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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Please. Acting like Lou has no options in the bullpen is absurd. Nobody forced him to go to Grabow as the setup guy when Marshall is just sitting there, twiddling his thumbs. He's shown time and time again in his entire time with the Cubs that he has little clue as to how to sensibly manage a bullpen.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Damn. That is just unfair. Poor guy.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I'd say Hughes is one of the greats.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    It's really not surprising. There's little reason for them to fire the guy when he's gone at the end of the year and Sandberg is likely just going to get the job. I'd love to see him get the boot, but I really don't expect it to happen.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    No they weren't. They were mediocre. 4 sub .500 seasons, 3 95 loss seasons and only 1 90 win season. 3 playoff appearances in 10 years despite a substantial financial advantage over the competition. The Angels, Twins and Athletics had great 2000's, the Cubs just managed to not suck as much as they did the previous decade. I like how you make this response as if someone can be wrong for enjoying the Cubs in the 00's compared to the 90's.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    It's not even close to being ugly. I think we are close to being the 2010 version of the 2009 New York Mets in terms of getting ugly. Yeah, but how much worse can it really get? Use the group of games I brought up as an example: before today's game they had lost 10 of their last 12 games. Yeah, it could technically be worse in that they could have lost all 12 games, but really, it's not like you've suddenly jumped off a cliff between losing all 12 and losing 10 of 12. Again, a loss is a loss. It's not like losses to good teams are going to count more or "hurt worse" than the losses to the bad and average teams.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, same here. The ending of the season stunk, but 2008 as a whole was by far the most fun I've had as a Cubs fan. If anything it made me more of a fan as opposed to making me all apathetic about bad seasons to come. And on that note, I'm off to the game.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Well, '08 is looking more and more like an outlier as opposed to being the result of a team that was soundly constructed to compete for multiple seasons. Plus it's one thing to anticipate failure due to a specific teams' weaknesses and flaws and another to expect it as some kind of bad luck juju that's going to inevitably bring them down.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Well, yeah. But that's because they usually put badly constructed teams on the field. Par for the course, really.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Dude, you are way too hung up on 2008.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    It's not ugly already? A loss is a loss. Losing 10 of their last 12 games is pretty hideous to begin with.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Lou is a baffling, fascinating creature. It's like he has to counter a smart lineup move (hitting Castro #2) with a terrible one (moving Soto back to #8). Maybe it's some kind of weird OCD.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, why the blue hell do you want them to waste prospects/money on a bullpen this year? I never said that. Clearly said we need a bullpen. They clearly need a lot of things before they start working on the bullpen, especially since you usually don't know what you're getting from a bullpen from year to year.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    I don't get the "there's a lot of people in Chicago rolling their eyes" thing.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    HISTORY IN THE MAKING.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Tuffy Rhodes. THE GREATEST GAME IN CUBS HISTORY.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I guess. I mean, who the hell thought this was actually a "$140 million team" going into the season? Just because they're paid that much doesn't mean they actually are one. There's expectations and then there's straight up denial and delusions.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Sending Aramis with Soriano coming up makes it especially stupid.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Will there be a press release for that? Will you be speaking to the media?
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Well that makes sense. This team definitely isn't worth that. I just see a difference between that and essentially willfully ignoring the season altogether, or even just for the time being.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Carly Simon is serious business.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    We've all suffered through teams that have been a LOT worse than this one. Even though the end result has been horrible at this point there's still a number of players I want to follow on the Cubs and want to see them do well. If someone is "not interested," hey, that's their call. I just think it's odd that someone would consider themselves a fan of a team and then just turn off wanting to follow them at all so easily simply because they're doing poorly, and especially since it's a team that more often than not has been absolutely wretched throughout most of our lives.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    you didn't even see the best ones in the blackhawks thread Were there ones from this year? I saw the ones last year and thought he was banned before the new season started. oh, yeah i meant last season. i didn't think you read blackhawks threads. I typically don't, but I made it a point to do so last year because of him once word got out about how he was losing it. One can't pass up witnessing meltdowns that epic.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Low blow, my friend.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Anticipation.
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