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  1. Sammy Sofa
    That's like thinking the Garza trade was a mistake at the start of last season because of the hot start that Fuld got off to.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Last 14 days: .327 .379 .712 1.091 Last 7 days: .375 .407 .958 1.366 Sexy.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, that's true; I keep forgetting that his drug/booze problems came out of nowhere.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    He was the first overall pick in 1999, his drug problems didn't come to light until 2001. So yea, pretty safe pick at the time, and it still ended up accurate. Yeah, I think that's about the exact opposite of a safe pick.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I don't necessarily disagree. I'm just not sure how much the new rules change that line of thinking. Especially since sucking also means more IFA dollars. Do you have to be THE worst to have the extra spending available or is an NBA draft-lottery-type deal where, say, the worst 5 teams have increased IFA spending available? Good question. Raisin? The IFA allotment is scaled from worst to best. For example, the worst team in 2012 will have $4.8 million next year, the second worst will have $4.7, so on and so forth. So no matter what, the Cubs will be able to spend more than this year's $2.9 million. Thanks for clarifying.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Josh Hamilton was an "idiot-proof" draft pick?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I don't necessarily disagree. I'm just not sure how much the new rules change that line of thinking. Especially since sucking also means more IFA dollars. Do you have to be THE worst to have the extra spending available or is an NBA draft-lottery-type deal where, say, the worst 5 teams have increased IFA spending available?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Isn't it, though? Seems like with the top couple of picks...you can't say can't miss, but you have a much better shot at an elite prospect than you do 15 guys down the line... especially when you can't just spend away signability concerns like before. I mean, you're not drafting a Strasburg or a Prior (ugh) or a Harper with the 16th pick... and I realize those guys don't come around every year, and I also realize that plenty of great players get drafted much later in the draft... but your odds at landing the can't miss type at least seem much better with the top 1 or 2, especially with the new rules. Also, to be honest, I'm not even sure if there is that type of player in the 2013 draft...but I do like the idea of adding another elite player to the system next year on top of Baez, this year's pick, and possibly/probably Soler. We're just going to have to disagree. The advantage in drafting comes from scouting and player evaluation/development more than where you pick. Unless you have a freak like Harper or Strasburg lurking it's rarely worth tanking just to slide up.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    You're the worst. No, really...give us another list of the valuable offensive assets that the Cubs have that they'll part ways with and make them so much worse. The few good players they have they need to hold on to and the rest are garbage. Dempster is the main exception, but who knows if he'll accept a trade. DeJesus is about the only other one who could possibly net some value, but the argument could be made they'll need him back, y'know, unless next year is going to be another "oh, we're going to tank because you gotta be worst before you can the best" fun fest. The valueable offensive assets are Castro and DeJesus, one of which isn't going anywhere, the other I wouldn't expect to. As for the rest, even if there was a mass exodus of guys like Mather, Johnson, and Baker, they'd likely be replaced with guys like Sappelt, Valbuana, and maybe Rizzo. Dempster would be replaced by Volstad, Coleman, or Wells, which may sound like a downgrade, but when the offense isn't going to score anyway, it doesn't make a difference if you have Walter Johnson or Les Walrond on the mound. WHOOOOOOOSH
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I do trust them over the long haul, but little good for the long haul is coming out of being terrible this year (countdown until someone does something like mention Shark, as if he couldn't have started if they weren't this bad). Being terrible isn't going to net them significantly better drafts than being mediocre would have and they don't have good trade-able assets. Again, being good down the line and being terrible this year aren't automatically related outcomes. And this isn't just being mad at the FO; it's being mad at the Ricketts. Open up the [expletive] pocket books, you bastards. I want this team to be able to spend stupid money along with sexily smart decisions when it comes to drafting and reclamation projects and so on.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    They're not trading Garza. It's a very real possibility that Dempster won't accept a trade. DeJesus isn't going to net you much even if they do move him, and no, Soriano isn't going to get the Cubs anything of value outside of MAYBE a tiny bit of salary relief.. That's part of the catch-22 of being horrible; even though that's when you want to have a fire sale your assets are mostly terrible.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I mean, are you pissed because we might lose 100 games instead of 90? Why does that bother you so much? Suck is suck. What did the front office fail at? A three month rebuild in an offseason in which the 2 best players on the market were signed to contracts that a NL team would have to be criminally insane/stupid to sign? Signing guys like Wilson (yes, I'm aware of the deal he took. Did the Cubs try to blow that one out of the water? I doubt it), Darvish and Cespedes would have been significantly building towards the future. God only knows if they'll get Soler. I'm not holding my breath. Again, I wasn't expecting a team that was good so much as one that you'd have more hope towards the near future. I'm sorry, but I don't right now. It's great seeing Shark break out and I can't wait to see Rizzo, but Jackson is extremely dicey. Almost all of the other moves are just these piddling little stopgap/hope and pray options. They're just in a horrible, horrible position right now to be competitive in the near future. Again, I'm optimistic about what they can do down the line, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend like much good is going to come out of this season.