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  1. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    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..
  3. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    The actual moral of that story is that if you truly have a pathetic offense the other two are pretty redundant.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    But, OMG the next gm could be worse.!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!!111 Nobody's said that no matter how many times you pretend that someone has.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Why would that be alarming? It should be encouraging because it would suggest that you'll see more hitting if that trend continues.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    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.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    It's still real to me.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    The team in general is playing longball thus far. 70% of our runs have come via homers. It would be nice to see an inning or two of sustained offensive output. Damn rally killing home runs. Home runs can be all or nothing. If you rely solely on the home run for your offensive output, you can have long stretches of offensive futility. I would like to see an ability to string a bunch of hits together and score runs that way, although I'll never say no to the longball. Though they could just be the '05 White Sox.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    AKA When Lou finally emerges from his drunken slumber.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    http://hirejimessian.com/2010/04/09/well-at-least-we-almost-got-to-see-lous-penis/
  19. Sammy Sofa
    as if it wasn't bad enough that he blew the game and constantly whined about pitches that WEREN'T strikes.... he has to run his mouth some more after the game. those weren't strikes, you goon. Yeah, he and Lou were seemingly having a competition to see who could be more stubborn and petulant that inning.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    So, what should the Cubs do with the young guys in the bullpen who've had early struggles? well for one thing, part of the problem is that a lot of these guys - samardzija, caridad, berg, russell - just weren't that good in the minors. they might be struggling in the major leagues because they're lousy pitchers who just won't cut it in the long run. but back to your question, ideally you have a better mix of veteran arms and young guys, just like you do in a big league offense. you don't want too much of the burden falling to guys who don't have much track record in the bigs and whose confidence can easily be damaged as a result of a few bad outings. the cubs do have three veterans (marshall, grabow, marmol) but one of them they use as a swing guy, one of them they use as a LOOGY and he's not good, and the other is a closer. so a lot of the burden is just falling on guys who really aren't good. samardzija is probably the only one of the four guys who has stuff that could make him a good 8th inning guy, and he's a long way from getting there. That...and Lou. I know that's my broken record tonight, but Lou is absolutely the worst person to have in charge of a bullpen that has a ton of questions like this one and is gonna require a lot of creative managing and guys being rotated in and out.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    So, what should the Cubs do with the young guys in the bullpen who've had early struggles? Not leave them in after walking 2 guys and then walking the bases loaded? It's not [expletive] rocket science.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, if only. We're going to get the horrible reality of Lou followed by Sandberg instead.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Probably not, so long as Lou is making the lineup each day.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Bad Soto is still much more valuable than Hill. That's how bad Hill is with the bat.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! I'm so much more pissed at Lou than anyone else. Horrible bullpen management and already jerking around his [expletive] lineup construction 4 games into the season. I'll consider it failure if he's back next year even if Hendry is gone.
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