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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Harden's got zilch.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Pujols is glorious.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I saw him in AA have three or four passed balls in one game. He's that bad. Yeah, catcher is (despite that's what he came up as) by far the worst of the defensive positions he can be put at. It's far too important a position and he has too much trouble with the "catch" part of catching.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    I don't care how he feels about the knee pain: if it's there, he's gotta go on the DL to try and deal with it. It's not rocket science to think that the knee pain is likely a huge part, if not THE reason, for his prolonged offensive struggles.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    If that's lead off by a Fukudome-Bradley 1-2 then me like.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    The leadoff hitter doesn't control the rest of the team, good or bad.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    In terms of cultural and musical impact, it's Elvis and not even close. In terms of fame just sheer recognizability everywhere around the globe for almost three decades and all that that stuff entails, I think it's Jackson and not even close (though he's then trumped by the Beatles in this regard). I think Elvis is hampered in that latter regard by never touring outside of the US.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive] off, [expletive].
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Noooooooooooooooo.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Delicious. Thank God for the off day.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Horrible. He's swinging at everything.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Way to kill any momentum. Kawakami threw, what, 4 pitches after the HR? Well done.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Why not?
  15. Sammy Sofa
    First of all...Potato-head? But secondly, I realize that because something happened to jeter it's not going to change the game forever - or how the umpires call it. It really should, however, at least cause someone (selig?) to say "Hey, the rule is that you have to tag them. So, uh, keep that in mind." Anything that implies that an umpire should, you know, follow the rules as they're written would be a good thing. That's all well and good, but the "if the ball beats you you're out" idea hinges on it being a close play and the umpire only able to see so much. The only reason anyone knows Jeter was safe was due to the hindsight of numerous replays from different angles and slow-motion. As it happened, it was a bang-bang play that was VERY close. The human eye can only follow so much with that kind of flurry of action. Nothing unusual happened on that play: the ump just verbalized it poorly.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I mean it's not like they faced two of the best pitchers in the NL this year or anything. Oh wait... I guess the Cubs aren't allowed to have low scoring games ever again.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Meh, it happens. Just get that series win.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    That's why I think he actually needs to be more aggressive despite his slump. Seems like more often than not he's getting the best pitch thrown first, like pitchers know he's not going to swing and they want the gimme strike.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    What do you mean that was a hit. Theriot is having a good defensive series. No errors. Are you being sarcastic? Just because an error isn't called doesn't mean that Theriot doesn't have the arm and the range of a 14-year-old girl.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Theriot has been on a tear lately emphasizing how bad he is defensively as a SS.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    This game is beyond boring.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    As bad as Soriano has been, I'd actually like to see him get MORE aggressive. It seems like he's getting the most hittable pitch for him as the first pitch and he's destermined just to not swing at the first pitch no matter what. I wonder if pitchers are gambling with that: pitch him a sure strike for strike 1, then he'll swing for strike 2 after seeing one go right by and then he's doomed.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    As well thought out as a Dusty Baker lineup. There's really little point in explaining yet again why it's piss-poor to construct a team and/or a lineup for the regular season around the tiny sample size of 6 playoff games since you show zero sign of realizing how ridiculous an idea that is. If you're looking at those games as the definitive "proof" as to how a player should be handled in the regular season then Aramis needs to be benched or traded or released ASAP. Those Soriano numbers were his enitre post season career. He's awful. Which is a whole 172 ABs. And those ABs are split into 18-30 AB segments. There's too much volatility in small numbers like that to really make a good evaluation. 15 good at bats could increase just his average by 20-30 points. Small sample sizes aren't reliable indicators on what a player can do. Exactly. In no way should a player's playoff numbers EVER trump their regular season numbers when it comes to how they're played in the regular season. The number of playoff games being used to evalutae the player is moot since they'll never be more than a fraction of that player's career as a whole.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    As well thought out as a Dusty Baker lineup. There's really little point in explaining yet again why it's piss-poor to construct a team and/or a lineup for the regular season around the tiny sample size of 6 playoff games since you show zero sign of realizing how ridiculous an idea that is. If you're looking at those games as the definitive "proof" as to how a player should be handled in the regular season then Aramis needs to be benched or traded or released ASAP.
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