Sammy Sofa

It's just one run. The Cubs are aready getting hits off of this guy, and they're gonna strike.

I prefer a non-stressful game where the Cubs take an early lead and never give it up.

Not necessarily. Zambrano usually drives hands-free thanks to "Li'l Big Z."

that's nothing, I was surrounded by 800 pound women at Old Country Buffet today You can't judge since you were there yourself.

So it did appear that he still had arms? He actually had 3, since the replacement arm is currently growing out of his back.

How anyone can identify and analyze trends when a guy plays 2 games a week is beyond me. Cedeno wasn't likely to hit like he did in April where he had a stretch of 10 days or so playing almost every day. But I don't think you can analyze his numbers over the last 2 months where he has to pick splinters out of his butt before each AB and draw any real conclusions. Agreed. Cedeno was hitting way over his head, but hasn't gotten any consistent playing time since.

Which is fine, but a .650-ish OPS has no place at the top of the order. I'd much rather have Fukudome 1st and DeRosa 2nd while Soriano is out.

I have no doubts about the "manliness" of soccer. I think soccer players are the most athletic athletes of all the major sports. I just think it's an incredibly boring sport for me to watch.

Yep. Although it can depend on the teams. The US v. Germany in Soccer probably won't have as many flops as any Duke home game in basketball. I played soccer for a long time and enjoy watching it quite a bit during big tournaments. I do thnk that it will never become mainstream in the US simply for the flopping factor. I mean, there's no reason for anybody to be writhing around in pain on the ground, get carried off on a stretcher and be back out on the field playing full bore 5 minutes later. It's just dumb. If that was eliminated, I think soccer would garner a lot more support and fans in the US. This happens so infrequently, hearing criticism of a sport based on this just aggravates me. Maybe it's just my perception, but I feel like I see fake near fatal injuries every game. Maybe I just watch too much Italy. It's probably a combination of perception and Italy. Selling a foul to get a card drawn is strategy in general, but the Italians take it to an extreme due to the historically defensive nature of Italian futbol. And as others have pointed out, there's plenty of actual constant foul selling in the NBA. When Kirk Hinrich runs into Al Jefferson and the latter falls like he was hit by sniper fire, isn't that worse? But we were discussing sports, the NBA has nothing to do with it. Ha cha cha cha cha. Ok then, how about a catcher framing a ball off the outside corner. Isn't that "selling" a strike call? Isn't his complaint based not out of the "fakeness" of the strategy, but how much time it takes up in soccer? What you just described doesn't take up much time at all unless the manager is coming out to argue it every time.

Yep. Although it can depend on the teams. The US v. Germany in Soccer probably won't have as many flops as any Duke home game in basketball. I played soccer for a long time and enjoy watching it quite a bit during big tournaments. I do thnk that it will never become mainstream in the US simply for the flopping factor. I mean, there's no reason for anybody to be writhing around in pain on the ground, get carried off on a stretcher and be back out on the field playing full bore 5 minutes later. It's just dumb. If that was eliminated, I think soccer would garner a lot more support and fans in the US. This happens so infrequently, hearing criticism of a sport based on this just aggravates me. Maybe it's just my perception, but I feel like I see fake near fatal injuries every game. Maybe I just watch too much Italy. It's probably a combination of perception and Italy. Selling a foul to get a card drawn is strategy in general, but the Italians take it to an extreme due to the historically defensive nature of Italian futbol. And as others have pointed out, there's plenty of actual constant foul selling in the NBA. When Kirk Hinrich runs into Al Jefferson and the latter falls like he was hit by sniper fire, isn't that worse? Hinrich does everything worse than every person ever.

Hey, are talking about the CUBS here?

Quite funny to see the Z melts down cause of bad defense being brought out after he recently calmly got about 8 outs in an inning(was that the 130 pitch game?) because the defense was so terrible. well that and what happened to BMAN89ROCZ His irrational hate towards Derosa was amazing. Also, those nicknames were incredible. When he got to "Genital Wuertz," I was willing to think he was just a REALLY dedicated board character.

Knock it out, Cubs.

What about Hill?

I actually still would like to get Greene, but nowhere near at what I was willing to give up at the time.

Damn. That is frustrating.

Walking Fukudome is good until you realize who is due up.

Come on...please...do this.

Shoot.

DO NOT SEND DEROSA.

Wasn't that the same pitch that was ball 1?

The scoring only 1 run with the bases loaded and no outs looms even larger.

FARK.

Wow, this ump is a nightmare.

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