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  1. Sammy Sofa
    DiamondMind has to be related to sontensei or something. He treats him like he's a picked on younger sibling.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Kemp at home this year: .269 .322 .440 .761 Kemp on the road: .243 .289 .381 .670 Why would getting him away from SD help his offense again?
  3. Sammy Sofa
    He's already entered those years. In Kyle Years he should already be in a nursing home.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    The Marlins tried to psych out the Nationals during batting practice...with fart sounds: http://deadspin.com/the-marlins-played-fart-noises-during-the-nationals-bat-1721054382
  5. Sammy Sofa
    How do you figure that? Fangraphs doesn't even have this as his worst year defensively. BR has it barely off or essentially the same as most of his other years. There really hasn't been a significant downturn for him defensively this season.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    too much hot sauce man Nah, it's nothing like that, though I do love the hot sauce. This isn't a Taco Bell-style, "holy heck, get out of the way, I'm going to destroy the bathroom"-situation; it's like the burrito somehow pushes everything out as it makes its way through and then when it's time to go, oh yeah, it's going to be epic.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Assuming he and Bryant probably go together, Bryant's gametime stomach distress is starting to make a lot more sense. I love me some Chipotle, but man, it tends to blast me completely out.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, that seems like a pretty ridiculous and pointless swap unless it's part of something bigger.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Oh thank Jah, the money would be neutral. Who would win in a fight, Gandalf's giant eagle or Mothra?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    How often do you actually see or hear about a player turning out to be the much vaunted "clubhouse cancer" if they're not a hyper-intense weirdo or an out and out psycho like Milton Bradley? Castro has always seemed really laid back and good-natured; hell, it's one of the things that the people who don't like him tend to scream about the most.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Mission Impossible?!? Talk about taking one for the team. I was thinking the same thing and then went on to Rotten Tomatoes and it has a 92%! What the [expletive]? The Mission Impossible movies are generally pretty solid, stand alone affairs with not much story and about the best stunts you can expect to see on screen. Certainly beats another Bourne movie or some crap. The MI movies turned out pretty damn good after the first two were so lackluster; what's your beef with the Bourne movies? Never saw the spinoff one, but the actually trilogy was good as hell.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I looked at it like, "if even ARCubsFan thinks your anti-Castro ranting is too ridiculous, then you should probably stop and take a deep breath and reassess."
  13. Sammy Sofa
    yeah i agree get a good pitcher, dump castro, call up baez and break the season record for K's while enjoying the wind blow in all the homers. They don't need to "dump" Castro; if they can anything of any kind of value, great, but they shouldn't get rid of him just to get rid of him. Worst comes to worst he just becomes your primary backup IF and a good bench option.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    I'd be fine with them only making a move or moves for pitching at this point. I'd like some kind of offensive upgrade, but by now there really isn't much out there that fits, and I'm willing to bet on things like Baez and Fowler being more like the old Fowler and Rizzo going back to being Rizzo and Bryant's recent monster WTP starting to go out and Russell and Soler continuing to trend in the right direction. Get a clear starting pitcher upgrade and maybe (but not necessary) and a decent reliever to bolster what's been strong for them this year and then see what happens.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Flipside to what? As of TODAY, nobody has a clue whether or not the Dodgers make the postseason = 2 month rental. The flipside to your post about the Cubs playoff chances dropping so much in short order is that they still could fly right back up in short order.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    *3 month rental August + September = TWO months. They haven't clinched anything and the Giants are .5 game back which could potentially leave them battling for the second Wild Card spot. they're currently 91% to make it, not factoring adding Alex Wood and Mat Latos and David Price to their rotation and subtracting [file not found] The Cubs dropped 30% in the last week from a percentage they held for almost the entire season. It's a 2 month rental with the possibility of pitching in the postseason. Unless you have a crystal ball there isn't another answer. :) So the flipside is that that percentage could go shooting right back up in short order if they started winning more, something trades could very much help them do.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Or, you know, bring up a legit baseball player like Schwarber to do the same thing. There's actually a difference. Guys like Fox and LaHair were so good for a short time because they had the go-ahead to swing at every pitch until they get that straight fastball to knock all the way to Jupitor, at least until pitchers realized that they could just toss the ball wherever and they'd flail at it like a hyperactive 9 year old going after a Piñata. So Junior Lake?
