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  1. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive] 'em. The Cubs can roll with anyone when it comes to offering Pujols the money he wants. Plus it's Pujols. I doubt the Angels would be like "naw, we're cool, we don't want that guy." Morales would have had to have a hell of a bounceback year for that.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    And Dutchie and her flapjacks.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    So now we DON'T want him up instead of Russell? This is so confusing. I always lose track of what we're supposed to be miserable over each week.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive] lame inning. Thanks a lot, Starlin.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    WTF, Castro. Kinda [expletive] the Shark gets an earned run when he's had the third out hit to Castro twice now.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    For the Cardinals? That was another one that bounced off the track over the basket.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Dallas will win and it will be fun watching Stern have to give Cuban the trophy. Yeah, no.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnntastic. I hate to say it, but I'll be very, very surprised if the Heat aren't NBA champions after this year.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Aren't the Cardinals in pretty dire shape right now when it comes to their farm system?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Did they change the headline? This is what it is now:
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Berkman's probably [expletive] himself.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Weather looks and sounds really ominous at the moment here in Lincoln Park but hopefully they should be able to get the game in tonight. Precipitation chances are pretty high around start time but then drop down around 8:30 or so until around midnight.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    ALL THE DODGERS NEEDED WERE MORE BLAKE DEWITTS, DAMMIT!!! http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2008/07/mike-scioscia-exhales-carbon-dioxide.html
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Wasn't that the FJM article where they blasted Plaschke for saying how great the scoutiest scouts were for finding Ethier as a diamond in the rough, when he was the A's organizational player of the year? Yes, it was glorious. Some fat dude was sleeping in the corner or something and his ears perked up when he heard the name because he remember one swing where he looked like the perfect player or something. Just beautiful. One of FJM's very best: http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2006/08/best-ever.html
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Personally I think 90 is a pretty low threshold for being a so called "very good team". And I wasn't the won who pretended they did it a lot in the 2000's. If you aren't winning 90, you are pretty much in a large group of average teams. The Cubs had 1 very good team in the 2000's. They snuck into the playoffs 2 others times thanks to no competition, but they were not very good. Didn't say they were, but you're setting your criteria up as being rather strangely arbitrary when you set a number of wins that the team missed by 2 or less games three times. Given the abundance of arguments and evidence that can be used to point out how they weren't a good team it just struck me as an odd thing to settle on.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Nobody wants them to suck, however, if July rolls around and were like 7 games out and in 4th place, Id just as soon they know when to hold em, and know when to fold em, and by this, I mean rather than trying some desperate attempt to claw their way into contention by trading for some middling lefty for the bench that they trade any expiring contracts, like Fukuome, Pena, Grabow, and Aramis if they dont intend on picking up his option and get what they can. Still wouldn't prevent them from drafting all-stars if they didn't have a fire sale.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I'm actually on gooney's side not being wowed by the Cubs at all in the last decade, but I love the arbitrary "if they didn't win 90 games they [expletive] sucked" argument. Because 90 is the almighty line to cross. Not 89 wins, which they did once, and not 88 wins, which they did twice, but 90. Anything, ANYTHING less is out the window. Personally, I'd point to the fact they only made the playoffs/won the division three times in the decade as a more glaring accurate example of how poorly the team was run despite its resources than just randomly deciding that if the team didn't win 90 games then the season wasn't a good one.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, it's so sad that the Cubs haven't been perpetual cellar-dwellers a la the Royals or the Pirates to stockpile a bunch of high draft picks. That would have so much better, watching them struggle to not lose 100 games each season. FFS, this isn't basketball or football. I can't believe there are regular posters here who seem to honestly think that not having a lot of top 10 picks IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is a serious detriment to not being able to develop all-star players.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    He's an interesting choice. Obviously, you've got the whole Beane connection, and his short career with the Dodgers is difficult to evaluate since he was fired by someone like McCourt and replaced by Ned [expletive] Colletti. And ironically a name I threw out in my post. Not that I can say DePodesta would be good. I just don't think he was given a fair shot. And I'm not sure the Cubs should be the team to give him that shot. Why not? N&G, not a rip on you, just asking for some clarification: You say you want a GM with experience, and you don't want the Cubs to hire a guy who has never held the job before. However DePodesta only had the job for like 6 months. Is that really a long enough time for you to feel confident in his abilities? No, I said this: And personally I think the Cubs are more likely to find a good GM through the latter than the former since the former are usually locked up with another team already. I don't have a problem with the Cubs hiring someone who hasn't been a GM before so long as they've got decent MLB experience in a good front office.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    All true. He might be awesome at it. Not sure if you saw an edit from an above post, but wikipedia states that DePo is now VP of player development and scouting with the Mets now. Yeah, I saw. I figured he was still working in baseball somewhere. If he wasn't that would be a pretty big warning flag.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    He doesn't have much of a GM history. I'd be willing to give him a shot just because of his past with Beane. I mean, how many good AND experienced GM's are out there to be hired? Odds are the Cubs are going to have to take a chance on someone relatively new or inexperienced in the GM role if they want to have a real shot at avoiding the usual retreads.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    He's an interesting choice. Obviously, you've got the whole Beane connection, and his short career with the Dodgers is difficult to evaluate since he was fired by someone like McCourt and replaced by Ned [expletive] Colletti. And ironically a name I threw out in my post. Not that I can say DePodesta would be good. I just don't think he was given a fair shot. And I'm not sure the Cubs should be the team to give him that shot. Why not? I don't know all the details as to why he was let go so quickly. Maybe someone with a much smarter baseball mind in the Dodgers organization could see immediately that he was not the man for the job. Why has no one else given him a job? These are questions I don't know the answers to. True, but again, look at who McCourt is and look at who they hired to replace DePodesta. That seems to argue pretty strongly in favor of them not knowing WTF they're doing. Plus meatball sports journalists/analysts haaaaaaaaated him, so that has to count for something.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    He's an interesting choice. Obviously, you've got the whole Beane connection, and his short career with the Dodgers is difficult to evaluate since he was fired by someone like McCourt and replaced by Ned [expletive] Colletti. And ironically a name I threw out in my post. Not that I can say DePodesta would be good. I just don't think he was given a fair shot. And I'm not sure the Cubs should be the team to give him that shot. Why not?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    http://www.microwaverecipescookbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Banana-Chips.jpg Why can't he appreciate the game with gritty stoicism like certain other players?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    He's an interesting choice. Obviously, you've got the whole Beane connection, and his short career with the Dodgers is difficult to evaluate since he was fired by someone like McCourt and replaced by Ned [expletive] Colletti.
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