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  1. Sammy Sofa
    That's not a fact at all. Oh, but it is. Has Milton Bradley performed above or below expectations? Heck, he's well below his career norms, which ends this debate right now. And yet that still makes him a productive player.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    That's not a fact at all.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    "Milton Bradley did absolutely nothing to help the Cubs win games. Had he done that, you learn to live with it. In fact, the distractions on and off the field were helping them lose games." How? Milton Bradley was crippling their ability to hit with RISP? What an amazingly selective clubhouse cancer.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    He basically flat-out said that Bradley contributed nothing offensively this year.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! WHAT A [expletive] FAGGOT WHO TAKES IT IN THE [expletive]!!!
  6. Sammy Sofa
    And where is anyone saying that people can't watch another team or root for another team over individual games or series? Do you not see the difference between that and completely changing your allegiance again and again when someone asks you the question "what team are you a fan of?" Almost everyone here has teams they root for other than the Cubs in the playoff series in that particular context of the Cubs not being in it. It's not like everyone here turns off baseball once the Cubs are out of it or the playoffs being without the Cubs. Honestly, if the Cubs right now are enough for someone to give up on them and completely change their fandom then they haven't been a fan prior to 2003. To completely change one's fandom over a crappy year, especially if they claim to be a Cubs fan, is a load of [expletive] and it was never more than a dalliance or bandwagon deal to begin with. This is what it is to be a Cubs fan (and a sports fan in general) far more often than not, for better or for worse. You stick with your team when it comes down to the THE team you are a fan of through whatever happens. If all you're going to do is slink off in shame when the team is bad and then come back when they're good, what's the point of claiming to be a fan of anything in the first place? That's not being a fan of anything in particular except winning.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Or they just keep him as a serviceable sorta-supersub and good bat to have off the bench.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Yes. These games are meaningless and making this big of a deal just causes the Cubs' bargaining position in trading Bradley plummet from minimal to practically non-existent.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I think you're confused about what a "copout" is. So are you saying I have a responsibility to stand by the Cubs, no matter how poorly run they are, no matter how unpleasant they are to watch? No matter how many predictably stupid moves they make, even though I'm powerless to change these things? Okay, then, I happily admit I'm "copping out" of my sacred responsibility as a Cubs fan, whenever it suits me. My point was that people are responsible for their own choices, and if you reach a point where your decision to be a Cubs fan is making your life miserable, it's a copout to say you can't change it. Whether or not to follow the team is ultimately the only power you DO have in this situation, and you'd be a fool to rule it out over some archaic romantic idea that it's in your blood or some crap like that. I never said it was some kind of "sacred responsibility:" I just don't see the point in giving up on a team one has rooted for all or most of their life because they're often bad. If that's the idea, why root for any team ever for any prolonged period of time unless they're winning? There's also a huge difference between choosing to not watch or follow a team and actually becoming a fan of a different team altogether. Of course anyone here COULD change being fans of the Cubs: any statements along those lines should be obvious hyperbole.
  10. Sammy Sofa
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  11. Sammy Sofa
    And he brought this all on himself. There may be some blame to go around, but 99% of it is on Milton Bradley and people need to stop pretending otherwise. Nobody's really doing that (if anything it's people talking about how to ideally attempt to maximize a bad situation), nor was that the question.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Not lamenting it anymore, but I've got to believe he would have played a tad better than he is right now if he was still in his familiar role with the Cubs. Why? He wouldn't have been injured? Why would he have been immune to the "team slumps" the lineup seemed to go through this year? He certainly wasn't last year the few times the lineup went cold.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I think you're confused about what a "copout" is.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Wasn't he upfront with how he was struggling early in the year? I don't recall him blaming anyone else for his slow start.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, if only.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Wow, nice air.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    My God....the comments posted on that editorial are so cringe-worthy.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. Even the people that would prefer Bradley remaining here agree that he's a jackass. We get it. He's also a better player than whatever the alternative is, whether that be an in-house option or Chone Figgins. Pretty much. It's about as far as we can get from an ideal situation, but I'd much rather have him and his baggage and his production than downgrading an already shaky lineup and eating salary with the team seemingly strapped for cash for the forseeable future.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Leaving Gregg in as long as he did and now PHing Miles in this spot makes it abundantly clear that Lou simply does not give a [expletive].
  20. Sammy Sofa
    No, never. Not even for a second.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    How? How does it effect the game if they don't like Bradley? How is Bradley impacting any of these players when they go up to bat or are making a play in the field or pitching the ball? He's not: that's simply not realistic at all. You're either saying the players are so weak-minded that they can't produce because they're constantly thinking about a guy who has absolutely nothing to do with them at that moment or they're so petty they're essentially willfully focusing on Bradley over the game. Again, I'm not saying Bradley's a jerk, but I want to know how people know or think that his attitude is actually impacting the play of the other players or the outcomes of the games.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    How is it "outweighing" his production? How is it not "outweighing" his production? Reality? The perceptions of the fans should not dictate the removal of a useful player just because he's a jerk. There's absolutely nothing that shows that his behavior or attitude has been detrimental to the team's play.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    How is it "outweighing" his production?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Still don't know how that actually causes the Cubs to lose over, say, Aramis missing a ton of time, Soriano playing hurt and being ineffectual except for two months, the Miles/Fontenot combo somehow being even worse than the worst case scenario and Soto having a horrendous sophomore slump likely (and hopefully) due to nagging injuries, weight gain and the WBC. Bradley's attitude is pretty far down the list in terms of reasons for this letdown of a season, especially coupled with how productive he's been for most of the year. Bradley's a pain in the ass, but anyone thinking his attitude is more detrimental than all of that simply is not being realistic.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Well, if you had a pain in the ass working with you everyday that complained all of the time and was extremely negative would it impact your co-workers performance? If they sucked already, maybe. I sincerely hope the other Cubs' tears don't stain their Lisa Frank sticker-covered Trapper Keepers.
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