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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Too crazy for Boy's Town. Too much of a boy for Crazy Town.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Not sure what we're supposed to take away from that response.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Unless the Cubs had an all-star-caliber player locking down 1B it's ridiculous to paint the want for Fielder or Pujols as "desperation." Desperation is drowning someone like Soriano in money to play for the Cubs. Signing 28-year-old Prince Fielder or the greatest hitter ever to huge contracts isn't. Bottom line, listing the Cubs with the Dodgers and Mets as if they're in comparable financial situations is asinine. The Cubs have to produce a better team and have the means to do so. The Dodgers and Mets don't have any money.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Given who we're talking about I'd assume he didn't mean that at all.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    The Chicaco Cubs are not in any kind of financial mess. Yeah, what the [expletive] is he talking about? The sale? A few bad contracts? How is he possibly lumping the Cubs in with the Mets and Dodgers?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    The only thing? A concussion and/or a broken face would have been better.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Glorious.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    ? .200 .241 .453 .694 .204 That hasn't updated what happened last night yet. That fills me with even less confidence when a 1-3 with a walk-night can swing his OPS by 21 points. It's a 1 month split for a guy who doesn't play everyday. The numbers can sway wildly. I understand that. I just don't see what I'm supposed to be impressed by since that specific sway does little except highlight how abysmally bad he's been.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    ? .200 .241 .453 .694 .204 That hasn't updated what happened last night yet. That fills me with even less confidence when a 1-3 with a walk-night can swing his OPS by 21 points.
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    ? .200 .241 .453 .694 .204
  13. Sammy Sofa
    There's no reason for him to say otherwise. Well, it's not unheard of for NL power hitters to insist that they want to still play defense when they're coming up on FA. Fielder has been noticeably blase when pressed about the issue.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Fielder has claimed he wouldn't have an issue with being signed to DH.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Bum call. Colvin almost certainly would have scored on that.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    So which argument do the meatballs glom onto, that Prince is too fat to sign or that Pujols is too old? I say both, and then they still throw a tantrum when the Cubs don't sign either. Meatballin' it up goooooood!
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Every time Ramirez really runs it looks like an injury waiting to happen. I just don't think the guy was blessed with a runner's body. Yeah, maybe Careless is seeing something that we're missing, but to me Ramirez just looks like he usually does when he's running hard. He's just a goofy runner and has always had that weird arms flailing/looking like he's trying not to trip up deal going on.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    It's not necessarily an issue of Wilken being "forced" on anyone. It wouldn't be surprising if whoever takes over simply decides to keep him on for the time being, but it also wouldn't be surprising if he wasn't back.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Fantastic outing for Wells. Fun game!
  20. Sammy Sofa
    THE RICKETTS ARE POURING ALL OF THE OLD STYLE DOWN THE EXPENSIVE NEW TOILETS SOMETHING SOMETHING PLAY THE GAME THE RIGHT WAY !!!!!!!
  21. Sammy Sofa
    http://img126.exs.cx/img126/5083/snowflake.gif
  22. Sammy Sofa
    That would really set the Cubs back if they're already going to be without Zambrano in 2011. I'm not necessarily big on extending him, but him sticking around another year due to his player's option is likely a good thing.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Fangraphs has him worth just over $12 million this year while being paid $13.5 million, and the Cubs are already well in the black in regards to getting production vs. cost from his deal.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Here's the thing about Miles, though...if he had been the Miles of '04-'08, tons of Cubs fans would have loved him, or at least tolerated him. You're right, people are going to hate a crappy player. regardless of skin color...but mediocrity goes a long way to inexplicably justifying a white player in too many fans' eyes. Mediocrity plus affordability. Most of the biggest hatred goes to mediocre or worse players that account for a significant portion of the payroll. True, though personally I think even then many mediocre white players often get more leeway before they're looked at as "too expensive" or as a waste of money as opposed to many non-white players. Say you have two players with rather generic personalities making $5 million; I'd think that if they put up similar mediocre numbers the white player would likely be cut more slack with certain fans and members of the media than the non-white player. Note that this isn't any kind of statement of fact; it's simply a belief of mine.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Here's the thing about Miles, though...if he had been the Miles of '04-'08, tons of Cubs fans would have loved him, or at least tolerated him. You're right, people are going to hate a crappy player. regardless of skin color...but mediocrity goes a long way to inexplicably justifying a white player in too many fans' eyes.
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