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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Deciding Lou's future doesn't necessarily mean Hendry is here long term since any decision regarding Lou will come up this year.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    I don't think Maddux's 300th win "doesn't matter." I'm not saying it should be on this type of top 10 list (I don't think it should be), but he got just shy of half of those 300 wins with the Cubs. Actually, strike that. I completely forgot that he hit 300 in 2004. For some reason I thought it wasn't until 2006. He ended up having 133 total wins for the Cubs, but obviously a number of those came after 300.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, it's really two different things. The Bears and Packers will always play each other tough, but the Vikings supplanted the Bears as the Packers' "real" rival a long time ago.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    It's not that it wasn't believable so much as it was aiming so low. If you really want to pull off a prank of this kind, even just briefly, try something like saying the Cubs traded Soto to the Red Sox or something along those lines that'll really get people worked up instead of centering around a player that Cubdom would collectively shrug their shoulders over.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Well, that's incredibly lame, even by BCB standards.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Depends on the context, as I've explained a couple times now.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I'm saying it's crazy if people are picking them because they actually got better as opposed to just picking up some wins due to improving young players or bounce-backs or the like. They need things to break their way just like the Cubs do (though, yes, many of the specific circumstances are different). I just don't think picking them is legit unless it's also banking on some key slumps/injuries/etc. hitting the Cardinals.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    But aren't their best players still in the prime or just entering, justifying hope in improvement? It's a better situation than hoping Soriano and Fontenot bounce back (Soto being the difference of course). It seems like it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine them a few games better this year, and everybody else mediocre enough to finish behind them. It seems a few teams have a chance of winning it with 86 wins. Look, they've got Prince and Braun and Gallardo and nobody is going to discount that that core is going to produce or be surprised if they just get better due to their ages, but it seemed like their biggest problem last year was their pitching, and what has been significantly improved in regards to that? Randy Wolf? And I don't understand even bringing up Fontenot. Who is acting like him bouncing back is some critical aspect of the Cubs' success in 2010? There's a laundry list of things that need to go right before you get to him. I'm not saying the Brewers can't win the division, but I don't really place any stock in a pick that has them winning it because their team was improved as opposed to them winning because the Cards and Cubs stumble.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I don't understand any picks that have the Brewers winning the division like they've somehow improved their team in any kind of meaningful way. Yes, the NL Central sucks, and just a key injury or regression/slump on any of the contending teams can sink them, but come on. The Brewers fell last year because their team simply wasn't very good outside of a very small group of players, and it's not like they really did anything to significantly change that.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Angling for Lou's job? That would be so awesome.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Looks pretty average.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Where did I get bent out of shape?
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Personally, I think a statue of Edmonds is acceptable only if it's done Colossus of Rhodes-style and he's standing astride Wrigley, towering over it. Nude.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    No way. It should be Sandberg. Oh Lord, a statue of Sandberg going up while he's managing the team is such an obscenely barftastic scenario. Though it might be worth it if we could somehow get Cubette's reaction.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Why not? Because he's a bad, bad man.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    He's saying that we should not rest until there's a giant statue of Jim Edmonds in front of Wrigley.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Either way it's something I'm not a fan of. You listen to many of those games he calls in the early 80's it's a hell of a schtick he's got going on because he starts the games off sounding pretty professional and very much like the good broadcaster he was for most of his career, and then as the games go on he's definitely sounding like he's getting more and more "refreshed." Maybe it was indicative of the health issues to come, I don't know, or it was just a gimmick like you're saying, but it's very bizarre to listen to.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    I never said that he didn't care about the game. I was saying he personifies it to me with what I look at as the poor quality of his broadcasting for most of his time with the Cubs and how so many people embraced it.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    It wasn't an argument. It was my opinion. Fair enough, just think it's a bit over the top. How so? The statement about them moving the statue was a joke. I don't actually expect that to happen or even care that it does or doesn't. I just was never a fan of Harry's, even when I was younger, and I think that the first statue they put up at Wrigley is one of him is silly. That's it. It's not like any of the reasons I listed for not being a fan of his are somehow wrong or unjustified. They're all subjective.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    It wasn't an argument. It was my opinion.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, this is generally the type of memory I have of going throughout the 80's and into the early 90's. Obviously, there were some relative surges due to '84 and '89, but I really can't remember ever having to plan ahead and drop as much money as you typically have to do today. It was just, "hey, I've got an idea: let's go see the Cubs."
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Totally agree. This is what I wish the Cubs had been doing for years under Hendry. If only Grabow hadn't been given so much wasted money.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    :-k Pet peeve of mine. Harry, to me, is the human embodiment of the "lovable loser" image most people have of the Cubs and their fans. His terrible, sloppy, drunken broadcasts with the Cubs just represent the idea of people who don't give a [expletive] about the games or the team and just want to go the ballpark and drink. It's even more laughable that he has a statue like he was some cornerstone of Cubs lore like he basically spent his career broadcasting for them when he was in the Cubs' booth for only 17 years and spent most of his career broadcasting for the Cubs' two biggest rivals. It strikes me as ridiculous that he's treated like this "lifetime Cub" when he was just a hired gun who spent his worst broadcasting years by far with the Cubs. Giving him a statue over someone like Brickhouse and especially before any other players is ridiculous.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Since inter-league play began I'd definitely include Cubs-White Sox and Yankees-Mets to that list. I'd also include Mets-Phillies.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Very cool. Now if they could just move Harry's off to a lonely corner somewhere we'd be good.
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