Sammy Sofa
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I know everything, but I'm not miserable. I'm not one of the dinks that parades around here bemoaning their fandom and other people who get even a modicum of joy out of a season where the Cubs suck. "WHAT?!?! Somebody is DARING to be happy when the Cubs suck?!?! I WON'T STAND FOR THIS." Like I said, please just shut up. People singing and dancing to a dumb song when the Cubs win isn't a bad thing. And it's an even stupider stupid complaint when some of the people bitching about that talk about the stretch like it's some sacred tradition. Which is it? So people singing a dumb song in the 7th is OK, but after the end of the game it's embarrassing? Make up your [expletive] minds, you miserable idiots.
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Please just shut up. Nothing worse than miserable Cubs fans who get all preachy and awful when they see other people not as miserable as them.
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It wasn't a Cubs tradition. They co-opted it. There's nothing "sacred" about it, and the guests aren't desecrating it any worse than the big fat sloppy drunk did. Can't help but be amused at people criticizing fans dancing to "Go Cubs Go" as being dumb fans who are entertained by anything and then they turn around and talked about the stretch like it's this incredibly rich tradition that needs to be protected or stopped out of respect for Harry.
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It pisses off meatball jerkoffs who think singing and dancing after a win is lame, too, so it's worth it just for that.
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Scenario 2.
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Yeah, I'm confused. I thought the $60 million figure was adjusted for all of next year's projected changes.
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Explain how Wilson/Aramis/Prince will cost more than $60 million. Something like Wilson getting $15 million a year, Aramis being brought back for the team option and Prince inexplicably getting $30 million a year?
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I'm assuming Aramis is given a new deal if he's keep on and they aren't using the team option. If that's the case, yes, they could afford all 3 with $60+ million dollars to spend. I really don't see Aramis and Wilson combined making more than $20-$25 million a year.
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Id be more comfortable with Dempster as a 3rd starter. The problem is, who is out there good enough to be better than Demp? Wilson maybe, but the likelihood is that Dempster will be our second best starting pitcher going into next season. And if his horrid start were really a fluke, that'd be fine. CJ Wilson seems to be the best guy available, unless of course anyone out there thinks we have a shot at CC. Problem is, if we do go after CJ and Fielder, it could become a very expensive endeavor, and they may need to consider moving Z or Soriano for partial salary relief. All depends on what the Ricketts are willing to spend. If the money coming off the books can be re-spent if necessary then they could easily afford both without dumping anyone.
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Kyle pulling the davearm2. He must be bored.
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Sure it is. Pitchers are usually good for stretches between their really bad starts. The fact that he had a cluster of those bad starts in the beginning doesn't absolve him of them. FFS, nobody is "absolving" him. It's been brought up specifically in response to people talking about him like he's been garbage over the course of the season, and that simply isn't the case. It's an issue of accurately analyzing a player's performance instead of just declaring "Dempster has sucked this year!"
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Nobody said it didn't. People bring up the poor start because of how dramatically better he was after that first month. It's not the kind of thing you just shrug your shoulders over.
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When a veteran-loaded team is at 21 games under .500 in the middle of July, he could call out a player a day. That's a stupid way to run a baseball team. Calling players out like Quade did almost never accomplishes anything, veteran or otherwise. Just cut to the chase next time and say "I'm a meatball and I want meatball things."
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Mickey Rivers, your table is waiting. Please explain how you possibly thought this made any sense. Are you really saying Soriano could play defense like Mickey Rivers if he just ran faster? Are you saying you never saw Mickey Rivers walk up to the plate, contrast that with the way he ran the bases and ran in the OF? Very telling. This still makes no sense. Mickey Rivers was a very,very good defensive OF (in terms of being an inverse Soriano; great speed out there and good routes and judgement, but had a wimpy arm). Soriano is not. Soriano running faster and leaping and diving trying to make catches in the OF isn't going to turn him into Mickey Rivers.
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Mickey Rivers, your table is waiting. Please explain how you possibly thought this made any sense. Are you really saying Soriano could play defense like Mickey Rivers if he just ran faster?
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Who isn't "paying attention?" Why should he have called out anyone?
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It is just you. A guy with shaky OF ability who is trying to not get hurt is just going to be even shakier if everything is being unnecessarily sped up. Look at it like this: let's say you have trouble not tripping over your own feet when just walking at a normal pace. Do you think you're likely going to be LESS clumsy if you're running instead of walking?
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I guess I have higher expecations for Aramis. An average OPS of .740 for the first two months actually isn't too bad considering how most third basemans have performed this season. Maybe horrendous wasn't the right word, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't concerned about his slow starts in back to back seasons. Well, they were very different starts. Last year he was just plain awful into June. This year he was still productive and basically putting up decent numbers except for the power.
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The Chicago Cubs Need Less Jim Hendry (And more Ari Kaplan?)
Sammy Sofa replied to idakepps's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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That's great that his defense is more than fine. The point is, it could be much better than fine simply with more effort. Imagine a guy is hitting .300 without watching a second of video, but could boost that up to .330 if he spent 30 minutes a day studying pitchers. Are you going to be satisfied with the .300, since that's more than fine too? That's a faulty point and comparison. The "more effort part" you want in the field is likely going to impact his defense negatively since he has limited ability as an OF. Having a 35-year-old non-OF who is wary about injuring his legs again bust his ass and try to make trickier catchers on the fly or diving and leaping for balls isn't going to end well. I don't know why you think it's as a simple as "he just needs to try harder," because it's not. The "more effort" you want is going to reduce his defensive ability because it's going to increase and further expose the flaws in his defensive game.
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A page ago we agreed that we're in the same ballpark on the probabilities. Not sure why you're going bananas about them now. Because they're totally [expletive] probabilities we were making up. The closest thing I came to "agreeing" with you was how close we actually were in our totally made up projections when guessing how many times in a week MLB players who try to make a diving leaping catch are successful.
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Yes, because storms in the Midwest tend to last 3 hours.
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$5 says he brings up sliding again in response to this.
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Stop using these made up probabilities; they just make you look ridiculous. You just posted without thinking twice that you think someone is likely to end up with a double on a ball that an OF played as a hit off of a hop that they had a 50% chance of catching. Read that again and think about what an insane scenario you've created, since apparently the OF has an arm even weaker than Juan Pierre. And your whole comparison is totally arbitrary and makes zero sense because it has no basis in anything except what you've made up to back up your point.
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It doesn't happen nearly enough to justify the added injury risk. Like you said yourself, most people know not to test his arm.
