Sammy Sofa
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Are any of the Bulls games on WGN ever on the national broadcast? -
why do you think it would have gone any differently? Maybe they go after Bourn or B.J. Upton harder. Maybe Justin Upton is willing to waive his NTC to come here. Maybe the FO and the owner approach is more of a willingness to build both for now and later than just later. He fills a couple of key spots on the team and puts you in a better position to construct a team in the short run. I think there's more motivation to construct a better team than what they've gone with this year.
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Yeah, it does. But it's the only one that really bothers me. Darvish stings a bit too, but to a much lesser extent. We were right there with Cespedes (apparently) and just botched it. The Darvish scenario really doesn't bother me because of the blind bid nonsense. Cespedes...gah, it just makes me mad/sad. Things could easily be VERY different if they had pulled off that one signing. how so? ZiPS projects the guy for 3.2 wins...i'd actually like to know what exactly you see in him that's fostered the strange obsession you have I thought it would have been obvious that I wasn't talking about Cespedes like he was superhuman dynamo that would single handedly carried the team to victory. I was talking in terms of how I think the approach to building the team for this season would have gone.
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I just don't really understand what happened, unless the A's told him that he had to take or leave their offer. Why would we bow out where we did? Because they apparently weren't willing to bend on the length of the contract.
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Yeah, it does. But it's the only one that really bothers me. Darvish stings a bit too, but to a much lesser extent. We were right there with Cespedes (apparently) and just botched it. The Darvish scenario really doesn't bother me because of the blind bid nonsense. Cespedes...gah, it just makes me mad/sad. Things could easily be VERY different if they had pulled off that one signing.
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Not getting Cespedes was just a complete [expletive] up, no way around it. That one hurts so much.
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I'M GEORGE SISLER AND THIS MY SISTER, GEORGE SISLER.
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Good.
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I want Len and JD to just follow that kid for the rest of the game.
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Awww, Soriano's little airplane-move is adorable.
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Delicious.
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Passed ball, DeJesus on 3B.
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Excellente.
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Yeah, because they play in a dump that's a local landmark. To sit back and think they get "fleeced" because of $5 million dollars given the crappiness of the timing and the situation is beyond naive. Nobody should be congratulation the Ricketts on doing a good job, but it's hardly the calamity you so desperately want to portray it as.
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So much terrible beer.
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It's not an either/or option. It's mostly bad timing (much like the TV situation); the city and the state have no money. They were never going to get anything. Right, but governmental insolvency was an issue prior to him purchasing the team. So what? Nobody "took anybody to the cleaners;" you either have to fix your shithole stadium or let it fall down. It's not like they were "talked down" into doing something they don't want to do. If your issue is with them asking in the first place, fine. I agree, it was always a waste of time.
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It's not an either/or option. It's mostly bad timing (much like the TV situation); the city and the state have no money. They were never going to get anything.
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I cut off the majority of your post, but I think you equate payroll too much with success. As someone who has followed the Cubs, you should know that the previous regime's strategy of allocating most of the dollars to expensive major league talent while spending little on the farm system is not really a recipe for success. But that has been argued ad nauseum on this board, and probably isn't worth rehashing. This doesn't make any sense; just because some people don't know how to spend a big payroll doesn't mean having a big payroll is automatically a bad thing.
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Ugh, Yahoo comment sections...able to make everything and anything into something horribly racist.
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THERE'S A WHITE MAN TALKING, DAMMIT.
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Everyone knows the hallmark of a legit poisoning is five people delivering a pizza.
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No way, a bunch of guys totally poisoned the most popular athlete on the planet. Makes perfect sense.
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4/16 Cubs (Wood) vs. Rangers (Holland) 7:05 CT CSN
Sammy Sofa replied to Sosa21MVP's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Bummer. Surely the Cubs have a raincheck system? It's more that I don't know if I have free whatever date they settle on as a replacement. -
4/16 Cubs (Wood) vs. Rangers (Holland) 7:05 CT CSN
Sammy Sofa replied to Sosa21MVP's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
You and your Weather Dominator win this round. Now pay for these tickets I couldn't use.
