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  1. 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.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    So since Darwin Barney had a good April he's now an established MLB success story?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Didn't Wells only have one start? And Cashner didn't even finish his first one?
  6. 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?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I have no idea why I read "Magic" as "Shaq." But yeah, Magic is the pretty obvious outlier.
  8. 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.
  9. 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?
  10. 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.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Pour me a chalice full of Haterade, slave. But seriously, point me a single superstar NBA player that didn't have moments/games/series like this. It's an inherent part of becoming a better player.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    EROTIC.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Cashner still has a ways to go.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    The Bulls can't afford to get that much uglier.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Nah, his psyche is probably damaged. Let's check with cubbyvirus.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Come on now. I'm not trying to hate. He had an amazing season. And great point guards that are so atheletic can peak very early. Ask Steve Francis and Stephon Marbury. He had an amazing season despite displaying key flaws indicative of a very young player. And those aren't very accurate comparisons.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Come on now.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. Listen to the post-game radio tonight and you'll hear tons of callers talking like he's peaked and how he's a "choker" and blah-blah-blah. This is what players and teams have to go through until they finally punch through. It sucks, but that's the NBA. The future still looks VERY bright for the Bulls. This awesome season was just the start. I want to get upset at him but when I take a step back and realize that very few players have had seasons like his at his age. If he improves like most players improve, Rose is going to be an amazing, amazing player in this league and you will think that will translate to the playoffs more consistently sooner than later. Definitely. He frustrated me plenty in the playoffs, and especially this last series, but then when you remember how young he is and how long he's going to be with this team and how much better he can potentially get it helps.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    All so very true. Yeah, this series has been brutal and tonight was just another stab in the heart, but they're in a great position to just get even better. Can't wait for next season.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Dude, stop. It's embarrassing. Every team has had [expletive] like that happen before. Calm down. I love that he acts as if the Blackhawks don't exist. yeah, it's ok cuz they won once in 60 years Just because you're a bandwagon fan doesn't mean the 90's weren't [expletive] awesome for us Bulls fans. Wicked sick burn.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. Listen to the post-game radio tonight and you'll hear tons of callers talking like he's peaked and how he's a "choker" and blah-blah-blah. This is what players and teams have to go through until they finally punch through. It sucks, but that's the NBA. The future still looks VERY bright for the Bulls. This awesome season was just the start.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Incredible comeback for the Heat. Gotta give credit to the better team. Pretty impressive. Here's to next year.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Ideally, yes. However, you can succeed even if you're not in an ideal situation. The position the Cubs are in has them with a couple guys with fringy superstar potential (McNutt, Brett Jackson), a huge boom/bust guy (Vitters), and a ton of players who project to anywhere from decent ML starters to very good starters. Ideally you have more superstar caliber guys in your system, but the Cubs don't. There's nothing you can really do about that in the short term, however, so the key is working with that the best you can. If you can fill 20-23 spots on your roster cheaply with those guys, then you combine the third highest payroll in the majors and you have more money than most teams to go get a couple of guys like Pujols, Fielder, Hernandez, Votto, Kemp, Reyes, etc. Is it the best position to be in? No, but it's a very winnable situation given the upcoming options in free agency, the money the Cubs have to spend and Hendry's ability (if he's still the GM after this year) to go out and get good values in trades. Couldn't agree more.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    A WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNN. Today is the start of an 8-game win streak. I DECLARE IT SO.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Well, durrr.
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