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Sammy Sofa

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  1. Whut. Who is even the last left handed hitter the Cubs has that could hit lefties? I know Rizzo was pretty good at it earlier in the season but has tapered off, and even when he does get a hit its a little dribbler up the middle. Yet Chavez comes up there and hits one 420 feet the other way. It's just aggravating. Chavez sucks against lefties. Him hitting that was like Rizzo getting some hits against lefties; it happens, but how the [expletive] are you going to pretend like Chavez can actually hit LH pitchers on a regular basis?
  2. Lake running after that ball looked like Johnny Cage's flailing leg-kick.
  3. http://crispydecisions.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/krusty.gif
  4. Those look the most fake [expletive] baseball movie uniforms ever. Kenny Powers is going to be wearing those in season 4.
  5. http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003702497/2313188488_158811_650_366_xlarge.jpeg "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time. " Excellent.
  6. Well, problem #1 is they tried to have him go 2 innings. They brought him in for the 5th and got out of that (gave up a hit and a walk) but then inexplicably brought him back out for the 6th.
  7. Soriano is easily the biggest casual fan blind spot in the Cubs org. Last year at Cubs Convention you'd think that Soriano had pledged to burn Wrigley to the ground by the reaction to even a mention of his name. I've been so removed from general Cubs fandom for almost a couple years now; I guess I just had assumed that after had had the nice rebound last year and the hot streaks he had this year (plus the end of his contract in sight) that even the meaty ones had come to tolerate him.
  8. Beginning with the 2011 IFA/draft, we've diverted almost every possible resource toward the acquisition of prospects. And now we have a ton of prospects. It's a good start, but I'm not lining up for an isosceles lock with Jed and Theo just yet. yeah, not many gms get this sort of free pass with the present in an effort to focus on the future. It's not that hard to build a surplus of prospects under these conditions. Pretty much. I appreciate it to a point, but I'm waiting for them to master the whole "putting together a good Cubs team" thing before I start passing out cigars.
  9. The amount of meatballs sprouting stubby boners over the rumored Soriano trade is ridiculous. They're seemingly convinced that he's still owed a bajillion dollars and as soon as he's gone they'll be able to spend.
  10. They're funny and easily found with minimal effort. For example, these can viewed with but a single click of your mouse:
  11. Even the relatively reasonable ones are wrong. Look at how the first one lumps Barney in with Castro & Rizzo.
  12. I guess there's enough of a mix of smart over there along with the stupid that I had forgotten about/overlooked the stupid. NSBB has left me sheltered. Why is it wrong to place some value on a speed tool? It isn't, it's just that he had a really nice bunt one time and you can't count on that being a legit force of his game looking forward. Yes, that. Bunting for a hit really isn't something you can or should be expecting or relying on.
  13. All 8 actually. I was told I had allergies and had been taking allergy medication for 7 years, and then found out I didn't have allergies and just had nasal polyps and clogged sinus cavities. Huh, sounds somewhat similar to my issue; I was diagnosed with a retaining cyst in my cheek cavity several years ago and it makes me a lot more susceptible to sinus pain and pressure and sinus infections. I've had a couple doctors who said surgery was an option, but ultimately the odds were close to 50-50 that the thing would just grow back at a later date so I've begged off having it done.
  14. DON'T DIE, DUDE.
  15. Those [expletive] things always look like death traps.
  16. Does Lake have noticeable splits with his numbers?
  17. It's possible, but I don't think you can count on it. A "David Price-type" trade basically just means Price (don't want) or Stanton. Stanton's injury prone-ness scares me a bit, but I sure would like him on the team. But he's still gonna cost a fortune, injuries or not. Also, I can't see the FO selling off a lot of their valuable assets on a big bat when pitching is apparently their #1 priority. It's not like it's a glaring priority over the ML team's offensive needs. You can point to more potential impact offensive prospects right now, but they're almost all still years away.
  18. Right, but the ironic thing is that looking fondly back on (certain types of) cheating is part of the mythology. That's one of the most hypocritical things about that approach.
  19. Eh, even then nobody really cared (outside of a tiny handful of reporters) about it because it "saved the game" and all of that gobbledygook despite it being hidden in plain sight. It really wasn't until Bonds exploded and suddenly you had a guy who wasn't going to kiss the media's ass and was just straight up unlikable did you have any real effort to expose things (and even then the effort was pretty halfassed and operating under the idea that only a relative few had been or are using).
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