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  1. Sammy Sofa
    It's the asymmetry that matters to me, I don't particularly care that they're trying to get signs. Steal all the signs you want, but if you're using your home park to do it in a way your opponent physically can't, that crosses the line for me. Yup. Big-time. Anybody passing this off as just good old-fashioned cheating has it way wrong. This is a different territory all together. It's the optics more than anything else; it's not realistically THAT much of an advantage, if at all, most of the time. It's more along the lines, IMO, of corking the bat, where the perceived/actual benefits are far more dwarfed by he risk/work involved.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    No setting up a system with cameras in your home park so you can instantly relay signs to a hitter is capital C cheating. I'm not even sure there's a huge benefit(lots of hitters have said they don't even want that information), but when you're systematically getting it in a way that isn't possible for the opponent to do so because it's your home park, it's cheating. Nah. It's dumb for catchers and pitchers to still communicate that way 20 [expletive] years deep into the 21st Century. At worst it's motivation for the game to update something that should have been updated god knows how many years ago. It's such a ridiculous blind spot it basically deserves to be exploited (and visiting teams can exploit pretty damn easily, too). Hit like to subscribe and get my follow up theory: A [expletive] pitch clock would pretty much fix all of this.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    NEVER SIDE WITH MANAGEMENT, SULLEY. I especially like the logic trap of the last one. "Well, the shitty GM who should be fired says the shitty QB who shouldn't have been drafted reminds him of one of the best QBs of all time! BOOM, GOTCHA."
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Let's face it: it's mostly "cheating" as opposed to actual cheating, since the not really-rules are hinged on old-timey nonsense that treats cameras like sorcery that will steal someone's soul.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Boy, I sure hope the Cubs don't hire any of those dirty cheaters who are really good at cheating. No sir!
  6. Sammy Sofa
    That was about Descalso. Like, why would I have been saying Schwarber is old?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Still a terrifyingly small sample size, but BR has him going HAM pretty much all of the last month: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=happia01&year=2019&t=b Or is that mostly masking that he sucked and that last week dragged up the previous 3-ish?
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Well, yeah, obviously. But that guy is basically saying the Cubs can't be serious contenders, like the season hangs on Happ. Like, Almora was hideous, but he's not THE reason why the Cubs blew it. Not even close. Strong disagree. Almora and the depth and deployment of it last year was a huge reason things failed. You got -2 WAR out of Almora, Descalso, Zagunis and Cargo in ~600 PAs. Getting even .5-1.5 WAR production out each player in those 4 spots of that depth could’ve been the difference. OK, but we were talking about someone weirdly acting like one dude in CF not sucking is apparently the difference between the Cubs being competitive, and not a collection of turds. If the argument is, "an entire horsefeathering terrible bench can make a team significantly worse," nobody is going to disagree.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Why would the Cubs contending hinge on how much time Happ gets in CF? If he's a negative fWAR guy like our everyday CF last season, it would definitely hurt the team. Well, yeah, obviously. But that guy is basically saying the Cubs can't be serious contenders, like the season hangs on Happ. Like, Almora was hideous, but he's not THE reason why the Cubs blew it. Not even close.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Why would the Cubs contending hinge on how much time Happ gets in CF?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, that sweet summer child.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Has sulley turned on him, too?
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Somethingsomething he loves kissing TV's somethingsomething
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, is that all? Phew; I was worried for a second.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    *"broke"
  17. Sammy Sofa
    They weren't arguing to only pay Harper or Machado that kind of money at 36-37, or only at 32-33, so it has nothing to do with an argument for or against extended Rizzo. I think the point is if you were paying machado/harper that kind of money you're much less likely to have picked up Rizzo's option this year. No? Nah, he was just pointlessly trying to throw shade. Rizzo is a steal with those team options; things would have had to have gone south real bad with him for them to not pick it up, regardless of whether or not they had signed either of those guys. The Cubs would have made room elsewhere to keep him if necessary.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Hot damn, that was savage.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Hi, I'd like to introduce you to baseball.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    So what? None of that has anything to do with Rizzo. There's no evidence that Rizzo won't be a productive player at 32 - 33 years old, so I don't understand why some posters wouldn't want to extend him. The point was that some people thought he wouldn't be worth the money and yet they were willing to throw twice as much to pay Machado/Harper at 36 or 37 years old. They weren't arguing to only pay Harper or Machado that kind of money at 36-37, or only at 32-33, so it has nothing to do with an argument for or against extended Rizzo.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    What does the former have to do with the latter. Because most were on board to paying that kind of contract to Harper/Machado. So what? None of that has anything to do with Rizzo.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    He’s still one of the better 5-8 1B in the league and he’s pretty remarkably consistent from 2014-2019. I don’t know why we wouldn’t want him for 2-3 years past the two options years. He’ll be 32/33 when he hits FA, he doesn’t have some big payday waiting out there. Going 4/60 or 5/70 range seems perfectly reasonable and is something I’d want. There’s also the whole thing with him being the leader an everything of this group that he’s earned this a bit. I totally agree. Rizzo at 32 or 33 making $14 or $15 million per year will be better than paying Harper or Machado $26-$30 million when they're 37 or 38 yrs old. What does the former have to do with the latter.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    So many Chicago teams have gone down in spectacular flames lately that I’m not sure it will have the impact that it should. For sure, nothing is going to change positively. We're gonna lose for a couple more seasons, then bring in a new front office, who will draft a new QB. That QB will show some flashes but ultimately suck, but we might get a season or two in there where the defense is amazing and we get a lot of close wins. But if a team isn't going to be great, misery porn is the next best thing. And it's hard to find good misery porn anywhere in sports these days because all the bad teams are tanking and their fans love it. A team that thought it was going to be good and having to slowly come to terms with the fact that it's bad? That's a rare and special gift in today's sports world. A mediocre football coach and the primal screams that haunt him
  24. Sammy Sofa
    The Indians haven't been shy about their complete lack of desire to pay out big contracts.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    The only way that is remotely acceptable is if they're pretzel bites with peanut butter inside of them.
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