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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Damn, that's nuts.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    PNC is easily my favorite MLB park INCLUDING Wrigley. It pains me to go to Wrigley and see how dumpy it is knowing that parks like PNC exist.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Oh man, I forgot to bring this up. I love that his argument for Brenly is using an article where Bob basically slams Buck [expletive] Showalter.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Dusty is a bad manager because he beats up his pitching staff and doesn't know how to use a pen. Mike Quade is exactly the same. So, yes, they are two peas in a pod. Quade and Dusty are light years apart when it comes to abusing their starters. Quade's issue is from time to time leaving a guy in too long when he's too hittable, not grinding the starter into the ground. And Quade's mistakes with the bullpen are pretty typical. In no way does he handle it exceptionally poorly or unusually so. Comparing Dusty to Quade is absurd.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I'm just impressed you're in second with Dunn as your #1.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    http://bobbrenlyreallywisheshewasmanaginginsteadofannouncing.org Weird that you demand that I back up my reading between the lines when all you've done is decided out of thin air that Bob Brenly decided to not manage the Cubs because he decided he's too good for them.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    So his blatant mis-managing of the pitching staff and pen is fine with you? Really? REALLY? REALLY?!?!?! No, those are the main things of the "things I don't like" about him that I mentioned in the very post you quoted. He's left his starters in an inning too long too many times this season, and his use of Mateo was a dick move, but in the grand scheme of things, no, I don't find him to be an exceptionally bad manager. The Cubs haven't lost most of their games due to his handling of the pitchers. They've lost most of their games by not being very good. Well, if that's the case, you would be fine if Dusty were back? He and Quade are two peas in a pod. They're really not. And I've made it clear twice now how I think Dusty is an exceptionally bad manager compared to how most managers are just "typically" bad. Pretty much any manager is a dinosaur-brained oaf who does more harm than good if left to their own devices and given a bad team. The key is to construct a good team that can win despite the manager. Thinking that a manager can make a team win is completely ass-backwards and futile.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Waiting for the right opportunity? I can't believe two people in this thread have said that Brenly chose to stay in the booth instead of taking a managing job. All of the reports in the offseason indicated that he was, yet again, trying his damndest to get hired as a manager, including with the Cubs, and came back emptyhanded. Maybe Brenly doesn't want to take ANY managerial job. It could be that once he gets into the negotiations, he sees how the franchise is run by the owners and says no thanks. There's plenty of reasons... He's got a good job in broadcasting and isn't desperate. If the right job opens up and he's interested then, he'll interview. Bunting is a fundamental of the game and EVERYONE needs to know how to do it. Like how to throw to the right base, etc.. Even slow-footed ARAM needs to know how to bunt. Ugh. You're an awful troll that's wrong about everything. Yeah, Brenly had zero clue how the Cubs were run despite being their color man for several years until he was pushing to manage them and only then did he willfully step aside because he was appalled by what he saw. Brilliant conclusion. Brenly would manage the Astros in a heartbeat if they asked him to. He's not turning down any managing offers.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    So his blatant mis-managing of the pitching staff and pen is fine with you? Really? REALLY? REALLY?!?!?! No, those are the main things of the "things I don't like" about him that I mentioned in the very post you quoted. He's left his starters in an inning too long too many times this season, and his use of Mateo was a dick move, but in the grand scheme of things, no, I don't find him to be an exceptionally bad manager. The Cubs haven't lost most of their games due to his handling of the pitchers. They've lost most of their games by not being very good.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I said I really didn't care if he was the manager. He loves all the stupid "small ball" garbage that ultimately means squat, but in the end he was a pretty run of the mill manager. Give him a good team and I'd likely have little issue with him, though I'd say the same thing about Quade, too.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    You realize Quade had the same reputation, right? Pretty much every manager does not named Dusty Baker. And I hope you'll agree that Quade has proven to be pretty bad at mananging a baseball team. He's done some things I don't like, but I'd have zero problem with him managing a better baseball team. No manager was going to make this team better.