Sosa's return to baseball??

by santo for prez on Jul 4, 2006 10:03 PM CDT Comment 30 comments

I haven't been able to find anything on the internet regarding this. ESPN just reported for the first time at 5:55am local time in the middle east that Sammy Sosa is contemplating a return for the 2007 season.

Who will be the unfortunate team to get sucked into this signing? Thank god the Cubs world will have no part of this. I know that Jim Hendry has hit the early stages of alzheimers but I don't think that even he is lost enough to think about filling the outfield holes with that donut.

Does anyone know who holds his rights?

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Who gets screwed?

NL team

3 votes

A desperate AL team in search of a DH

45 votes

The Cubs

9 votes

No one is dumb enough to take him

23 votes

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Its in the Sun-Times

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=44ab68b0a254768e&ei=QCyrRLW4LYjyoQK57P CfCQ&url=http%3A//www.suntimes.com/output/baseball/cst-spt-hot04.html&cid=1107727930

Sosa was travelling with the D.R. President to Korea, and there he told the Korean press that he was considering a return to baseball, working out (although not regularly).

He also said that Chan Ho Park is a very good pitcher.

by gravedigger on Jul 4, 2006 10:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Sam-me Steroid

Sam-me was a selfish, one man carnival act and poster child for the steroid era. There is zero chance he ever gets another big league gig, or gets into the Hall of Fame.

by Mike63 on Jul 5, 2006 10:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good one...

I don't like Sosa either, and I hope his only admission to the HOF is when he visits Cooperstown on a vacation and pays the admission for a tour, but you are incredibly naive if you think he has "zero chance" of being voted into the HOF. He might not be first ballot, but mark my words, people (especially those outside of Chicago) will soon forget about the 'roid accusations but will have much better memories about the '98 homerun chase and his nearly 600 longballs. Trust me: Corky McRoidfreak will make the HOF.

by CosmicCharlie911 on Jul 5, 2006 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nope

Sam-me Steroid will never get even 50% of the necessary 75% of the vote needed for election into Cooperstown. You take away Sam-me's home run total, and the rest of his numbers are marginal or scary (e.g., strikeouts). I predict baseball history is going to come down harshly on Sam-me. And with good reason.

by Mike63 on Jul 5, 2006 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just wrong...

Best hitter in baseball for five years and a strong reason why mlb came back from its last strike. He's a HOF'er. no doubt.

by slink on Jul 5, 2006 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

How can you possibly...

be this delusional? You do realize that people outside of Chicago don't feel as bitter as we do, don't you? Again, I really hope he doesn't get in, but hoping doesn't do much in terms of REALITY.

He is 12 homers short of 600. On the off chance that he does actually play more baseball, its not completely improbable that he would make it to 600. He has almost 1600 career RBIs, including a season of 160 and a different season batting .328. He is the only person in baseball history to hit over 60 homeruns three times. Hell, he even has almost 250 career steals. Plus, he was part of one of the most storied (albeit tainted) seasons in baseball history in that '98 homerun chase which brought interest back to baseball.

He has only been found guilty in our minds. I'm sure that he's guilty, but the league hasn't really put a whole lot of energy into digging into this matter. People have a near infinite amount of patience in terms of forgiving celebrities for their various indiscretions and shameful actions, and in a few years, people with short memories will clamour to put Sosa into Cooperstown.

Its nice that you have quaint little hopes about justice, but allow me to be the first person to welcome you back to the reality of how things actually work in the real world. It's a bitch, but if you really think Sosa has "zero chance" of making it into the Hall of fame, then you probably also believe that Barry Bonds has no chance. We'll see, but I doubt it.

by CosmicCharlie911 on Jul 5, 2006 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yabbut

There was a poll of HOF voters taken not too long ago, where McGwire came in around 40%---way shy of what he needs to get in. Given that Sammy and he are often lumped together, along with the corked bat incident, and I don't think Sammy is going to come close. Especially since, on a personal, non-prima donna level, McGwire seems like a way more likeable guy.

"It's hard to put your finger on it. You have to have a dullness of mind and spirit to play here." --Jim Brosnan

by cubbiejulie on Jul 5, 2006 2:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sam-me

Mark McGwire isn't going into the Hall of Fame. Not in 2007 and not any year. If McGwire doesnt' get in, then there is no possible way on God's green earth Sam-me Steroid gets in.

98% of the free world (self included) strongly suspects Sam-me got to 500 plus homeruns because he was juiced.

by Mike63 on Jul 5, 2006 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't SUSPECT him so much....

I'm positive that he juiced.

