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  1. Sammy Sofa
    You're kidding with that today, right? Meh, can't be much worse than Theriot at this point. Theriot is posting a whopping 595 OPS vs leftys this year. Pick your poison, basically. I don't mind Theriot still starting against LH if they're really going to shop him or listen to trade offers since that way he has at least a chance of looking better.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    You're kidding with that today, right?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Hasn't the city of Detroit suffered enough?
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    Both.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    The Cubs will win due to one of the least frustrating lineups Lou has posted all year.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    What, you wanted 3 pages about Jake Fox? Weirdo.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Absolutely. Ramirez is a fabulous second banana. Lee has on occasion been a star, but he's usually just an also ran in the 1B department. The really good lineups have ARod or Manny or Pujols or Utley. If you are a huge budget team, you should have one of that type of player, plus the Aramis type. Exactly. Both guys are incredibly useful players to have, but you don't build a team around either one of them as the Cubs attempted to do.
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    It seems multiple people are thinking I'm saying that the Cubs shouldn't have signed Lee and Aramis or that their contracts were unreasonable or bad singings; I'm not. I'm saying that when a team's payroll is able to top out near $150 million then Aramis and Lee should not and cannot be expected to be the very best offensive players that that team has. That's not saying they shouldn't have been signed; I'm saying that if almost $150 million is spent and they're expected to be the offensive cornerstones then something's been fucked up.
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    Lee and Aramis are like the last guys I think of on this team in terms of having bad contracts. My point is that the teams with big payrolls tend to lock up most of their money in good players whereas the Cubs seem to love spreading it around too much overpaying for the wrong guys time and time again. Yeah, but Lee and Aramis fit the description from your previous post pretty well. I disagree. Yeah, Lee had 2005, but wrist injury or not that didn't make him a sure thing. The Cubs shelling out after one (admittedly amazing) year for a guy expecting him to be THE guy as the #3 hitter is indicative of how they've spending their payroll poorly as its expanded. And even Aramis isn't what I'm talking about. You look at the teams typically spending at or above the Cubs and their idea of at least one "sure thing" is going and getting someone who is basically a HOF lock. Aramis has been great for this team, but for the money they had available they should have been able to find someone better than him (though I'm not saying instead of him) and definitely better than Lee. No team is going to spend smart 100% of the time, but for the money they had available the Cubs should have been able to come away with someone better than Lee or Soriano or even Aramis.
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    Lee and Aramis are like the last guys I think of on this team in terms of having bad contracts. My point is that the teams with big payrolls tend to lock up most of their money in good players whereas the Cubs seem to love spreading it around too much overpaying for the wrong guys time and time again.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    And that k rate.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Artest just blew my mind. That was hysterical.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    And what you are doing is reading WAY TOO MUCH between the lines. I was not judging anybody, sorry if you took it that way, but that's not what I meant. Wait, how am I reading between any lines? You flat out said that people who thinks this is funny have a weird sense of humor. That's a judgment call. I don't know why you're acting like that's a bad thing; if you think that people who find this funny are weird, hey, that's your call.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Calm down, spaz.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Actually, what you did is practically the definition of judging someone else.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    I haven't seen Colvin's minor league splits, so maybe that is what you are referring to, but I surely wouldn't wouldn't say that he can't hit LHP based on a .263 average over 19 at bats. The strikeout rate is a definite concern though. he hit .277 in over 500 ABs against minor league pitchers with an OPS that was something like 20 points below his OPS against RHP... i have no idea where people got the idea that he is wretched against LHP, but they really should stop saying it. Based on how he's looked and performed against LH pitchers thus far plus the strikeout rate. Granted, sample size of a sample size, but his approach and the disparity between those numbers and his numbers against RH shouldn't really fill us with confidence as to how he'd look against LH pitchers, especially given how unsustainable his numbers against RH pitchers are.