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Waiting for the right opportunity? I can't believe two people in this thread have said that Brenly chose to stay in the booth instead of taking a managing job. All of the reports in the offseason indicated that he was, yet again, trying his damndest to get hired as a manager, including with the Cubs, and came back emptyhanded. Umm, Brenly took himself out of consideration for the Cubs job in Sept 2010. Seems like old Bob has plenty of respect around the league though. Yes, when it was made abundantly clear to him he wasn't getting the job. The same answer he's gotten everywhere else in the majors when he's looked into managing since 2004. The idea that he's this highly sought-after manager who is willfully being a color man instead of in a dugout is laughable.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    You realize Quade had the same reputation, right? Pretty much every manager does not named Dusty Baker.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Waiting for the right opportunity? I can't believe two people in this thread have said that Brenly chose to stay in the booth instead of taking a managing job. All of the reports in the offseason indicated that he was, yet again, trying his damndest to get hired as a manager, including with the Cubs, and came back emptyhanded.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    For years and years, the Cubs have been an all or nothing team. If they can't hit the long ball, they lose. Plain and simple. How about execution? How about hustle? How about getting them on, getting them over and getting them in? I have seen this team blow more scoring chances that ultimately costs them games because they absolutely REFUSE to do the little things. You don't want Brenly? Fine. I have no problem with him. You haven't even said why you do not like him. They REFUSE to do "the little things?" That's absurd. And to go from "they only hit home runs" to "WE NEED MORE BUNTS" is even more absurd. Talk about going from one flawed extreme to another. What's much more glaring is the lack of patience and lack of hitting ability, not [expletive] bunting. And like I said, I don't care if Brenly is the manager if the team is good. I just think the idea that he'd improve the team is dumb.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Most managers are bad, so I really don't care. Some are REALLY bad, like Dusty, but they key is having a good GM/FO to construct a good team that can succeed regardless of who the manager is. Give me a manager that can make a non-insane lineup and knows how to use the bullpen and that's it.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    But you keep only mentioning bunts when it comes to "sound baseball." Why are bunts so important to you?
  18. Sammy Sofa
    If only they had had Brenly to put them over the top.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    So 71 free outs? Good for him 71 free outs and a world series title. I will take it. Are you also taking Schilling, Johnson and a 'roided-up Gonzalez? Because he'd need those guys to replicate his fluke ring.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    CUBS ARE NOW IN FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Answer the question. Are you saying hustling does not help win games? I mean, you did say that, right? Damn, you're pretty demanding for a guy that thinks a ton of bunts are important.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    It was all the hustling and respect that he inspired that made Rivera blow that save. Or maybe he was scared of the bunts they might drop down. All I know is that Bob Brenly angrily glared across the diamond at a young Alfonso Soriano after he hit a home run off of Curt Schilling that seemingly gave the Yankees the series and declared "[expletive] YOU, SLACKER."
  22. Sammy Sofa
    You're kidding, right? It was an open secret how badly Brenly wanted the job (and any other managing job). Figured out this quote thing. No, he's not kidding. Brenly has a ring. Don't push it, fish.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    He wouldn't do that. And it would be stupid if he did. I have no idea why you want a guy with recent leg injuries pointlessly "hustling" just so you can feel better that he tried way too hard.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    You're kidding, right? It was an open secret how badly Brenly wanted the job (and any other managing job).
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Why would you only "research" the 2001 season? He managed them for four seasons through the 2004 season. As Jersey said, Brenly had the success he did largely based on having Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson leading his rotation. There's nothing from his tenure with them that indicates he was an exceptional or remarkable manager. I have no idea why you're placing a focus on bunting, though I have a pretty good idea how he'd be as a manager for the Cubs based on his relatively recent history from the Diamondbacks. I think it's very telling he hasn't managed since then despite obviously wanting to do so. And I place zero weight in the things he says in the booth. He says that because he's a color guy. He's not going to be benching and chewing out Soriano left and right if he's the manager, because that's stupid and will accomplish nothing with a player who would be 36 if Brenly took over next season.
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