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  1. 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.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    But you keep only mentioning bunts when it comes to "sound baseball." Why are bunts so important to you?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    If only they had had Brenly to put them over the top.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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."
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    You're kidding, right? It was an open secret how badly Brenly wanted the job (and any other managing job).
  10. 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.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    And there was evidence of this from when he was previously a manager? No, of course not. Brenly was a very typical, unremarkable manager, and he almost certainly would be with the Cubs, too.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    That's all meaningless. Quade had the same kind of reputation/rhetoric going in to the job, too. Unless it's younger players, managers and coaches simply are not going to be able to instill any kind of significant difference when it comes to how a veteran plays defense or runs the bases.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Imagine if the Cubs had an impressive rebound season after a horrible won and were competitive. Oh right, it did, JUST FOUR [expletive] YEARS AGO WHEN THEY WON THE [expletive] DIVISION AFTER GOING 66-96 THE YEAR BEFORE.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Unless you're tiny/fat and white, then you're a good character guy who knows what's really important. Really can't see Kaplan having the same issues if Konerko did the same. Or someone like Thome.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    And how likely do you think that is? That he's been coasting on luck for several seasons? Roughly equally likely to having almost all of our rotation doomed by bad luck simultaneously. Those don't seem very comparable. I mean, they're both arguably examples of "luck," but one is a series of occurrences in a single season involving multiple people suffering what isn't all that an unusual thing (injuries to pitchers) in the grand scheme of things. The other is a guy in one of the most easily exposed positions in the game somehow coasting pretty significantly on luck for multiple seasons. I can buy a pitcher getting lucky for 1-2 seasons, but a "few" (which is presumably 3+)?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    It was very disconcerting because I kept thinking I had left The Show on.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Drop Victor Martinez Add Berkman
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Drop Dunn Add Bautista
  19. Sammy Sofa
    And how likely do you think that is? That he's been coasting on luck for several seasons?
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I'd like a real No. 1 pitcher, to not have 40% of the projected rotation rocking horrible ERAs this season, and to not have the No. 2 starter showing signs of wearing down over the last few years. We are seeing that rotation without Wilson suck out loud right now, so I don't think it's that hard to imagine a scenario in which that rotation is the weak link that prevents a pretty good offense from contending next season. Like I said, they might as well go for it because they've got the money to spend. That doesn't mean I have a lot of faith in it working. Sure, you could have 2/5's of the rotation go down again, but on paper that's a damn good 1-5. Your breakdown of the rotation this year is pretty faulty since it seems to hinge on ERA.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I like a lot of this, but trading Dempster and Byrd just isn't a good idea unless a team is offering amazing deals for them. I'm not saying they're untouchable, but the Cubs don't have to and shouldn't frag their team for 2012, and moving those guys just creates big holes that likely can't be filled adequately that quickly.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    What indications were these? None.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Imaginary pitching FA made up out of thin air. Scathing baseball analysis from Kyle: "Baseball players might be bad...might not. Film at 11."
  24. Sammy Sofa
    But Darwin is Asian.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Then they should just give up.
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