Sammy Sofa
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This might be my favorite thread ever.
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Which is why I said I don't understand the need to "sexify" the team. I was saying that it made no sense to justify those moves as an attempt to pull in ratings as opposed to winning ball games. I guess I wasn't clear enough... what I'm trying to say is I think Francona is embellishing so he can sell copies of his book, because what these excerpts are saying make no sense. Agreed. Sure, I'll bet the owners and the FO wanted big names to keep the brand going, but Francona's comments are just ridiculous.
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Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
Sammy Sofa replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
He's probably a sorcerer. -
That's redundant; #3 can mean you think there were better choices but you're still also optimistic. #4 means you aren't a fan of the signing because you thought there were better choices and you're not all that optimistic about Trestman.
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Except they apparently weren't concerned with productiveness, they wanted players they could market. They had a slew of fan favorites still on the team. I get wanting to improve the team from a production stand point, I just don't understand Red Sox ownership trying to force sex appeal and marketability into the equation when they already had a very popular core of "hometown heroes" What? They didn't go out and desperately pull a Soriano to try and pump up the visibility of the team like the Cubs did; they went and traded for Adrian Gonzalez and signed someone in Crawford who was under 30 and had been about a 34 WAR player in the previous 7 seasons. This whole "they were just trying to sexify the team" is nonsense trying to create a narrative for the book that's trying to paint two perfectly reasonable moves for a huge market team like the Red Sox as disasters from day one. And again, the "hometown heroes" stuff is moot because the guys they were going after were ostensibly to replace two of those "heroes" who were on the downturn of their careers. Just because you have a group like that in place doesn't mean you just let them ride out their careers without planning for the future.
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Probably because two of those guys were on the wrong side of 30 when they went after Crawford and Gonzalez?
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I took that as referring to the Crawford signing. Though they did give up a lot to get Gonzalez... It was speaking more the general tendency to lump together both moves as if they were indicative of the Red Sox being out of control, and the Gonzalez trade wasn't that (and especially not the good deal they then signed him for).
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Oh, God, no, don't trade for Adrian Gonzalez, what a horrible fate, totally terrible move, style over substance, what was anyone thinking, Jesus, [expletive], no, etc..
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Glorious.
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Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
Sammy Sofa replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
Now I'm kinda all for the Canada guy in anticipation of the meltdowns. -
Did you end up passing altogether? I got a nights and weekend bleacher package last week. Nice. Doesn't seem like a bad option at all given the fact that this year isn't likely to be all that exciting anyway. I was debating going that route and saving some money this year, but with my skin seemingly made to dwell forever in a dark, dank bog I just couldn't see myself going to more than 3-4 games before getting fed up with frying each time.
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Did you end up passing altogether? I got a nights and weekend bleacher package last week. Doesn't that keep you in the mix? I believe you'll get the option to upgrade each year.
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Those are good seats. Upper Deck box are mine and my wife's preferred seats, so I was very torn when I decided to go with some nice Terrace Box seats instead. My only hesitation on the Upper Deck was that they tend not to resell as well because a lot of people unknowingly assume that lower level is always better. Then again, we probably can't expect decent resale on anything for at least another year or two. Yeah, I'm not too worried about resale; I'm pretty confident the team is going to be good enough that that won't be too much of a problem within a couple of years. And you're right, when I went I was definitely thinking the upper deck would be settling, but I really like what I ended up with. That said, I bought like two dozen tickets from a friend's season ticket package back in 2008 and they were lower level, directly back from the Cubs' dugout and just under where the upper deck begins. Amazing view, never in the sun, right in front of one of the walkways and literally next to a tunnel and there was a bathroom right at the end of it; they were perfect.
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which super bowl story line do you dread most
Sammy Sofa replied to biittner77's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
No Packers, no Eli, so it's all good in the hood. -
Niiiiice.
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[expletive], I was all set to root for the Niners until I remembered the Bum and his reeeeetarded sports fandom.
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I always forgot the Rams existed, but thanks to this post I will now loathe them with a fire made of pure hate.
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My seats are like right above the left end of the red sign. I haven't been to a game since Opening Day of 2010, but I'm getting more and more excited looking at the pics I took from the seats. I better be getting in on the ground floor of something amazing, Theo.
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Not really; if your team is suddenly top 5 garbage because of the loss of one guy then you've got a pretty [expletive] constructed team. It worked for the Spurs (Duncan draft) Wasn't that because most of the key players had serious injuries that season? Yeah, that's a "lucly" situation; most of the time if you're suddenly horrible it's because you're a team like Cleveland and you thought LeBron and a Bunch of Other Guys was a sound way to build a team.
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Is that a Tweet? I can't tell if it's saying "the Bulls' Rose advisers" like they're advisers for the team or if it's identifying Rose as being "the Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose." If it's the doctors and medical experts the team are consulting, OK, I agree. If it's "Derrick's advisers," wait a minute.
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Not really; if your team is suddenly top 5 garbage because of the loss of one guy then you've got a pretty shittily constructed team.
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The choice of an upper deck seat near the railing was no coincidence; being able to hurl NSBBers over it is a must.
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Well, I snagged a couple in the upper deck in section 406.
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Yeah, the bleachers are my backup, but I'd really prefer not to. It's fun 2-3 times a season, but after that I just start getting annoyed about how sunburned I'm getting and how little of the game I can watch.
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Good. My main concern is just getting some tickets so I can upgrade in later years, but I don't want to get the shaft with garbage seats in the meantime.
