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  1. 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.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    AKA When Lou finally emerges from his drunken slumber.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    http://hirejimessian.com/2010/04/09/well-at-least-we-almost-got-to-see-lous-penis/
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, if only. We're going to get the horrible reality of Lou followed by Sandberg instead.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Probably not, so long as Lou is making the lineup each day.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Bad Soto is still much more valuable than Hill. That's how bad Hill is with the bat.
  10. 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.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    The Bulls and VDN didn't do themselves any favors, but the officiating towards the end of this game was appalling.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Doesn't really help motivate the team when the manager just leaves the guy who blew inning out there seemingly out of spite. This was so avoidable. There's no excuse for leaving him out there after he walks the first two guys, and certainly no excuse to leave him out there once the bases were loaded.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    The biggest problem with the bullpen is Lou. He can't even manage a decent one to save his life, so it's just going to be even worse with one that you have to actually think about.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Way to manage that bullpen, Lou.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Beautiful bunt.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    "National League Central" might be the key phrase here.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I often wonder if he buys in to half of the crap that he is obviously trying to "sell." Not to say he does it all the time, but it's certainly part of his job description. I don't know, one of the reasons I like Len is that he typically doesn't go out of his way to spin moves like that as much as he seemed to be doing when talking about Hill today.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Len was basically trying to "sell" the idea of Hill getting more starts, and I hope to God that was just idle speculation as opposed to something he overheard from within the organization. I don't care how bad Geo slumps, Hill is still so much worse with the bat it's not even funny.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, he should have killed that 1-0.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Awwwwww, no more Dick Pole? Booooo.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Loving the patience.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Wow, I did not know Nady had such great numbers at the GAB.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Yikes.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    But Lou said he was gonna play guys who get results. :-)) The thing is there are literally no options to replace Theriot on the 25-man roster, Fontenot is not a SS. Theriot has nobody that is a potential risk to steal ab's from him as the roster stands right now. Then at least move him out of the slot that gets the most AB's.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Nice start to this one.
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