Sammy Sofa

Good Lord, the idea of Stone and Kaplan united in a duo of douchebaggery is just too awful.

No, this is how he is everyday. That site is ridiculous.

Yeah, what crap.

Karma.

He at least still serves an essential purpose no matter how bad he is offensively. Miles does not.

SORIANOWNED. Nice 3-3 day going for him.

Wow, nice snag.

Because he got a meatball and tagged it.

seeing as holliday's career line on the road is .283/.352/.452/.804, i'm gonna go ahead and take aramis as the better hitter. Yea but ARams career line on the road isnt much better than that. So again it comes down to how much of a hitters park is Wrigley really? I know this year its played as a pitchers park, and has in the past also. Yeah, a 30 point difference in OPS is nothing.

Yes, he would. Hill's AB's stinks, but he plays too large a role behind the plate that Fox simply cannot do. He's that bad? People can run at will on him, he doesn't call a very good game and he has trouble with the whole catching the ball part of being a catcher.

Yes, he would. Hill's AB's stinks, but he plays too large a role behind the plate that Fox simply cannot do.

So sexy.

No kidding. Plus it's a double whammy since Lou inexplicably bumps Fukudome out of the leadoff spot when Johnson is in there. It makes no sense. Give the guy who is terrible against RH pitchers more AB's than anyone else against them. Both Bradley and Johnson have been pretty brutal against RHP this year. I can't get too upset about MB not being in there with they way he's been hitting. Not saying Johnson is the best option, but MB looks lost out there. How often has he faced RH pitchers actually hitting RHed? He's looked his worst when batting from the LH side of the plate, which the Cubs are determined to keep him doing. I think most of us here want to see if his success from the RH side of the plate against LH pitchers would perhaps carry over if he just bats RHed all the time as opposed to tossing Johnson out there against righties when he's almost a lock to be useless against them. I don't think its far to say the Cubs are determined to keep hitting LH against right-handers. How do we know that? Bradley probably hasn't batted full time as a RH in years. I don't it is the Cubs insisting on this, its just what he has done his entire career. True, but this year his LH numbers are ghastly and his RH numbers are very good. At this point it's argubaly better to try and ride out what's been working than what obviously has not been. That's in no way saying that he's a lock to hit from the right side against righties, but the splits are dramatic enough that they shouldn't be dismissed with team seemingly approaching this like he HAS to hit LHed against righties.

No. This cannot be said enough. I'd much rather plug him into RF if they feel they have to sit Bradley than suffer through Fox at catcher. It's too critical a position and he's too [expletive] horrible at it.

No kidding. Plus it's a double whammy since Lou inexplicably bumps Fukudome out of the leadoff spot when Johnson is in there. It makes no sense. Give the guy who is terrible against RH pitchers more AB's than anyone else against them. Both Bradley and Johnson have been pretty brutal against RHP this year. I can't get too upset about MB not being in there with they way he's been hitting. Not saying Johnson is the best option, but MB looks lost out there. How often has he faced RH pitchers actually hitting RHed? He's looked his worst when batting from the LH side of the plate, which the Cubs are determined to keep him doing. I think most of us here want to see if his success from the RH side of the plate against LH pitchers would perhaps carry over if he just bats RHed all the time as opposed to tossing Johnson out there against righties when he's almost a lock to be useless against them.

No kidding. Plus it's a double whammy since Lou inexplicably bumps Fukudome out of the leadoff spot when Johnson is in there. It makes no sense. Give the guy who is terrible against RH pitchers more AB's than anyone else against them.

This is just getting absurd. It is? The Cubs have a number of players over 30.

THOSE DAMN STATHEADS, WHAT WITH THEIR SHENANGIANS AND WHATNOT

OH GOD I'VE BEEN LIVING A LIE.

Do any of you people pay any attention to anything? What seems to be the problem? The Cardinals have had a below average offense on the season, and you believe Matt Holliday makes them stacked. They also acquired DeRosa recently so it's not just Holliday. But Mark DeRosa is Mark DeRosa.

eh it's possible, but baltimore is a middle-market team while the cubs can keep their payroll high. i can see them having a short down period but i don't see any reason that they should be in the toilet for 10 years. Balt. had one of the highest payrolls at the time. Unless they cont. to build up the farm, I can see them being medicore (78-85 wins) for the next 5 years or so. Why 5 years? The only contract by then still hanging around from today would be Soriano's.

If he misses more than 2 starts, sure. A standard DL stint isn't really anything to panic over.

eh it's possible, but baltimore is a middle-market team while the cubs can keep their payroll high. i can see them having a short down period but i don't see any reason that they should be in the toilet for 10 years. Plus the Orioles were the result of a truly apathetic and meddling owner willing to settle for the relative minimum investment to stay in the black. I suppose Ricketts could be along the lines of Angelos, but it would require him being a similar owner for the Cubs to truly become the O's.

Zemeckis is a [expletive] hack.

That worked out so well for Hendry. Note that it wasn't just Hendry who did that, which should once again give you an idea that the parade of GM medocrity at best for the Cubs is all but guarenteed to continue once he is gone. Most GM's are not terribly good at their job and the ones that are better than just being tolerable are few and far between.