Sammy Sofa
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04/12 Brewers (Davis) vs. Cubs (Dempster) 1:20 WGN
Sammy Sofa replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
We need him bad. Who goes down when he comes up? Shark or Caridad? Ideally Shark. -
Great American Ballpark...worst place to watch a MLB game
Sammy Sofa replied to Ihatepujols's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I wish to know his opinion on Albert Pujols. -
Re: I am an ex Cubs Optimist. (a rant by a fan)
Sammy Sofa replied to Butterscup1679666578's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Why can he "only get better?" That's an absurd expectation. False. -
04.11.10 postgame re-WILL OUR OFFENSE EVER SCORE A RUN
Sammy Sofa replied to imb's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Will anyone with the team wise up and make him the setup guy?
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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?
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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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I agree with this, but I'm very afraid that we will be close enough that Jim will try and make a trade to save his job. I really don't want him trading away any prospects. Yeah, I'm concerned that they're just going to middle around technically being in contention because of how bad the division is. If they do fall out of it it needs to be big so that both Hendry gets the boot and they wise up and look to move Lee/Aramis/Lilly/etc.. We gave out no trade clauses. We might not be able to move any of them. It's comical. Nah, they probably could if they just went to them and said that they're simply not going to re-sign them.
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I agree with this, but I'm very afraid that we will be close enough that Jim will try and make a trade to save his job. I really don't want him trading away any prospects. Yeah, I'm concerned that they're just going to middle around technically being in contention because of how bad the division is. If they do fall out of it it needs to be big so that both Hendry gets the boot and they wise up and look to move Lee/Aramis/Lilly/etc..
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The actual moral of that story is that if you truly have a pathetic offense the other two are pretty redundant. the great debate here is which one is worse ourr offense in late innings or our BP. Flip a coin I don't know but 18 runs in 6 games doesn't typically cut it. You're looking at a 486 run season if that continued, which it won't. Most relievers are crappy pitchers (thus they are relievers). Crappy pithers will allow runs from time to time (duh). Those couple of runs they've allowed late wouldn't matter if the Cubs could hit. Very true. This bullpen is far from ideal, but you just to look to last year where a very average, serviceable bullpen was tagged as being "bad" because it was routinely exposed by a largely ineffective offense that left them with way too many close games.
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Look around baseball. In no way am I fan of Hendry keeping his job, but look at how many GM's simply are not very good at their jobs. This is true, but a lot of them, dont come close to the payroll that Hendry has had to work with. Also, the fact that Hendry caters way too much to Lous every whim. I know I dont need to bring up the dismanteling of the 2008 team because of 3 bad games. Even if it is true, you can't keep a guy around just because the next guy could be worse. Right, which is why nobody has suggested that.
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The actual moral of that story is that if you truly have a pathetic offense the other two are pretty redundant. the great debate here is which one is worse ourr offense in late innings or our BP. Flip a coin I don't know but 18 runs in 6 games doesn't typically cut it. You're looking at a 486 run season if that continued, which it won't. Exactly. This is why I picked the offense in the poll recently posted here asking what we were most concerned about going into the season. If the offense can't bounce back from how anemic it looked last year then they're toast. The team has just gotten older and Soriano and Soto are by no means locks to be significantly better. If they can't rebound then the only realistic improvements you can see are Aramis (hopefully) staying more healthy and Byrd, and neither are enough to carry the team.
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No, he is correct. I remember reading a few posts implying what he was referencing. I don't know if you did it or not, so don't take it so personally. I really don't recall anyone besides me making such a point. My point was that while I would have zero problem seeing Hendry fired, I have little confidence that his replacement would be any better.
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I have never given a reason to justify Hendry keeping his job or have supported the idea of him keeping his job. The closest I've come to that is stating that I understand why the new owners wouldn't necessarily clean house right away with the way the timeline of the sale played out.
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But, OMG the next gm could be worse.!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!111 Nobody's said that no matter how many times you pretend that someone has. Yes, in fact, many people have said that the next GM could be worse. You included. Considering the payroll Hendry had the past 3 years and the product it produced, I cant imigine the next one being worse. Look around baseball. In no way am I fan of Hendry keeping his job, but look at how many GM's simply are not very good at their jobs.
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But, OMG the next gm could be worse.!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!111 Nobody's said that no matter how many times you pretend that someone has. Yes, in fact, many people have said that the next GM could be worse. You included. I remember reading that as well. You are correct. No, he's not. He continually brings it up as if others were saying the Cubs should just keep Hendry since the next GM will likely be similarly mediocre or worse. That's not the case. There's a huge difference between recognizing that truly good GM's are few and far between and actually wanting to see Hendry keep his job because of that.
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But, OMG the next gm could be worse.!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!111 Nobody's said that no matter how many times you pretend that someone has. Yes, in fact, many people have said that the next GM could be worse. You included. But never as a reason to retain Hendry as you continually imply.
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The actual moral of that story is that if you truly have a pathetic offense the other two are pretty redundant.
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But, OMG the next gm could be worse.!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!111 Nobody's said that no matter how many times you pretend that someone has.
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Why would that be alarming? It should be encouraging because it would suggest that you'll see more hitting if that trend continues.
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There's not a type of pitcher that exists that hasn't done terrible things to the Cubs, so dwelling on any one type is pretty redundant at this point.
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It's still real to me.
