Sammy Sofa

It's been sounding very much like Fukudome was signed here with the assurance he'll be playing RF. Until we hear otherwise, it's a huge stretch and terribly unlikely that we'll see him in CF. Any deal moving Pie must be countered with another deal to get a CFer.

It's more that these guys are pro athletes and likely not master, or even capable, criminals, and based on what this report is showing as to how a lot of these guys got their supplies, it surprises me that any of them would be able to do it seemingly as airtight as Sammy has done, if he was using. If he was, wouldn't he need to keep using whatever throughout the season at various points? I guess maybe he could just stock up in the DR if that was doable and then have enough for the season. It's more common in the other thread than this one. People there are continually "surprised Sammy was smart enough" for a variety of things. I'm guessing it's because he's an ELL. A lot of people assume "stupid" when they hear an accent and broken English, which has never made sense to me. Especially when it's likely Sammy has a better mastery of two languages than the majority of people on this board. completely, completely, completely agree. people hear that accent and think he must not be very smart. I guess that must be where it comes from. Hard to argue the man has built himself into a multi-millionaire from scratch. Not that it takes a genius to do that, but I think it's pretty clear he knows what he's doing. Hey -- he's smarter than some of these other guys who wrote checks in their own names, that's for sure. I don't think it's necessarily the accent. You can point to actions like the corking and leaving the final game of 2004 early as being very, VERY poor decisions and, arguably, very dumb decisions. That and the fact that Sammy actually speaks English rather well. He only chooses to go into the whole broken English thing when he is being confronted about things when broken English is a convenient diversion Yeah, but I'd argue that's actually an example of him being "smart." Needing an interpretor when he had to go testify in DC? Brilliant.

Considering analysts and journalists have already singled out his case as being one of the flimsiest in the report, I doubt it.

It's more that these guys are pro athletes and likely not master, or even capable, criminals, and based on what this report is showing as to how a lot of these guys got their supplies, it surprises me that any of them would be able to do it seemingly as airtight as Sammy has done, if he was using. If he was, wouldn't he need to keep using whatever throughout the season at various points? I guess maybe he could just stock up in the DR if that was doable and then have enough for the season. It's more common in the other thread than this one. People there are continually "surprised Sammy was smart enough" for a variety of things. I'm guessing it's because he's an ELL. A lot of people assume "stupid" when they hear an accent and broken English, which has never made sense to me. Especially when it's likely Sammy has a better mastery of two languages than the majority of people on this board. completely, completely, completely agree. people hear that accent and think he must not be very smart. I guess that must be where it comes from. Hard to argue the man has built himself into a multi-millionaire from scratch. Not that it takes a genius to do that, but I think it's pretty clear he knows what he's doing. Hey -- he's smarter than some of these other guys who wrote checks in their own names, that's for sure. I don't think it's necessarily the accent. You can point to actions like the corking and leaving the final game of 2004 early as being very, VERY poor decisions and, arguably, very dumb decisions.

My feelings also, pretty much. It sucks, but what can you do? Hey, anyone want my Prior road jersey? What size is it? How funky is it? Alright, I see I'm creating a windstorm. I'll send it to Laura to use as a future prize on NSBB. It's an XL and probably only worn 3 times. Windstorm? IT'S JUST ME!!! Dammit.

It's more that these guys are pro athletes and likely not master, or even capable, criminals, and based on what this report is showing as to how a lot of these guys got their supplies, it surprises me that any of them would be able to do it seemingly as airtight as Sammy has done, if he was using. If he was, wouldn't he need to keep using whatever throughout the season at various points? I guess maybe he could just stock up in the DR if that was doable and then have enough for the season.

The investigation seems to focus heavily on the California teams and the northeastern teams, mainly due to their locality to the major steroid investigations so far. I have a fealing if the invesitgations focused more on the rest of the country, Sammy might not look so clean.

My feelings also, pretty much. It sucks, but what can you do? Hey, anyone want my Prior road jersey? What size is it? How funky is it?

Robots aren't allowed to vote. Go back to stealing old people's pills for fuel wih your cold, cold metal claws. I keep trying to think of a witty response, but I got nothing. Must be all that xanax I'm stealing from the old folks home up the street. http://youtube.com/watch?v=X0GGfJVOlI0&feature=related

You're honestly saying that these are false identities that fooled this government investigation? All of the players are easily researched through Baseball-Reference.com, Wikipedia, Google and a number of other online sources. They're all real. This is an absurd theory.

Wow. You're very strange.

Robots aren't allowed to vote. Go back to stealing old people's pills for fuel wih your cold, cold metal claws.

You're wrong, a liar and a stupidhead.

That game was so awesome. Floyd was nothing special, but that's easily one of my favorite Cubs moments in my lifetime.

Nobody should be kept out by anything that the league wasn't saying no to at the time it was done. Hell, the Black Sox should be in.

Fukudome's not going to be the regular CFer. Bet on it.

Well, la-dee-dah, God of the Interwebs.

Who cares if he was only average? I'll happily pay an averae pitcher $3-5 million a year as opposed to more for a crappy pitcher, something this team has done plenty of times. And "forget all these small numbers?" What the hell does that even mean?

You're wrong. It means he's a piss poor ninny who should be dealt immediately. What kind of pansy has a higher ERA with guys on base? I'll tell you what kind, a documented steroid abuser. Funny how you revert to this type of a point when you can't prove me wrong. 'Cuse, it's going to be impossible to prove you wrong, because if he's getting rocked, his numbers will suck because he's getting rocked. You've constructed a circular argument. No I haven't USS. What I'm asking is what numbers prove when he is struggling how he reacts to that. Prior has had success his whole life and is used to things going his way pitching wise. My point is when he doesn't have that success, how he reacted or performed when he was failing. I've worked with many pitchers in my life and I've seen and actually been there when some of them that when things are going well, they're fine. But, when they get hit hard their confidence changes. It's my opinion that Prior was like this. Now, I've had kids that were just as good but wouldn't give an inch at any time. Again, it's my opinion. I'd argue that the majority of pitchers who give up 4 runs or more in a game likely aren't in it long enough to hold it down.

Cuse, seriously, this argument is self-defeating. It makes no sense to push it.

It's hard not to look at him when his mutant melon blots out the sun.

HIGH FIVE!!!

That card only makes me want to punish Sammy for Soul-Glo abuse.

It's kind of weird that nobody seems able to bust him. Seriously...we're talking about Sammy-freakin'-Sosa, and he he keeps making out like the Teflon Slugger.

[Hendry]DONE. See you guys in February![/Hendry]