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  1. Sammy Sofa
    So he'll learn how to hit again by not playing? FUNDAMENTALS.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    I don't think they would have run on Soriano there. Shhhhhh, don't disturb him with reality.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Which means it's impossible to prove either way the effect Fuld had on the pitcher.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    QFT.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    What manager isn't "about findamental baseball?" Where are these radical non-fundamental managers?
  6. Sammy Sofa
    This guy LOVES him some Brenly.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I never said he was one-dimensional. I said he was too reliant on small ball, something this team is nowhere near being equipped to pull off. The Cubs have had their most success over the last decade when they kept the "small ball" to a minimum. The "small ball" teams that win it all seem to never actually be about the small ball and actually win it due to power, timely hitting and great pitching. Well, Brenly would not be managing this team, so it really doesn't make any sense to say what he would do with this bunch. Yes, he would. This Cubs team is not going to be looking drastically different next season. Besides, how do you know that Hendry, or whoever if he were replaced, would be able to get the players that best compliment Brenly's preferred style? Maybe those player simply aren't available. It's not smart to build a team around a manager since their positive impact is arguably negligible and in this town they tend to not be around too long in the first place. Trying to tailor a team to "small ball" is up there with the myopic quests to "catch the ball better," "get more speed" or "get more left handed."
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I never said he was one-dimensional. I said he was too reliant on small ball, something this team is nowhere near being equipped to pull off. The Cubs have had their most success over the last decade when they kept the "small ball" to a minimum. The "small ball" teams that win it all seem to never actually be about the small ball and actually win it due to power, timely hitting and great pitching.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    No need to be flippant. I thought this was a pretty tame and decent discussion going on. And it was an excellent way to point out the fallacy of assuming that small ball was responsible for the Diamondbacks' WS or their offensive output that year. No, an excellent way would be to tell me in detail why you hold your opinion. The moustache comment was flippant. It's an analogy. Why don't you and ChiCubsFan start detailing how small ball won the WS for the Diamondbacks?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    No need to be flippant. I thought this was a pretty tame and decent discussion going on. And it was an excellent way to point out the fallacy of assuming that small ball was responsible for the Diamondbacks' WS or their offensive output that year.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, you mean a manager who is aggressive and plays smart baseball? That's a problem? :scratch: Lots of sac bunts, steals, and hits and runs is not smart baseball. It's usually dumb baseball. I just caught this comment. What a stupid viewpoint. No offense, but seriously, that's stupid. I'm sick and tired of people deferring ONLY to sabr and totally discounting things like bunts, steals, the small things in the game. The 2009 Cubs are one of the laziest, stupidest, most fundamentally [expletive] teams I've ever witnessed. How in the blue hell could things get any worse by steering the offense away from the K or 3R HR mentality? Seriously, I get so pissed off reading comments like this. I don't understand it. Help me understand. You guys realize we play in the NL right? There is huge value to all those "dumb baseball" strategies like steals, bunting, etc. Have you watched the Dodgers this year? Did you watch the Rays this year or last? Have you watched the Cubs this year? Yea. There really isn't huge value. They have their place. But being extreme about it, like Baylor was and Brenly would be, is dumb. It runs you into outs. Right. Use those plays and tactics when it's smart, not to blatant excess.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    of course not. but if you honestly think that the moves hendry made in the offseason are bad enough to have wrecked this season, you're nuts. when the entire of core of an offense inexplicably sucks and is injured, you're not going to win games. that's my point. hendry did make some bad moves, but they are not the reason this team is so painful to watch right now. Granted, some things likely would have played out the same, like Soriano to this point, Aramis' injury and Fukudome regressing yet again. But on the flipside of that, it's a pretty safe bet that Dunn's production would be much more than Bradley's to this point and DeRosa clearly would have outperformed Miles and Fontenot.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not going to assume Bob's opinions on Len, but simply based on what Bob talks about in the booth it doesn't sound like he's budged much, if at all, from his old philosophies.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Agreed. I'm of course happy to see him coming back, but given the limited number of games before the ASB he'd be able to play in and the nature of his injury I'd prefer if they just waited until after the break.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Baseball managers can do more harm to the team, than they can actually help the team... This. That's why I don't buy into the rants people have that scream that Lou needs to "do something." If anything the best managers are successful because they don't try to manage everything. Going nuts with lineup shifts and double switches and hits and runs and steals and sac bunts and all that crap is usually the reuslt of overmanaging.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Pretty much. He went nuts with that stuff when he was actually managing.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Agreed, but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea to settle for a manager who does it too often like Brenly.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Likely managerial candidates: Alan Trammel Bob Brenly Larry Rothschild Ryne Sandberg Steve Stone? Davey Johnson? Willie Randolph I'm sure there are some young candidates I'm not thinking of, but this would be the primary group, I suspect. Jody Davis. ANy chance Bobby Valentine could be persuaded to come back to our side of the pond? He'd be an interesting choice. I don't remember enough about his tendencies to know how I'd feel about him. I've always liked his personality, though. Me too. In no way do I think he'd be a lock to be a good choice, but he's definitely one that interests me if he can be pursuaded. There's always the dream hire of Larry Dierker, but that's not gonna happen.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    It's stupid when the options for "anyone" are Sam Fuld or Reed "even worse than Fukudome against righties" Johnson.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    And you just assume the players Brenly would want (which aren't necessarily anyone they could get) would be good? Not hard to best the group of bums he just mentioned. I think Brenly is very baseball smart and he certainly knows what the expectations are here. After the ownership issue is settled, I'd can Lou and give Bob a chance. Well, you clearly just have an old school way of looking at things that favors giving away outs.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    And you just assume the players Brenly would want (which aren't necessarily anyone they could get) would be good? And why do you assume that he'd upend the team or even be able to? It's not like managers come in and get all, most or even some of the players they want.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Fontenot was by no means a lock and wasn't going to repeat his numbers from last year over a full season but it was a good gamble to think he'd put up at least serviceable numbers in a 2B platoon.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    It's one thing to do a major shakeup (DLing Soriano and playing Hoff instead, etc.) and doing a stupid shakeup (benching Fukudome for Fuld, calling up Taguchi, etc.).
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Why not? Because Brenly was a pretty bad manager who rode an amazing starting rotation to a WS. I'm not saying this as a fan of Lou because I was not a big fan of hiring him in the first place, but I definitely do not want Brenly. Bob seems like good people and I really like him as the color guy but I do not want him managing the Cubs. I'm very curious if people wanting Brenly managing now wanted him for the job back after 2006. Wanting Brenly just screams of change for the sake of change. Plus, let's be clear: if Lou quits or is fired before the end of the season Trammel will finish the job.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    The thing is, on paper, Hendry didnt put together a bad team, not this bad anyway. Granted, he over paid for these players, but they're still good players that should be scoring runs. Theres no point firing Hendry now, not until the off season anyway. Its not like firing him will undo the moves he made. I agree with this completely. Definitely. If Hendry is to be fired the time to do it is in the offseason. And I really hope to God that anyone who wants Lou fired seriously does not want Brenly to replace him.
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