Sammy Sofa
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Why wouldn't he be able to keep in shape?
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What will the reaction be when McGwire hits Wrigley?
Sammy Sofa replied to Magdal's topic in General Baseball Talk
The Cardinals have hired McGwire as their hitting coach, not Osama bin Hitler. -
Wasn't it already announced at the Cubs Convention? Don't know if it was announced at the convention (wasn't there and didn't read a whole lot about it) but ever since it was known the Cubs were being sold and through the whole process with the Ricketts, it has rumored that the Cubs were interested/looking into starting up a YES type network. Yeah, it's been mentioned by the Ricketts a couple times but I'm wondering how likely it is that it actually occurs. How long are the Cubs signed to be on Comcast, WGN and WCIU?
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YOU TAKE THAT AND YOU EAT IT, YOU WHITE SOX FAN, YOU.
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How realistic is it for the Cubs to ever end up with a YES-type channel?
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Yeah, I don't know why anyone wouldn't be enthusiastic for getting rid of Hinrich's contract, especially for Ray Allen.
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Does Garciaparra end up in the HOF?
Sammy Sofa replied to Backtobanks's topic in General Baseball Talk
Meh, it's not like they were keeping the standards high by letting in Dawson. -
What will the reaction be when McGwire hits Wrigley?
Sammy Sofa replied to Magdal's topic in General Baseball Talk
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Fergie Jenkins open letter about Big Mac
Sammy Sofa replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
Who implied that? Then what does the broken bat have to do with anything? Given the context of the thread and your post there seemed to be an implication that was a 'roid-rage incident. If that's not what you were getting at, then why even bring it up? I see what you mean. I didn't bridge those 2 thoughts very well. I believe that steroids can lead to aggresive outbursts, whereas speed to a feeling of well being. Very different drugs. One long term and very serious, one short term where the effects go away pretty quickly. I can safely say with 10000% confidence that a ton of the "uppers" guys were taking most certainly do not leave people with only a "feeling of well being." The various types of speed-type drugs out there lead to aggression, nervousness and overexcitability more often than not. -
Losses like this are actually a good thing to remind the idiots running this team of that. And it's funny to think of UMFan being subjected to this live.
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Personally, I don't think it's a matter of them being better as just being in it. Neither the Cardinals or Brewers are any kind of lock to be significantly better than the Cubs. In all this is a very mediocre at best division, hence why it's potentially still winnable for the Cubs barring how a lot of the quesiton marks go.
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Plus it undercuts the whole argument against the appeal of NYC to players when the person arguing against it "doesn't get the appeal" himself.
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It's not just about the "abuse;" the guy suffered two serious injuries (the basepath collision and the linedrive off the elbow) that would sideline most pitchers.
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The chance to truly sell high on Theriot has long passed.
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Fergie Jenkins open letter about Big Mac
Sammy Sofa replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
Who implied that? Then what does the broken bat have to do with anything? Given the context of the thread and your post there seemed to be an implication that was a 'roid-rage incident. If that's not what you were getting at, then why even bring it up? -
On the other side, it could be argued that guys like Prior and Nomar were fortunate to last as long as they did considering how fragile their bodies have proven to be. I think Prior proved to be as "fragile" as almost any other pitcher that would suffer those injuries. It's not like he just started breaking down: it took a pair of traumatic in-game injuries couple with rookie overuse to bring him down.
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They should have just retired the halftime show after Prince completely owned it.
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OK, that makes more sense.
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I don't understand what you're saying here. Are you saying they're allowed to offer him whatever they want regardless of a cap? Because otherwise there's nothing stopping them from offering more than any other team so long as it fits into what they can afford or it keeps them under a cap (if they so wish to be).
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Cutler obviously has his flaws, but I think him throwing more TD's last year than any other year of his career given the circumstances was pretty damn impressive. I don't think Cutler is elite, but he's still a franchise guy. He's always going to throw more picks than you'd ideally want; it's going to be a matter of coaching and constructing a team to minimize that while capitalizing on his obvious talent...somewhat similar to Favre.
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I was in NY when the Knicks were last good, but I would not say they owned the town. They were no bigger than the Rangers who won the cup. Well, yeah, because they had just won the Cup and the Knicks hadn't won a championship. Whatever team wins the championship will be the biggest there when it happens. until a year goes by when they don't win it Uh, OK? Unless a NYC team is planning on winning a championship every year besides the Knicks that doesn't seem like a huge problem.
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If they move while a LeBron-lead team is kicking ass there already it'll be a while before they provide anything. The nature of the Mets's fanbase was rooted out of the neighborhood mentality that dictated NYC baseball fandom for so long. It's not like that with basketball. It's not like the Knicks are the team of a certain part of NYC: they're just NYC's team. Obviously, but I wasn't saying that the Knicks trumped all other teams in all the other sports when it comes to fan loyalty.
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I was in NY when the Knicks were last good, but I would not say they owned the town. They were no bigger than the Rangers who won the cup. Well, yeah, because they had just won the Cup and the Knicks hadn't won a championship. Whatever team wins the championship will be the biggest there when it happens.
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I respectfully disagree. They do right now because they're the best team in the city, but when the Knicks are actually decent they top everyone. Probably because unlike football and baseball there's really nobody else competing with them for NYC fans (and anyone who says the Nets do really isn't taking this seriously).
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That's arguably the appeal for someone like LeBron. If he can go there and get that team winning and get someone like Wade to show up, boom, that's bigger than he could ever get on any of the other teams out there. Despite the Knicks' crappiness, NYC is still NYC and the Knicks rule that town when they're good. Why would it be in two years and how would Wade show up after LeBron got the team winning? He's a free agent this year. I don't even think they could sign two max guys this offseason, but I could be wrong on that. Either way, I don't see it as likely at all that Wade would leave Miami for NY. Chicago? Maybe, but still probably not. Wade is free after this year if he opts out. He has a fourth year player option after this season. My guess is that he does not opt out after this season and becomes a FA after next year. I'm basing that mostly on the idea that he might want to test the FA market when it isn't as relatively crowded as it will be this summer.
