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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Andy wants to be able to afford tickets instead of signing good players.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    I don't give a damn about the ticket prices. Put a good team on the field and people will pay to watch them live.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I can say with 1000% confidence that I have heard fans of nearly every team in baseball (Yankees included) complain that their team, without fail, makes pitchers making their MLB debut look like instant aces.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Good. Scare the Ricketts into making some critical moves before next season.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    You're right; I'm surprised it wasn't lower.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    And now you're saying that these people have soured on him? Who exactly are you talking about?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    It would be really stupid of them to fire him. As if being stupid would be breaking new ground. At this point I have no idea how things in the FO and field management are going to play out between now and the the end of next year. And regardless of whether you think it would be a good idea, it's hard to argue that Quade hasn't been a severe disappointment. I'm not trying to argue otherwise. One of the reasons I wanted Quade was that he could easily fall on the sword thanks to his short deal over a time of (hopefully) serious transition in his two seasons. Mainly I wanted him so that Sandberg would [expletive] off, but right now I have zero problem keeping him through this mess of a season. If they want to fire him after this season is done and then hire someone new during the (again, hopefully) good offseason then great.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I guess so, due to my unreasonable expectation that the Chicago Cubs not be the laughingstock of MLB. So you've been like this towards the Cubs your entire life? Seems very stressful.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    You are a tough guy to please.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Why Hendry instead of Wilken?
  11. Sammy Sofa
    It would be really stupid of them to fire him.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    He hasn't done anything to have a lock on the job either. He's been a very pleasant surprise in a dismal season. He wasn't even mentioned as a possibility as a starter in spring training, but he completely eliminated DeWitt and DeWitt/Baker platoon as topics of discussion. There might be better options for the long-range future of the Cubs, but as of right this minute Barney is very close to being the least of the Cubs' problems. Not sure how that is an argument at all against saying he shouldn't be a lock at 2B.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    1993 - Rick Wilkins Personally, I don't care which side of the plate a guy is hitting 30 HRs from, I just care that he does it. Man, talk about a flash in the pan. I remember going nuts over him because of that year.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Well said on all points.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    The feast of irony here is just staggering.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    scramble! scramble for a witty retort to your poor player predictions. lol w/e "Scramble?" This is his line over the last 2 weeks: .224 .245 .245 .490 It's great if Barney can get back to producing, but let's not start acting like he's some kind of lock. The guy has almost no power and a VERY empty OBP that requires him to keep that BA high.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    So since Darwin Barney had a good April he's now an established MLB success story?
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Because of all the talk about how he only wanted to come back here after Santo's funeral and blah-blah-blah. Like it or not he's not getting traded and he's not signing anywhere else.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Sure we do. We have plenty of guys having solid seasons. They just suck as a team. Aramis would generate interest. His track record speaks along.The power may not be there, but hes still hitting. Fukudome is still a good lefty bat and a great glove. Someone would take Pena as well, be it as a starter of a bench bat. Reed Johnson is having a good enough season that he could bring in a fringer or 2. Dont forget Kerry Wood. A lot of teams need help at the back of the pen. Holy God, how many times are you going to inexplicably bring up the idea of trading Wood? He obviously was signed here on the cheap to finish his career as a Cub. There's practically zero chance the front office moves him no matter how good an idea it is.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Didn't Wells only have one start? And Cashner didn't even finish his first one?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not going to sit here and compare Rose to other elite NBA superstars. He's a point guard and there really hasn't been a PG quite like him in recent history. So far he's proven that he has a below average jump shot and a very poor three shot and he wilted in this series. So yes I am a tad bit concerned and I'm especially interested to see if he can improve. He "wilted?" He was stopped by a very good defense because he's the only play-maker on the team. Yes, he did go against great defense in some cases but he also missed many open shots and turned the ball over inexplicably in many other instances. All in all he didn't resemble the MVP he was in the regular season. "In some cases?" They played the same team for the entire series. And how does one turn the ball over "inexplicably?" Was he just handing it to them?
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I have no idea why I read "Magic" as "Shaq." But yeah, Magic is the pretty obvious outlier.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not going to sit here and compare Rose to other elite NBA superstars. He's a point guard and there really hasn't been a PG quite like him in recent history. So far he's proven that he has a below average jump shot and a very poor three shot and he wilted in this series. So yes I am a tad bit concerned and I'm especially interested to see if he can improve. He "wilted?" He was stopped by a very good defense because he's the only play-maker on the team.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Magic and Kobe. Well Kobe had a bunch of air balls against the Jazz one year but he was like 18 or 19 at the time. Basically Rose sucks because he didn't have a prime Kareem or Shaq on his team. Shaq and Kobe never had bad playoff games before the finally won their first championships?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Ah okay then. That completely negates all of that statistical evidence and makes the comparisons horrid. What statistical evidence? The statistical evidence that compares Rose to 4 really good players including two of the best of all time to two guys who were really talented but didn't have their heads on quite right? I mean I guess it's not a horrid comparison but I'm not sure I see the point. illiniguy named two guys which were called horrid comparisons. Those 2 guys are #1 and #4 on his similarity score list. Therefore they're not horrid. I like Rose and he's obviously more mature, humble and level-headed than those two but he still has some of the same concerns on the court. They're "horrid comparisons" because the same site is basically saying "he might be Marbury...he might be Kobe." There's a gigantic gulf between those players.
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