Jump to content
North Side Baseball

Sammy Sofa

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    98,025

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    206

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by Sammy Sofa

  1. Sammy Sofa
    Eh, they'll probably pull their usual gimmick this season of inexplicably doing well against the better teams they face.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    OK, finally, we're back to original consensus; erik looks for reasons to foster his "only the Cubs" mentality. Case closed.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I'm just trying to understand what that time frame has to do with anything. And stop harping on the word "facts." Listing occurrences doesn't make ones conclusion automatically a fact.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Hey, if "better than Harry" is one of the criteria then it's usually a roaring success.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Good Lord, those peaks and valleys must be murder. But seriously, why can't we look at any teams and weeks before 1957? That's completely arbitrary. The years of the records the Cubs broke aren't some kind of magical cutoff points where we can no longer penetrate the mists of time.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch he took of the head while playing for the Indians. Doc Powers died from injuries and complications he received from crashing into a wall while chasing a pop-up during a game and playing for the A's. Oh, right, we can't go back to before 1957 for some random reason.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Somewhere, Marlon Byrd just died a little on the inside. Real fans know that black players can't hustle, d'uh.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Ah, but is the death of player worse than losing to someone hitting for the cycle? Or a record breaking number of hits with RISP? Or a record breaking number of hits by an arbitrary stretch of three players in the lineup? I think not.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Only if he really screwed over the Cards owner, like sleeping with his wife, before becoming a Cub fan. Daughter-in-law. But really, all we're doing is showing how there's really no standards involved here.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    http://www.signagelive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/two_world_collide.jpg
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, why do we have to stop at 1957 just because you stopped there?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    He's losing it.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Man, people here are not grasping the concept of "facts" today. erik, you didn't prove or use "facts" to show that only the Cubs could have had a week of baseball this bad. To do so would require you point out some kind of previous "winner" of worst week ever and then showing how the Cubs' week was worst. You did nothing of the sort. You rattled off a bunch of reasons why the Cubs sucked this past week and then subjectively declared that they amounted to the suckiest week that the sucky Cubs ever sucked. There is nothing anyone can do to "prove you wrong" because you never proved your own point in the first place. There is exactly something someone can do: Prove a worse week by another team. Again, I'lll even let a few things slide here and there, and they can be approximations. Nothing has to be exact. This is why I said way back when that it wasn't worth getting into it because not your or my opinion on the matter would be changed, and neither opinion has. .... So you want people to prove you wrong...except it's just opinions in the first place and those will never change...but how can...if we...and then... http://www.djmoya.com/wp-content/uploads/head_explode-779507.jpg
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Ok. See, unlike you, I can use actual facts when debating. Here is why you are wrong: Lou Piniella's approximate Cubs managerial record: 311-276 (.529 win pct), with 2 playoff appearances A worse manager? Of the long list of managers I could name, let's go with Jim Riggleman: 374-419 (.472 win pct) with 1 playoff appearance. Ok. Your turn. How many teams managed by Jim Riggleman had a week as bad as Lou's team?? I will need to see a side by side chart comparison of futility records broken before I can proceed.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Ok. See, unlike you, I can use actual facts when debating. Here is why you are wrong: Lou Piniella's approximate Cubs managerial record: 311-276 (.529 win pct), with 2 playoff appearances A worse manager? Of the long list of managers I could name, let's go with Jim Riggleman: 374-419 (.472 win pct) with 1 playoff appearance. Ok. Your turn. Alright, now this is all making more sense.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    What if it's a Cubs fan who was White Sox fan and a Cardinals fan first?
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Man, people here are not grasping the concept of "facts" today. erik, you didn't prove or use "facts" to show that only the Cubs could have had a week of baseball this bad. To do so would require you point out some kind of previous "winner" of worst week ever and then showing how the Cubs' week was worst. You did nothing of the sort. You rattled off a bunch of reasons why the Cubs sucked this past week and then subjectively declared that they amounted to the suckiest week that the sucky Cubs ever sucked. There is nothing for anyone to "prove wrong" because you never proved your own point in the first place.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    We're a bunch of scienticans.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, because this discussion clearly has been steeped in facts. Good eye.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Dammit, now I have to prove you wrong. When will the cycle end?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Lou Piniella is the worst manager that the Cubs have ever had. PROVE ME WRONG, IF YOU DARE.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Fine. Maybe not "only the Cubs", but very few teams in recent memory have sucked this badly in a weeks worth of games than the Cubs have this past week. Better? And you know this to be sure? You've yet to point out how you can say this unequivocally. You've yet to point out how I can't, so I guess we've reached an impasse, haven't we? Well, no, since you fail to grasp that the burden of proof is on you. You made a statement and then showed nothing to show that it was true. Rattling off a list of why the Cubs sucked does nothing to prove that it was a week that "only the Cubs" could have.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    So, again, you're saying that if the Cubs had come just shy of not breaking those oh-so-scary "futility records," it wouldn't be a case of "oh, jeepers, only those silly Cubs!"? And I still don't know why you're acting breaking those "records" means anything worse than just being bad. OK, so teams haven't broken THOSE records in a long time. What about all the other long standing "futility records" that are broken or matches numerous times every season...are those worse or better than what the Cubs just did?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Fine. Maybe not "only the Cubs", but very few teams in recent memory have sucked this badly in a weeks worth of games than the Cubs have this past week. Better? And you know this to be sure? You've yet to point out how you can say this unequivocally.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    So what's the privilege?
×
×
  • Create New...