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  1. 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...
  2. 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.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    OK, this is getting me mad at Alou all over again. And now the Dusty-rage is rising...WHERE IS HE?!?
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Really?
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I'm really liking this so far, depressing as it is.
  8. 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.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    This is probably going to be a damn good documentary, you pansies.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    http://images.wikia.com/en.futurama/images/d/da/Fry_Looking_Squint.jpg
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    I'm liking this land mine thing.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Just for reference, Joe Torre had zero years managing a minor league team. That's terrific. He was a catcher and this isn't 1977 and didn't have Sandberg's track record of asinine beliefs in smallball and "playing the game the right way" in 2011.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    5 years is not enought time? And how can you get experience without getting a shot? What else does he need to do? At least work as a bench coach or hitting instructor or something first. I'd still want him to spend a few more years managing in the minors before that.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Sandberg has spent a grand total of, what, 5 years of managing in the minors? And absolute no experience coaching on the major league level? Let's stop talking about him like he's some managing dynamo who needs a shot right now. And fans loving him is moot. People don't pay to come see managers. If the Cubs stink even Sandberg doing cartwheels on the dugout and peeing "23" into the grass isn't going to bring them out.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    No, you're not curious, because it's obvious to anyone who takes two seconds to look to see where he was worst. Here, I'll spell it out for you: personally, I don't think it's a good idea to shuffle guys around more than is necessary. I especially don't think it's a good idea with flawed, declining hitters. He showed he could be serviceable hitting 6th last year, and he seemed fine with it, so I have no idea why they would have given him so many starts hitting 5th this year. As I've already stated, my main issue with all of this is Quade's crappy, inconsistent lineups more than anything else. The only time it would have made sense to have Soriano hitting 5th is the couple of times he want on a hot streak, and the numbers reflect that wasn't how it went down. And Soriano "struggled" at varying levels everywhere because he's a flawed, declining hitter. Bouncing him around needlessly, even just between 5-7, potentially just acerbates that issue. Do I know that to be a fact? Of course not, and I never said it was. It's just my opinion. You're trying really, really hard to make this something it isn't.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Well, lets not forget who else has been rumored to join the Cubs from the Phillies organization. The dots seem to be getting connected here. Not really.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Well, this may be true. However, Ricketts is a business man and a Cubs fan to boot. He loves Sandberg and he knows the fans love him. He has an angry fan base and he knows a move like this will appease 80% of them. Add Prince to this and he sells out every game. Signing a manager, even Sandberg, isn't going to be enough to bring people to the game. Managers can't make a team win. Good players and winning games are what bring the most people out. You want a good GM to bring in and develop good players. Telling your GM who they have to hire as manager isn't a smart way to bring in a good GM.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, see the "one spot" part?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Signing Ryne [expletive] Sandberg over Pujols or Fielder and acting like that's some kind of good move is insanity.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Not what I said. Stop trying so hard. I said I understand why he's complaining, and that for some players it can possibly be a detriment, not that it was the actual reason for his decline.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    The ideal big "PR moves" this offseason are first hiring the right GM, signing the right FA and then letting that person hire the management/coaching staff THEY want. If they actually want Sandberg, ech, that's bad enough, but if Sandberg is effectively being forced onto whoever is hired by the Ricketts then that's no good. What the Sox are doing is completely irrelevant in this.
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