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  1. Sammy Sofa
    I knew one.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Hey, at least it would beat another Eddie Vedder song. As for antics, I think that the only guy I wouldn't be able to tolerate no matter how good he was for us is Jose Valverde. [expletive], I love Valverede; that guy is actually emotionally imbalanced. Everything Wilson does is trying WAY too hard.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Normally I have zero problems when it comes to a player's personality or shtick or whatever, but [expletive] me, I [expletive] HATE this guy.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    it's downright flattering when compared with minstrel-icious chief smiley red-in-the-face over there in cleveland No kidding. It's a miracle THEY'RE not the ones called "the Redskins."
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Ugh.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    My posture is fine; I have a mighty hump. If you agree that the offense as it stands is fixable, then how was my opinion flawed? I made it abundantly clear that I don't think the offense is "horrible" because they have so many critical parts seemingly in place, AND THEN YOU AGREED WITH ME THEN, TOO. You're so caught up in being in meatball tornado you can't even keep track of what you're mad about. The offense is fixable in the off-season. Not now. The offense of 2012 is quite a horrible and utter failure of a modern day NFL offense. You referred to it being fixable and not that bad in 2012 to which I let out a mighty HAW HAW in your general direction. What, you thought I was talking about fixing it in the middle of the season? Why would you possibly think that I was talking about anything besides fixing it for 2013? Wait, scratch that; I know exactly why you think things like that. I was worried about the offense weeks before the actual slide began and posted as such multiple times.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    My posture is fine; I have a mighty hump. If you agree that the offense as it stands is fixable, then how was my opinion flawed? I made it abundantly clear that I don't think the offense is "horrible" because they have so many critical parts seemingly in place, AND THEN YOU AGREED WITH ME THEN, TOO. You're so caught up in being in meatball tornado you can't even keep track of what you're mad about.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    who the [expletive] cares Excellent. Hahahaha the guy who went on record as saying "The Bears offense is not horrible!!!!1111" enjoys an ignorant post that helps him feel better about having such a fail opinion? Say it aint so! Christ, you melt down so easily. Look out, I'm "on record" as saying the Bears' offense is fixable. Holy jeez, I'm humiliated.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    who the [expletive] cares Excellent.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    YES, WE KNOW.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    I was tossing it in there because of the earlier assertions that Swisher would fit perfectly or that Jackson would make it all better. Clearly the former (and it was only one person) was talking about the Cubs' offensive needs and nobody said the latter. You and David can go line judge each other or whatever.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, Soriano/DeJesus/Swisher would be the OF and would be quite questionable. Wasn't even arguing the last part, but thanks for being you. I'm not sure what you mean by that, I wasn't "arguing" any part with you. Because you were tossing it in there either like you thought you had to clarify that for everyone, or like you thought I was saying, "guys, it's cool; with David DeJesus' amazing defense the Cubs will be fine in the OF if he has Soriano and Swisher on either side of him." But let's move on to bigger and better things.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, Soriano/DeJesus/Swisher would be the OF and would be quite questionable. Wasn't even arguing the last part, but thanks for being you.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Wouldn't DeJesus likely be manning CF if they signed someone like Swisher? Everyone seems to forget he exists.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Nice. Would have preferred if they had just signed him last year, but I'll take it.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Neither. But if I had to pick, Ellsbury. Bourn pretty easily for me. Only 10 months older, and far, far more consistent. Ellsbury has been < 2.5 WAR in 3 of the last 4 seasons and is coming off injury, Bourn hasn't been below 4 fWAR since 2008. Well, the inconsistency has been due to injuries as opposed to just being bad, which is why I think some of us would prefer Ellsbury. He recovered pretty nicely in 2011. With Bourn you're likely getting more consistency, but it seems like Ellsbury's ceiling is higher if he can stay healthy. He consistently isoed ~120 his entire career, except for 2011, when it was 230. Look at his career other than 2011 and he is a 3 fwar guy. Now certainly you can't ignore 2011, but it wasn't a "recovery" because he had never played anywhere near that level in his life. Basically I'm looking at him as a solid guy if healthy with the potentially for much bigger things. Am I expecting 8-9 WAR season out of the guy? Of course not; but the possibility of being a 5-6 WAR player if he can stay healthy is enough for me to want him, plus with how highly the FO still seems to look at him.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Neither. But if I had to pick, Ellsbury. Bourn pretty easily for me. Only 10 months older, and far, far more consistent. Ellsbury has been < 2.5 WAR in 3 of the last 4 seasons and is coming off injury, Bourn hasn't been below 4 fWAR since 2008. Well, the inconsistency has been due to injuries as opposed to just being bad, which is why I think some of us would prefer Ellsbury. He recovered pretty nicely in 2011. Sure, but injuries also beget injuries too. Plus, with them being in the same career stage, and the hypothetical being that you give either of them a long term deal, why wouldn't you want the consistency. I'm aiming for the stars, dammit. That 8 WAR season is just something I can't turn away from. Besides, wasn't his injury last year from running into someone else? Not saying it won't still effect him, but it's not like it was another in a string of chronic injuries based on mechanics or physical flaws or whatever.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Neither. But if I had to pick, Ellsbury. Bourn pretty easily for me. Only 10 months older, and far, far more consistent. Ellsbury has been < 2.5 WAR in 3 of the last 4 seasons and is coming off injury, Bourn hasn't been below 4 fWAR since 2008. Well, the inconsistency has been due to injuries as opposed to just being bad, which is why I think some of us would prefer Ellsbury. He recovered pretty nicely in 2011. With Bourn you're likely getting more consistency, but it seems like Ellsbury's ceiling is higher if he can stay healthy.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Well, I'd argue both of those are better instances of upgrading a player's defensive stats since they're actually good defensive players and better than Juan Pierre, but that's not based on anything besides Juan Pierre being Juan Pierre. I fully cop to this just being a perception on my part and not based on any kind of proof that one is better than the other. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that "BR too often inflates the defensive metrics of players who are good defensively and Fangraphs too often inflates the metrics of players who are usually not very good defensively." Or maybe it wouldn't be.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Definitely Ellsbury.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    The fact that his fielding was rated so strongly by Fangraphs, yet couldn't throw a ball into the infield on less than 12 bounces, makes me further question how "valuable" a player really is by WAR when it's driven by baserunning and defense. Bourn is OK, but this team needs offense and DeJesus had a higher wOBA last year. That's why I tend to lean more towards BR. Didn't bWAR have Barney as one of the most valuable players in the game for like a long time last year? Maybe? Fangraphs still comes across as being way too generous way too often with their defensive metrics than BR.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    The fact that his fielding was rated so strongly by Fangraphs, yet couldn't throw a ball into the infield on less than 12 bounces, makes me further question how "valuable" a player really is by WAR when it's driven by baserunning and defense. Bourn is OK, but this team needs offense and DeJesus had a higher wOBA last year. That's why I tend to lean more towards BR.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    So then there's an upside if they miss out.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, but 2005 Juan Pierre wasn't that hot (unless you're thinking Fangraphs is uber alles over BR. I'm splitting the difference).
  25. Sammy Sofa
    http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6008/6007605393_cb36f06e3c_z.jpg
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