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  1. Sammy Sofa
    That's about all it deserves. It belongs in those all-purpose "trivia" sections in bookstores and libraries instead of current affairs or sociology or economics.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    What's the over/under on how many years it is until Dempster ends up in Brenly's role?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, I have the same problems with the sequel since both follow the same format/patterns. They're both filled with lazy, factoid-style, shallow analysis. Like it was said, entertaining, but treated far too sacrosanct by many who read them.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Something tells me there's not many of those fans.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I really like the Phillies and I love seeing Halladay start his far too long delayed postseason career like this....but I just HATE Philly fans.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    It is entertaining, but too many of the major conclusions and incredibly skewed and one-sided and are presented as the result of comprehensive analysis. He's a "rogue economist" in that he's ignoring a ton of other data and analysis to reach his conclusions. This is an op-ed piece but it serves as a good intro as to a lot of the running problems with how the book was compiled and presented: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/10/the_shoddy_statistics_of_super.html I take issue with Malcolm Gladwell often, too, but this is a well done breakdown: http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/03/thoughts_on_fre.html
  7. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive], that book is an abomination.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    If Plesac brings the Big Blue Train(wreck) with him, then I'm on board.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, Christ. They hire Grace to announce, Girardi to manage and Sandberg to be the bench coach and call it an offseason.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    yes that was definitely put to rest after the first preseason game (where wade didn't even play) Do you think they will have problems playing together? if the perennially injured dwyane wade is gonna hurt himself and miss a bunch of games, i dont think they will play together And then it's hello Cleveland with nicer weather and Bosh.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    They don't need a new president to fire him. They could fire him now.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    That sounds hellish.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Joe Morgan is a baseball monster that just happened to play for the Reds.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Wilken like many in the organization is fiercely loyal to Hendry and people are certain that he'd quit as soon as Hendry was fired. Huh, I had no idea. So it's assumed that firing Hendry would essentially result in an effective cleaning house of the front office regardless if anyone else is fired?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    What, they can't fire Hendry without losing Wilken? Again, I'm really asking.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Definitely. I'm probably just making excuses to try and figure why people who claim to be baseball fans and who own the team would keep Hendry on. It's baffling, so I keep telling myself there has to be a "good" reason, because some of the other conclusions are just too depressing.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Grosssssss. And his hairless appearance is distracting. He looks like a Dick Tracy villain.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not sure, but if you were gonna be this cash strapped that you can't do anything for a long while, why did you even buy the team? Better yet, why did MLB approve you to buy the team? I would assume they have enough money to be able to clean house and start over. Maybe they need a year or two to rebound financially before they start making sweeping "philisophical" and personnel changes; I don't know. Myabe they're thinking that until they have more leeway to make changes they don't want to saddle a new front office with a team where not much can be changed. I'm not saying that's the right move, but I could see why someone might come to that conclusion.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    If I'm "criticizing" anything, it's the idea that the Ricketts are likely to hire someone significantly better than Hendry. I don't think that's a "meaningless point" (what a bizarre and ironic thing for you to keep saying) when you look at the end result of most GMs' work each year. In no way am I "criticizing the need to get rid of Hendry;" they should get rid of Hendry. I am critical of the Cubs'/Ricketts' ability to hire someone significantly better. It's not an argument in support of Hendry; it's a statement of how I'm worried/depressed that the end result won't be much different. Like I said, I wish and hope that I'm completely wrong.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    What are the financial implications of effectively cleaning house in the front office? Seriously, I have no idea, so I'm asking.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I thought it all happened at the same time. The season was basically background distraction at that point.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    And there it is. It baffles me the number of people who think I'm saying that means they should stick with Hendry. I'd love to see Hendry fired; I wish he had been fired a long time ago. I'm just not confident that his replacement will be significantly, if at all, better. I would obviously love step A, but I'm expecting step B to suck. Get it? No I don't. You're just making a pointless statement. Yes, as opposed to all of the meaningful pontifications this place is just bursting at the seams with. I don't want Hendry as the GM, but looking around the sport year after year it doesn't fill me with confidence that his replacement would be able to regularly accomplish much outside of putting an average team at best on the field. That's perfectly reasonable. That doesn't mean it's actually what will happen, and I hope I'm completely wrong in that prediction, but in the meantime that's my opinion.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I'd like to think that idealized image of all that is true, but it seems like too many of the players/coaches/analysts/managers/owners/etc. who claim to be "stat guys" really aren't.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    And there it is. It baffles me the number of people who think I'm saying that means they should stick with Hendry. I'd love to see Hendry fired; I wish he had been fired a long time ago. I'm just not confident that his replacement will be significantly, if at all, better. I would obviously love step A, but I'm expecting step B to suck. Get it?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    at least they have came out and said what they had wasn't working based on what they are spending. Why can't we do the same? We have done the same. Then we just move on to another [expletive] theme/philosophy. The Mets will likely do the same regardless of who their GM is, as will the Cubs. Trading managers/GM is usually just trading one crappy, outdated baseball mentality for another, not dissimilar to Hendry going from "we need guys who can catch the ball" on year to "we need to be more left-handed." But, that's the problem. Hire a guy who values the ability to get on base. Not someone like Hendry, who has proven time and time again, that he just doesn't get what's wrong with the teams that he has constructed. I know I'm a broken record on this (and it always inevitably leads to the "YOU'RE SAYING THEY SHOULDN'T FIRE HENDRY!" one-sided argument), but guys like that tend to not get hired as GM's. Most GM's are not as good at their job as they need to be, especially if they have a lot of money to spend. The odds are, unfortunately, the Cubs will hire someone to replace Hendry who isn't necessarily better, but just bad in different ways.
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