Sammy Sofa
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Imagine how disappointing the return will be when the Bulls trade him in a few years.
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You guys are quite the tally-whackers.
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The star, the pizza man and the commish
Sammy Sofa replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Does it say only one somewhere? HAHA no. I kept reading it as "one Papa John's pizza only." Given how absurd the package prices are as-is, I guess my brain wanted it to be true. That would have been too merciful. -
The star, the pizza man and the commish
Sammy Sofa replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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He will be if he continues to stink, unfortunately. I think he had a lot of goodwill carry over this year that won't last.
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Which is exactly why the whole thing is stupid. Every team has big holes because of free agency. For the love of... THIS EXERCISE IN EXACTLY WHAT IT SAID IT WAS THAT CLEARLY TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THAT NO TEAM HAS MADE ANY PLAYER MOVES VEXES ME GREATLY. Serious question: who is going to be genuinely bothered when these lists start coming out closer to the season if the Cubs aren't regularly in the top 5?
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The Cubs have Hendricks and Quintana, whatever the hell 34-year old Lester is going to be, and Montgomery the swingman, and essentially no pitching depth. But yes, saying that the starting rotation MIGHT be a liability is beyond the pale, I guess.
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I'm just apparently one of the very few that actually read the headline: OH MY, THE SLANDER!
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Definitely nitpicking, but I wouldn't put the Cubs behind the Yankees, Red Sox and DBacks. All those teams have legitimate question marks. Yankees, I agree...Red Sox and Diamondbacks, not necessarily. But basically it's a tight, interchangable bunch in the top 3, and then the next 5 are also teams that can be moved around within those groups and not really be all that "wrong."
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I think 8th is fair, I was just annoyed at him being a lazy douche. Starting with him basing the top of his rankings on 1 game. He would have had the Dodgers #1 if they had won last night, and the Indians (who should probably be #1) are only #3 because of a 5 game series. It's pretty obvious the top 3 on that list, especially right now, are basically interchangeable. so griping about which of them is technically #1 is REALLY splitting some hairs. It's ridiculous to think that the Cubs' pitching situation right now at the time this list was made is really comparable with almost all of the teams ahead of them. You guys are getting really worked up over a really early power ranking based on how the teams are made up RIGHT NOW that has the Cubs as one of the best teams in baseball.
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That's a lot of reading between the lines for an early power ranking that, again, has them #8 in all of baseball and #4 in the NL. Personally, I don't think ranking the Cubs behind several teams who are almost all in better shape with their pitching right now is some kind of terrible slight.
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While all you say is true, I think it’s more that with 30-40M to spend, declaring the situation bleak is premature and trying to declare it anything at all at this point is an exercise in futility. But who is declaring it "bleak?" Again, he ranked them #8! People are just pointing out that that the pitching has at least a semi-realistic chance of being a liability. It didn't come across to me at all (nor am I saying) that the starting pitching is doomed, but there IS significant work to be done (and yes, I'm hopeful the FO will come through with both a choice signing and a trade), and I think basically just assuming that the starting pitching will be fine is being more than a tad overconfident. I mean, is it that much of a reach to think that 34-year old Jon Lester is kind of a big question mark?
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He simply stated the Cubs have to replace 2 guys in the starting rotation, which they do. Pointing out Lester's age and how their starting rotation situation can, ominously, turn into a liability relatively quickly doesn't seem like too crazy a stretch. Being ranked #8 isn't some kind of crazy slap in the face for a team that has some real work to do with its starting pitching (yes, I know this will likely lead to a flood of posts about how I shouldn't worry about the starting rotation because: FO).
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Better offense, worse defense, lower WAR...profit?
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STRAIGHT ACROSS. http://scottsutton.net/wp-content/uploads/sunny05.gif
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Limit it to one per inning and get a pitch clock and, man, you got a stew goin'.
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Eh; none of that seems too egregious.
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As god as my witness, Brian McCann needs to get run over by a horsefeathering tractor before getting to win a WS.
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Starting weekend games no earlier than 7 PM EST is dumb as horsefeathers.
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The games have started at 5 PM Los Angeles time, what the hell do you want from them? An hour earlier. And weekend games should be WAY earlier.
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They literally have since 1992.
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They can' really start it any earlier than 5 Pacific. The problem is the games are going north of 4 hours. Why can't they start it earlier than 5 PT? 76% of the US population lives in the eastern or central time zone. Start the game at 4 PT IMO Yeah, a long WS/playoff game isn't an unusual thing, so starting them any later than 7 PM EST is just dumb.
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Owner of the Cubs, yet he can't go full bar? #PTR lives...
