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  1. Sammy Sofa
    What the hell is happening right now.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    I'd rather scapegoat the offense.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Same difference. The experience of going to another team's ballpark and watching your team lose is generally going to be negative.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    WGN as a "national channel" is going to die a pretty gruesome death once the Cubs are off of it.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Oh man, so close. I'd love to see Byrd hitting #2 and Fukudome leading off against RH pitching.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    excellent contribution to the thread It's a thread by a visiting fan complaining about the home team's ballpark because his team sucked and lost.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I don't think they are, but I guess you never know. We're fine so far. 2-4 after an opening road trip isn't going to make me lose it. Let's see where we are at the end of the month. Starting pitching has been fantastic. I can't believe our bats will stay this cool. The inability to hold teams in the 8th inning does concern me, but Marmol has been pretty good. I don't know. I'm not as concerned as what I'm hearing from a lot of people so far. The Reds have been a lot of people's surprise picks, and it's primarily due to their pitching. It should be little surprise then that a team that is struggling offensively early in the season is going to continue looking bad against a good, young rotation that many are picking to break out this year.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    That's not what happened. At all.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Might as well not even show up, AMIRITE.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Um, Berg is already up. Whoops, meant to say Gray.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    We need him bad. Who goes down when he comes up? Shark or Caridad? Ideally Shark. Ideally both, with 1 of our actually good arms replacing the other I don't really have a problem with Caridad staying up if he's used in more low leverage situations in the meantime. The problem is is that this offense isn't giving the bullpen anything but high leverage situations, so really been no room for that kind of strategy right now. I'd say bring up Stevens as well as Berg, but I'd almost rather Stevens stay down and keep getting starts if the offense continues to look like crap.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Fortunately, we got to see that tonight, no thanks to Hoffman. Excellent.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I'd much rather see the Cardinals lose.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    "So far this season" is 6 [expletive] games, and Soto and Soriano haven't even played in all of them. Talking like the Cubs need to seriously start considering starting Colvin fulltime or counting on [expletive] Castillo is beyond insane.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    To have a firesale dont you need to have expensive players someone else would want? A lot of teams would like to have Lee, Lilly, and Ramirez. Probably Fukudome too. I can see Lilly and Ramirez. Lee might net some good return too. Fukudome...I dont think we would get a lot. All have no trade clauses anyway. Again, you flat out tell a player that you're not going to re-sign them with their contract ending and they're typically not going to exercise the NTC just to hang around a losing team for a couple more months. It's really only a spanner in the works if you're trying to trade a guy who has years left on his deal. And Fukudome would definitely have value given that he'd only have one year left. And saying that Lee only "might" get a good return is ridiculously shortsighted.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    We need him bad. Who goes down when he comes up? Shark or Caridad? Ideally Shark.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I wish to know his opinion on Albert Pujols.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Why can he "only get better?" That's an absurd expectation. False.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    NEVARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! If anything, we can be amused by guys like the one I just heard on WGN's post game show ranting that the Cubs sucks because they don't play guys like Jake Fox and Sam Fuld.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Not necessarily. There's little reason for him to refuse to be traded if the team stinks and he knows he's going to opt out. He's likely to opt out anyway, but it would be a lock if they sat him down and said they weren't going to re-sign him no matter what since he's not going to wait around and get a year older on a crappy team. Unless he's feeling vindictive there's little reason for him to refuse a trade for the last few months of the season, especially since he'd likely go to a team that's actually contending. But, this is his last chance for good money. Wrigley still is a pretty good place to hit and his family is here for now. If we trade him off to San Fran or somewhere with a pitcher park it would hurt his numbers and potentially cost him money. I guess you can avoid this though by helping find a team you both can agree on. Again though, I don't want Hendry being the guy selecting the players we get back. I don't think a hitter as good as Aramis would have his reputation ruined or significantly impacted if he went from a hitter friendly park to one that wasn't for just 2-3 months. The biggest thing will be whether he can stay healthy or not.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Not necessarily. There's little reason for him to refuse to be traded if the team stinks and he knows he's going to opt out. He's likely to opt out anyway, but it would be a lock if they sat him down and said they weren't going to re-sign him no matter what since he's not going to wait around and get a year older on a crappy team. Unless he's feeling vindictive there's little reason for him to refuse a trade for the last few months of the season, especially since he'd likely go to a team that's actually contending.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    There's plenty of reason to let him go if the rest of the team is not very good/young and unproven. Lee and Aramis are not enough to carry a team at this point.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Will anyone with the team wise up and make him the setup guy?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Nah, they probably could if they just went to them and said that they're simply not going to re-sign them. Benchings would probably help in that department too. It's a scummy move, though (except for Soriano, who just plain deserves it). We may want to keep some of those guys if we want to compete the next few years. I dont know who wed get to replace Lee, unless we want to give up everything on the farm for Adrian Gonzalez, making the future look evn more grim. Same with Ramirez. Id personally like to bring up Castro and give him a chance. As narrow as the window is open for us now, without Lee and Ramirez, we could be really, really bad. Im talking Pirates bad. Im all for not only bringing up Castro, but giving Cashner a shot in the pen. I know a lot of people want to save Castro for the future, but does the future mean when our team starts to look like thoise of the 90's? If they move their bigger contracts or let them expire, what's to stop them from signing FA's?
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Nah, they probably could if they just went to them and said that they're simply not going to re-sign them. Benchings would probably help in that department too. It's a scummy move, though (except for Soriano, who just plain deserves it). Wait, what? I'm talking about moving guys of value who have contracts coming up or can opt out. Why would they be benched, especially if we're hoping that they can convinced to not exercise their NTC? When you talk about moving guys at the deadline, Soriano's name can't even come up. You can't move him. We're talking Lee/Aramis/Lilly and even Fukudome and Byrd if possible.
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