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  1. Sammy Sofa
    To be a real number 1 in a 30 team league, why must you be top 10? During the regular season it doesn't matter much. Would you want to enter the playoffs with your best starter not even among the 10 best in the league? Not if I have a better choice otherwise, but it's hardly an unwinnable situation to be in.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    To what, justify him starting for the Cubs?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    BRENLY NEEDS TO MANAGE THE TEAM.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Nope. He still has a lot of adjusting to do at this level as well as simply growing into the player he'll be physically. Like jersey said, they key right now is his approach at the plate. I really don't think anyone expecting him to show up with much power this early was approaching his call-up realistically.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Why not? It sure as hell wasn't ideal, but the Cubs were in the race for most of the season. I enjoyed it from the perspective that for most of the season I was following them with the idea that with just a bit of a push they might be able to sneak in. Obviously, that fall apart at the end, but I was truly invested in the team for that summer. I think I just enjoy baseball differently than you do. And why don't you just ask J.R. what he meant? You created this whole tangent off of a single post that doesn't express anything like what you keep acting like he did. You're basing this whole thing simply on the word "great" being typed.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    This whole argument is pointless. You're acting like there's some set way that people have to remember those seasons or have experienced them. The point, for me, is that I really enjoyed most of 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 and even 2009 as they occurred. That's it. It's not a matter of me being "wrong" or "lying." I, and others like J.R., just have a different memory of those seasons than you. Compared to the other decades I experienced, the 80's and 90's, it was great in the sense that more often than not I was invested in watching a Cubs team that was managing to be competitive. If you want keep up this completely one sided argument where you think anyone is actually saying that the Cubs were truly great in the 00's, go right ahead. Nobody is actually saying that, yet you're showing zero sign of realizing that.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    And Silva is pi. Delicious, delicious pi.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I'm really hoping we'll retain both coaches (Rothschild and Jaramillo) after the season. If a new GM/coach comes in, I hope they don't clean house because it's going to be tough improving on the current hitting and pitching coaches. I'd like them to hold onto Trammel, too, though I'm sure Sandberg will want/expect to have the bench coach to be someone who is "his guy."
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Actually it is: Do you need that repeated? That's what we're talking about: people are saying it's "great" in terms of enjoying the seasons as they happened. Yeah, the endings didn't work out, but compared to a decade like the 90's it was great when it came to just being to sit back and enjoy the Cubs playing good or at least competitive baseball throughout most of the regular season. I was able to do that for 5 seasons in the 00's. I was able to do that once in the 90's. In that regard, yes, the 00's were great. Does that mean they actually played great baseball? No. There's a clear difference, and you're being willfully obtuse by arguing a point that nobody is making. Nobody is saying the Cubs were actually playing great baseball or putting great teams on the field in the 00's. It was just "great" in terms of having that many seasons in a decade where the Cubs were in it when we'd never been able to experience that before.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Explain how Dempster is overpaid.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    You may not realize you are lying, but you are. There were a handful of great seasons but the decade was not great. Just stop pretending it was. I'm not. Once more, the point is that it's "great" IN COMPARISON TO THE SUCKFEST THAT WAS THE 1990'S. How are you not grasping this at all?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    When my only other decades of personal reference are half of the 80's and the 90's, it's pretty clear I'm not "lying," you lunatic. Nobody is stopping you from being a misanthrope, gooney.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    YEAH, TAKE THAT, PIRATES, WHAT WITH YOUR 5 WORLD SERIES TO THE CUBS' 2!
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Are we still pretending that the Nationals are hopelessly terrible?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    They were great years. Maybe not great in terms of keeping Jim Hendry in a job, but definitely great in terms of J.R. enjoying the respective seasons. Exactly.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Zambrano doesn't have to be a "true #1" to be very useful as a starter. That's the thing I don't get: yes, to this point he's overpaid when you look at the end result, but it's not like he's some huge bust the either needs to be banished to the bullpen or traded away. Plus he's still just 28.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    You're right. According to this board 99% of the problems with the Cubs this year is Lou and Hendry. That would be true, if you ignored all of the points about Lee and Aramis starting off the season horrendously and the issues with the talent level in the bullpen. But the bulk of the blame should lie with Hendry. That said, it's silly to act like Lou is getting unfair blame here. Managers can negatively impact a team far more than they can positively, and Lou is basically a textbook example of that.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    No. Castro is so powerful that he just wills it in.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe if erik was a manager he'd beat up his players in the parking lot and steal their wallets.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Cubs get another mini-sweep. Cowardly pussies can bow out now.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f19/TheMojoPin/SWEEP.jpg Eh, ended up with a .500 home stand. I'll take it given how bad they were doing when it started.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Hmmmmm. Z must be in a good mood over going back to the rotation.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Nobody here is making Lou the only scapegoat.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Good.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Really wish it was the end of Grabow instead. I still think Caridad has potential. Wow, that slide suuuuuuuuuuuucked. Way to use your face.
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