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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Stat wizardry?
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Tree, you monster.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Moving Soriano isn't essential to fixing this team, but I'm not exactly sure how he would have "negative value" to another team if the Cubs were picking up a good chunk of his salary.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    I never want to see Nady in RF over Colvin again. Poor routes, shredded arm - he's a butcher. On a platoon basis I'll take the chance with Nady's defense out of the certainty of an 0/4, 2 K's from Colvin against a LH starter. No kidding. I have no idea why anyone would want Colvin starting against lefties over Nady.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    That's it. He's not good enough defensively to play CF full time and doesn't hit with enough power to play one of the corner spots. From what I've seen in both the minors and with the Cubs his arm his strong and accurate and he's a decent route runner, but nothing spectacular. I'm not sure why so many people here are so down on him, I think he might be able to start on a team that gets power else where, but for most teams in the post steroid era he's likely to be a backup. Personally, I'm not "down" on him altogether. A 4th OF can be very useful. I'm just down on the idea of him as a starter with the way this OF is constructed for now and likely will be for a while to come. If the Cubs had sure things who were younger in one or both of the other OF spots, OK, but that's not the case. As it stands right now, looking to make Colvin a starting position player wouldn't be likely to help this team except in regards to payroll. It's not only that lack of other OF, but the other corner infielders, and no "Chase Utley" type to provide replacement power at another position. Yes, exactly.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    That's it. He's not good enough defensively to play CF full time and doesn't hit with enough power to play one of the corner spots. From what I've seen in both the minors and with the Cubs his arm his strong and accurate and he's a decent route runner, but nothing spectacular. I'm not sure why so many people here are so down on him, I think he might be able to start on a team that gets power else where, but for most teams in the post steroid era he's likely to be a backup. Personally, I'm not "down" on him altogether. A 4th OF can be very useful. I'm just down on the idea of him as a starter with the way this OF is constructed for now and likely will be for a while to come. If the Cubs had sure things who were younger in one or both of the other OF spots, OK, but that's not the case. As it stands right now, looking to make Colvin a starting position player wouldn't be likely to help this team except in regards to payroll.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    And they won't talk to Theriot.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    The clubhouse is the cancer.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    It would be tremendously unlikely if Colvin showed himself to be a full time player since he could basically only be a corner outfielder. You're talking like it's practically a remote possibility that he wouldn't pan out when it's actually the opposite. Again, he's not very good defensively, so to justify him playing full time in any of the OF spots he'd have have continue hitting out of his mind. The Cubs are much better served finally shelling out for an actual corner OF, whether through trade or FA, than continue on the path they're on. Not long shot like Colvin, not a converted bad IF like Soriano, and not an overpaid platoon player like Fukudome. If they dick around and waste time seeing if Colvin can be a fulltime corner OF it's just going to be more of the business of usual except cheaper. That's an improvement only from a financial standpoint, but the team still sucks.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Different situation. Colvin was a 1st round pick who was off to a decent professional career before he was slowed down by a bad elbow and eventully TJS. Also, Colvin can play a solid defense. Jake Fox, like Micah Hoffpauir before him was a guy who was always a decent hitter in the minors but nothing special who chose to blow up on AAA pitching for a year in his late 20's before he was called up and had some degree of success before big league pitchers figured him out. To be honest, I never saw Fox as a guy who would by a big time slugger, but at worst, I thought hed be able to put up Russell Branyan or Marcus Thames type numbers. Colvin is not solid defensively. He'd have to basically pull off full time what's done in a very limited sample size this season to justify himself defensively. I'm also not sure how you're concluding that Colvin was off to a "decent professional career" and yet just dismiss Fox's career minor league numbers like he was a zilch compared to Colvin.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Good Lord, this division is a joke.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Gee, what a shocker. I wonder if any of the people clamoring for Colvin as a full time player pay heed to things like this.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Lilly didn't pitch last year?
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe that's just where we'll need him in the near future. Cashner and Jackson and maybe Diamond all deserve cinsideration for the 2011 rotation. Z and Dempster are locks, and Silvas likely too. We also have Gorz, leaving a rotation logjam. IMHO all are better options than Wells, and certainly Atkins. That doesn't explain why it would be a better idea to move him to the bullpen instead of the minors.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    I don't understand why you're so insistent to move Wells to the bullpen. He has options, so send him to the minors to start and hopefully figure out what's been going wrong.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Yes.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    The sign is one of the few signs of a light at the end of the tunnel.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, Jesus, God, no.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I wish Lou got more heat from the media, but I wish it wasn't stupid pressure from the likes of Steve Stone.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Wouldn't it make more sense to blame a crappy record on crappy play and crappy managing?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I believe it's legit I find it believable because it was posted on BCB and then on here and that's all it takes.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    It has been reported in many circles that every single major league clubhouse is more or less a segregated community, with latin players and american players the biggest seperation - and then obviously some black and asian guys. So it's not that hard to imagine that Ramirez and Zambrano head up some little latin group that has taken Castro under their wings, and maybe protected him from some stupid hazing nonsense. That probably would have happened if they were 10 games over. Yeah, but what's "disturbing" about that? The disturbing part is that the finger pointing has started Why is that disturbing? What certain segments of Cubs fans can't seem to grasp is that a crappy team is likely to have a less then happy-go-lucky clubhouse. They seem convinced that it MUST be due to a certain person or people dragging everyone else down, and if those people or that person was gone then everything would be great and they'd all be smiles and sunshine even if they were 20 games below .500.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I'm holding out for the triumphant return of Tuffy Rhodes to Wrigley.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    It has been reported in many circles that every single major league clubhouse is more or less a segregated community, with latin players and american players the biggest seperation - and then obviously some black and asian guys. So it's not that hard to imagine that Ramirez and Zambrano head up some little latin group that has taken Castro under their wings, and maybe protected him from some stupid hazing nonsense. That probably would have happened if they were 10 games over. Yeah, but what's "disturbing" about that?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Whoosh.
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