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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Good god. He might as well be the poster boy for my anti-shorts crusade.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    The Bears suck at VR, too.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Go with Vlad. AL MVP, 9 All-Star games, 2500 hits, 450 HR, Lifetime 140 OPS+, 10 100+ RBI years. Admittedly, his 59.3 WAR is on the lower end of HOFers, but the dude could mash and was so much fun to watch. Throughout his career my gut always told me this guy was a HOFer, so I'm going with it. It came down to picking between him and Walker with my final vote. I went with Walker, even though it felt so, so wrong.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Hell, who voted for Manny and seemingly not any of the other big names?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    I'm not really penalizing steroid users, maybe if it was a decision between 2 guys and one was admitted user it would tip the scales the other way, but if I was penalizing more, Sheffield and Sosa are the two guys that I'm not convinced are HOFers if healthy. Sheffield had HOF talent and I think had a HOF worthy career at the plate. Obviously his defense was bad most of his career which should be a knock against him. But the reason I'm not convinced he's a HOFer without steroids is because IIRC he could not stay healthy for a majority of his 20's and then all the sudden from age 28-38 he played at least 130 games every year. We don't know when he started taking steroids but he admitted to taking them in his 30s so you can make a link. Sosa we don't need to go into great detail about. He had a lot of talent but holes in his game until he took off and became one of the games prolific players for a 6-8 year stretch. Sammy's in the top 10 HR hitters of all time. Call it simplistic, call it meatball-y, but that alone should be more than enough.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Who the horsefeathers voted for Lee Smith? It's not the Hall of horsefeathering Awesome Hair.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    http://i.giphy.com/hNmaZtvOzG1pe.gif
  8. Sammy Sofa
    My head said no, but my heart wouldn't allow me to leave him off my ballot. Same here, though I can't go back and add him because of SHAM POLL.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    I can't change my votes? SHAM POLL.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive], I'm so torn on Vlad.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    http://i.giphy.com/FZwTdrtXn6a52.gif
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    Agreed; I remember even thinking at the time that the narrative of him being overused seemed pretty ridiculous. I mean, if the guy can't handle that workload in those circumstances, then he's not really worth what it would take to sign him long term. Hell, it was disappointing that he couldn't even be used liked the rented player he was given how many times he fucked up.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    He's kinda got Neifi-butt.
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  15. Sammy Sofa
    Shame on the NFL media guy for filming in portrait.
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  17. Sammy Sofa
    Soler status: still outrageously handsome, despite his terrible ensemble.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    So a typical Bears game then.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    BULL VS. NOBULL FIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHT
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Exactly. If you choose to sell your tickets that way, hey, more power to you. But if you get busted and lose your tickets, well, that should just be an assumed risk.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Who cares what I think I am providing? The secondary market makes tickets available to people who otherwise wouldn't have access to them. You have provided nothing to contradict this. The above poster stated the issue correctly: In a world where demand exceeds supply, there are two systems: (1) The first to purchase them may not re-sell them; (2) The first to purchase them may re-sell them. Your approach is Option (1). That would cut out hundreds of thousands of fans from bidding on tickets in the secondary market. My approach is Option (2). Hundreds of thousands of fans have access to them as a result and I get paid the difference between what the Cubs charged and what these fans decide is an appropriate amount to pay. Convince me using rational argument that your approach is the fairer. Why do people who have access to scalped tickets not have access to buying them otherwise? The same number of people can go to each game regardless of how many times the tickets change hands, so you're not making more tickets available or anything along those lines; the same number of tickets are available to people who want to buy them whether you are selling them or not.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    He's talking like nobody has access to them unless he sells them; someone else owning them doesn't mean they're "unavailable;" it means someone bought them first. He's not making hard to buy things any more available; whether the tickets were bought from the Cubs, someone just looking to unload something they can't use or scalpers like him, the end result is exactly the same, and the availability of the tickets is the same. He's not adding anything to the process besides an extra person making money off of them.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    There are about 41,300 seats at Wrigley Field. People were willing to pay $3,500 for crappy upper level seats to Game 1. The scarcity of tickets relative to the demand for them is what dictated those prices. I don't know what the actual number of fans who wanted to attend one of the games was. I'm guessing it was easily over a million, though. Regardless, it turns out that the evil scalpers may have provided a way for some of these fans to attend the first WS in 71 years who would otherwise be locked out. The suggestion that brokers don't make otherwise-unavailable tickets available to fans doesn't pass the laugh test. That's precisely what they do, and why people are willing to pay the high prices. Unless you think there's some sort of scalper monopoly cartel out there. Hmm.... They're not unavailable tickets, you loon; you keep talking like you're providing tickets that wouldn't be used unless you provided the generous service of selling them as a scalper.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Unless you're somehow making extra tickets appear out of thin air, you might have wanted to mull that one over a few more times.
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