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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe Maddon has talked about retiring or moving elsewhere after his contract his up next season and Martinez wants the Rays.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Should I really have a problem with either? I'd prefer Maddux, but I'm not losing sleep if we end up with a different Theo/Hoyer-approved manager. I have to say, I'm not too enthused about a guy who resorts to talking about fantasy baseball when stats are brought up. And MacKanan just seems like an old goof. I really don't care what they say to the media; even guys like Maddon talk like a meatball in front of the press more often than not. My concern is how well the interviews with the FO went. And that they were even selected to interview in the first place. Right. But if they are the 3rd best out of 4 or 5 guys, they weren't necessarily all that great. Would they go for another round of interviews if the x amount of guys they liked from this batch turned them down? Or would they just hire the next best guy? But the point is that they were 4 or 5 guys targeted by our FO in the first place. That ideally already puts them at the top, or near the top, of the pack.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    5 and a half years here. Then what is a reliable way to evaluate defense? Scouting? Number of successfully executed plays divided by the number of bird-related interferences times skin pigment = profit
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Should I really have a problem with either? I'd prefer Maddux, but I'm not losing sleep if we end up with a different Theo/Hoyer-approved manager. I have to say, I'm not too enthused about a guy who resorts to talking about fantasy baseball when stats are brought up. And MacKanan just seems like an old goof. I really don't care what they say to the media; even guys like Maddon talk like a meatball in front of the press more often than not. My concern is how well the interviews with the FO went. And that they were even selected to interview in the first place.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Should I really have a problem with either? I'd prefer Maddux, but I'm not losing sleep if we end up with a different Theo/Hoyer-approved manager.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I had no idea Italian baseball was a thing.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    And that guy [expletive] HATES New York. Get outta here with that nonsense!
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Jesus Christ, can you imagine if Roger Clemens left the Red Sox for the both the Blue Jays AND the Yankees? That would be [expletive] insane.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    It's not an aversion to the general idea of trading Soto; it's an "aversion" to the idea of moving him now when his value is pretty damn low and there's a decent chance he rebounds again. Trading him now would likely end up being too much of a "trade him just to trade him" move.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    He probably wouldn't unless he was part of an offer as opposed to the one piece.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Because there's no rush to move him, because the Cubs have major offensive questions about next season, and because he could easily bounce back yet again and have a much better season, which would be both more productive for the Cubs and give you a better trade market for him.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, definitely not.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Marmol should definitely not be untouchable.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Oh yeah; that was great. I wish he had done that more often.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    And Ramirez and his agent haven't said anything about it his whole time here. Now that he's ended his time in Chicago his agent is, rather diplomatically, countering those criticisms.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    How is that "giving it more traction?"
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe. I'd rather some of the teams just go away instead of catering to them when they shouldn't exist in the first place.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    This reply does not fit with what I just wrote. Keep the 30 teams, spread the money around. The 12 team thing was in jest, it was never remotely a possibility. A hard cap doesn't have to happen. Floor or not. They just need to amend the soft cap enough so that it resembles certain aspects from a hard cap. I believe I read that revenue sharing might increase by triple. That's the type of thing that needs to happen. A total spending limit, so a team like the Heat can't can't go too far into the MLE tax. That needs to happen. I'd rather increase the tax instead of a hard limit. And I brought up the 12-team thing because you've brought it up multiple times, so it was seeming like you were serious. And sure, spread the revenue around; it's just not going to significantly change the makeup of which teams are typically competitive. A hard limit would cause a blip along those lines, but not as much as you seem to be hoping. Most of those teams are just too poorly run and big-name players will simply want to get away from them because they're podunk. There's always going to be a bigger market with money.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I just don't understand why you keep insisting that a 12-team league is the best solution. I'm all for stripping the NBA of some obvious deadweight teams, but I don't see why eliminating 18 teams is necessary. And my issue with hard caps is that they typically don't come with some type of hard spending "floor." I don't agree that better run teams or ones with more resources available should be punished because there are smaller teams that are often horribly run and shouldn't have even been bought in the first place, because that's how it is more often than not. That's why I'm not confident at all that a hard cap would do much "fixing." I'd rather let a few teams collapse/fold them and move forward with a more streamlined league.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    What you're proposing isn't going to drastically change that. At best you're talking about one of them maybe sneaking in to the finals (and probably losing) and then vanishing for years to come. Caps aren't going to protect those teams from being badly run and bungling the one advantage they have (draft strength) are put them in a big market that is actually appealing to big-name players. I don't get it? If they sneak into the Finals why would they vanish? The teams that aren't attractive free-agent destinations have to be competitive to attract players. A team that sniffs the Finals can build upon that, not immediately regress. And yeah what I'm proposing is probably off in numerous areas, but I'm no expert. I just see a problem. Because most of those teams are still going to be crappily run and, most importantly, they're still small-market teams that a majority of big-market players want to flee from. A more strict cap doesn't necessarily change that.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    What you're proposing isn't going to drastically change that. At best you're talking about one of them maybe sneaking in to the finals (and probably losing) and then vanishing for years to come. Caps aren't going to protect those teams from being badly run and bungling the one advantage they have (draft strength) are put them in a big market that is actually appealing to big-name players.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, sometimes people post REALLY dumb things.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    And 6 different champs in the last decade.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    But that's not (realistically) true for the other major sports, so that seems to be an unrealistic goal and unnecessarily drastic. There's always going to be bad teams that get beat up on.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I HOPE THEY DO THAT.
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