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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Because bullpen performance has such a huge year to year variance in many cases and in his example, the pen is the issue. A 20 loss-variance? That's probably the extreme, but considering the pen has already given away 4-5 games in the first month and a half of the season, not completely out of the realm of possibilities. Yeah, but it's not that cut & dry. Sure, the bullpen sucks, but you couple that with them too often having such a fine line to maintain more often than not because the offense can't score. Even if they weren't so bad they'd still be in a position too often where even giving up 1 run is too damaging. This is just too bad a team all around for me to to see improving the bullpen as accounting for such a dramatic swing.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, I'm optimistic about guys like Rizzo and even Jackson, but no, I still don't think LaHair is any kind of longterm solution, so yeah, I think the offense needs a lot of work.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, what? Fergie played played 7 full seasons with the Cubs. Even if you only count early, better Maddux he was with the Cubs for 6 full seasons before being signed by the Braves. [expletive], I love Maddux. I'ma fight the next person who doesn't want his name up there. I'll straight up beat you to death with his Cy Young Award.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Because bullpen performance has such a huge year to year variance in many cases and in his example, the pen is the issue. A 20 loss-variance?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Because Maddux was better.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    W/L says a lot, but isn't the sole indicator of how good or bad a team is. Of course it isn't, and nowhere did I say it was, but it's silly to shrug off building from 85 losses or 105 losses like there's little difference. One shouldn't shrug off the W-L record, but it should be looked at subjectively. For example, if Castro, Rizzo, Stewart and the catchers have strong years, Garza and Shark deal all year but the bullpen continues to be an absolute disaster and the team loses 95-100 games, I'm not much more concerned than if the bullpen had been decent and the team only lost 85 games. I still can't figure out why this shrugs off a difference of TWENTY LOSSES, but whatever.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Could NOT care less, for [expletive]'s sake.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Because a 100-loss team is probably significantly worse than an 80-loss team and would require more money/trades/work to improve.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    W/L says a lot, but isn't the sole indicator of how good or bad a team is. Of course it isn't, and nowhere did I say it was, but it's silly to shrug off building from 85 losses or 105 losses like there's little difference.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I think, like, 4 people were doing that. I know that. My point is we're walking a fine line between sucking, but seeing enough positives that to me, the losses don't matter at all. There are more people here who get annoyed that this team is so unnecessarily bad than were picking them to maybe be decent a week ago. True. I'm just saying whether we lose 85, 95, or 105 games this year, we've got enough pieces to make major moves next season. And the more losses this year just means more IFA money and better draft positioning. I'm fine with it. Building from an 85-loss team is pretty different than building from a 105-team. Some people here dismiss the number of losses like it's not indicative of just how bad the team actually is and how difficult it will be to improve.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    I think, like, 4 people were doing that. I know that. My point is we're walking a fine line between sucking, but seeing enough positives that to me, the losses don't matter at all. There are more people here who get annoyed that this team is so unnecessarily bad than were picking them to maybe be decent a week ago.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I'm really not a fan of Castro hitting #3. He's an excellent hitter, and I know lineup roles are vastly overrated/overstated, but he just doesn't have the patience and power to hold it down. He's aggressive enough that I think it can play to his worse tendencies given the expectations that comes with #3. And yes, I know he's not having a bad year; he's still young enough that I'd rather not pen him in to a slot that he shouldn't ideally be playing ASAP.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I think, like, 4 people were doing that.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    And here I was about to complain about all of that as a parade of typical Fox meatball-ism along with 2003, the WS drought, etc., etc..
  15. Sammy Sofa
    The next Mark Prior? No thanks. I'll take the next Justin Verlander or Clayton Kershaw though. Mark Prior was that good. For about two seasons. It's about sustaining success though if this team is going to be successful. You need a reliable guy that will stay healthy and do it year after year. Yeah, you need a guy who will reliably not get run over by Marcus Giles or take a line drive off of the elbow.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Which is the only reason you're back. That is where you are wrong Numb Nuts. I mean Nuts&Gum. Like most here, I did not have a lot of expectations this year, but I never thought I'd be watching a game in which Reed Johnson, Jeff Baker and Koyie Hill started after Theo and Company were hired. Trust me, I would much rather be watching young players gaining valuable experience than watch terrible veterans lose again and again. You basically don't post when they win. You only post to wallow in misery.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Sweet, time for the Game 6 talk.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    I don't even know what's happening anymore.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Which is the only reason you're back.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    He just can't handle the pressure of the big games, man.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    The next time you do your awful, "why is everyone picking on me" schtick remember that you post things like this.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Lord knows what this even means. That means he is at his worst when his team needs a W the most. See playoffs, Dodgers. This game, etc. 1st game of a playoff series, random game in May for a last place team. Same thing. Not a playoff game obviously but it's still a game with a bit more intensity you can't deny that and Dempster has [expletive] the bed again. Oh Jesus.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Lord knows what this even means.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Night game on FOX... feels like the World Series My excitement is plummeting.
  25. Sammy Sofa
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