Sammy Sofa
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Good thing I asked about him then! -
I think you're confused, I love La Stella, any sarcasm is poking the weird contingent of people who hate him irrationally Sounds like two sides of the same irrational coin.
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Kicking off the Home Opener 5-1? http://i.giphy.com/Jlt69Ka6SwtH2.gif
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[green]And then give that scalawag Kris Bryant a good what-for, too![/green] Soler's continuing a long bout of sucking; Heyward, meanwhile, has been awesome for years.
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So basically nothing can convince you that Thibs lost the team. I can't really help you with that. There's never going to be anything explicitly showing the players saying this stuff, but there sure as horsefeathers was a ton of smoke. If it was just the FO wanting him gone, why bother waiting to fire him for his last season? They couldn't stand him for years before that. If he's got the players still on his side and willing to bust ass for him, then just let him finish out his final year and opt not to re-sign him when they inevitably fail to go anywhere yet again. Why do the opposite and piss off the players you think were still wanting to give him "exceptional effort" when you can just let him walk after his last year? Seems much more likely that the other shoe dropped of him losing the team and thus them losing their reason for keeping him around despite the FO hating him.
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I will become a La Stella fan if he makes his walk-up music "Kiss from a Rose."
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Because the team started looking like horsefeathers like they were completely checked out at times, plus all of the stories of how you had players going to management and saying they wanted him gone or supposedly even threatening to boycott if he was brought back: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/5/28/8678683/bulls-players-tom-thibodeau-offseason-fired http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/bulls-players-threatened-to-boycott-tom-thibodeau/263121 http://bullsbythehorns.com/bill-simmons-zach-lowe-discuss-behind-scenes-unrest-chicago/ I don't think it's too much of a stretch to think a coach like Thibs is going to have a relatively short shelf life. No matter how much a player initially buys in, most of them are going to be pretty fed up with a coach like that after a few years, especially if they don't pull off a championship or two. Bringing him back wouldn't have accomplished much outside of not having to pay for two coaches.
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They fired him because everyone hated him at the end. The players weren't at that point and weren't going to continue to give an "exceptional effort" for someone they were fed up with.
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Nobody's saying pitchers don't give up home runs; it's just funny he's done it twice to Kershaw, of all people, and then Kershaw unleashed the potty mouth.
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Hypnotic:
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Plus a gold star on my book report and everything.
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Go nuts. I'm going to go research Denard Span's path to the majors so I don't get caught in such a humiliating pickle again.
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This is, like, one of the worst examples of that. You're killing a good joke.
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I don't follow a ton of baseball anymore outside of the Cubs (and especially not the minor league careers of players on other teams), so I asked a question; relax.
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Wrigley Renovations and Related Wrigleyville Stuff
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That looks horsefeathering terrible. -
OK?
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Holy crap this is so mojo That I don't know the pre-majors career path of Ben Zobrist? Come on.
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And just to keep picking on the guy, it's why Soler is frustrating me so much. The guy looks like such a physical specimen that I thought we'd be saying the same things about him. Now we're basically just praying he can hit enough to offset how much he sucks at everything else.
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Well, that was a delightful close.
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5th year college senior, senior sign, never projected to have power or a home defensively. Hardest worker in Rays system for years. Cool. He's like a WSR fantasy come to life.
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What's the story with Zobrist? The guy wasn't ever ranked as a minor league player, and didn't break out until age 28. I just figured he had been a highly touted prospect given how successful he's been, but I didn't realize his major league time has been relatively so short.
