Sammy Sofa
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The renovated Cell is much nicer than it used to be. Still has lots of issues, but I enjoy watching a few games a year there. Old Yankee Stadium was a mess. That upper deck was scary. Both the early Cell and old Yankee Stadium were terrifying at the top, but Comiskey was pretty fucked up along those lines, too. Memorial Stadium in Baltimore also induced similar vertigo in a young me.
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Where would you be shipping it from?
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Nuts&Gum Yes I've got a Cubs Matryoshka doll for the 2004 team.
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He was the guy with the towel. :lol: [expletive] you.
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Man, what a trio of champions.
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They really should be taking cues from you in the Hamilton thread as to how to make their "trolling" more clear.
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There's only a small contingent of scum and villainy that deserves to be shunned. It's the Lord's work.
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That's not the Cubs problem. Maybe this'll help Ricketts buy up more Wrigleyville property. Club 162(Since it's re-opening I've seen a total of roughly 3 people in on non-baseball days.) I'm looking at you. Ricketts will need to bring back the Hi-Tops name. Ever since they switched to Harry Carey's, the middle-aged men buying shots for young girls have taken their business to Sluggers and never returned. I associate that crowd more with Cubby Bear than Sluggers. The Hi-Tops name means nothing now, nobody went there as it died out, and the one in Lincoln Park might be the worst bar I've ever had the misfortune of entering. It's insane to me that the Cubby Bear used to be like an indie rock/alternative/whatever music mecca before Lounge Ax opened up and basically stole that away. I can't picture the Cubby Bear as anything except Douchebag Central.
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Wrigleyville is packed nearly every weekend regardless of whether or not it's baseball season.
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Ugh. I swear, it's like Soriano has left Cubs fans with PTSD. The 2010 Cubs were the result of poor team construction from the top to the bottom. Blaming it on "bad big contracts" or whatever the [expletive] is a stretch to say the least. All I was alluding to is that it's hard to compete when players like Soriano and Zambrano make up roughly 25% of your payroll, and it's been that way for several years. It puts you in an unnecessary hole that's difficult to get out of. It does, but it's hardly insurmountable, especially when you're talking about 25% of a nearly $130 million dollar payroll. Look, signing Soriano for the years and money he got was a bad move from day 1, everyone knows that. It was not, however, an "albatross" contract for a team with the resources of the Cubs. Looking at the Soriano contract as being indicative of the main problem is looking backwards at how poorly the team was constructed overall. Soriano's deal didn't make or break the Cubs. Hell, Soriano's deal coupled with Zambrano's (and it's ridiculous revisionist and alarmist history to lump that in with Soriano's deal as if they're readily comparable) didn't make or break the Cubs. What broke the Cubs was crappy, crappy drafting and player development.
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Ugh. I swear, it's like Soriano has left Cubs fans with PTSD. The 2010 Cubs were the result of poor team construction from the top to the bottom. Blaming it on "bad big contracts" or whatever the [expletive] is a stretch to say the least.
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Really hope this is true. It would explain a lot with the spending, too.
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Yeah, $18 million is all it takes to build a hell of a contender. no one said that 18 million is all it takes to be a contender. only that they arent willing to spend on a big free agent with that contract hanging around. 18 million may or may not make us a contender with this division you never know. 18 mil spent properly probably makes us more interesting to watch though. Thats all im looking for really. Field a team that has a chance to be .500 while all the guys in the minors continue to progress. The Cubs are in REALLY bad, bad, bad shape financially if the remaining three years of Soriano's contract are anything more than a frustrating annoyance. Fortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Yeah, $18 million is all it takes to build a hell of a contender.
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You're horrible.
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Update thread title, please.
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Yes, the "many" are right.
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You don't?
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We got any of that popcorn left?
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Somebody here actually has a VoR post as their sig.
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Trading Soriano
Sammy Sofa replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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i'm sure they did. i'm saying that miami is the only location where he visited and checked out the stadium. Not coming to Wrigley definitely works in the Cubs' favor.
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