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  1. Sammy Sofa
    How the [expletive] can anyone think Hawk is "informative" and Len isn't, one of the few announcers who even refers to sabermetric-y stuff at all? Maybe he gets to think about interesting things in the long silent stretches where Hawk doesn't say anything at all as he throws a petulant tantrum like a child because his team is losing.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Dear sweet [expletive] Jesus, I would kill for either, but especially Cespedes. RIGHT THE WRONG, THEO.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    So much that I disagree with here. Replacing Len with Sutton would be awful. Len was the reason the pairing was good, he wasn't elevated by Brenly in any way. I guess I see it different. I think Len is a decent enough announcer but I would much prefer Sutton. IMO Bob was the more entertaining of the two the more valuable one to the broadcast team. What the what. Yeah, the corny jokes about nagging wives was the more valuable part.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    GONNA FLY NOW.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    GETTING STRONG NOW.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Y'know how annoying it is when Aramis Fan declares a game to be over in the game threads? This is that.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Very. Maybe you should sit down.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Thank [expletive] Christ; a voice of sanity. TIGERS SWEEP.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    This is just going to make their collapse all the more delightful.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Much like this proposed trade.
  11. Sammy Sofa

    2013

    Sammy Sofa replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    To be fair, Gomes sucks as a baseball player. He owns a career 2.3 WAR. He's had 2 good seasons spread apart by six crappy seasons. He's likely to suck next year. And let's not forget that prior to sucking in 2006, Neifi had a 2.1 WAR in 2005. Prior to sucking in 2013, Gomes had a 1.6 WAR in 2012. :hello: He has good career numbers against LH pitchers, hence the talk of signing him for a platoon.
  12. Sammy Sofa

    2013

    Sammy Sofa replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    You know what else was awesome about the A's? Cespedes.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I remember reading that posted several times on the board. That's why I was so surprised he ended up on the bench this year.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    i couldn't shake this exact thought as i was reading through all of the praise here That, plus the repeated dogging of Soriano. He'd at least praise him from time to time, but seemingly did it begrudgingly and couldn't wait to get back to trashing him. like how he spent such considerable effort praising his improvement in defensive performance, and each time it would sound like his statements were ending with three elipses rather than a period, like he was about to triumph the comic insult dog him. but really, he was just validating his own previous criticisms of Soriano's "effort" Yeah, those compliments couldn't have been more telegraphed and backhanded. Everything was with this "can you believe that this hopeless bum is actually managing to not [expletive] up?"-tone to it.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Theriot was trending in the right direction, but there's not much there to expect anything but a middling placeholder at best? Better than Kozma? Sure, but that's hardly an accomplishment. The point is that teams stumbling on paltry minor leaguers having relatively small sample sizes of amazing play is hardly unique to the Cardinals. I sincerely doubt Kozma will pull it off for a sustained season, and will likely trend into irrelevancy as Theriot did. I honestly think some people do. Or at the very least can't resist tediously trotting out an exceedingly tedious meme at every possible opportunity. But yes, I couldn't agree more with the former part. The Cardinals put themselves in a position to win consistently, even if it is just winning a crappy division. When you do that you get to capitalize on these none-flukey "flukes".
  16. Sammy Sofa
    i couldn't shake this exact thought as i was reading through all of the praise here That, plus the repeated dogging of Soriano. He'd at least praise him from time to time, but seemingly did it begrudgingly and couldn't wait to get back to trashing him.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    OH, GOD, NO. It'll be fine, unless there's just a horrible mismatch. Some of the time there was another color guy in the booth was downright painful (remember Dave Campbell?). Having to listen to [expletive] like that all year would be well worth griping about. When the team is actually good they go back to dead fat drunk and smarmy douche again and I wouldn't care.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Ryan Theriot, he of the lofty .692 OPS in the minors, put up a .934 OPS for the Cubs in 159 PA in 2006. Kozma has put up a .952 OPS in 82 PA. These things happen often in baseball; it's not really freakish at all. The difference between the two is that one organization can consistently put out a competitive team, even if it is only one that can take advantage of a weak division (much like the team the Cardinals are playing right now, who ended up with 6 more wins above their pythag despite losing their closer and Melky...man, they must be inhumanly lucky!). But yeah, whatever, sorcery, pixie dust, just dumb luck, blah-blah-blah. Put yourself in a position to compete and you put yourself in a position to be able to actually take advantge of having the Ryan Theriots and the Kozmas of the world.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    OH, GOD, NO.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    The timing is just too perfect for them to not either get someone like Sutcliffe or to usher in the Kerry Wood: latest retired Cubs fixture-era. Terrible team, looks to be another crappy year; why not placate the meatballs a bit with a fan favorite?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    So I guess this is the "front office news?" Bummer. If they ever let Len get away I may weep.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I hope he is.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I'll be perfectly happy with actual improvement (not, "we won 8 more games, yay!"). I'm not convinced we'll see much significant along those lines. I hope I'm wrong
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Nope, what people are saying is that pre-emptively lowering the prices leads them to believe the front office is shooting to make it 290 in 3 years. Yuuuuuuuuuuup.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    That's not true. They've were -5 pythagorean wins, they had 17 wins worth of sub-replacement players, and they have $60-75 million to spend if they want to. They could contend if they felt like it was a priority. But what is there to spend it on? The only way I see them contending in 2013 is if they sign 2 of the better SP on the market, Upton, trade for a 3B (Wright) and sign/trade for another 2-3 relievers. Even then it'd be iffy. Cincy and St. Louis probably aren't going away, and the Brewers probably aren't going to be that bad, either. There would be a chance, but as David put it, it'd be a puncher's chance at best. But the point is that 2013 being approached as a likely lost season shouldn't be surprising, and very modest ticket price drop isn't indicative of anything that wasn't already perfectly clear. Who cares if it's "iffy?" It's not like they were only adding those pieces for next season and couldn't keep building/changing going forward. I prefer "iffy" than "crap hole."
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