Sammy Sofa
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Everything posted by Sammy Sofa
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Every game matters, dammit. I don't care how bad a season is; I like watching them win. -
I couldn't help but smile watching the reactions in the Cubs' dugout after Wood's DP.
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Hurrah!
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More like that Berkman AB, Marmol.
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Adams' numbers are still phenomenal away from Petco, and he's been doing it for four years now. Don't get me wrong, I love what Marshall has become, but man, I hope he has a run like Adams'.
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Even though he reportedly wavered on that at the end, he's not having the year that Beltran was having with the Mets nor does he have the reputation that Beltran has. Beltran gets knocked for his injuries, but beyond that is perceived as a good defender. Aramis is not.
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The Cubs need Byrd next year and can trade him then if they have another bad season. The Cubs have no relievers as lights out as Adams has been this year (and his entire career in SD). Seriously, look him up. His numbers are obscene. Implying or suggesting that the Cubs had someone comparable to trade is as ridiculous as the guy who was griping about how the Cubs should have taken a cue from the Uehara trade; Uehara and Adams are much, much, much better than Marshall and much better than Marmol this year (and before, too). Marshall is a soft-tossing LH and Marmol is having a crappy year and has an awful contract. Your expectations are unrealistic and your comparisons are inaccurate.
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Hendry's terrible at being diplomatic. Basically he's saying is that the Cubs were offered [expletive].
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Because the Cubs are in a crappy situation where they don't really have anyone young, affordable AND good enough to net them the kind of return you want (and you want to give up in the first place).
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I get that, but last year we didn't get a Lars Andersen back for Ted Lilly. Lilly is a lot better than what's left of Rich Harden. There's less distance between Lars Andersen and Blake DeWitt than you realize.
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What the what? What supporters? Perhaps perennial Cub spin doctors would be a better term. Examples. Look around. I don't even know what I'm looking for. Please clarify.
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yeah we can but how does that make us a .500 baseball team? I'm not so sure. Castro getting even better, Soto hopefully bouncing back to 2008/2010 Soto instead of just decent but mostly only tolerable Soto, Aramis not getting off to such a slow start power-wise (if he is indeed back), adding someone like Fielder or Pujols, signing a new starting pitcher and then not having two of them go down after their first starts of the year and then being replaced by a parade of hideous garbage. Sure, things have to go their way, but it's far from impossible. And even if they don't quite get over the hill next year it can still mean that 2013 can be the push that puts them over the top with more good FA available and more money coming off the books. Giving up on 2012 effectively means giving up for the foreseeable future whereas it's not like 2012 is a make or break season if they attempt to be competitive. If they make the right moves and end up back at .500 or above, great. If they make the right moves and up, say, winning 15-20 games more instead, great. Then they're still in a position to win even more the next year (and the seasons after that).
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What the what? What supporters? Perhaps perennial Cub spin doctors would be a better term. Examples. Pretty much all of the ideal replacements are working for other teams at the moment, so unless you mean "during the last offseason" when you say "sooner" that really doesn't mean much of anything.
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I'm pretty confident we can "gamble" on the 5th starter position somehow being covered between Wells, Cashner and McNutt.
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You're really worried about the 5th starter.
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I seriously doubt that. Again, we're talking about Reed Johnson. He's making less than a million bucks this year.
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Because the Cubs aren't going to trade away a starting pitcher right now.
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That's certainly possible. But somebody should have been. Why? He's a platoon player with chronic back problems who isn't very good defensively anymore. Didn't say teams should be falling over themselves to acquire him. But he's a nice complementary piece. Hits lefties well and is fine defensively in the corners as well as able to handle CF (though to what degree is debatable). There are guys like that all over baseball. I mean, I get your point, but the likely reality is that nobody wanted him vs. the Cubs not trying to trade him. Someone like Baker I get because he's back next year. Johnson doesn't fit into the Cubs' plans at all, so I'm sure they would have been happy to give him up if anyone was offering anything.
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I like how he thinks something like Wilson/Garza/Dempster/Z/whatever is apparently barely removed from crap.
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Why do you think Garza is a #3 pitcher (at best)? Add to that why he thinks Dempster is a #3 at best.
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Clearly, otherwise I wouldn't keep asking.
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Untwist your panties; it has nothing to do with "accepting" anything. I don't give a flying [expletive] if someone dislikes it...I was, as I plainly said, honestly curious as to what people found distracting about it since, for me, it causes me to look where I'm looking anyway (and it's what I'm looking for).
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That's certainly possible. But somebody should have been. Why? He's a platoon player with chronic back problems who isn't very good defensively anymore.
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You're overrating what Marshall would bring back and underselling how much Marmol's awful contract is going to negate any value for him unless the Cubs pick up too much of it. And you've just decimated your bullpen. I could see moving one of them if miraculously a good deal came along, but both? Bad idea, especially Marshall.
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I'm honestly curious, since you keep saying it's distracting, but it's making you look where, presumably, you'd be looking anyway.