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    i don't think you can blame your pitching coach when your entire bullpen sucks. you can't shine [expletive]. Yeah, and there's been enough out of starting pitching for me to appreciate what Bosio's done. I like a lot of what Sweum has done, too. Kinda over Jaramillio, though. I know he's had a ton of [expletive] to work with, but come on.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Bull [expletive]. Theo and co. weren't going to come here if they didn't have money to spend. I don't believe that for a second. If they're going to struggle to handle their current payroll, around $90 million, then they're in trouble for a while. So you just think Theo wouldn't have come here without money to spend...but then he did come here, had money to spend, and is choosing not to? Nope. The FO failed to spend it. Cespedes has been injured almost the entire month and it was expected he'd need much of the first season to adjust. I'm still pissed they didn't make that deal. And like I said, I don't what other deals were out there to be made, but considering where the team is (worst in MLB) and how most of the offseason was defined by inaction I think it's a safe bet they could have made some moves to be at least a bit better and ideally have more actual assets.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Add Cespedes to that list, too. I still think he's going to be worth that 4-year deal. And I have no idea what other moves that could have been made. Something tells me there were some out there when the current reality is fielding the worst team in baseball. I mean, why do we have to excuse this? The front office failed completely and utterly. That doesn't mean they can't succeed down the line and we can't appreciate it, but why try and dress up a turd?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Bull [expletive]. Theo and co. weren't going to come here if they didn't have money to spend. I don't believe that for a second. If they're going to struggle to handle their current payroll, around $90 million, then they're in trouble for a while.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I appreciate the discussion. You're right about Wood right now, and I hope he keeps it up. LaHair I've never been sold on and I'm still not, and playing him is something that Hendry likely would have done, too. Same with signing someone like DeJesus, and starting Shark likely would have happened regardless. I appreciate the Stewart trade, but I guess it's the timing; I'll appreciate those moves more when the team isn't horrible and the guy isn't effectively replacing one of my favorite players ever.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    I'm sorry, but just assuming/allowing a season to be bad isn't acceptable. It's like people are hoping that because they're so bad something good must come out of it, but sometimes a team is just bad and it just means you have an even deeper hole to dig out of. Again, it shouldn't ever be necessary for the Cubs to "tear a team down;" contrary to what is often said, it's not as if they're choked by long-term contracts for unproductive players. They have one of those. They're not beholden to the limitations of a small market team like the Royals or the Pirates. They have the luxury of having the option to rebuild AND not put a team of garbage on the field, and they failed to do so. That's not a good thing. The team being good in, say, three seasons and being horrible THIS season are not necessarily on the same path. It's not like it's a sure thing to say, "man, it's great that the Cubs are good in 2016, and it was necessary to be absolutely wretched in 2012 for it to happen!" I mean, really, what is the benefit? How does losing around 100 games put you in a better position to win sooner than losing around 80 games? Draft slots don't make that much of a difference in this game.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    It's not necessarily the wrong way, but it doesn't mean we have to like it. It's inexcusable that a team with the market/resources of the Cubs are fielding this team right now. Fielding a garbage team really doesn't help you all that much when the baseball draft doesn't work like football's or basketball's and it doesn't really give you much in the way of trade-able assets. Ultimately the default is you're just bad almost for the sake of being bad, and that should never be an acceptable outcome. At the pace things are going this year is a failure, pure and simple.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Why would they possibly do that? To "save the season"? If anything it makes it less likely. Yeah, they clearly know what they're doing. Theo and myself do not enjoy this sarcasm. Obviously I'm stewing in my rage right now, but there's really little way to look at the new regime's tenure thus far as anything besides an mitigated disaster. You've got the Rizzo trade and...that's about it. Plenty of time in the coming years for them to turn it around, but as of right now they [expletive] suck.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Why would they possibly do that? To "save the season"? If anything it makes it less likely. Yeah, they clearly know what they're doing.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    You're the worst. No, really...give us another list of the valuable offensive assets that the Cubs have that they'll part ways with and make them so much worse. The few good players they have they need to hold on to and the rest are garbage. Dempster is the main exception, but who knows if he'll accept a trade. DeJesus is about the only other one who could possibly net some value, but the argument could be made they'll need him back, y'know, unless next year is going to be another "oh, we're going to tank because you gotta be worst before you can the best" fun fest.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Well said.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    They've been facing that many lefties in a row?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    NAILED IT.
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