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  1. Sammy Sofa
    when they're still calling castro a rapist in 2019 tell me if it's annoying As opposed to all the respect and admiration they'd have for him otherwise?
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, same here. The "worry" about what fans of other teams think should be pretty [expletive] far down the list of concerns right now.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Whoooooooooooooooooo gives a [expletive] what other fans think?
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Bueno. Now bring me the Cubans.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Don't tell me what to do.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I HAVE NO LEGS.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Well said.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I predict that in the next few weeks, Soriano will be traded to Tampa Bay along with $47.5 million for Reid Brignac and it will be me with the perfect mix of overwhelming joy, seething rage, a bunch of saber metrics attempting to prove that it was the greatest thing to happen to this country since the death of Osama Bin Laden. The [expletive] just happened.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Man, nobody is freaking out, man.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Why are you screaming at Wrigley? Theo works at Fenway. I figured Roast was in the vicinity.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    If Theo somehow got away with trading Soriano and only paying around half of his salary I'd take back most of the mean things I screamed at Wrigley Field as I passed it on the train today.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Until they actually start making moves like that there's nothing wrong with griping how anti-climactic things have been so far.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    It sounds like some kind of awesome superpower.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    That's the worst that can happen. Didn't you hear that Theo wants to change the culture and build a winning team? Don't you remember that Theo says he wants productive players and who have their teammates' back? How does Z fit into any of those? Has he suddenly see the light and will shape up? You want to bring back an overpaid malcontent who attacked his teammates, quit on the team and is non-productive? No thanks. This is the showcase tour. Z has little value right now and if shows something now, maybe a team will be interested. I'm sure we may have to eat some $$$, but Theo knows that Z can't be brought back. Yes, he can. Nope..as I told you earlier. Yes, he could have pitched for the Cubs.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Why? Because they're mediocre players? http://www.yyyup.com/
  16. Sammy Sofa
    He can make as many marginal upgrade trades as he damn well pleases, I don't give a crap about that. I want a freaking free agent or three to actually have an impact on their chances in 2012. It costs nothing but money and does nothing to damage their ability to contend in 2014 and beyond. That just isnt't true, and I know that you know it. I don't blame you for wanting to win now (that is, 2012). I'm on the other side of that fence - I can hold off a year of it means we are building something sustainable. I'm giving Thoyer a year or two to show me that their way is the right way. How does it cost more than money? He's not talking about signing somebody that will wind up blocking a top prospect. He's also not talking about how we need to win now. He's saying "hey, maybe we should try and add really good players now, that way we'll have them for 2013 beyond too!" Reclamation projects and pre-arb guys aren't the only ones under control for more than a year. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Measure now doesn't mean measured later. Pick your battles. The Cubs have money, but simply spending like crazy just to make it rain (see a declining, 32 year old Albert @ 10/265) is just idiotic. Now if someone else nabs Prince for less than 8-10 years, I'll start to wonder what people are thinking. Measured is fine in complimentary moves. Measured as the focus sucks.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    You guys are too intimidated by big, swinging dicks. We need to embrace the big, swinging dicks.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    To clarify, I'm not against signing any FAs. I'm against the notion that the only way or even the best way to fix this team is to spend tons on FA. Even the Yankees (the big swinging dicks on the NE) have more regrettable contracts than good ones. I don't think anyone here is saying it's the only or best way to fix the team. It's a way to help fix a team or strengthen it, and as it stands right now the Cubs seem to be shying completely away from it. Shutting out a significant tool to help build and better your team isn't fun and doesn't seem very smart. And why does it matter if the Yankees are overpaying? I'd love for the Cubs to be in that type of position where it doesn't matter. It sucks that they aren't.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Some of us are talking about realistic things. Like being big swinging dicks? Wanting the Cubs to at least be the Red Sox/Yankees of the NL Central is pretty [expletive] realistic.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    yuuuuuuuuuuuuup I look it at this way: remember those video clips of Theo discussing J.D. Drew that we were all drooling over? That's the kind of complimentary signing I want to enjoy in the wake of the Cubs being monsters and crushing everything in their path a la the Red Sox or the Yankees. What's happening so far is that type of signing is apparently the focus for the Cubs instead of being complimentary. I DON'T WANT THAT. It's early, so I'm still hopeful things change, but measured, complimentary deals seemingly being the main direction of the team for the time being is depressing and will take foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Noooooooooooooooooope. I don't want measured. I want the Cubs to be the big swinging dicks of the Midwest.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I don't doubt that there is a method here that will payoff in the future. I just have a problem with ignoring 2012 when it was possible to make the team competitive without ruining their chances in the future. What's competitive? 80 wins? Shooting for 85 and hoping you get lucky and make the playoffs? You loved that so much with Hendry, I'm surprised to see you advocate for it now. There is nothing wrong with that when it is used as a stepping stone. It becomes a problem when year after year you hope things go your way to accomplish this. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    hey if either of them has a hot april it will give you another late 20ish player to crush on. And if either of them make it out of the minors it will give you another major league player to bitch about. Because they suck? Well played.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    It's less than 3 players each offseason, and among those players are peak seasons from Andres Torres, Kelly Johnson, and reclamation projects like Jayson Werth and Chris Carpenter. Plus, the Cubs needed more than one of those players to be serious competitors in 2012. Seriously, lets let 2012 go. Signing one of the best free agents available this offseason could absolutely have helped in competing in 2013 and beyond. That's where my frustration comes from. I didn't understand where your numbers were coming from, as I thought you were only using free agents signed in the last three years. Sorry. Are the chances of signing a free agent that puts up a 5+ WAR really that much less than obtaining somebody in the draft? If I were to guess, trades for soon to be major league stars is the most efficient way to obtain stars. Which suggests that a Garza trade would make sense. Yeah, ditto.
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