Sammy Sofa
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Maybe Lou simply isn't a good manager.
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Agreed on the final point, but you can easily make a player like Reynolds much less valuable or invaluable if you try to make him into an Aramis-like player.
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The bunt isn't the main point. The main points are his naive and unrealistic rhetoric regarding playing the game "the right way" and with "the right type of players" and his complete and total lack of coaching experience at the MLB level.
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If you are that player, why not make sure that you work on other parts of your game though. That's what Pujols, Sandberg and Dawson all did. Instead, these other guys, while valuable in some ways, don't improve themselves in the other parts of baseball. It's not that simple. Some guys simply have inherent weaknesses in their game that they fortunately can overcome or compensate for with strengths in other areas. It's simply not realistic to think that every player can or even should be an "all-around player."
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He's still an extreme outlier. It's simply not realistic to expect most players to be anywhere near the type of player that Pujols is, so why not point to the legion of other players that perform multiple roles well, or at least serviceably? Pujols is basically a freak, so comparing other players to him is pretty pointless, plus players like Howard and Dunn have shown time and time again how extremely valuable they can be, so why dismiss them as if they're something young players should actively avoid becoming if their strengths ultimately show them to be that type of player? Some players simply have obvious strengths and glaring weaknesses instead of being "balanced" players, and Sandberg's rhetoric often times sounds like he wants to essentially "force it" if a player isn't one of those all-around workhorses.
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Jeez, most hitters won't be the hitter that Pujols is? That's a pretty brave statement.
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See what a bad Cubs team does? It drives some people crazy.
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Wait, what? How were they supposed to know he "didn't care" even before the season started?
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This is a bizarre tangent. Yes, I'm sure Lou Piniella was ware of the fact that his very old mother would someday die. Now it's come to the point that his mother likely is dying and he'd rather spend his time with her as opposed to sitting through the last 6 weeks of his contract managing a truly wretched baseball team. I'm not sure why anyone would fault him for that.
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What did it sound like when Lou "gave a crap" in the press conferences? Because he's been the same cranky bastard that everyone is too chicken [expletive] to question that he was the first three years.
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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.
