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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Ok, so I'm not saying this is the only cause, but taken in conjunction with the Rizzo quote about not stealing signs, it would explain why the Cubs players didn't seem to benefit as much as others. I mean there’s literally been studies showing the ball is materially different which would lead it to going further (lower seams, different “pill”, wound tighter, etc). Maybe sign stealing exasperated it like the swing/approach change, launch angle focus, but the ball being different is still the driver. PROBABLY THE SAME SCIENTISTS THAT MADE UP GLOBAL WARMING.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Man, I am Mr. Everybody IS Cheating, So horsefeathers It, but this is just comically sloppy and greedy. Astros' mission statement: LET'S DO ALL OF THE CHEATING
  3. Sammy Sofa
    WHO COULD ARGUE WITH RAFAE-I MEAN, RIZZO SAYING IT LIKE THAT?!?
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Start the Rizzo trade thread, I guess.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    It's so insanely depressing that the Cubs inexplicably went back to see Trump, too. WHY DO THEY SUCK SO MUCH.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Put your hands together.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    We already have to accept that the Ricketts-owned Cubs that happily employed Chapman and Russell won the WS. Why would I possibly give a horsefeathers about some good ol' baseball cheating? I WISH that was the worst thing they were known for these days.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Jesus horsefeathering Christ. WHY.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Imagine thinking it makes any kind of sense to acquire a media group, and then nuke the news/politics outlet and the sports outlet in short order. It's weirdly impressive. Even though they're obviously just stripping it for parts in that distinctly horrible venture capitalist way, it's still extra gross and incompetent this time.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    DON'T FALL FOR IT.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Literally the only reason I'd think the Cubs weren't doing some variation of the same is that PTR wouldn't shell out for anything more expensive than trying to listen in via a glass pressed up to the opposing clubhouse's door.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    The only semi-legit knock along those lines is that someone like McCutchen actually played over the course of the entire decade, and Yelich only played roughly 6.5 seasons. With the way his career has gone, Yelich extrapolated over the entire decade would be an obvious no-brainer.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    [tweet]https://twitter.com/HitEmLowTfue/status/1214363980610686976[/tweet]
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, five whole seasons is WAY too small a sample size. We demand more than half a decade of kicking ass, I guess.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    There's just no way that he built the team with Plan A being trade Bryant for prospects(and Bryant is the only salary big enough to fix payroll ills). He committed 8 figures in 2020-21 to a reliever in June, combined with the rapidly approaching FA of the positional player core there's no way trading your best player to get under the tax was his first choice, because you know you're taking a step back when you do it even if they're showering him with prospect riches. Why is there no way? AKA
  16. Sammy Sofa
    I mean, it just feels like it shifts the narrative to the idea that the Cubs did 2016 with nothing but a ragtag band of young go-getters who cost nothing but a song, but they were straight up playing a team in the WS who (relatively) ACTUALLY DID THAT by spending close to $90 million less than the Cubs did.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    But it doesn't work that way; they still spent the money. One couldn't, IMO, in good conscience declare that a team that spent $150 million dollars didn't in part buy their way to victory. They went out and got Heyward, Lester, Lackey, Montero, Zobrist and Arrietta, whether by trade or signing, because they knew that had horsefeathers You Money.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    No, that definitely was a huge part of what they did.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Sounds like this thread should be rocketing up the charts: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2624
  20. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive], it's ridiculous how much they shot themselves in the foot by completely breaking Heyward.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    My god, signing Puig would be like injecting a ray of desperately needed sunshine right into my heart at this point. Yes, please.
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  23. Sammy Sofa
    He's a body and he's cheap. That's it.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Who cares what his contact rate is when it's essentially all garbage contact. This is like the longwinded way my dad will perpetually prefer a thousand weak Almora groundouts vs. how frustrated he'll gt over a single Bryant strikeout.
  25. Sammy Sofa
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