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  1. Sammy Sofa
    He and Bryant have lucky magic underpants, don't they?
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Any Astros haters here are just jealous fat babies. My Astros hate instantly vanished when they joined the AL. I treat them like an expansion team or something. It helps that they were in the middle of a rebuild when it happened though, if this was still the Berkman/Pence Astros I'd still hate them. Yeah, once they flipped it was like they never existed in the NL for me. It always felt like such a forced part of the division to begin with.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, I'll be rooting for the AL regardless in the WS. My order is Astros Red Sox Yankees Dodgers Brewers I get the Astros hate but for some reason I don't really have it. They've been in the AL for 6 years and were mediocre at best their last 7 years in the NL (08 at 86-75 was their only solid year). And they generally go out there and hit a lot of dongs. Any Astros haters here are just jealous fat babies.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    I agree, but this year they proved that Schwarber or Happ were the only primary options, and if they don't add someone to fix that this offseason, we're probably getting that again. Which is gross. Well, sure, if the Cubs inexplicably make no change to the OF besides signing Harper, despite having 3 guys between Happ, Schwarber and Heyward who can't hit lefties, then yes, having only Schwarber or Happ in LF would indeed suck.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I'm really not sure how to reply to this hypothetical binary idea that the Cubs are locked into having LF covered by only Schwarber or Happ going forward if both remain on the team. Nobody wants that, AND starting Schwarber full time isn't the answer.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I seriously doubt the Cubs' FO deemed Schwarber a platoon player over only 50 in-game PA's. It's almost certainly based on how he's been evaluated as a hitter outside of games as well; yeah, he only has 250 PA against lefties, yet the guy is rocking a remarkably consistent .275-ish BAbip against both righties and lefites, indicating this is likely just who he is. Combine that with his value arguably inflated by unsustainable defensive value and it doesn't really make, "start him just because Ian Happ is on the team," a terribly convincing argument. They don't have to start Happ instead of him.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, that's all? Jorge De La Rosa was our closer at the end of the year. We're starting from scratch. They can't afford to add 3-4 go-to bullpen guys. And they're not starting from scratch since some of those guys are coming back.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Rizzo had about 500 PA in his first couple of seasons and only just turned 23 after that second season; Schwarber already has over 1200 under his belt and is going to be 26 before next season. That .250 OPS chasm between facing lefties and righties likely ain't getting much better at this point.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Happ sucks against lefties, too; his splits are further argument that Joe is a horsefeathering dork when the obvious CF platoon was staring him in the face the ENTIRE horsefeathering TIME, not an endorsement of Schwarber getting more playing time.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Because he can't hit LH pitchers.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, that's all?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    He and the ball are both equally (and creepily) as shiny as each other.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Why will it become more of a challenge? ... Because the first few weeks are just going to be more and more of an issue of dealing with extended ending of winter-type conditions slamming right into rainy spring. Then summers are just getting hotter, plus throw in the chaos of climate change impacting rainfall and storm strengths. The upside, I guess, is that going long won't really be an issue since it stays warmer longer...but it would be really surprising if they don't look to somehow curtail or roll back the start of the season. I don't know if that's actually shortening the season, or going back to playing scheduled double headers or what, but something is going to have to change. What the Cubs dealt with this year will end up becoming the norm, or worse.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Well, if the Brewers just keep rolling, hopefully it'll just be that much more motivation for Theo and co. to take no prisoners in the offseason.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    If anything, nature is going to force it to happen eventually. Too many cold weather teams/teams without domes or retractable roofs means that the first month+ of the season is just going to become more and more of a challenge to schedule (and make up later in the season).
  16. Sammy Sofa
    That is interesting. I would do that. Pujols is worthless, so you’re basically paying $60M per to have Trout for the next two years and then paying $30M in 2021 for the privilege of having had Trout the two previous years. I wouldn’t give up much unless they were taking Heyward back, like just Almora or something. Value wise that might be pretty close to $/win. Also wouldn’t need to extend Trout in that scenario, just add him to the window of the next two years and reevaluate after that. But that's the point; there's essentially no way for the Cubs to make this work.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Literally the only way I could see the Angels even considering such a trade with the Cubs is if the Cubs were willing to take the rest of Pujols' contract as well.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    MAYBE a game-worn hat. Maybe.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    I think there'd be zero chance they could net him in a trade.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    It ain't my money, so I don't give a horsefeathers if they spend a buttload on a guy as cool and hot as Harper. But there's basically zero chance he'd be anywhere remotely close to being worth the whole thing, so hopefully he magically has a couple of those super seasons again and then opts out early on.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    the cubs top 30 is a cavalcade of who cares and who the horsefeathers is that guy Hey, quit stealing David's new sig.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I can hate no Dodger enough to not want to see WORLD SERIES CHAMPION PUIG.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    i agree, but didn't you love starlin long after those allegations? even when he sucked, i seem to remember everyone on here thinking he was fun and likable or whatever I was definitely way too willing to shrug that kind of thing off.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I was definitely way too willing to shrug that kind of thing off. That was certainly an easier thing to do given the circumstances. The police investigated it and determined that there wasn't enough evidence to charge him with a crime, and the accuser didn't come forward in any sort of public way. Just about every other major situation in since then across MLB and other sports has involved criminal charges, public evidence (e.g., photos or videos), public statements from accusers or a combination of the three. The Starlin case was similar to Jung Ho Kang's, which I admittedly forgot about until just now. Personally, I'm not placing too much faith in the Chicago police/justice system back in 2012 to look all that hard in taking down a Cubs player who, at the time, was looked at as a big part of the future of the franchise. Even just in "normal" sexual assault cases, too often charges or prosecution aren't pursued largely because if it comes down to what the victim says happens, then that's decided it's not enough. To me, this says it all what people's priorities were regarding an athlete accused of sexual assault 6 years ago: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-xpm-2012-04-20-chi-prosecutors-no-charges-for-starlin-castro-over-sex-assault-allegations-20120420-story.html
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I was definitely way too willing to shrug that kind of thing off.
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