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  1. Sammy Sofa
    And we do. Both Baker and Fontenot have what it take to be above average 8 hitters, and if we can get any kind of rebound from Soto, he'll be a well above average 7 hitter. I'm talking about hitting #2. And if Soto rebounds you're nuts if you want him hitting all the way down at #7.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    And it's better to have a guy there with some power as opposed to the "nots."
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, the DuCross Mets thesis is one that needs to be clarified and supported.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    What would how much he is paid have anything to do with where he should hit?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    The continued insistence to bat Soriano #6 instead of #5 if he "must" be moved down in the lineup is baffling to me. I'd much rather have Byrd or even Baker (if he continues some reasonable semblence of the success he had last year) in the #2 spot instead of Theriot.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    That's the kind of insight you get when you have more than one DuCross.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    It doesn't really sound like money was the issue with getting Peavy as much as what they would have had to give up to get him. I really don't see how keeping DeRosa would have changed that.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    How would they have ended up with Peavy?
  9. Sammy Sofa
    They're usually the smart thing to do with a contract like this and a team that's under somewhat of a budget crunch. This is hardly unique to Hendry and is very common around MLB with most GM's.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Pretty much. They sold high on an aging player coming off a career year and got a good return. Keeping him wouldn't have amounted to much more than making Cubs fans feel better while the team (and DeRosa) had a letdown of a season. Yeah, the contract issues would be different, but we wouldn't have the 3 promising pitchers we got for him. And really, the Miles "disaster?" Talk about being melodramatic.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Pretty much. They sold high on an aging player coming off a career year and got a good return. Keeping him wouldn't have amounted to much more than making Cubs fans feel better while the team (and DeRosa) had a letdown of a season. Yeah, the contract issues would be different, but we wouldn't have the 3 promising pitchers we got for him.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    What are you basing this on? Right now it looks like the Cubs have a good chance of having sold high on DeRosa and gotten return for doing so given the performances of all three thus far. And the end result of DeRosa being with the Cubs instead of Bradley wouldn't have changed much of anything in terms of the record since DeRosa wasn't very good last season. Granted, they wouldn't have to deal with the mess of having to deal with Bradley's contract, but in the grand scheme of things DeRosa having stuck around his last year wouldn't have changed much. I'd much happier that they have the three players they got for him instead of keeping DeRosa through the end of his contract and getting nothing.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, what? And why was it painful watching DeRosa with the Cardinals? He was not very good last year at all.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Reapeating this offseason over and over again would be horrendous.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    But isn't most of that traffic just coming from here?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, there don't seem to be any rumors and more just idle speculation in all of those links. And I don't understand how the Alexa Ranking would work, but aren't you potentially talking about comparing numbers between 312Sports and a board about the Cubs when the Cubs haven't played a game in almost three months?
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Your articles are very bad and your new website is a terrible idea. And here's the search as per your own suggestion: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22mcgrady+to+bulls%22&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Almost all of them, and there's barely even a page's worth of hits from the search in the first place.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    HEY GUYS I HEAR THAT SHAWN KEMP MIGHT BE TRADED TO THE BULLS PASS IT ON.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    So random discussions on NSBB are being spun as trade rumors on 312 Sports?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    If Lovie's fired in the offseason, Jerry Angelo and everyone else in the front office will probably get to keep their jobs for another two years since the team will want to give the new coaching staff as much leeway as possible. However, if Lovie gets another season and the Bears lay another egg, I think there will be a bloodbath in Halas Hall from top to bottom. I'd be okay with that scenario, especially since a lot of the problems with this team seem to stem from poor decision making on the part of the front office. I think the silver lining is that Ron Turner's fate seems sealed no matter what. I can potentially live with one more year of Lovie so long as they hire a capable OC.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Getting invited to go to this game I figured I was in for a long, miserable evening in the stands. Glad I was wrong. That was a lot of fun to see in person.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I don't think so. Why would they be worse than, say, the Houston Astros?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Because it's a ridiculous idea to think that when a player has to make a play or step into the batter's box that their performance at that moment is going to suffer because of Milton Bradley. Unless Milton Bradley has told them something like that he will kill their family if they do well on the field then there is absolutely no excuse for blaming poor or subpar performance on the field on one guy being a sulky jerk in the clubhouse.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Nice night for Rose.
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