Sammy Sofa
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I somewhat agree with JR here. Could the Cubs really not tell from his press conferences earlier this year that he'd lost it. He just didn't care that much - he'd given up. The fire was gone. He's been like a dead man walking for months. If his mother wasn't dying, he might sit through the last several weeks, but it is sorry that the Cubs didn't see that Lou had cashed in earlier or weren't strong enough to fire him/force him to retire then. I mean, his mother in 90-something. Does it really surprise anyone that she's dying? I can understand wanting to spend her last few days with her, but you don't retire 6-weeks early b/c your very old mother is going to die in the next few days. Wait, what? How does anyone know when she's going to die? Isn't that kind of the point of this; that he wants to spend what time he last left with his family?
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When a competitive zealot like Piniella decides to step away from the team on multiple occasions, yeah, I think you can easily deduce that his heart is at home and that's where he needs to be. So they fire him under the context of missing games due to family issues in a year that's clearly a bust to begin with? Why? How is that less "embarrassing" than how things have played out? And honestly, I am baffled whenever people bring up how Lou seemed "different" this season. To me this is how he's seemed the entire time he's been with the Cubs, the only difference is that in 2007 they turned it around and in 2008 the team was actually good. What "fire" was there the first three years that wasn't there this year?
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To see that his mother was going to be dying? That's...interesting.
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I think the main thing that's just absurd about potentially making him the manager next year is his complete lack of MLB coaching/managing experience. That would be true for anyone poised to make this leap.
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Unfrotunately the Casey Coleman era continues. -
Ideally I want to say no, but that seems like such a Hendry thing to do.
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Colvin to start taking grounders at 1B
Sammy Sofa replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Yeah, there are tons of guys who have beautiful swings when they smack a home run and then look like complete morons the bulk of the time they're at the plate. I appreciate lumafia's well thought out analysis, but having a good swing doesn't seal the deal. -
It's really all irrelevant nonsense that we're focusing on/happening because the team sucks so bad. Blowing this up (an old man retiring early on a really, really bad team to be with his dying mother) to be some kind of embarssing "black eye" for the organization is so ridiculously, shirt-tearingly, streaked-emo-guyliner-wearing melodramatic.
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I don't think this comes close to equalling the blundering this organization has accomplished. No kidding. I can't believe that J.R. is rating it as highly as the Ricketts' trip to Africa, which seemingly rocked his faith in humanity.
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Yeah, [expletive] your mom, Lou.
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Awwww, this is a cute thing you're doing.
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You may be thinking of 1973, when Aaron, Davey Johnson, and Darrell Evans all had 40 or more HRs (in fact, Aaron's 40 was only 3rd on the team. It was definitely a career year for Johnson (his next highest season total was 18), but Evans had many other high totals (including another 40-HR year) and had 414 for his career, so nothing that year was out of the ordinary for him. Except that he hit 40 home runs at age 39 and in only 120 games. I know it's not technically the most home runs he hit in a season, but it's pretty ridiculous.
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He also had a career power surge very late in his career the same year that a couple of nobodies on his team had huge power jumps and then fell off the map, plus it has been implied by teammates that there was PED use on the team. http://grg51.typepad.com/steroid_nation/2007/02/hammerin_hank_a.html It wouldn't surprise me at all if Aaron juiced. This stuff ("modern" steroids) probably goes back to the 60's.
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Sammy Sosa has some things to say about the Cubs
Sammy Sofa replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I remember Dawson. I'd rather have Sammy right now. -
Personally, I like giving shots to guys who don't come with a ton of baggage in terms of being a "name" manager and all the ego and history that comes with it but do have at least some managing/coaching experience on the MLB level.
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Unless they're getting a hell of a return there's little point in the Cubs trading Aramis. It's not like you're freeing up his money for a strong FA class or have any options to fill in at 3B. The Cubs already have to figure out what to do at 1B, so it's much smarter just to hold on to Aramis for at least another season and hope he has a bounce back season/
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Man, hell of a "[expletive] you" send off from his team today.
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Well the Cubs are 27th in WPA for relievers, so I don't think it's low leverage situations making it appear the bullpen is awful. I didn't say they were. In fact, one would assume it would largely be the opposite in the first half. My point is that as this team has been constructed the offense has gone much further to "killing" the team. If the bullpen had actually been decent, the team still would have been horrible. If the offense had been decent, things would have been much different. Look how many infuriating one-run losses they've had.
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New Manager
Sammy Sofa replied to Backtobanks's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
FREDI-FREDI-FREDI! -
But aren't those numbers skewed by games where the bullpen gives up multiple runs? It strikes me that the offense still has more impact if it's lackluster. Look how many close games the Cubs have blown because the offense simply couldn't catch up to a 1 or 2-run deficit over multiple innings. Sure, you have a crappy bullpen that's going to go in there and give up a run or two on average, but what if that just makes the game 2-0 or 3-2 or or 4-3 or 4-2 or 2-1 and so on? Don't get me wrong, the bullpen sucks and if more of the Cubs' key players had just been performing to their career averages it's be the glaring problem, but to say that the bullpen "killed" the season implies that it was an anchor that took down a team that even had a remote shot of being competitive. Let me put it this way; the bullpen has been worse in "its" individual role, but the offense being bad has had much more of an impact of "killing" the season.
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The bullpen didn't kill the team. The bullpen certainly hasn't helped most of the season, but the offense shoulders most of the blame. Sure, it's all well and good that they've put together a decent OPS post-ASB, but the first half offense was appalling.
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Colvin to start taking grounders at 1B
Sammy Sofa replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Opinions on Colvin are all over the board. His offensive skills are quite likely being underrated by the crowd that has already written him off as nothing but a funamentally flawed career 4th OF. What skills has he demonstrated at the plate besides some power? -
Why would it even be anywhere on the list?
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No, don't give up.
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Colvin to start taking grounders at 1B
Sammy Sofa replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Does anyone have a breakdown as to a prediction as to the difference in 1B defense in regards to Dunn vs. Lee? I honestly think at this point there's not a significant enough difference to make someone decide to opt not to sign Dunn. Again, 1B is traditionally where you dump guys who can't play defense. It's arguably the least important defensive position on the field, and a ton of the Cubs' errors seem to have not come from throws but from miscues and mistakes on the part of 3B, SS and 2B in regards to fielding and not their throws to 1st. If you were really focused on "catching the ball better" (which is a Hendry-ism) if there ever was one then the issue isn't at 1B. It just seems incredibly backwards to focus on defense given everything else that desperately needs work when it comes to this team.
