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  1. Sammy Sofa
    What in God's name are you possibly basing this on?
  2. Sammy Sofa
    It's pretty obvious that he was asking who people would prefer to have, Sheets or Harden, if both were somehow magically a lock to be healthy.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I would not mind an incentive-heavy contract for Sheets at all.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Duuuurrrrrrrrraaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhhhh...
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Nice backhanded compliment, Ron. I resigned myself to Lovie being back a while ago but if Turner comes back...ugh.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I don't think a strict platoon between Fontenot and Baker would be that bad of an option given the money currently available. It's not necessarily ideal, but there's a decent chance Fontenot rebounds if he's not having to play 3rd and basically only faces righties. Hell, even if they did sign Hudson (which I'm iffy about given his age and how old this team already is) I'd like to essentially see him platooned with Baker getting starts against lefties.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    God, these teams are [expletive] horrible. How the hell did the Bears win 6 games?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Did Ron Turner feel like he could just dick around the first 3 quarters because it's the Lions or is he just that bad? You be the judge.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Nice job, dickbags.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Flashbacks to awesome Hester.
  11. 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.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    And it's better to have a guy there with some power as opposed to the "nots."
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, the DuCross Mets thesis is one that needs to be clarified and supported.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    What would how much he is paid have anything to do with where he should hit?
  15. 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.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    That's the kind of insight you get when you have more than one DuCross.
  17. 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.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    How would they have ended up with Peavy?
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, what? And why was it painful watching DeRosa with the Cardinals? He was not very good last year at all.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Reapeating this offseason over and over again would be horrendous.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    But isn't most of that traffic just coming from here?
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