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    The first option should be the obvious choice.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Spending money in and of itself won't win you a championship. It's how you spend the money, i.e. not giving huge contracts to players who either won't be any good by the end of it (Soriano) or bafflingly high contracts to players who just aren't all that good (Grabow, Miles). Right. Spending money is no guarantee of ending up with a good team. You look at the other teams with payrolls around or above the Cubs and they've spent a good portion of that on at least one, though typically at least two, "sure thing players" just on offense that you can normally count on year after year, and they usually were signed while they were still young and productive with some time to go while they'd still be in their prime. The money the Cubs have spent on offense has been tied up too often in players who were too old (and overpaid) and simply are not or were not the type of players you build a team around.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I think that's debatable. Not trying to justify the Z or Soriano contracts, but I still can't figure out what the hell Philly was thinking with that extension. Unless Utley is an idiot and is just going to accept a non-comparable deal out of the goodness of his heart, that's going to mean around $50 million a year locked up in just two players. Utley I could see arguing being worth it, but Howard? That's nuts. I think it was about keeping together a rare Phillies team that created interest in the city. They don't live and don't with that team, so if they see it falling apart, the fans could bail. It also helps when you've already won a WS, been to another, and have been raking in greater than expected revenues as a result. Understandable, but I guess I just find it hard to believe that they wouldn't have been able to keep Howard for anything less than $25 million a year for 5 years, especially when you have a much more valuable player who is also going to be getting a new deal during that span of time and is likely going to expect (rightly so) something comparable. Is Howard a Boras client?
  20. Sammy Sofa
    I think that's debatable. Not trying to justify the Z or Soriano contracts, but I still can't figure out what the hell Philly was thinking with that extension. Unless Utley is an idiot and is just going to accept a non-comparable deal out of the goodness of his heart, that's going to mean around $50 million a year locked up in just two players. Utley I could see arguing being worth it, but Howard? That's nuts.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Agree to disagree. I in no way think he's doomed to be a crappy defensive OF, but to this point it seems like he makes a lot of bad decisions out there and takes some really questionable routes to the ball too often. He's not hopeless, but that seems like it could be a problem stretched out over a whole season, especially if he's manning RF at Wrigley. It's not just his defense he'd have to compensate for. The strikeout rate is one; the inability to hit LH is another. Totally agree that he has some potential; just not that he's demonstrated enough potential to justify benching someone you're trying to trade and actually get a decent return on.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I don't get it...are we not supposed to be watching those? They're typically one of the few watchable programs ESPN has these days.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    With the Cubs going nowhere fast this season, it sure seems to me that they would want to find out what they have in Colvin going into next season. That gives them plenty of justification to start him regularly over someone like Fukudome who only has one more year on his contract and will not be here long term. I'm still leaning toward the opinion that Colvin will eventually prove himself to be nothing more than a solid 4th outfielder, but the possibility of him succeeding as a starter sure appears better than it did prior to this season. I'm not willing to bet on his success based on a relatively small major league sample size, but I'm also not willing to dismiss him based on his minor league numbers. Why not let him start for an extended period of time and see what happens? Because there's nowhere to start him. It makes no sense to bench Kosuke if you're trying to sell him and get any kind of a valuable return or not to have to pick up too much of his salary. It's not like Colvin won't get plenty of AB's in the meantime as the backup OF, and then if they do trade Kosuke he'll get plenty more platooning with Nady. There's simply no rush where the Cubs "have" to find out what they have in Colvin right now.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Great point. And I don't understand why people would assume that the power he's shown in the limited sample size of his time in the bigs would just carry over to a full season. If that's the case, then is his appallingly high strikeout ratio going to stretch out as well? His relatively limited defense is going to carry out over the whole season? LH pitchers having their way with him completely and totally? Why are some people acting like the power is the only thing that'll stick around? Well, the power would have to stick around and he'd need to have to keep hitting at these ridiculous levels all season to offset the liabilities he displays as a player. That's why his success as a starter is such a long shot despite what he's shown this season. That's why in a sane world it makes much more sense for him to be starting in the minors since he's yet to show down there that he can be a viable option as a starting OF. Production in a limited role as a part time player up here for a couple months doesn't just suddenly prove he's a good option to be starting over the Cubs current starters, especially when they're trying to shop one of them for a trade.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    It should be noted that PR wise sending down Colvin anytime soon to get at-bats isn't really possible. It's a tough situation. While I also believe some of Colvin's minor league numbers have been skewed, that still leaves him as a huge question market with plenty of tools and some flashes but not much of a track record. That isn't much to fall back on when giving a lot of PT at the major league level . But the minors isn't an option at the moment and I don't know when it will be an option again unless he does get significant PT and struggles. Well, it's certainly possible, but I agree that it's unlikely. Too bad.
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