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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Come on. McGehee is not a good player. We should be praying that Colvin isn't another McGehee.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    It's not a catch-22; you don't bench a typically productive player you hope to trade for an unproven one who has to keep hitting at or around his current ridiculous level to justify his starts due to his defensive shortcomings. Colvin will still get plenty of AB's up here even if he's not starting regularly over one of the other OF.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    The point, that you completely missed, is that what a young player accomplishes in the majors in a relatively small sample size very early in their MLB career often gives little indication as to what kind of player they will turn out to be. If the Cubs seriously want to explore the idea of Colvin as a starting OF then he needs to be back in the minors starting full time. There's no place for him to start regularly with the Cubs right now unless Fukudome is traded, and even then it wouldn't necessarily be better for him to be starting for the Cubs as opposed to playing full time in the minors and consistently having success down there. I know you have a new player that you irrationally crush on nearly every week, but there's really no justification for the Cubs going out of their way to clear up a regular starting slot for him at this point in Colvin's career.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Lou has never handled a bullpen well over the course of his managing career.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    That's not the point. The point is he's our best option right now. No, he's not. Hes 1 of 2 consistant hitters this teams had all season, the other 1 being Byrd, so yeah, hes the best option right now. He'll never be as good of a defensive outfielder as Kosuke, but the main problem for this team has been offense, not defense and as long as he can provide some, he deserves to play. Over who? If you seriously expect them to be able to trade Kosuke for anything of value it makes absolutely no sense to effectively bench him for Colvin. Colvin will get plenty of AB's between pinch hits and starting for Byrd and Soriano when they get days off. If he's going to be playing full time he needs to go back down the minors.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    It is a long shot. I have no desire to see him end up a bust, but the simple fact of the matter is that it's a long shot that he would pan out to be a starting OF right now. Just because he was a 1st round pick doesn't make him any kind of lock, especially with the Cubs' drafting history. His performance so far this year also isn't any kind of guarantee of what he'd be as a starter. Fox is a great example of someone who set the world on fire with a relatively limited collection of AB's.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Boooooooooo.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    That's not the point. The point is he's our best option right now. No, he's not.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, because Colvin's performance thus far this season is an accurate projection as to how he'll perform as a starter with the book out on him.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Plenty of people give a damn. It's more just how awful these threads tend to be.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    That's still a loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng shot.
  12. Sammy Sofa
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  13. Sammy Sofa
    minor league career vs lhp: 0.277/0.308/0.460/0.768 minor league career vs rhp: 0.276/0.324/0.461/0.785 Fine. He can't hit righties either Will he also play his entire career with a torn elbow ligament? No, but he will play his entire career with mediocrity.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    So get him more starts after Fukudome is traded.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    minor league career vs lhp: 0.277/0.308/0.460/0.768 minor league career vs rhp: 0.276/0.324/0.461/0.785 Fine. He can't hit righties either Exactly. Hence the *BARF*. Colvin as a starter is almost a lock to be depressing.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    The point isn't whether Theriot should or shouldn't have thrown it to 2nd; the point is that the runner was smart enough to stop as soon as Theriot was on the base path with the ball so he couldn't be tagged. I believe it was Soto who recently botched a similar scoring opportunity recently for the Cubs by just charging like a goon.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Everything about that is so... *BARF*
  18. Sammy Sofa
    DC cabbies were notorious for over-charging. The city had this silly zone system where the cost of the ride was based on how many zones you crossed. Well, you can imagine how this was abused. Definitely. I call out cabbies all the time both here and when I lived in DC for taking bad routes. Maybe jersey's just got bad luck.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Pele, obviously, though I assume you're talking about active players. A decent number of sports fans here could probably throw out "Ronaldo," though odds are they'd have no idea which one.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    True enough, but the Angels have expressed interest in Nady and if you can land anything in excess of what you'd have to pay for Spilborghs then why not? I've always liked Spilborghs and so far this year he's been pretty good even against righties. Though Colvin desperately needs a platoon partner. Why does Colvin need a platoon partner? Isn't the idea to get him consistent at-bats and start several times a week now? Like Jersey just said, he is absolutely horrible against LH pitchers.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I guess it's an NYC thing? I've taken a ton of cabs in DC and here in Chicago.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    That was pretty boring, though it's kinda weird you've been in so many cabbie-related altercations. Oh well.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Forget Kane; I want to hear the details of the multiple fights that jersey has been in with cabbies, because that is kind of bonkers.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. It's a gated community, but for all the wrong reasons.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    im sorry, but when was this? (not being sarcastis, im reading these posts a few hours after the game and cant exactly pinpoint when it happened over even for which team It wasn't the Cubs, unfortunately. I think it was when the A's scored their final run, and it was because the runner they had on first stopped immediately because the Cubs threw to first, so they had to tag that runner to get the 3rd out, which allowed their runner on 3rd to score before the tag was applied. So, like a normal double play situation that somebody made more difficult? Was it Theriot? I think so. It just reflected back to a recent game where the Cubs botched getting a run by running into the final out at 2nd before the guy on 3rd could score.
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