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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, it was an unfortunately horrendous way to start, but I think he can be a really useful part of the bullpen. A trio of Marmol, Guzman and Ascanio on their game would be nasty.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    What were you going to sign him to do? Play him in LF, play Sori in RF. I'll live with the defense for the epic production.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Carlos Lee is great. I'll always regret not signing him.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    If the Cubs make the playoffs and get swept again, what would your reaction be? "Oh well, it's just a crapshoot, go get 'em next time fellas..."? No, ideally you want to make improvements where possible, but drastic sweeping changes aren't needed given the regular season success this team has had for the last two seasons. 6 games do not outweigh 324. Please, since you've yet to do it, spell out what steps you would take to make this team playoff ready.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    No kidding. He's talking about the playoffs like they're radically different from the other 162 games. You can't plan for a player to do well during them so much as you could plan for a player to do well during a single week at any other point during the year. Teams have bad games. Players have bad games. The Cubs have had the misfortune of playing bad games during the last two playoff runs. That's really all there is to it. Changing the players doesn't lower or raise the odds of it happening again.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    You can find plenty of stretches during the season where the best Cubs hitters put up "disturbing" numbers or "don't show up at all." Sometimes those stretches fall at the worst possible times. Not too much you can do about it except to keep putting together a team that can win the regular season and then set them loose in the playoffs. You can't train or order a player to do well in the tiny span of games that is the first round. They either do or they don't. So far they haven't, but that has little bearing on how they'll do if they go again this year.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    The curve was looking mighty fine on BT.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    But he actually hasn't been awful game after game.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    And then...? You keep dancing around it, but you're essentially suggesting that the team needs to be rebuilt or that the Cubs could target guys who would be locks to succeed in the uniqueness of the Cubs' postseason situation. Neither is practical or realistic at all.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I would have been overjoyed by that line from him towards the end of his time here. Hope he can keep it up and get back in it.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, Gregg [expletive] the bed today, but God only knows why Lou wasn't getting someone up after the 3rd hit. I don't care if he's being pissy over the bullpen...the guy out there clearly has nothing and you're still better off getting a fresh arm in there regardless of how shaky the bullpen has been.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I completely agree with this logic. But it leads me to ask, if it's a "hot/cold" thing, why do the Cubs key hitters consistentyly end up on the cold side of the equation? For example, when looking at a simple stat of a lead off man, Soriano has a .125 OBP the last two post seasons for the Chicago Cubs. His job at the top is to get on base. He has failed in a freakishly spectacular fashion, perhaps setting an overall tone of futility from the first pitch of the series. Ramirez, the Cubs most consistent run producer and "clutch" hitter in the regular season goes compeltely ice cold under the pressure. His OBP is .163 with *zero* rbi's and three total bases the past two post seasons. Soriano also has three total bases and zero RBI. There's "going cold", and then there is a very bleak and recognizable pattern from your best hitters when the post season pressure is on. You're overstating the "recognizable pattern" aspect of this. It's 6 games. Besides, if you think this is a pressure thing, what player exists out there that knows how to deal with the "pressure" of more than a century without a WS and 9 consecutive playoff losses? This mythical playoff superman doesn't exist. That best you can hope for is put together a very good team that can get you there in the first place and hope for the best.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    False. Hes had 11 outings without giving up a run and 7 with giving up a run. Right hand hitters are getting on base against him at a .375 clip, thats not good, and has to be a concern. I understand hes pitched well in May up until this point, but hes not reliable. He gets the job done enough to keep the better relievers in more useful spots.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    False.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Pulling Gregg from the closer's spot isn't the right answer.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    QFT.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I remember last year you kept defending Howry pretty hard too TT. And if Gregg ends being as consistently bad as Howry ended up being, there's a problem. If he's going to keep having a bunch of strong outings and then one bad one, eh, it happens.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    No.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    God bless his lack of modulation.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Nicely done, Sori and Scales.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Then Theroid heroics?
  22. Sammy Sofa
    wait i thought you didn't care. Ok we get it, you dont like Cyno, but do you really need to try and antagonize him all the time? Yes.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Your blog on this is going to be fierce.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    They could lose the game. And that's about it.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    The meltdown here is going to be delicious. Don't let me down.
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