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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, what? No it doesn't. You just said yourself the crux of the complaint was Quade NOT CALLING OUT THE "LAZY" PLAYERS. It's odd how the "lazy veterans" are an issue when the experienced players are non-white. Hey, remember when the Cubs were wretched and they were trotting out golden oldies like Todd Walker and Jeromy Burnitz? Remember when they got called out as being "lazy veterans" who were "selfish" and "set a bad example?" Oh, right, that didn't happen. [expletive], even Rusch wasn't called out as lazy.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Great contribution.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    IT'S AN ISSUE OF MORAL ETHICS.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Right.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    You and Kaplan's Mug are completely missing the point; we're not saying white players aren't criticized at all. We're saying that in recent years non-white players on the Cubs have tended to be criticized in very, very similar ways regardless of their actual faults. Someone pointing out that Heilman sucked isn't the same as repeatedly stating that numerous non-white players are lazy and selfish. Except you can't point out any examples. Hence the problem. Because I don't have access to Kaplan's WGN and Comcast archives. His diatribes are old hat and pretending like I'm making them up is laughable.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Lazy hispanic. That's one. We've come up with, what, 8 or 9 "Lazy" hispanic players from the same period. Name the last scrappy Hispanic player to play for the Cubs. How is that even calling Wells lazy? This wouldn't an issue if when talking about Soriano and Aramis the extent of his complaining was that they needed to "focus on their craft."
  7. Sammy Sofa
    You and Kaplan's Mug are completely missing the point; we're not saying white players aren't criticized at all. We're saying that in recent years non-white players on the Cubs have tended to be criticized in very, very similar ways regardless of their actual faults. Someone pointing out that Heilman sucked isn't the same as repeatedly stating that numerous non-white players are lazy and selfish.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, Mike McQueary gets to stay on?
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Calling Prior a wimp wasn't calling him lazy. Few mocked his work ethic; the common tract was that he was weak and fragile, not lazy. And are you kidding me with Farnsworth? The guy was practically a folk hero for the fights and drinking and whoring. And it always comes back to Hundley. The guy was just SO despicable on every level that there was simply no possible way anyone could like or defend him. He's an obvious extreme. Look at players like, however, the "Cajun Connection" or DeRosa or Walker or Burnitz. They all had varying degrees of the "gamer/gives it his all/plays his ass off" reputation, yet scant evidence that they deserved it anymore than the players who get tagged as "lazy/selfish/not caring" did.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Hell, the stereotype of the lovable fat baseball player is practically as old as the game itself.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Does Prior count? Though that was more stupidly calling him a [expletive] and weak as opposed to lazy.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Soriano was a bad contract from day one, and just about everyone here thought so. Ditto Werth, Zito, Howard, Wells, etc. Wow, I couldn't have asked for a more perfect post proving my "Soriano has left Cubs fans traumatized"-theory if I had begged for one. How are those guys an argument against signing Fielder or Pujols? People knew those were bad contracts because they'd never give you the top shelf production that could justify the backend expense.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Guzman and Kaplan both have existed in the last 8 years. I have absolutely no idea how to find Kaplan's comments about him. Unless you are him and know this isn't so, in which case do you find Hollandsworth's new dome flattering?
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Piniella.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Guzman.
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    Pie.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I think there's a certain amount of systemic racism in the way players are perceived, yes. So now we lump Demp in? What pattern has he established?
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    http://i.imgur.com/1mLj9.jpg
  19. Sammy Sofa
    If you describe enough Latin players as lazy while you haven't hated a white player since 2002, then it starts to become a pattern. How many is "enough". I know we've got Z and Ramirez so far. Soriano. Soto.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    LOL Zambrano IS hot tempered and fiery. You going to dispute that??? Pointing that fact out isn't automatically racist. No, but compounded with the rest of his track record it is. Kaplan likely automatically views Z's personality as the result of his genetic heritage as opposed to his individual personality. Y'know, the "oh, of course HE'S like that"-sort of thing.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    It's not racism how he dislikes players who are bad. It's racism how he inevitably falls on racial stereotypes to describe them. So if a Latin player truly is lazy, and I observe this personally, would it be racist for me to describe him as lazy? Hint: there's another explanation besides racism here. Nope. Using it seemingly as a default criticism, however, is rather telling.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Not even close. A fired football coach doesn't fix what happened to those kids. If anything, it distracts from Sandusky. I agree with the firing, but justice? Give me a [expletive] break How does it distract from Sandusky? The guy is a kid raper; he's already the ultimate villain and he's going to pay the price for it. It's not like his case is going to fall by the wayside because of this firing. Whose face is on ESPN right now? The guy who was going to get to retire before he was rightly fired. Sandusky has been caught and isn't going anywhere. Paterno was getting all the attention because nothing had happened to him.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Not even close. A fired football coach doesn't fix what happened to those kids. If anything, it distracts from Sandusky. I agree with the firing, but justice? Give me a [expletive] break How does it distract from Sandusky? The guy is a kid raper; he's already the ultimate villain and he's going to pay the price for it. It's not like his case is going to fall by the wayside because of this firing.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    This is asinine. The fact that he thought Todd Hundley was a jerk does not disprove anything. No, he thought he was a worthless teammate and a bad player. Which, in fact, he was. Nothing to do with race with Hundley. Now you're getting it.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    He covers the Latino stereotype spectrum by calling Z both lazy and hot tempered and fiery.
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