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  1. Sammy Sofa
    I do know they won a freakish amount of one-run games and come from behind games, and yes, I seem to recall it being pointed out that they had actually been outscored by their opponents pretty deep into the season.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    OK, NOW one should ask "what the [expletive] are the Red Sox doing?".
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Then bringing up the illegality of certain PEDs is moot.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    He's discussing the use of illegal substances.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    You're really going with this one? In terms of exchanging players who don't figure into the future for those that do, yes. Well, that's a hilarious way to spin your wildly incorrect statement, but whatever.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    You're really going with this one?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    That was also a much different run environment. When the Cubs got rid of Pagan he was going on 27 years old and had been easily below average in 2 part time seasons. He could've been handled differently, but players in that situation get pushed out all the time, especially guys like Pagan who were never well regarded prospects. He also went through that really bad bout with colitis that caused him to lose a lot of strength. I can't really fault Hendry for moving him when the Mets came asking because it looked like he wasn't going to amount to much.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    So what is a realistic extension for Cutler if he takes a "hometown discount"? Not sure how much of a discount we're talking about if he didn't go into more details. I know he's supposed to make like 8-8.5 mil next year. I imagine it's a 3-4 years extension after next season. Will it be still 8-9 mil/yr or more like 10-11? It was mostly joking around, but Cutler was pretty insistent it would be something like 5-10%.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    who did people want? sutcliffe? Basically any ex-Cub you can think of, including some that are dead. Oh, and there was an ongoing debate about whether the Cubs or the WS had a better announcing team, with quite a few Cubs fans bemoaning that they didn't have Hawk and Stone.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Worth it just for the furious meatball responses on the Cubs' Facebook posting about this.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Sure, Pagan's been a 15 WAR player over the last 4 years and worth about $60 million, but lets [expletive] all over this because arglebargle spending money fire bad something something. And no, I wasn't hoping for the Cubs to sign him, but I'm not quite sure why we're supposed to mock this as such a horrible deal. Even with him being on the wrong side of 30 I doubt they end up overpaying by much.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    If only. No, we have to wait for the flood of young manflesh. Sexy as it sounds, it is a rather tedious process.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    And now they're right back in trying to put something on the field that doesn't completely suck while also rebuilding. Good for them.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    What exactly are the Red Sox trying to do? Improve their team? I meant what's their current strategy? I like the signing and Napoli is a good player. I was more saying with the big sell off last year and rumors that Lester and others are available I was just wondering if they are trying to put a contender out there or sell off and re-tool. Probably trying to put a contender out there AND re-tool. Shockingly enough, teams are allowed to do that.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Why even bring up the fact he used to play for the A's? He hasn't pitched for them since the end of a totally different era of baseball. And his injury history has one serious blemish on it: a TJS from 2008-2009, which he recovered from perfectly fine. If the Braves want to get rid of Hudson it's because he's old and expensive, not because he's got any serious injuries, and particularly none that he developed playing in Oakland. As with most ex-Cardinal pitchers, you have to worry about Haren dying unexpectedly Crushed.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Where's Squirtboy? He deserves some, too.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Man, David, look at all the craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy people. Aren't they craaaaaaaaaaaazy?
  18. Sammy Sofa
    The average shelf life of valuable play from a FA is only 2-3 years?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxfMZLKsgw
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5amSe9HlCM
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I'm just tired of these not going through with the exception of Soler. This was supposed to be the Summer of George for the Cubs when it came to such things, dammit.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    If this ends up being yet another IFA they were sweet on but whiff on signing...I just may cry a little.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Because the Cubs not being "ready to compete" by the start of 2014 is [expletive] inexcusable.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I was pretty meh on it myself and then looked up on BA that Bourn had a 4.7 WAR season in 2009, a 5.3 in 2010 and a 6.0(!) last year (put up 3.0 in 2011) (Fangraphs has him at 4.9, 4.7, 4.1 and 6.4). I was not expecting that at all. Yeah, Bourn has silently been one of the more valuable center fielders in the game. Exceptional defense, solid hitting ability, exceptional base runner, and a knack for drawing a decent amount of walks. But he's 30, and will command an ass load of money and his legs could break down sooner rather than later and that would effectively kill most of the things that make him valuable Wouldn't it just kill some aspects of the baserunning unless we're talking a catastrophic injury? He'd still be a very good defender even not at top speed.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I was pretty meh on it myself and then looked up on BA that Bourn had a 4.7 WAR season in 2009, a 5.3 in 2010 and a 6.0(!) last year (put up 3.0 in 2011) (Fangraphs has him at 4.9, 4.7, 4.1 and 6.4). I was not expecting that at all.
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