it's pretty much a lock that a LOT more players used amphetamines than used Bonds-ian regimes of anabolic steroids.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Y'know, you've already made it abundantly clear here before that you don't understand evolution, either, so to see you use "evolved" like that is doubly hilarious.
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