Sammy Sofa
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Everything posted by Sammy Sofa
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If I had to guess I think he's saying he thinks Hawk and Stone are full of [expletive] and of course are going to hype up a Sox player. -
It really is disheartening how Castro can't do anything with fastballs.
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Hawk already taking shots at "sabermetricians."
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If you're going to be trite and snarky, would it be too much to ask that it actually be directly in response to something someone said? Looks to me like that was in direct response to the article about how much Castro sucks now. Yes. It was an obnoxious article ending basically with a threat/hope/whatever that his time here may be short if he doesn't shape up. It was terrible all around.
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The waves and waves of prospects will just wash these memories away!
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The DePaul thing is a mess...Rahm talked about it like that's where the Chicago casino will go and the rest will be used for conventions and [expletive] like that and they need state money, but you have Springfield talking like there is no money so who knows. If the Cubs can get city money by plunking down a casino in Wrigleyville, hey, go nuts, because that's what this DePaul deal seems hinged on.
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Are you a DePaul graduate? Aren't they talking about building a casino or some [expletive]? Like selling it as a city convention center or something.
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But yeah, the Ameritrade guys were totally scammed and flimflammed by Scrooge McZell and the Chicago Boys like a bunch of babes in the wilderness. Makes perfect sense. There's tons of things we can actually point to when it comes to them running a baseball team like a bunch of assholes than misery porn-ing it up with this goofy [expletive].
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It blows my mind that seemingly semi-intelligent people thinks the Cubs were ever going to get any money from the city from 2008 through today.
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I think this is ridiculous. He may well have been taken advantage of by Zell, but it certainly wasn't due to naivety. I'm much more inclined to believe it was due to the fact that he was the only one that wanted the Cubs badly enough to agree to the deal as it's structured. Data point No. 2 is how naively he's handled the renovations. That conclusion is based on someone thinking something like they should have just thrown a bunch of dirty money at a bunch of fat guys wearing monocles and smoking big cigars because that's totally totally how these things get done because LULZ CHICAGO POLITICS AMIRITE.
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Holy [expletive], that is hysterical.
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Christ, I don't even follow the minor leagues and I knew this was completely wrong.
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If Travis Wood is your only All-Star player, you done fucked up again.
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Congratulations to him; boo to the organization for failing this spectacularly.
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Turns out we and the prospect rankings were maybe overestimating Vizcaino's ability to stay healthy. Right; the perspective of that trade should be less "wow, if the Cubs got that for Maholm then they should be able to get even better for Wood" and look at is a move reflective of both sides understanding the risk involved with a player like Vizcaino.
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Yes, I can very easily judge a trade made for a high ceiling/high risk prospect for a starting pitcher having a good year who was only signed through the end of the season as being exactly what it was. There was no great subterfuge or trickery or trade dominance going on at the hands of either FO. I mean, I'm not "judging" it in the sense of saying it was a bad move.
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You can't judge that trade and whether you'd make others like it so heavily based on the fact that you managed to have one of the worst possible outcomes thus far. Sure I can; that there was a distinct possibility of this happening the way it has was one of the main reasons they even got a guy like Vizcaino in a deal like that in the first place. I don't fault them for making the move, and I still think Vizcaino could be useful, but you were trading away a guy who was going to be gone anyway in Maholm. If you're trading away Wood, at his age and with his team control, I'd expect something better than the Vizcaino return...but he's in that gray area talent and history-wise where it's tremendously unlikely you'd get something better in return. At the same time, he's valuable enough that I wouldn't want them settling for something like the Vizcaino trade. It's a situation where you have people simultaneously overvaluing and undervaluing Travis Wood, sometimes practically in the same breath.
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And given Vizcaino's current track, I would say that Travis Wood would hold more value as a Cub to the Cubs than trading for the next Vizcaino.
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Guys, nobody is going to drive a Lambo filled with cash up to your house, ring your doorbell and hand you the keys, but what this book presupposes is...maybe they will.
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That would not happen.
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Especially if Soler and maybe Junior Lake are in the OF. And I wouldn't complain if Stanton was out there with them, though I suspect that it would mean that either Soler or Baez would not be there. Then again, if Kris Bryant's at 3rd by 2015, perhaps a Baez-centric package for a guy with a good chance to be one of baseball's premier sluggers for years to come wouldn't be the worst thing.
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Trying really hard not to notice.
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I mean, I know it's staged, but Jesus Christ; he gets absolutely destroyed.
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Holy [expletive].
