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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Shhhhhhhh.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Not that I'm arguing we should have called up Brenly or anything, but: Koyie Hill this season: .591 OPS in AA Mike Brenly this season: .561 OPS in AA In all honesty, I have no problem with this move. I'm not happy that Koyie is back, but for a stopgap who will only be around for a week or two and a team that isn't close to contending, the primary motivation should be giving up as little as possible in terms of assets. That's exactly what Hoyer did. Hill has a history of minor league numbers that Mike Brenly doesn't. This isn't a defense of Koyie Hill so much as it's a declaration of how horrible Mike Brenly is.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I think they didn't bother; that would have to be one hell of a bluff, and nobody would probably buy it, especially since the Ricketts were so vocal about wanting Wrigley and it's "importance" to the team back during the buying process.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    He's pretty much to AA what Koyie Hill is to the big leagues. A backup catcher to keep around until his roster spot is needed for a better option. Stop it.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    YESSSSSS.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    They're not assuming all of the "risk," there's not really all that much risk given how much money Wrigley brings the city, and it makes the city more money down the line. Wrigley is a Chicago institution; hell, it's officially a historical landmark. The city is invested. Seriously, [expletive] the residents. The only reason they have nice homes and the clout to complain about the stadium is because of the stadium they're complaining about. If they had their way they wouldn't want any night games, any street closures or any construction/renovations.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    You shouldn't be. He's got a .826 OPS so far in May now that his BABIP is actually getting back closer to normal (.268 this month after .207 in April). Yeah, this seems like a weird time to be complaining about Stewart.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I brought this up in a recent game thread, but I'm not a fan of him hitting #3, either. Like it or not, I think players are playing to stereotypical expectations hitting #3, and I think being in that role plays to the worst aspects of Castro being a young, impatient hitter. He's so talented that he's still going to succeed to some degree, but I'd rather see him in a different spot where he's ideally not going to be overly and unecessarily aggressive.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Jenkins played nearly 10 full seasons (8 at the beginning of his career) with the Cubs and was good for 50 WAR. He won a CYA in 1971 and placed in the top 3 in three of his first 8 other seasons with the Cubs. Jenkins was a Cub for longer, and was better while he was. If you subtract his years with the Cubs, Fergie is not a HoF pitcher. Not nearly. Maddux was a first ballot HOFer, but he was that on the back of what he did in 11 years with the Braves, which is a [expletive] tragedy. Don't care; Maddux was still awesome and I look at the split as making up for horrible ownership basically casting him away.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I realize that is how the people who want to make this a story want to frame it for the uninformed, but the Cubs are not asking for government money. Last I checked amusement tax dollars are still government funds.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Because Maddux was better.
  16. 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.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Could NOT care less, for [expletive]'s sake.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I think, like, 4 people were doing that.
  24. 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..
  25. 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.
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