Sammy Sofa

#letthekidsitthanks

I would assume it's because he'll just be back up in a few weeks, and can get regular starts in the meantime. He was really damn bad in June and July, though had bounced back a bit in August with a .400 .556 .500 1.056 line, though that was in only 27 PA and with a whopping .444 BAbip.

What a weird reply.

Why are we rooting actively against our FO, the best we evet had and top 3 in baseball? Mostly because of their enabling of a domestic abuser and partially because the owners are garbage people who support awful things politically. Yeah, the ever escalating shittiness of seeking out players like Chapman and Murphy, and the ongoing enabling of Russell, all while talking out of the other side of their mouth about things like character and whatnot. Seemingly just rolling right along with the owners crying poor, and then demonstrating rather (IMO) piss-poor ability to counter that limitation via, well, anything. Underwhelming at best trades, signings and drafts for several years, unimpressively inconsistent and flawed player development (I think all of the "Cubs Way" talk has demonstrated itself to be mostly horsefeathers-all fluff nonsense...or the Cubs Way is a shitty way to develop most players. Take your pick)...nobody is going to deny they had an incredible surge that resulted in what we all wanted...but that's now sandwiched by multiple years first of terrible tanking, and now a steady slide that demonstrates more and more that these guys repeatedly dropped the ball in terms of maintaining just how damn good this team was (and building to both maintain it and setup for the future), and they've basically had to scramble to play catch up almost from the moment the WS was won. I think just tossing out there that they're a "top 3 FO in baseball" like that's a given is a VERY generous stretch.

PackLandVA, Derwood and soccer10k are the next ones up.

Yeah, I was all but checked out for at least a solid week before last night's hilarious loss. Now I'm 100%. Could not give less of a horsefeathers if they end up doing well, and pretty much hoping that this FO goes down in flames.

Ding Dong, it's you, whatever, who cares.

Go (away) Cubs.

Modzilla was online yesterday morning, and Cox hasn't been seen since. There wasn't a final meltdown or anything; I guess someone finally found the Modzilla password and put him out of his misery.

Moves like that and PH Kemp for him last night have me irrationally hoping that these dopes are just finally running out the string with him.

Joe being forced to play Almora because he was Theo's first pick or something. The petty, bitter side of me (only a side?) is convinced this is the case. Nothing else makes sense.

Well, now I'm annoyed that he got to play a character that no doubt gave him a tiny ol' boner every day.

Let's remember some umps...

So speaking of Justified (in the TV thread)...this Twitter thread unpleasantly revealed that Nick Searcy from that show is apparently a big ol' Trump bootlicker: [tweet] [/tweet]

The Pirates have given up. Their playing as badly as anyone in baseball right now. Even the Road Cubs?!?

Modzilla was lurking this morning, so you might have the first Edith Cox-free game thread we've had in a while. MAKE THAT horsefeathers COUNT.

It's a little a fun how if you scroll down just enough it looks like Derrek Lee is screaming all of your posts.

Dont be horsefeathering stupid. He was sent down because he is an abuser. If it was as simple as that he wouldn't have been called up in the first place. Don't mind him; he likes his cough syrup.

The game thread yearns for virgin blood, squally. GOOD LUCK.

The horsefeathers are you swinging at tonight, Happ.