Sammy Sofa

This thread is a douchebag.

I was on the fence about Novoa, but he's been stinking it up left and right. With the numbers Wuertz is putting up in the minors, there's no logical excuse to not have him up here.

There's very few that I don't want to see do well...mostly crusty old veterans who are mediocre at best who get way too much playing time. But as a whole, I don't wish any of them ill...a player is player. They can't help it if they were put together on a poorly planned team.

The Riot and Murton in? Awesome. Jones (yeah, I know why), Walker and Barrett sitting? Woof. This is gonna be ugly unless Lee and Aramis miracuously bring the big bats.

The middle relief on the Mets is actually better then Trachsel. Doesn't anyone on the Cubs remember when Trachs pitched for the team? The way to beat him is to take pitches, even strikes. He gets frustrated deep in counts and throws gopher balls...and lets not forget how terrible he is out of the stretch if you actually get runners on. Now I understand against great pitchers you want to be aggressive, but Steve is the type of pitcher that you hit hard between pitches 70-100; 13 pitches in two innings against him is criminal. God, this is so true. Lee worked him like a pro...when he finally walked, the pitches weren't even close.

Yes. As if 1969, 1984, 1989, 2003 were any easier to take than the ball going thru Buckner's legs?? IMO that was the worst, b/c the Red Sox were 1 strike away. Yeah, the Sox choked often, but really, who in their right mind ever thought of them as a "bad team?" The Red Sox regularly made the playoffs and went to the WS a number of times...they just couldn't seal the deal. But they were still respected as a good and often great team at the end of the day, season after season. The Cubs, on the other hand, have had some flukey good seasons, and that's it. They're not respected at all. They have had respected players...they have a respected stadium. Hell, the scoreboard is more respected than the team itself. The team is a joke, year in and year out, with a few exceptions here or there...not that those exceptions matter, since they faithfully enforce the joke the next year, without fail.

Dusty's here at least until the end of the year, period.

Cedeno was really propped up on his defense going into this year? Man, where the hell was I? I was flat-out terrified of seeing him hurl over to 1st and actually ended up being relieved when he didn't suck as much as I had assumed. Doesn't mean he's great or even good, but I was expecting a LOT worse and expected to see Neifi fulltime at SS by June.

Zambrano is the only person left on this team worth watching. I heart Z!!!!!!!

I don't think he's terrible, but he's definitely not the answer at SS if this organization doesn't wise the hell up and drastically improve the OF. If we have mashing corner guys out there, I have no problem with Cedeno getting his sea legs in the Cubs' infield.

I bought great seats for Saturday's game before the season started for my dad as his Christmas gift. Guess I should have just punched him in the throat instead. He got tickets to the other 2 games in the series from clients, so we're seeing all 3...what the heck, it's (barely) baseball and 2 of the games are free (the 1st one behind home plate and with free food, too!), so off we go. Other than that, only Cubs game I've been to this year was opening day at Wrigley. Oh, how different things looked then.

Neifi would have made that play fron 2nd or SS. *Sighs*

As will I. Look for the guy dressed in black with a bag on his head.

I've been using the same sig since I got here, but I've been debating making it something new...thoughts? http://home.comcast.net/~bob80/RFnetMojo2.jpg

That post is a maniac.

I am in full support of your brilliant time machine proposal.

Oh, Lord, YES. I caught them playing a snippet of him sitting along the river in Pittsburgh playing Oasis' "Wonderwall" with a guy on the sax and I swear my TV started crying. That album of his...I can't stop shaking!

That horse don't fish, dude.

Or to put it in even more simple terms...none of us WANT Hendry back, but, short of a miracle, we're resigned to the fact we HAVE to have him back.

Good news... good news! Why not skip this turn of the rotation, just to give him a few extra days and make 100% there is nothing there? How many times have we heard from the Cubs training and medical staffs that player X is OK and then a week later they end up on the DL because they were not sure of the extent of the injury. What if he alters his mechanics slightly because of the pain, and ends up really hurting himself? I see no drawback whatsoever of skipping his turn, and a huge possibility for trouble. QF-effin'-T. What is possibly worth it this season to risk a guy like Z? Give him an extra rotation off, big deal. Learn from your past mistakes, you dumb $#&^^$^$@$!@@$$#$#'s!!!

How you like that Fungo?!?

Nothing will happened. The "evaluating" comment was said in a booze-induced frenzy and has been completely forgotten at this point.

Wait, wait, wait...all you said is that "he'll never be a successful manager." That implies that as a manager of a baseball team, he will not succeed. Your team winning the WS flies completely in the face of that. Now, question his statements and his attitude and his temper, etc., that's totally different. No, his success doesn't give him a license to do and say whatever he wants. But you cannot argue that he has not had tremendous success as a manager. And what does Dusty have to do with any of this? None of that has anything to do with whether Ozzie is a successful manager, which he has been and which he still is. Let's see if I can untangle this...you hypothetically ask whether or not I'd be as mad at Dusty as I am now had the Cubs won in 2003, ignoring the fact that a WINNING Cubs team in 2003 drastically changes the face of any Cubs team afterwards. But if we want to do this in ridiculous over-simplified terms, yes, I would be ticked off at how bad the team was last year and this even if they had won in '03. Hell, probably even more so since they won the friggin' WS in 2003 and then less than 2 years later turn into one of the worst teams in baseball. Now what the hell does any of that have to do with Ozzie his success as a manager? The White Sox don't stink...in fact, a lot of people think they're even better than last year. Where exactly is he not succeeding AS A MANAGER?

*Stands* *Slow claps*

Well, I'm 27, and as much as I slam the ASG every year, I end up watching it and get all mushy and starstruck seeing that many great ballplayers together, so I guess I'm just a big ol' kid.