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Then [expletive] trade Hamels in the offseason. Surely putting all of our offseason eggs into the top pitcher on the market basket (while competing against a team who clearly wants him with endless pockets) would never fail. That's too Billy Beane, man.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Where am I spazzing out? All I want them to do is to improve their chances this season because they're a competitive team and it irks me when Cubs fans act like they shouldn't bother because the offense has struggled. The FO has assured us they'd make those type of moves when they were competitive, so it's hardly an unrealistic expectation. Last time I checked, the trade deadline doesn't end till tomorrow. I know, which is why I'm still hopeful they get something done. This was all in response to posters specifically saying they wouldn't mind or that they would even like if the FO didn't do anything.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    So we've had a guy acting like a faster Dunn with better defense is a bad thing, and now this.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    So what? So they rebuild it. We're looking at a team next year that is likely going to be anchored offensively by Rizzo, Bryant, Russell, Schwarber, Soler and Baez next year. Why is such a problem if the farm system slips in the rankings temporarily because they bolstered the team by trading for an impact player or two? I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that the Cubs don't really have the prospects to compete with a deal like the Rangers for Hamels without decimating our system. Again: so what? So the farm gets emptied some more temporarily for a fantastic pitcher to bolster a rotation that needs the help and who they have under control for years. Why is it critical they hold on to any of the players you listed? Again, this isn't a vacuum. Would you rather add Hamels at the cost of Baez, Edwards and McKinney, or add Price for nothing but payroll? Hamels, because he'd cost much less in terms of both years and money (I'd want a pitcher like that for multiple seasons, but at their ages not for what Price is going to command). I'm much more concerned about the money they have to work with than whether or not they can restock the farm yet again.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    what an awful post. as though he was somehow singularly responsible for their playoff fates (or lack thereof). and it was far from one of the worst contracts in the last 15 years unless your list is like a million guys (that's hyperbole) long Plus Soriano talk always spirals off into this kinda thing. They're never going to understand.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    So what? So they rebuild it. We're looking at a team next year that is likely going to be anchored offensively by Rizzo, Bryant, Russell, Schwarber, Soler and Baez next year. Why is such a problem if the farm system slips in the rankings temporarily because they bolstered the team by trading for an impact player or two? I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that the Cubs don't really have the prospects to compete with a deal like the Rangers for Hamels without decimating our system. Again: so what? So the farm gets emptied some more temporarily for a fantastic pitcher to bolster a rotation that needs the help and who they have under control for years. Why is it critical they hold on to any of the players you listed?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    What are some of those other splurges. Signing a 32 year old Alfonso Soriano to a 8 year/$136 million deal with 2 bad knees and no experience in the OF comes to mind as one. We're talking trades, but of course you can't help yourself. OK, you've already pretty much exhausted the main examples people flock two when they complain about Hendry dishing out monster contracts that crippled the team and ridiculous lopsided trades that decimated the farm. What's next, Fukudome? Pierre? Hendry was often a cruddy GM, but he's been propped up as something he actually wasn't most of the time. Their problems came from crappy drafting and player development and crippling injuries once he became the GM, not because he was handing out mega-deals and and heaving prospects out the door. how come you didn't pick apart the part where that post was like 80% factually false I'm very sleepy and figured toppling the Hendry strawman would be enough.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    What are some of those other splurges. Signing a 32 year old Alfonso Soriano to a 8 year/$136 million deal with 2 bad knees and no experience in the OF comes to mind as one. We're talking trades, but of course you can't help yourself. OK, you've already pretty much exhausted the main examples people flock two when they complain about Hendry dishing out monster contracts that crippled the team and ridiculous lopsided trades that decimated the farm. What's next, Fukudome? Pierre? Hendry was often a cruddy GM, but he's been propped up as something he actually wasn't most of the time. Their problems came from crappy drafting and player development and crippling injuries once he became the GM, not because he was handing out mega-deals and and heaving prospects out the door.
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