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Sammy Sofa

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  1. They were always an ATM.
  2. Fixed that.
  3. I heard Cubs did something similar when they met with Shogo, they gave him a printout of the Cubs Wikipedia page wrapped in a leftover t-shirt from a giveaway from last season. Do you remember what the Cubs did for Lester?
  4. Q is whatever. Kudos to him for tidying up his KBB so that fg would like him enough, but his run prevention is on a sharp decline. Despite moving to a more pitcher friendly park and having a better defense behind him he has accumulated less than half of the bwar with us than he did in the 3.5 seasons prior with the Sox. Before we got him he was excellent according to both systems. Now we are just grateful that one finds him to be good still.While I think you're being a little harsh on Q in general...no one is expecting him to be the ace of this staff, which is, statistically, the kind of pitcher he was when we acquired him. Maybe they didn't expressly expect him to become an "ace," but I think it's safe to say they expected more of a guy that they gave up what they gave up to get him.
  5. The farm giveth, and the farm taketh away. The system bottoming out for a while there really killed their ability to dump bad contracts since you often have to sweeten the pot to do so. Now that they do actually have some decent/interesting prospects again, the perfect storm of the Cubs having no money and Theo being King of the Prospect Hoarders has them terrified to move anyone who could be cheap and useful. The King of Prospect Hoarders who executed two of the biggest prospect-driven trades of the last few years? That’s constantly brought up? Hence why he's extra flop-sweaty about doing it now. I mean besides the constant DT's.
  6. The farm giveth, and the farm taketh away. The system bottoming out for a while there really killed their ability to dump bad contracts since you often have to sweeten the pot to do so. Now that they do actually have some decent/interesting prospects again, the perfect storm of the Cubs having no money and Theo being King of the Prospect Hoarders has them terrified to move anyone who could be cheap and useful.
  7. Though just imagine how even more tiny the face of Fat Rizzo would be.
  8. Extending Rizzo would be emotionally satisfying, but he is totally a primo candidate of coming down with a severe case of Inner Fat Dude Just Waiting to Hulk out, But Like a Fat Hulk-itis.
  9. The Cubs letting Maddux walk was my first true heartbreak as a Cubs fan. After a horsefeathering Cy Young year, no less. I couldn't even process it when my dad said he had signed with the Braves; beyond me being an idiot kid, it just didn't make any kind of sense on any level.
  10. Charles is demonstrably convinced Bryant will not be traded.
  11. When even the THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO guy has turned on you, you know you've done fucked up.
  12. I keep thinking the Ricketts just have "TWO MORE YEARS" posted as a mantra all over their offices. Everything seems to either come to a head or end in two years, and I'll bet that's their time frame for letting things go to horsefeathers so they can save some bucks/move money around for their bull horsefeathers (especially since there's likely going to be an inevitable work stoppage in 2 years, too).
  13. I just figured that was the standard; the mobile version has randomly logged me off as far back as I can remember. Or I just can't take a hint.
  14. Bringing back greenies is the new market inefficiency.
  15. Because they've managed to botch this at every possible turn, so why stop now?
  16. It's certainly not good.
  17. Well, that was certainly a response.
  18. I mean, it's not some great mystery what the issue has been with Quintana when he's off: he gives up too many dongs, especially over the last 3 seasons. That's really the only problem; he's been pretty much the same consistent pitcher otherwise. It's unfortunate that he's pitching in the juiced ball environment, because it really exacerbated his one big flaw as a pitcher.
  19. Man, Fangraphs shows him generally being a LOT more valuable than I would have assumed. I figured he was Marquis-levels of butt (though even he had a 3.2 fWAR season, WTF).
  20. GRAPHIC DESIGN IS MY PASSION: the team
  21. I think it's more likely that they were too dumb to pull off what they they were trying to do without getting caught. Like, it's so hilariously high and low tech at the same time. There's no way they HAD to use a monstroso monitor or TV for this. Better yet, why don't you just have another feed of whatever else hooked up to it (Netflix, ESPN, whatever) that you can flip it to whenever there's not cheating going on? It's like these nerds have never been almost busted looking at something on their computers they shouldn't be before. STEP IT UP, DORKS.
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