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  1. Sammy Sofa
    That includes you.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Let's all please shut up about erik now.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    You could say the same about Randy Wells. Hanson was definitely a notch better than Wells last year, but not significantly so. I think what was significant was how Hanson got noticeably better as the season went on whereas hitters against Wells were basically getting better and better each month. Granted, Wells pitched 6 more games (and it was basically those extra games where hitters against Wells finally stopped trending upwards).
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Not completely untradable, but his no trade rights make it virtually so. Even if it's to a contender at the deadline if we're out of the race? I would think with this being his final year of his contract that he would have to consider it. I would have to assume he'd allow them to trade him if they were just upfront and said that they had had no plans to re-sign him. Unless the organization treats him like crap or he's a vindictive jerk there's little reason he'd refuse.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    It's a mute point either way.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    My assumption is that they re-sign him because it's the safe option due to his popularity with the fans and the lack of an "obvious" replacement in the organization. I'm holding out hope that someone thinks outside of the box and approaches Lee if the Cubs fall out of it and tells him that he will not be re-signed and asks him to wave his NTC at the deadline.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Probably the same way everyone makes mistakes doing jobs they do all the time. It would be pretty cruel to fire someone over this.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    No more irony, please. I couldn't possibly have any more.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I'm always excited for baseball. I mean, I'm a Cubs fan, so I'm practically numb to bad teams and bad seasons at this point. Even with the worst ones there will be players or games that stick out. I just enjoy the game that much.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, or Silva if he looks like his old craptacular self. The long man role is a dumping ground. Marshall is too valuable for that.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. Leaving him as the long man is ultimately a waste of him over the course of the season if he can keep pitching anything like this. He'll face many more critical situations as the setup guy. The long man is usually being tossed out there because the starter got rocked. I'd rather have Marshall available when the game is much more winnable or they need to hold the lead. I'd agree just as long as he's not shoehorned into the "8th inning only" role. He can go more than 1 inning. If he's put in at the start of the 7th and pitches the 7th and 8th to get to Marmol then I'd be all for it. Not that this would be an all the time thing, but just implemented when the situation dictates. Sure, but it's not something they need to bank on. Ideally you're counting on your starter to go 6 innings, or into the 6th. That really means only have to get 3-6 outs with the entire bullpen before getting to Marshall and Marmol if the game is close. I know some people are acting like the bullpen is this huge disaster, but it's not SO bad that they need to be constantly looking to Marshall to get more than 3 outs if he becomes the setup man. Remember, he's got to go the whole year, so it couldn't even be something that could always be done when the situation dictates.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. Leaving him as the long man is ultimately a waste of him over the course of the season if he can keep pitching anything like this. He'll face many more critical situations as the setup guy. The long man is usually being tossed out there because the starter got rocked. I'd rather have Marshall available when the game is much more winnable or they need to hold the lead.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I really hope that Marshall will be the setup man in the bullpen sooner rather than later.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    This team has been a bad hitting team for the better part of a decade. 2008 was the outlier season, but ever other year they were either mediocre or terrible. They have absolutely zero pre-prime or prime stars whom you could count on to be as good or better than last year. Their best hitters are old and/or physically questionable. On the other hand, for the past decade they have been mostly a good and sometimes great pitching team. I think it's quite possible the pitching will let them down this year, but there's at least as much reason to worry that the offense once again comes up short. Yeah, this is basically why I picked hitting myself. The Cubs have seemed to be pretty consistent in pulling good or at least serviceable pitching out of their asses, whereas the offense seems to be a rollercoaster of different types of fail more often than not.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    David, do you have a bigger version of that picture for wallpaper use?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Oh no, it is us who are always waiting for you.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I say 6-2.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe Sori will do his little hop in the first inning and pull a hammy Ahhh, we can dream. Of the end of the season after 2 games?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Take that, black people!
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Hell, having a team take his entire salary and getting marginal return wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I like it.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Much better.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    That's a badass play.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    You can't fake that kind of comedic timing, folks.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    There are much, much better ways to argue against his salary besides pitching wins.
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