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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Easy, spaz.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Garza basically dick-slapping Jersey in the face today. MOTIVATE HIM, GOONEY.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, nevermind then.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Castro followed up a great rookie year with another nice performance. Garza.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I remember lots of Reds fans showing up back in the day. They tended to be older and came in buses and were adorable.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Gentlemen, hide your boners.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Nah. Dipping his balls in that damn hot tub.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, agreed. Though I found his Bears didn't earn the first TD shtick funny and odd. That was supposed to be tongue in cheek. Hard to tell tone in the written word I suppose. And I'm not sure how I was overly antagonistic after the game. The only thing I really commented on post game was to defend the assertion that somehow the Saints weren't any good, which I found odd considering they just beat up the Bears and nearly beat the Packers last week. Because a lot of the Bears fans here are Bears fans like they're Cubs fans; they love being miserable and talking about how miserable their team is and how miserable it is being a fan of their miserable team. If they concede that the Saints are a good team then they can't truly maximize their miserable-ness as they can by acting like the Bears lost to a bad team.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Holy [expletive], yes. All Bears game threads should just have imb's post as the title.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    You can find the awful experience of yore in the Bears game threads now.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Lopez is one one of those guys who you prefer get rocked because every time he has a decent outing, it brings us closer to the possibility of him being in rotation next year. All I know if he's in next years rotation with Cashner in the pen, well, that won't be cool. OK, now you're just making up things to worry about.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    "Political BS?" And a longing for the days of Meph? For [expletive]'s sake.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I haven't been to a game since opening day of 2010 and I live about 15 minutes away from Wrigley. Can't really say the motivation is there (though working two jobs for much of that time hasn't helped, either).
  14. Sammy Sofa
    They're dropping the prices bleacher seats. Likely not going to drop the other prices any time soon (if ever) until the expanded revenue from renovations/triangle building and related plans/TV network/expanded advertising comes in. And yes, there's plenty of "if's" for next season, hence why people are saying they COULD be contenders and not that they're a lock to do so. It's the same for them not contending, too.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, some people keep forgetting how atrocious the defense has been. And this team still would have sucked. Nothing wrong with being positive, but thinking this team is only a couple of pieces away from contention isn't at all realistic. Actually, it is. Not "ideally" competitive, but it's certainly realistic they could be competitive next season in a division this weak. Even assuming they grab Fielder, Wilson, and re-sign Ramirez, (which is assuming a hell of a lot) that does nothing to address the defense or mediocre OF production. That team would also need to stay completely healthy as the farm isn't likely to provide us much help in the short term. Too many ifs. Yeah, might as well give up already.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, some people keep forgetting how atrocious the defense has been. And this team still would have sucked. Nothing wrong with being positive, but thinking this team is only a couple of pieces away from contention isn't at all realistic. Actually, it is. Not "ideally" competitive, but it's certainly realistic they could be competitive next season in a division this weak.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Only the Cobs I don't know about you, but I sure haven't seen any team waste more chances over an aggregate season. Stunning.
  18. Sammy Sofa
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  19. Sammy Sofa
    Thats exactly why I hated Edmonds so much. I hated everything about him, well beyond just baseball, much like LaRussa. But I'm not saying I wouldnt want him on the team, I'd just not like him. LaRussa is a little different because managers don't have nearly the impact that players do (obviously). That said, if I could be promised a WS title if he was our manager, I'd welcome him with open arms....but still dislike him. Yep, I'd take the World Series no doubt but I really don't want to listen to him complain all the freaking time. Who, LaRussa or UMFan?
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Lies.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Man, that year [expletive] sucked.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Nice deflection, but we all know the truth.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Is this the guy that hilariously hates Jeff Baker like he's the 2nd coming of Neifi?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    And that was before last night...now LaHair is at .500/.565/.950. All kidding aside though, if the Cubs like his bat I think they have the luxury of keeping him on their bench next year. With Barney starting at 2nd, that makes keeping another backup SS unnecessary. Baker and DeWitt can backup pretty much every position besides SS, C, and CF. So you have a backup C, a backup CF (that could be Colvin, Campana, or a free agent), Baker, DeWitt, and that still leaves one bench spot. There's no real need for that to be another defensive backup so the Cubs can afford to put a bat in that spot, and if they think LaHair can put up a .750+ OPS he could be it. Cubs lineup next year if @thekapman created it: Castro SS Barney 2B LaHair 1B Byrd CF Colvin RF LeMahieu 3B Jackson LF Soto C I'm pretty sure that team would lose 100 games. Only about 85 losses with the Phillies pitching staff. There's no way Kaplan wouldn't have Campana in CF instead of Byrd.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    It is all relative. He is with the Red Sox now. No its not relative. You said the Cubs are tight with spending and they have the 6th biggest payroll in baseball, 3rd last year. Sorry if the Cubs didn't shell out an extra 20 mil during a period where ownership changed and inherited an extremely flawed and overpaid team. 20 mil probably wouldn't have made this team a playoff team so theres no point in adding more high priced and potentially disasterous contracts. Rickets did the right thing and invested the money in scouting and the draft. Epstein would love smart ownership like that, possibly because it reminds him of the team he's currently with and not the bumbling band of morons that have symbolized the cubs front office for several decades. His wording was flawed, but his point stands. Epstein has no motivation to jump ship. He has a situation that is already good. Everyone credits him with making it good, and while the Cubs' payroll is high the one he has now is higher than high. why leave? New challenge, the idea of being the guy running the ship when both the Red Sox and Cubs broke their WS droughts.
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