How dare anyone attack the sacred cows

You’re being a douchebag. Huge difference!

You’re actually gloating about a Cubs loss, because a few Cubs having a bad day supports your godawful, ignorant and inane opinions about baseball.

Just when it seems you couldn’t be any more of a sad cartoon, you hit yourself over the head with a giant green hammer and shit your pants.

when i’m ordering my 1st subscription to sports illustrated just to get my chicago cubs road to the world series video, WS hat and plaque. all these trolls will go away. at least i hope.

Ample enough time has been spent attacking the points you make, critiquing your thinking and offering alternative analysis. And all of it has left no mark – you are untouched through it all, timeless and inviolate. So let’s try a different tactic for just a moment as see where it gets us.

You keep repeating the same things over and over again, based on nothing more than your personal feelings about them. You’ve never once argued that Soriano’s on field production – his “personal statistics,” as you so disparagingly call them – don’t merit his salary. You’ve never once argued that Soriano’s high salary is an opportunity cost for the team, either now or down the road. There are interesting debates that reasonable people can have on those subjects, but you’ve never been a party to one – the only fact that matters to you, and the only fact you seem to know, is that you are personally offended by the fact that Soriano makes that much money.

Or with Kerry Wood – no discussion of anything as pedestrian as save percentage or appearances all the way up through the really fun stuff like run expectancy and reliever leverage scores would ever make a dent with you. A long time ago you diagnosed a torn rotator cuff and a ligament strain as a psychological condition – good luck getting that recognized by the DSM, by the way – and there is no chance of persuading you otherwise.

Because nothing matters to you but your own opinion. And you seem to entirely base your opinion on your personal feelings. And any time your opinions are challenged, you take it as a personal affront. Well guess what – all you have to offer is yourself. You have never once presented an argument that had its basis in an external fact, whether it be statistical, historical or even a statement from a figure of authority. For all the times you’ve talked about what Lou thinks you’ve never bothered to actually quote Lou Piniella – all you really mean is that MDBNIU thinks that, and that you think Lou agrees with you on the basis that you’re always right.

So please spare us the martyr’s routine; it is nobody’s fault but your own that you are so personally invested in whether or not a large amount of strangers on the Internet share your disgust over the fact that Soriano strikes out a lot. It is seriously your own problem, for you to deal with on your own. None of us has the power to remove Soriano from this franchise, and you would have a lot better luck selling sand to Arabs than you would convincing a large amount of people that someone with “personal statistics,” in your absurd little argot, as good as Soriano’s is hurting the ballclub by wearing some eyeblack and some shiny earrings. Of course, you know that, because you’ve been trying for years to do it.

And since you have proven to be vaingloriously incapable of understanding a single thing that is said to you, I am going to go ahead and break this down for you Tinker-Toy style, just so you cannot come back later and claim that some finer point of this wasn’t clear enough.

You know nothing.

You insist upon repeating this ignorance repeatedly, without variation or originality.

You lack any and all respect for the opinions of anyone else, and so you have never, ever given anyone a reason to respect you.

You do not matter.

You never have.

You never will.

Now pick up your toys and go home. You’re not wanted here.

Not!

Back in the Bronx Zoo days, Graig Nettles’ nickname was “Puff”. Somebody asked Gossage one time how that nickname came about. Gossage said something to the effect of… “Look at him. Just sitting in the clubhouse, keeping to himself. Then he goes and says something about somebody to somebody else, or he hides something, or he leaves an article out in someone’s locker… Then as soon as somebody gets pissed off and the fireworks start – PUFF! He’s gone like a puff of smoke – nowhere to be found.”

Puff away, MDB, puff away…

Are you really a Cubs fan MBD? The way you present your thoughts and theories is beyond pessimistic and loathing. I bet there isn’t one person on this blog that hasn’t been extremely pissed with a player or two because they are lacking talent in one area or another or are just having a bad week or even month. The difference is in how that frustration is vented. Even if you came up with something insightful, it would be blown off at this point because it came from you. You need to get a new spiel buddy.

1) Pretty much everyone understood Barrett sucked defensively
2) Soriano is the furthest thing from a sacred cow on the team. Rather he’s a punching bag for dopes like you who need to find blame for each and every one of the 70-75 games the Cubs are going to lose this year
3) Pie has been fair game all season – at least half the people around here don’t want him starting, so what are you talking about?
4) KWood- he certainly has built up the most goodwill of anyone on the team, but that didn’t stop him from getting booed by the Cubs “faithfull” yesterday.

Why do you have to start a fanpost where you are wrong four ways? Because you are a troll.

People stumbling on themselves to say thou shalt not critique and point out the problems. Kerry Wood has blown 3 out of 7 save opportunities, yet there are multiple references to his solid save % and effectiveness. Who is doing the skewing??

I said in spring training that Ryan Dempster was poised to win 15 games. But nope, the majority on this blog screamed bloody murder and said how dare Lou Piniella put him in the rotation.

I’ve said for two years in a row how valuable Mark DeRosa is to this ballclub. But nope, the majority on this blog labeled him as an aging utility ballplayer that had no business starting everyday and should be replaced by Brian Roberts, Eric Patterson, Mike Fontenot.

So I’m going to take objection with the sabermetrician and Comic Book Store Guy clones from the Simpsons when it comes to my track record of being critical versus being credible.

And Al, I shall direct one criticism your way. Why do you shy away from the unpopular when things go wrong with this ballclub? Your late evening write up of yesterday’s implosion was not objective. In fact, you were virtually apologetic for Kerry Wood and Alfonso Soriano. That’s not an attack, rather a comment. If you demand that all subjectiveness be taken out of the equation, then I think good policy would be for you to honor that policy as well. 95% of the time your reporting is strong and accurate. The other 5% all manner of objectivity is thrown out the window.

Soriano a sacred cow? There were people here who wanted him to remain hurt and on the DL. He catches a lot of flak.

Just because everyone doesn’t repeat your mantra incessantly….He’s overpaid….He’s a guess hitter…He wears eyeblack….doesn’t mean that he’s sacred cow.

What it means is that people are tired of your broken record and the joy you take in Cub losses so you can say I told you so.

why dont you go audition for a major league front office job?? no one ever said those things about derosa. derosa has always been valued by this blog. i was one that wanted roberts. why not?? leadoff hitter with good speed. derosa is heaven sent with all the postions he can play as has been shown again this year. in ending i will show some common courtesy and open the bcb front door for you!! i promise not to let it hit you….....well at least not too hard

...left alone in their rantings. Do not feed their monsters.

Anyone who posts here, engaging his thoughts, is simply giving the man another platform from which to rant. I’m leaving this post now. – TL

Thanks BlueMike!

he was such a great manager and got much accomplished. Even though he did get us five outs from a WS, he was definately the best manager ever. Period.

and why did we dump Darren Baker has our bat boy. He definately knows what goes on

...even if MDB posts something reasonable (improbable but not impossible), he’d probably get blasted from all directions and accused of being on the run from war crimes charges. All of it makes me laugh…