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  1. Sammy Sofa
    That was clearly a ball, but the ump just didn't want to prolong the fake rally. It was a mercy killing.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    I hate this park.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    I may be wrong, but I think roids and hgh are illegal without a prescription because they can be very, very harmful if taken incorrectly. Or do you mean against baseball rules, rather than illegal? The hypothetical I'd put out there to the people determined to railroad steroid users is whether or not they'd be OK with PED's down the line that work in effect like the banned substances do (increased power, less DL time, etc.) but are ultimately not as harmful as they are now, if at all, and are legal. Would those be OK or would those be tainting the game? Let's say the health risks have been lowered to the point that they're legal if a doctor approves their use. Not all athletes are able to or willing to use them, but they're out there. Should those be allowed? HGH is legal by prescription now, in some form. There was a guy in my grade school that was on it b/c he had mild dwarfism. If you have a valid prescription for HGH but are good enough to play MLB, then you should get an exception. I hate to fight the hypo, but it seems far fetched. I don't think it's too far fetched to think that down the line supplements that have similar effects to banned PED's but without many of the health risks will emerge.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    This seems so much more frustrating than the other bad stretch. It didn't seem like they were getting nearly this many guys on base before.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months...what's the difference? Nobody thought he wasn't going to blow another save. When it happened is meaningless. Just don't be surprised when it keeps happening. Over, and over, and over. Wait, you're predicitng that Kevin Gregg will have more blown saves this year? Gee, I wonder if they call you "swami."
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Improve the offense, less close games to toss to the bullpen. That's not saying the bullpen can't be improved, but focusing on the bullpen as THE problem seems to be trying to put out the brush fire while your house is a blazing inferno.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Hit the ball at a bad third baseman?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I may be wrong, but I think roids and hgh are illegal without a prescription because they can be very, very harmful if taken incorrectly. Or do you mean against baseball rules, rather than illegal? Yes, I meant against baseball rules. and if it's the harmful argument...if sometime in the future, steroids become as safe as lasic surgery, should they then become legal in baseball? Hell yes. I'm hoping it's just a stepping stone to cyborgs.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Fox just barely beat out a triple play. Hysterical.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I may be wrong, but I think roids and hgh are illegal without a prescription because they can be very, very harmful if taken incorrectly. Or do you mean against baseball rules, rather than illegal? The hypothetical I'd put out there to the people determined to railroad steroid users is whether or not they'd be OK with PED's down the line that work in effect like the banned substances do (increased power, less DL time, etc.) but are ultimately not as harmful as they are now, if at all, and are legal. Would those be OK or would those be tainting the game? Let's say the health risks have been lowered to the point that they're legal if a doctor approves their use. Not all athletes are able to or willing to use them, but they're out there. Should those be allowed?
  11. Sammy Sofa
    I'd rather not see stats on your warm and fuzzy feelings. :D I think Gregg is pretty average for a closer. I'd like to upgrade, but I just don't think most would be worth the cost. Totally agree. In no way is Gregg someone I ideally want closing, or even necessarily on the team, but given the way things have shaped up he's average and serviceable enough to avoid having to overpay for an impact midseason bullpen acquisition. Scrambling to replace him or "fix" bullpen ultimately just wastes parts that can potentially be used to help the offense, which is going to lose the Cubs far more critical games than the bullpen would over the rest of the season.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months...what's the difference? Nobody thought he wasn't going to blow another save. When it happened is meaningless.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Reliable enough, yes. I like how you bumped this as if people were saying Gregg would never blow another save for the rest of the season.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    He's not, and that's been broken down repeatedly for you, but feel free to keep flogging that.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    No offense to Olemisscub who posted the article, but what a load of crap. Totally disregarding the fact that at least one of the scant examples used by the author would hardly be considered performance enhancing ( I don't think many would champion being drunk as a performance enhancer), the author goes on to name a few players who " once took an amphetamine", or were using pain medication for an injury, in a span covering 100+ years, and tries to compare it to over 100 people who were proven to have used performance and body altering drugs in a single season. Not at all convincing in my opinion. He could have at least brought up Dock Ellis pitching while tripping on LSD or something. It's not a direct comparison. The piece is pointing out how the cheating "line" is still so blurry. Even if you're going to declare modern steroids and PED's to be the end-all-be-all, then where on the scale does cheating become OK? The article tries to make it a direct comparison, IMO. It's eloquently stated nonsense. I have no problem drawing a line between systematic, concentrated steroid use and a few uppers. It's not nonsense. Again, where is the line drawn? How much cheating is OK, and what cheating is OK?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    What's the timeline of those blown saves? Piecing it together: 04/10-Gregg 04/16-Heilman 04/18-Marmol 04/30-Marmol 05/08-Heilman 05/16-Heilman 05/25-Cotts 06/02-Gregg 06/07-Heilman 06/20-Marmol 06-23-Gregg The Cubs are 4-7 in games where there has been a blown save. Good relievers or not, the Cubs are going to have several blown saves if they're asked to protect a 1 run lead most nights. They are playing way too many close games to not have a few trickle away from them. Exactly. Looking for outside help for the bullpen ignores the larger problem of improving the offense. More close games = games blown by the bullpen.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    What's the timeline of those blown saves?
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Funk dat, blue.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Hah! Bob: "One of the STUPIDEST pitches I've ever seen a team throw."
  20. Sammy Sofa
    What the fudge, that was smoked.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    No offense to Olemisscub who posted the article, but what a load of crap. Totally disregarding the fact that at least one of the scant examples used by the author would hardly be considered performance enhancing ( I don't think many would champion being drunk as a performance enhancer), the author goes on to name a few players who " once took an amphetamine", or were using pain medication for an injury, in a span covering 100+ years, and tries to compare it to over 100 people who were proven to have used performance and body altering drugs in a single season. Not at all convincing in my opinion. He could have at least brought up Dock Ellis pitching while tripping on LSD or something. It's not a direct comparison. The piece is pointing out how the cheating "line" is still so blurry. Even if you're going to declare modern steroids and PED's to be the end-all-be-all, then where on the scale does cheating become OK?
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Do you disagree? I do. All sorts of players have bent rules, including taking illegal substances, to gain an edge, throughout history and many of them are in the HOF. Yes, but not all of them were caught. It is different in a case like Sosa's where reportedly there is proof that he was cheating by taking illegal substances. Proof he was using in 2003. Now, I'm not realistically saying that it was likely he wasn't using when he was at his peak, but when you look at it rationally, why does getting caught for something in one season automatically negate your numbers from other seasons?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I'd like for Soriano to be the DH guy the next 6 games. You gotta let him try and hit his way out of this, plus it hopefully helps him ease up on his knee a bit.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    It would definitely be a surprise since it's not even remotely close to being true.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    If Gameday said it was a bad pitch then Gameday was off. He painted the outside corner perfectly against a rookie up in that situation. why does it matter if it's a rookie? if it's a strike it's a strike. It matters in how the pitcher is going to approach the batter. I wasn't bringing up Fox being a rookie in terms of the call. I was bringing it up in terms of it being a perfect pitch to lock up a rookie hitter in an 0-2 count.
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