Sammy Sofa
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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.
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Fantastic outing for Wells. Fun game! -
Reed Johnson: Is he for real?
Sammy Sofa replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Because the only thing better than Z for one year at 18 million is Burnett for two years at 18 million. Which is why I said Burnett+cash. Don't the Cubs owe Pena differed money for next year? If the Yankees paid that it would be like getting Burnett for about 12 mil next year which might not be too bad if he returned to career norms. Pena's money is to be paid to him by the end of this year; half of it is deferred after this season, but it's still owed to him by January 2012.
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Didn't it just get a huge cash infusion from venture capitalists? It may suck but it is relevant. Relevant to whom? I'm not questioning the truth of your comment, just curious. If it weren't for people posting about how horrible it is on nsbb, I wouldn't even know it existed. To me, as far as I can gather, it's just another random site someone put up to post their ramblings. There are thousands of them. And among those thousands, it might be the biggest "random site" out there. I don't know who its audience is, but deadspin and KSK refer to it regularly. It's why da Bum still has hope.
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I can safely say that PBR is the only beer to make me [expletive] in the woods.
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Apparently he didn't learn his lesson. Geo had to call timeout before a pitch during Wednesday's game in the 3rd inning, as Castro was out of position(by about 40 feet) over talking to ARAM. He ran back to a normal position. Not surprised the enablers were quiet about it. Even ARAM was mute. When our new GM, new mgr. and new coaching staff takes over, I'm sure this will change. And Geo had to call time for Barney when he was out in center field in the same game. What's the problem here, are we indignant that we're burdening Geo with surveying the infield? Barney was being inscrutable, so it was cool.
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Yeah, some people were griping about his "attitude" and "selfishness" pretty much every season he was on the Cubs and they sucked (AKA pretty much every season). "Sammy only coming through for Sammy after it was too late" was pretty common meme, especially after the home run race. Not saying it was the dominant mentality, but it wasn't hard to find/hear, either. My recollection was that Sammy was kind of all flash and no substance prior to learning how to take a walk and really blowing up in 98. But going back to his pre 98 numbers, he was regularly putting up 4+ WAR seasons. As a sidenote, I always remember a friend's dad (Mets fan in NJ) saying he was rooting for McGwire in the homerun race and all his reasoning pretty much worked as code about how it was because McGwire was white. My grandfather was a lifelong Cubs fan, yet claimed he was rooting for McGwire because he thought Sammy was "a jerk." If I pressed him to explain why Sammy was a jerk he'd just say something like, "well, you know." No, gramps, I DON'T know.
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/736950-hanley-ramirez-and-the-14-laziest-players-in-baseball Mmmmmmmmm, meatball-y. Though very sporting of them to toss Drew and Dunn in there.
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And really, a good chunk of sports fan are pretty damn racist. Let's not beat around the bush. The "lazy player" tag is pretty glaring in who it's applied to the overwhelming majority of the time.
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Yeah, some people were griping about his "attitude" and "selfishness" pretty much every season he was on the Cubs and they sucked (AKA pretty much every season). "Sammy only coming through for Sammy after it was too late" was pretty common meme, especially after the home run race. Not saying it was the dominant mentality, but it wasn't hard to find/hear, either.
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Natty Ice is the only beer I've ever had that made me feel hungover before I went to bed.
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Busch Light, Old Style, PBR and Keystone are all battling it out for dominance in the shallow gene pool market. You can go straight to hell for lumping PBR in there He forgot about the Beast, but he was right to lump PBR in there. The best shitty beer is still shitty beer. He also forgot Schlitz and High Life. And, of course, Natty Ice.
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I hope they beat it out of him.
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It's Muskat. MUSKAT.
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Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
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Hmmm, definitely wouldn't mind them picking up Floyd for the right price.
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This is a really weird hope. You're assuming that this season, where he lost a ton of time with a serious injury, is, what, the "real Byrd?" That he's started a sharp decline and there's no chance he has similar numbers to what he's put up over the last 4 season? Why are you so convinced he's effectively useless as a fulltime player? Are you basing this almost totally on his 2011 numbers when it comes to hitting with RISP? You seem to be taking an all or nothing approach with Byrd. He's not a guy you want hitting 1-5. He's useful hitting 6-8.
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Is Byrd completely useless? No but if you are not denying his lack of production, why should he play everyday? Dropping him to 6th doesn't change much in my opinion. He is what he is, a free swinger who rarely has a good at bat with runners on base. I just don't understand the need to play him every day. When you're slamming his RISP numbers you are just talking about this year, right? You keep sounding like you're generalizing, like he's always had these troubles. And you don't see how dropping him in the order could lead him still being useful but ideally minimizing his troubles with RISP? Drop him to 7th or 8th. And why not play him every day? He's likely going to be on the team next year, and the guys to play instead of him are Colvin, Campana and Johnson. Why would you want to start any of them in CF regularly over Byrd?
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Kaplan riding Byrd for his RISP numbers. Good company to keep.
