Sammy Sofa
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I don't believe that's close to true. I bet you could get Dunn for 3/45 or 4/50. Yeah, Dunn's not going to get a giant contract. Howard's contract is absurd, but he has name recognition and a (vastly overrated) reputation that Dunn doesn't.
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Piniella: I'm retiring at the end of the season
Sammy Sofa replied to Ballgame64's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm sorry, but where are these scores of billionaires running around who have previous experience running a major sports franchise? Guys like Reinsdorff and Cuban are the exceptions. An owner's job is to put the right sports personnel in place because they lack the knowledge to do so themselves. Crane Kenney and Jim Hendry have proved they are not those people yet they still retain full confidence of the owners. I agree that Hendry should be gone sooner than later, but I'm still trying to figure out what the point was in bringing up that the Ricketts don't have previous experience owning a sports franchise. Most owners don't before they buy their team. I'm also not sure why being a fan would automatically mean that there would be bad decisions like retaining Hendry and co.. What fan out there is also a big fan of Hendry? -
Piniella: I'm retiring at the end of the season
Sammy Sofa replied to Ballgame64's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm sorry, but where are these scores of billionaires running around who have previous experience running a major sports franchise? Guys like Reinsdorff and Cuban are the exceptions. -
I have no idea why it requires fielding the [expletive] MLB team possible to do the bold parts. Without answering for Outshined, my guess would be we'd have to trade away some of our better minor leaguers to compete next year. Because the free agency class is weak and we conceivably won't have alot of money to work with either. OK, but why does the team have to be blown up to do the bold parts? It's not like they have a slew of prospects beating down the door who need MLB time. I'm obviously not saying they need to cling to all of their veterans, but why "blow the team up" when the FA class is so bad? It's not like they'd be able to net much in return. Trade the players there's actually a demand for, but don't trade them just to trade them.
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I have no idea why it requires fielding the shittiest MLB team possible to do the bold parts.
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What would worry the most about Aramis opting out is if Hendry really is still in charge into next season.
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Vitters is not looming; he's still several years away. It wouldn't be a bad thing at all if he opted out, but I'm starting to not mind if he didn't. There simply isn't much of a FA market between now and next season.
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A replacement 1B for one. But who is out there? They have money freed up with Lee and Lilly gone and there's still no word that the Ricketts won't shell out extra if need be. It's not like there are any monster FA's out there that they need to have a ton of money for. I'm not saying I want them to extend Aramis beyond his crazy deal, but I wouldn't mind it at all if he goes [expletive] crazy good with the bat the rest of the year and he doesn't opt out.
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Now I already kinda don't want Aramis to opt out. I mean, seriously, who do they need to free the money up for?
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Rozner: Get Lou to retire now and let Brenly take over
Sammy Sofa replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Most of the crap Soriano's gotten has been either forward-looking (he'll be paid $18 mil at 38 type stuff) or critical of his awful year last year. None of the Dempster bashing has been warranted at all. He's been really good since taking over as a starter for the Cubs. I feel like Dempster bashing has plummeted since he became a starter again. Yeah, it's really not around, though there's like 2-3 infrequent posters here who appear out of nowhere to rail on him for it, and it never fails to be hilarious. -
Racist.
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Isn't a loss a result? Seems like splitting hairs. Siding with NG is never a good plan, really... It's always a good idea. Look, it's splitting hairs, but there's an obvious difference. If one were talking about the typical outcome it would be saying something like "another typical Cubs game." By saying "typical Cubs loss" it's clearly implying that the way they loss is typical. Again, just nitpicking, but if the former was what was meant then it was a poor choice of words.
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Quiet, you.
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"Typical?" Most of the losses this season have been the result of the offense not being able to muster anything, not the pitching imploding (and especially not the starting pitching).
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Jeff Stevens was seducing Andy's girlfriend in the bleachers with his eyes. Andy's grudge will never die.
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...which is because of the offense or the defense or the bullpen or the starting pitching.
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It's baseball. These things just happen when you have a team that has been struggling to play consistently good baseball. Like I said, when the Cubs have lost to bad teams this year it's typically been due to the inconsistent offense. Tonight happened to be because of the pitching. It happens. There is no mysterious metaphysical reason.
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Come on. They didn't lose tonight because of ridiculous intangibles; they lost because of poor pitching. Most of the other games lost to bad teams has been due to a lack of offense.
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Ugh, this is [expletive] infuriating. I'm doing something else.
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This game blows.
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Hey, great job, Colvin! You're swell!
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I refuse to believe anyone here bringing that up was actually serious. He's way too expensive and his track record is way too horrible regardless of what he had done in the first half.
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There's nothing to explain, Len; Silva is just a shitty pitcher.
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INNING OF CHAMPIONS.
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Wow, he has absolutely nothing tonight. Faaaaaaaantastic.
