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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Who said to only look for prospects? This isn't a matter of just dumping guys coming up on big paydays.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Why? Why hold on to Soto? Yes, he's cheap, but time is not on his side in terms of when it's likely that the Cubs can have him on a good team again. Why hold on to Byrd? He's older and only signed through 2012. Wells and Gorzelanny are useful but one of the few things the Cubs can produce are pitchers (and have a bunch of them in the pipeline in the near and relatively near future) so why not trade a couple of useful starters to help bolster the offensive side of things? Colvin is Colvin. These guys would be much more useful on the Cubs if the Cubs actually had a chance at a good team on the horizon in the next 2-3 years, but they don't. If they want a youth movement, then [expletive] go for a REAL youth movement and then look to sign smart FA signings down the line.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Making guys available and listening to offers is a whole different thing than having an explicit intention to "deal Wells, Marmol, Byrd, Colvin and maybe even Soto." What? I want them to make them available and listen to offers with the explicit intention to deal them. There's zero reason to hold on to them. The Cubs are in a transition period that they need to embrace. Holding on to mostly decent but not game changing players doesn't accomplish anything outside of padding losing season records.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Many of the players mentioned could be major contributors on the next contending Cubs team. That's one reason why. Another reason is because the firesale strategy usually fails. Bad teams that sell their good players for prospects tend to stay bad. The Cubs don't have many good players that will still be good when the Cubs are competitive again. Relievers are flighty enough, and someone like Marmol is a massive injury waiting to happen, so why hold on to him for 2-3 years of mediocre Cubs teams when teams who are in the hunt will be willing to pay big for a guy as effective as him even if it is just for immediate impact? Like it was pointed out, catchers don't have a terribly long shelf life, and Soto has already had injury and weight issues that are just going to pile up as he gets older. He's already near 30, so again, why keep him on for 2-3 years of mediocre Cubs baseball when someone with his skills will command a very good return for 3-4 years of being a very good offensive catcher he probably has in him? Why cling to someone like Byrd? Or Wells? Or Gorzelanny? Or Colvin?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    They already have a crap on-field product. Again, not talking about backing the truck up all at once. It's a matter of making guys available and listening to offers. They don't have to dump everyone now.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    So you want them to cling to players in the short term who could bring them value in the long run via the trade because...why?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    It's not being broke so much as it is recouping some of the cost of paying a [expletive]-ton of money to buy this team.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Because they have such little money at their disposal.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Man, it's sad that such a well respected franchise is being so embarrassed.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    They don't have to spend a cent to have a really good shot at upgrading the bullpen.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    What the [expletive] was that "we've got the Funk" commercial?!?!?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah at one point I thought he was. After the concussion and during the Seattle and Washington games his rating was like 62 and he had 4 picks and 1 TD. He still wasn't the weak link. The weak link implies they'd have been better off without him playing.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Something tells me that if the Red Sox or Yankees have a shot at landing Pujols they're really not going to lose sleep over the debate as to who ultimately has to DH.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Not signing Lance Berkman is a PR blunder? What kind of [expletive] nonsense is that?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Any money spent on relief pitching right now is waste.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, but you still insist he was the weak link at some point, as in the reason the team is losing and they'd likely be winning if he wasn't in there.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    You also said he was the weak link and still stubbornly stick by that. That's why everyone likes poking you with sticks.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Sure, they WANT to "go for it"...but I'm thinking it's pretty likely they'll be out of it by the time the deadline will be rolling around, even with how bad this division is.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I am convinced that Fielder will be DHing for the Yankees before the deadline.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Does anyone really think the Cubs had any kind of shot of landing Fielder? The Gonzalez move pretty much sealed it for me that Prince was going to be traded and signed to an extension by whoever he was traded to, and there was almost no chance that the Brewers would have traded him to the Cubs unless the Cubs did something monumentally stupid and vastly overpaid for him to the point the Brewers couldn't say no.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I have a major issue with that. First, there's no reason why it should drop that far. Second, that will result in a very painful couple of seasons and no ability to go out of the system to get impact players for at least a few years. Could not agree more. If the Cubs HAD to keep their budget at that range, OK, fine, it's more than workable, but ultimately they don't. In the end this is a team that makes ungodly amounts of money, especially when they have even the slightest bit of sustained success.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Eh, really, how many more tickets would they sell because of that than if they went with a full rebuild ASAP? The general perception already is that the team is crappy.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    The really annoying thing is it did not have to get to this point.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not expecting them to move those players now; I want them to look to do so before the deadline.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Damn. Well said, Lupica.
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