By the way, calling him Sam-me is kind of lame. Yes, I get what you're trying to do, and thats nice and all well and good. Its just not very clever or amusing.

by CosmicCharlie911 on Jul 5, 2006 3:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn't going for funny

You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

by Mike63 on Jul 5, 2006 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

About McGwire, Sosa (and Palmeiro too) and the HoF

I think the sportswriters are likely pissed off enough at the steroid era, and these three in particular, since they are the three who either did them (Palmeiro, since he tested positive), or were suspected of doing so, who have HoF credentials and are no longer playing (Barry Bonds will be a whole 'nother story when he is eligible).

Thus, I have a feeling there will be enough writers who will leave McGwire's name (since he is first up, next year) off their ballots to deny him first-year admission. It'd be interesting if enough left him off the ballot to deny him the 5% he needs to STAY on the ballot after the first year.

If it were me? I wouldn't vote for ANY of them on the first ballot.

by Al on Jul 5, 2006 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Amen

Amen brother. I agree 100%. I will be shocked if either Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa ever wind up in the Hall. In fact, I will shocked if either ever gets even 50% of the vote during their 15 years of ballot eligibility.

by Mike63 on Jul 5, 2006 4:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

No team holds his rights

His deal ended last year and he is a free agent, able to sign with any team he chooses. Let's hope the Cardinals are in the market for an outfielder and decide to make a bad decision.

by pageian on Jul 4, 2006 10:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Only problem is

that if he signed with the Cardinals he'd play in 161 games and hit 55 home runs while driving home 145 guys. In a Cubs uniform, he'd play 78 games, hit 3 home runs and drive in 33 guys. The Cardinals get the most out of their players. The Cubs get the least.

by Matthew on Jul 4, 2006 10:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Really?

How's that pitching staff working out for them this year?

I agree that they have an environment that is more conducive to winning and getting more out of their players, but bad things happend to good teams as well. Karma is a bitch, sometimes it smiles on you and sometimes your four potential free agent starters pitch like they don't want to be around the next year.

Our problem is just the opposite, we don't take Karma by the nads, we sit around and wait for it to shine down lightning in a bottle. That's why we don't have a winning atmosphere and why the players we bring in rarely seem to pan out.

by pageian on Jul 4, 2006 11:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

sosa..

what a joke. So pathetic. If you can't tell, i despise him. tell him to go be a strike out king and former roider on some on the white sox or something.

So we're stuck in a slump, it's only been a century...

by Old Style Heavy on Jul 5, 2006 12:39 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

All this.....

handringing....

Where was all this when Sammy was the hero?

he hath no fury like a cubs fan scorned

by timeforachange on Jul 5, 2006 11:40 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

same place

all the Hendry criticism was in the offseason.

by mike bornemann on Jul 5, 2006 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Same place it's always been

I've never been able to stand Sosa.

"It's hard to put your finger on it. You have to have a dullness of mind and spirit to play here." --Jim Brosnan

by cubbiejulie on Jul 5, 2006 12:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hear hear

Never liked him, never will.

He's the only player I've ever booed -- at a Reds-Orioles game last year. To be fair, I waited until he was out of a Cubs uni.

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by Sarah Hope on Jul 5, 2006 12:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You...

are the exception, not the rule.

I could not stand the man. I believed he was on performance enhancing drugs and was disgusted that people bowed to him. It is a shame that he was allowed to get away with that.

he hath no fury like a cubs fan scorned

by timeforachange on Jul 5, 2006 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I owe a lot to Sammy

For years he was one of the greatest offensive forces in baseball and the only thing on this team worth watching. Steroid or not, he was the reason I got into baseball.

by VS on Jul 5, 2006 12:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree.

I talked to this kid at work and he said he liked the Cubs because Sammy Sosa played with them. I told him he wasn't good anymore and refused to believe it.

Sammy brought a lot of people into baseball including me. He was never my favorite player, but I loved watching him hit homeruns.

Speaking of watching him hit homeruns, he's on ESPN deportes right now in the homerun derby at Miller Park hitting long homers. I also saw he came on this talk show in Spanish that I really hate.

Cubbie Blue will always sPaRkLe in my eyes, but please stop losing. PLEASE!

by sparkles721 on Jul 5, 2006 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Great

Great. Worship for a selfish one man carnival act who took performance enhancing drugs. What a pathetic and truly sad indictment.

by Mike63 on Jul 5, 2006 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He doesn't see that.

He's only like 7 years old, and he's not a really big Cubs fan anyway.

I didn't see that either. I liked to watch him. It was fun.

Cubbie Blue will always sPaRkLe in my eyes, but please stop losing. PLEASE!

by sparkles721 on Jul 5, 2006 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I never liked the idea of Sammy..

..crossing town. But it did lure a lot of people to become Cubs fans and lured a lot of people toward baseball. You shouldn't criticize a kid for what interested them to baseball....by the way what triggered your interest in baseball??? Arbitration??

vote santo for h.o.f.

by santo for prez on Jul 5, 2006 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs