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  1. Sammy Sofa
    The [expletive] are you babbling about.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Nope. Nobody is talking about this like you wouldn't be taken a chance. The point is that it's a chance worth taking due to the talent involved. Based on the comments I'm reading here, people may acknowledge that there's risk involved, but that it would be a slam dunk to accept that risk in the case of King Felix. Or am I reading that incorrectly? Because if there's more nuance in the position of you, goony, tt, imb and a few others than that, I'm not seeing it. There's no need to look for nuance; the obvious point that some of us are taking is that it's worth the risk with a talent THAT unique. Nobody is saying it's a "slam dunk" like he's a lock to not get hurt; hell, I highly doubt there's anyone saying you wouldn't be eating a ton of cash with a deal like that. Some of us just think that's likely to be an inherent cost of signing someone on this talent-level. Sure, if you can swing a miracle deal like Longoria's, great, but this seems much more likely.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Because it's a meaningless thing to harp on since everybody knows he obviously wasn't discounting internal development or trades. It was seemingly an attempt to deflect.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Nope. Nobody is talking about this like you wouldn't be taking a chance. The point is that it's a chance worth taking due to the talent involved.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    You honestly think jersey has no understanding of a team's ability to develop elite talent?
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Again, an example to show it isn't impossible to have a great player at less than exorbitant prices. What is my burden of proof to show that statement is dumb no matter how you want to try to defend it? So your plan is to pray to the gods and sacrifice many animals that any FA the Cubs are targeting or top tier players they're developing are represented by Paul Cohen? Do you not understand the concept of "impossible" that I was specifically answering? Yes, I understand you're picking on a single post as narrowly as possible to try and make it sound like someone was saying it was impossible to acquire elite talent any other way besides excessive FA spending. Every single person here with a pulse has a basic understanding of how baseball teams work, and for you to spin that as someone not realizing that teams can ideally develop elite talent for several cheap years as opposed to a response to the main discussion about extending an elite player or singing one from the FA market is equal parts tedious and laughable.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Glad to see you're rightly including yourself in that equation. Whether you agree or disagree, I've at least provided reasoning behind what I've said. "Duh, it's King Felix" IS a legitimate reasoning behind many of the opinions here. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not an argument.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Glad to see you're rightly including yourself in that equation.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Again, an example to show it isn't impossible to have a great player at less than exorbitant prices. What is my burden of proof to show that statement is dumb no matter how you want to try to defend it? So your plan is to pray to the gods and sacrifice many animals that any FA the Cubs are targeting or top tier players they're developing are represented by Paul Cohen?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    So you're assuming Longoria's contract is any kind of a norm for a player of that caliber?
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Because goony said something obviously wrong and I used him as a counter example. You don't think Kershaw will be paid an exorbitant amount when he hits FA? That's not the point. He's on a team and providing great performance and he's not being paid an exorbitant amount. Goony said that was impossible. Why is this so hard to understand? So tweak things a bit to understand he was obviously talking about signing FA or keeping top tier players like Felix.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    It was a stupid idea in the first place. Nah.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    They haven't signed the extension.
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  15. Sammy Sofa
    Why?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, how the hell did that get to this thread? I've broken the site.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Good, goooooood.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    6 years from now the Cubs should be well on the way to becoming the financial juggernaut that doesn't worry about such piddling things.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Well, saying he's "not good" isn't much different. Hell, I give it a nice whimsical spin.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, only ripped guys used PEDs.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Get a haircut, hippie.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Neither is Boozer. yes, he is Yeah, not sure why those two were tripping over each other to make Boozer out to be some kind of basketball monster.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    They're not jorts, so it's cool.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    It's not a slam dunk in and of itself, but it makes you wonder if the decline will continue, and where the point is when it will start to seriously impact his performance. He has proven he can pitch and not succeed solely though just blowing people away, but I don't think he's Greg Maddux, either. I think you'd have to see if last year was indicative of an actual downward trend before making the conclusion Tim is; 2008-2011 can hardly be called a steady decline.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    *Weeps* Love that man.
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