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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Holy God, why are you taking the "no other choice" part so literally?
  2. Sammy Sofa
    She's not complaining about the situation. She's explaining why they're leaving.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, that is the context; we're talking about Albert Pujols: maybe the greatest hitter of all time. In that context a 5 year/$130 million deal IS insulting. She shouldn't have to clarify to anyone with a functioning brain that she's talking about being "insulted" on a rich people's problems-scale.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, the implication that the Cardinals weren't going to pay her husband anywhere near what he wanted so he went with a team that did. They wanted to stay in St. Louis, but only if the Cardinals offered a contract as dictated by his value as a player and his history with the team. None of these things are outlandish, wrong, or a "sob story."
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Sadly, no. For his career, he has 16 stolen bases and 10 caught stealings, only 1 of which was a pickoff. Ridiculous. I hate it when managers try to get cute like that. Stolen bases aren't valuable enough for that kind of isht.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Why does he have ANY CS numbers? Does that include getting picked off?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I don't fault Pujols one bit for being greedy, or selfish, or walking away from the Cardinals over money. Just own it. They're not. These quotes from Mrs. Pujols make it sound as if the Cardinals gave Pujols no other choice but to leave, even though they never intended to and never wanted to. That's utter nonsense. Black & white davearm2 strikes again. You do realize what hyperbole is, right? You understand that she doesn't actually mean they literally had no other choice, yes?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Nobody here wants that, as best I can tell. It's a figment of your imagination that you keep perpetrating as fact. It's the reality of the situation that the Cubs are in right now. At some point they have to take the plunge and bolster the team through significant FA signings because their farm system ain't producing enough talent right now to either make their team or make enough impact trades to fix things. The problem is also that the forecast of significant offensive FA being available is pretty barren for a while once Fielder is signed. I agree completely with the first two sentences. Where we differ is, the fact that the forecast of significant offensive FA being available is pretty barren for a while doesn't convince me that signing Fielder to a contract I think will be a mistake, and will hurt the team in the long run, is a wise choice. "Mistake" and "hurt" are all relative to the resources a team has.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Where in the interview does she ever talk like she's not talking about rich people problems?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Really, where's the "sob story?" I keep reading it and I see someone explaining why her husband decided to sign with a different baseball team. The "stress" is reality to leaving behind their life in St. Louis; nowhere is she talking like it's some horrible thing that happened to them. She's talking like it's unfortunate that the Cardinals wanted to pay her husband RELATIVELY so little compared to what he's done for the team and what he's worth.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    This would be a much different conversation if the Cubs were in that 85-95 win sweetspot. Hello shell game!
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I just don't think Prince is THAT good. If he were, I'd have no problem overpaying him. Very, very few players are ever "THAT good." You pay based on what you need (which is different than paying just because they're there a la Soriano). Fielder feels very much like paying just because they're there. You seem to concede the point that Fielder isn't THAT good. So why pay him like he is? Because he fulfills so many needs (now and in the future) that the Cubs desperately need to fill right now. As Kyle pointed out, like it or not the Cubs are in a position where they have to give up a lot to fill these holes, be it via trade or FA signing. I prefer the latter since the resources for the former are pretty minimal.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Nobody here wants that, as best I can tell. It's a figment of your imagination that you keep perpetrating as fact. It's the reality of the situation that the Cubs are in right now. At some point they have to take the plunge and bolster the team through significant FA signings because their farm system ain't producing enough talent right now to either make their team or make enough impact trades to fix things. The problem is also that the forecast of significant offensive FA being available is pretty barren for a while once Fielder is signed.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Mrs. Pujols' message rings awfully hollow since the stress she's describing is completely self-inflicted, and the byproduct of Pujols' own greed and pride. Don't want to uproot your family and leave your community/foundation/restaurant/support network? Then don't. Re-up with STL. It's pretty simple. The Cards would have been thrilled to have him stay, and they gave him ~200M reasons to do so. They chose the most money instead, which nobody is blaming them for. Just don't come at us with this sob story about what a hardship it is. They chose this path; nobody forced it upon them. This is a righteously moronic post.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    I just don't think Prince is THAT good. If he were, I'd have no problem overpaying him. Very, very few players are ever "THAT good." You pay based on what you need (which is different than paying just because they're there a la Soriano).
  16. Sammy Sofa
    *BONG-BONG-BONG*
  17. Sammy Sofa
    You can easily talk yourself out of signing every single impact bat that comes down the pipeline. THAT'S the nature of the beast; nine times out of ten guys like this are going to cost too much. People can decry overpaying for guys like this due to timing or the demands of the market or whatever; that's how baseball works. If you want to play the shell game and essentially shuffle 75% of the team every 2-3 years trying to be cost-effective waiting for the "perfect" big name FA to come along and the farm system to start spewing out productive everyday starters, great, have fun; it'll suck more often than not.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    i assume that you have been extremely wealthy and therefore are able to make judgments about what is and is not stressful for people who have a lot of money? because it sure sounds like you have perspective that none of us have. We all have "stressful" situations in life but I understand my problems are not as bad as what some people are going through. It doesn't mean they are not stressful to me, but I carefully chose my words when talking about them to other people. Did Mrs. Pujols show any empathy toward the employees of the restaurant who will lose their jobs if it closes? Again, perspective is a key word. I think it is funny that you have no problem judging my comments but have a problem with how I judge the comments of Mrs. Pujols. Perspective is the key word, because yours is ridiculous. She's not saying, "OH, WOE IS US, OUR LIFE IS SO TERRIBLE, PLEASE PITY US;" in the context of their lives what they went through was stressful.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    He cries over everything. He cries when he scrapes his knee, he cries when he's out of chocolate milk, he cries when he's doing long division and he has a remainder left over. we've all shed a tear over the loss of chocolate milk Except for the killer among us.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Joe didn't want to hear about all of this before; why would he start now?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    NOBODY EVER TALK PUBLICLY ABOUT SOMETHING NEGATIVE BECAUSE SOMEBODY ALWAYS HAS IT WORSE.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Ridiculous. You realize how context works, right?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Ugh.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I actually love the term "ver goo" and insist it become a real thing.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    YEAH, THAT DUMB BROAD LADY CHICK. Nowhere is she complaining like they're poor, you maniacs.
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