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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, what? How is this blaming him? If anything it's the most high profile thing that's striven to vindicate him in some way.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Well, he DID act like a raging idiot. he's supposed to just giggle about the fact that some idiot knocked the ball away? i mean, say that you don't blame bartman all you want, but alou has every right to react. he shouted for like 3 seconds and then ran back to position. i think people let their opinions of alou cloud their judgment on this one. He acted like it was the final out of the game. It wasn't even the final out of the inning, your starter is cruising and you're up by 3 at home with one inning left. Walk away. Call time, something, ANYTHING besides screaming and throwing your glove and spinning around and jumping up and down and pointing and acting like someone just tried to attack you.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I really wish Bartman was actually in this. Not that he would have to explain anything. Just let him scream "[expletive] YOU" to the camera as long as he wants.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Ugh, Dusty, you fat load. I love that there was a Dusty-cam of him not doing [expletive].
  5. Sammy Sofa
    At least none of us went through the nightmare Bartman did.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Roast would have handled this.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Most sports fans suck. Yeah, that was a good point about how this would have been a LOT worse in stadium where the home team has a jumbotron. And seriously, [expletive] you, Scott Turrow. You're a shitty author and a meatball.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I swear this isn't hindsight; I don't remember being mad at Bartman at all when this was going down. I'm stomping around my townhouse, I'm swearing about Prior and Gonzalez and Pierre and Mordecai and Derrek Lee and I'm getting mad at Dusty but I could not have cared less about the schlub in the stands.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    That guy in the bleachers brushing off Gonzalez' bobble to blame Bartman that soon after it happened is amazing and depressing.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, hai, Dusty.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    TAKE THE [expletive] HAT OFF, LOWELL. Man, Alou really screwed the pooch. The mood shifted completely because of his tantrum. If he had just walked away...
  12. Sammy Sofa
    If I had the chance to shoot him into the sun I couldn't do it fast enough. Yes, keep showing the replay. I'm supporting Tree's landmine campaign.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    OK, this is getting me mad at Alou all over again. And now the Dusty-rage is rising...WHERE IS HE?!?
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Really?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    If he had wanted to juxtapose the 2003 Red Sox and Cubs, he did a crap job of it. Why? The point was questioning why Buckner was the focal point when all of these other things went wrong...just like we'll see with Bartman. Interesting how you've got one documentary co-opting another one with all the Chasing October footage. If I have one complaint it's TOO MUCH DAVE KAPLAN.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    I love me some 30 for 30 and yep, so far it's the worst one I've seen. So did you not see all of the other ones? Because there were about 10 or so that were just wretched.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I'm really liking this so far, depressing as it is.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    There's zero chance that works. At this point if he's in the organization fans and the media in Chicago are going to be clamoring for him as soon as things go wrong with the next coaching/managing staff. No manager or GM is going to want to give themselves that headache. The only way he ends up back with the Cubs is if he gets the management job.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    This is probably going to be a damn good documentary, you pansies.
  20. Sammy Sofa
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  21. Sammy Sofa
    How many losses is too many (obviously you don't want any)? I have a hard time imagining over managing costing a team too many wins either. I would imagine that a bad manager probably messes up 2-3 situations a game (I made this up off the top of my head, no idea if it's even correct or not) and even when they mess up it doesn't always hurt him. I can't imagine those would cost a team games that often. Too me, I just want a manager who is playing the best players as much as possible (factoring in rest and what not) and managing a pitching staff the best he can. And then not having him screw up with player relations to the point that a good player demands a trade and won't play and what not. Even then though, the best players thing is controlled more by GM than on field manager. Oh, I'm not talking about a manager tanking a season. In all I think it's largely a relatively ineffectual position either way, it just leans more towards the bad than good as to what they can readily impact.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    The level of anger I would have if a quality GM hired Sandberg is infinitely smaller than the level of anger I'd have if they hired a crap GM, or kept Jim Hendry around. The GM is who matters. That being said, I think Sandberg would be an annoying person to be the face of the franchise the next few years. Right, Sandberg would be annoying, but if he's the focal point of anger it would be because Ricketts and co. screwed up in their hiring of the GM and it's trickled down to a sea of crap yet again.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I think managers do make a difference. That said, I think they have little impact making wins happen outside of managing the pitching (if the talent is there it's there), but I do think they can make a team lose too many games with over-managing. Sandberg sounds way too hands on in that regard.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Personally, I think the being catchers part is pretty key. That's about the only type of former player I'd feel comfortable giving the keys to as manager with little or no minor league coaching/managing experience, and even then it feels like a stretch. Hell, I'm not even hung up on Sandberg getting more time in the minors; my key is I'd want him to get experience coaching in the majors before being given the job.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I'm liking this land mine thing.
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