Sammy Sofa
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At first I was annoyed by the 12 strikeouts...but they walked 7 times? Excellent. -
He got hosed, but nice outing by Maholm.
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BUENO.
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Yeah, no. A grounder right to Peralta and a toss to 2nd, and a grounder to Peralta and a throw to first. Without the benefit of watching the replay again for a closer look for something I might have missed, those are pretty routine throws. Those were ugly throws, yes, but in both cases the runner was out. Let's just enjoy the break.
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Heh, even Stewart seemed a little surprised he caught that.
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Yeah, no.
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Bob: "This is a game just SCREAMING out for instant replay."
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God bless terrible calls.
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Well, this is hilarious.
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Sorry, I don't keep track of wins, losses, saves, holds, or blown saves. Good man.
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And broadly tossing out statements like they can't lose lots of games without the Cubs better players playing poorly and damaging their futures is false. I don't think anyone actually said "damaging their futures," but whatever. If they did, I don't agree with that, but I do agree with a really bad team usually being indicative of badness across the board, and I don't see the sunny outlook others do when it comes to player development thus far. Shark has been fun to watch but he's hardly a sure thing and seemingly has entered into a period where we'll need to see if he can adjust, and while Castro has improved his defense and base-running his offensive approach is kinda...stagnant. I don't think either is "damaged," but I'm hardly going to sit back and look at both as being obvious success stories in a lost year. There's still time to tell.
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Something that I have been clamoring loudly since 2006, probably even before that. Go Theo! I wish they could get Rothschild back.
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Given the FO I don't see this as a scapegoat situation at all so much as a "alright, we've taken the time evaluate how this guy does his job and we've decided we don't want him working with the younger players who will be coming up because he does not fit with the new institutional philosophy"-situation. Or something as similarly intelligent.
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Maybe.
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Doesn't that mean you don't really care if any of the players end up being good players or not? Especially at a team level, the team playing very poorly over that time would certainly mean a lower expectation from key players in future seasons, which makes it all the move harder to improve to a competitive level. Not at all. The players I care about actually are playing fairly well and the team stinks. And that is something I can see continuing through the rest of the year. I'm with jersey here. I'm not sure I buy into the mindset that we can't want them to lose lots of games because that must mean that important players are doing poorly. Both can happen simultaneously (key players doing well and team doing poorly) and they are happening right now. Again, there are varying degrees of "losing lots of games." Just broadly tossing out things along of the lines of "it doesn't matter how many games they lose" is shortsighted.
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Dismiss the 100 games thing; it's an arbitrary number/measurement of failure. When you get people saying they don't care how bad the team is in being the worst game in all of baseball seems to be shortsighted because, yes, there are varying degrees of "the worst." I don't think anyone is talking about a concern of the FO making rash moves in fixing the team so much as saying that the worse the team is the more work there will be to fix things. That's what some are questioning when they talk about people just not caring about how many games the Cubs lose, or saying "I hope they lose as many games as possible so they get the best pick."
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I don't really know what that means. Lose as many games as possible to ensure being the worst to ensure getting the #1 pick.
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He's talking more along the "best player possible lines," where you have people talking like, "[expletive] it, I don't care how many they lose; the more the better."
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At this point I don't think it matters how many times/different ways you spell that out; some people are just going to refuse to get it.
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Not true. Not true.
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Wait, this actually happened? Stupid damn Dodgers don't deserve Kemp.
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I am happy and sated for now.
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Rumor? - Wrigley All Star Game is a done deal
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Let him have his thing.
