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  1. Sammy Sofa
    There's no reason that drill sergeant jackoff wannabe would come cheap. Cubs fans should riot if they stupidly shell out for a pricey manager for ANY horsefeathering reason. He should be automatically disqualified for that alone.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    I feel like most of the people who pick Schwarber WANT him to be the one most likely traded, when really he has very little value on his own to bring back anyone that great,
  3. Sammy Sofa
    https://deadspin.com/mlbs-empty-seats-arent-the-problem-theyre-part-of-the-1838701704
  4. Sammy Sofa
    The Astros winning another WS is also acceptable since it will ideally light a fire under Theo's dumb nerd butt.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Come to the Abandon the Bears Side, my son...it is the only way...
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Boooooooooooooooo. I wanna see the Nats, A's or Rays do some cool stuff. Everyone else can go fart in a tent.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I mean they started building the WS winner some 4-5 years before it happened, they all mostly arrived together towards the end, and that worked out fine. This time the media's not walking us through it and telling us it will be special and awesome when everyone arrives, but things went about as well as they could have this year below the ML team and it's one primed to make leaps over the next year probably two for a SP Dude, come on; there was definitely some prolonged stumbling. It wasn't simply a matter of they emptied out the farm via promotions and trades.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Meh; he won't be here long.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Huh; I guess developing absolutely no pitching and minimal offensive assets is one way to look at as being "setting up a new window."
  10. Sammy Sofa
    "Less individualism?" 1: Gross. That's some of the creepiest bootlicker horsefeathers right out of the worst corporate motivational retreat seminar book. 2. That pretty much means not hiring someone like Ross, or really any other "name" as a manger. A nobody it shall be!
  11. Sammy Sofa
    And if they go with a zilch internal promotion, I think that points more to leaning to the rebuild side of things. Or if they're going to stick with pretty much the same team, it's so it's someone that can get the boot easily in 2 years when everyone is due to leave. Basically a nobody is an ass-covering move either way.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Right, because, shocker, they DO value things like optics/PR with moves like this. Maddon is widely liked by the fanbase because of the WS, hence why they didn't actually fire him and are trying to ride this out as smoothly as possible. Simply signing his backup doesn't work for both the people mad to see Joe gone ("If they're just going to promote the bench coach, then why not keep Joe?!?!" etc.), and not for most of the people who were also looking for the Cubs to move on and try something different. It's a lose/lose proposition PR-wise that makes almost nobody happy except the FO and a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of fans that would be creepily pumped over Loretta managing the Cubs. I'm pretty sure less than 10% of the population realizes Loretta was the bench coach, so the PR thing won't really come into play. You're right; nothing about him will ever be discussed once his name starts coming up. Nobody will ever knnnnnoooooowwwwwwwww.... Come on; the new manager is like the one place they have real wiggle room to sell the whole "it's time for a change" thing after the stinkers of the last two seasons. I don't particularly have any issue with Loretta as the manager, but simply promoting from within like that is such a long wet fart in a quiet church.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Right, because, shocker, they DO value things like optics/PR with moves like this. Maddon is widely liked by the fanbase because of the WS, hence why they didn't actually fire him and are trying to ride this out as smoothly as possible. Simply signing his backup doesn't work for both the people mad to see Joe gone ("If they're just going to promote the bench coach, then why not keep Joe?!?!" etc.), and not for most of the people who were also looking for the Cubs to move on and try something different. It's a lose/lose proposition PR-wise that makes almost nobody happy except the FO and a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of fans that would be creepily pumped over Loretta managing the Cubs.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Wouldn't the bold essentially make "seriously considering Loretta" not likely? Not sure I follow. To maybe clarify, all I'm saying is that the Cubs clearly had an eye on at least the possibility of Joe not coming back when they hired Loretta. I don't think they'd hire a bench coach they had zero interest in as a future manager, and therefore I don't think his one year association with Joe is a negative in their minds. I'm saying that you don't hire someone to be the second fiddle to a lame duck manager if you're likely to promote them after pushing the latter out the door. The people in charge are, quite frankly, completely tone deaf and possibly legally blind if they think simply promoting someone who was working under Maddon, even if only technically for a year, is something they can sell as really making a change.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    OR...we make the guys tied have to make HR teams from the WC teams and see who triumphs.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    It's insane, that guy's taint. thanks for making me rewatch that Taint Misbehavin'!
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Pushed out by a ghost.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    He's got the taint of Maddon. They very publicly and intentionally made Joe a lame duck, so if they are seriously considering Loretta, I doubt they care too much about the association they've created by making him Joe's bench coach for a year. Wouldn't the bold essentially make "seriously considering Loretta" not likely?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    He's got the taint of Maddon. must have been a gruesome surgery to acquire it It's insane, that guy's taint.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Is that good or bad news?
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  22. Sammy Sofa
    Name and shame these fools.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    I would think from a PR perspective, simply sliding to the bench coach wouldn't exactly be looked at tremendously well. I mean, I know we WANT the team to be run by super sexy emotionless robots who don't care about such things...but it's not.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Please point to a single person acting like Hoerner is anything more than a possible option as a starting player for the Cubs to a degree anywhere resembling the amount of times you feel like you need to point out that you think he sucks. Just one.
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