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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Unless you're the Angels, in which case you win a WS in the same time. Think about this reeeeeeeeeealllllll hard for 2 seconds.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    sulley, I will punch you.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    It's not.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    The debate over replay is good for baseball, from Selig's perspective. Actually slowing down the game with it is not. It's not going to happen until he's out of there in a few years.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    The Cubs need to stop welcoming their new players with a big basket of clutch cancer.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    So he was great in 2005 because it didn't matter? He had an OPS over 1.200 through April. He had an OPS over 1.000 every month through August. Apparently it didn't matter from day one, because he was [expletive] killing it the entire time.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    You're kidding, right?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    That was completely expected.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    It's the same with Santo and Cubs fans. Both are biased to a flaw, and have next to no broadcasting skill. If you're a fan of their team, you probably love them. If you're anyone else, you almost certainly can't stand them. The difference is that Hawk is the PBP guy and gets to torture a national TV audience with his unprofessional shtick for some unfathomable reason. But at least Santo has Pat with him who is great. Also, Hawk is so boring to listen to, at least Ron is Entertaining. I'd disagree and say that both Hawk and Santo are awful but entertaining in their awfulness. The key is, as you pointed out, is that Ron has Pat to even things out and Pat actually handles the PBP. It would be one thing if Hawk was there to be the TV version of Santo, but he's supposed to be the TV version of Hughes, which is absurd. Couple that with the smarmy cloud of douche that is Steve Stone and it's torture to listen to.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    They weren't on WGN for a long-time, they were on closed-circuit, then Chicago only cable, which is why the Cubs are popular and the White Sox are not And by the time CWS went to WGN the national aspect of WGN was smaller. I know people in PA, NY and NJ that had WGN growing up, but it's not out here anymore and hasn't been since I came here in the late 90s. WGN is still available on most of the East Coast, but it's WGN America.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    No, not all of them, since there's WGN and then there's WGN America. Besides, the point was looking for the reasons why the Cubs have such a large, historic fanbase. The Cubs have a long history of national or multi-regional coverage because of WGN radio and TV dating back decades and across generations. The White Sox do not, so unless you expect them to somehow magically catch up with the relative smattering of games they have on WGN America and the mighty Midwest broadcasting power that is the Score, you brought up a very moot point.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Nothing against Ramirez specifically, but after this season and last, I'm ready for a radically different Cubs team. I like Ramirez, Z, Lee, etc. but it's time for a new direction. Out with the old, in with the new -- manager, GM, and core group of players. You don't do it to the point that you're going out of your way to hurt the team. It would be one thing if the Cubs already had candidates who could passably play 3B for a full season (unless DeWitt makes a jump power-wise, no, he doens't count) or had ANY prospects near being ready who could take over at 3B or if there were decent candidates out there as FA who the Cubs could get to replace Aramis...but there isn't. They'd be dumping him simply to dump and more than likely having to pay a big chunk of his remaining years to do so.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Not really. It's not your fault you never look beyond the USA in the medals table, or that the calculations to convert relative to population size can be too complicated. We are actually quite tolerant about intellectual laziness. 8-) http://ic2.pbase.com/o4/52/150052/1/60237644.staxsmall.jpg And something posted on the first page keeps trying to install malware on my computer. Be careful.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Only the Cobs.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Scoring hasn't been the problem for most of the 2nd half.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    On the upside, Cashner sucking in the bullpen will hopefully keep the Cubs from penciling him in there next season.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Castro [expletive] rules. I love watching this kid play so much.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Productivity! RF OF THE FUTURE.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Just for fun: .288 .339 .571 .909
  20. Sammy Sofa
    If anyone wants to pitch around him they might as well make sure someone is on base when he comes up: .210 .289 .412 .701 RISP: .178 .295 .411 .706 And the only reason his numbers with runners on are this "high" is because of his hitting with guys on 1st and 2nd: .250 .500 .750 1.250 Every other scenario with runners on he has a sub-.700 OPS.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Wells certainly has his share of games where falls apart by just giving up a ton of singles.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Case in point today. Wells is just too ridiculously hittable when he's off to amount to much or to sustain success that was initially seen from him in his first year.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, same here. He seems like he can be a serviceable back of the rotation guy and not much more.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Nah, I disagree with that. The Cubs have the fanbase they do due to the size of the city they play in, their longevity and, most of all, WGN TV and radio. Anyone who defines themselves as a Cubs fan by the team's futility is just the worst. It's not the futility, it's the desire to end the futility. If you were right, I would have been a fan of the Braves instead of the Cubs, because the Braves are on TV almost every day in the south, and have been for decades. Where are all the White Sox fans? Based on your criteria, wouldn't they have the 3rd or 4th largest fan base? I think they fall in the 20ish range? White Sox don't have national coverage and the Braves had national coverage for like a blip compared to what the Cubs have had between WGN TV and radio. Atlanta is also a much smaller market and city than Chicago and they've only had the Braves for 44 years.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    People would flip out and go nuts, but it wouldn't come close to the same level. You still had the Red Sox at 88 years and the White Sox at 80-whatever. You had several franchises who had never won in their existence. The Cubs with 1907, 1908 and 1969 just wouldn't create the same reaction to disappointing losses. Philly was at 28 years of drought when they won, in a city with a hell of a lot less success in other sports, and they weren't nearly as nutty about things as Cubs fans are. The 100 year thing makes all the difference in the world. 33 and 97 are completely different. The Cubs would be nowhere near the top of every list about futility, they wouldn't even be in the discussion. Hell, Cleveland doesn't even come close to replicating the reaction to 2003, and they were much more than 33 years. If the perception is that a fan caused a team with a fanbase and a market like the Cubs to fail to snap a decades-long WS drought then the reaction would be bonkers at least similar to what we saw in 2003.
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