Ricketts Family Annoyance Thread

[Eli]

Chuck, any chance you want to become a Dodgers fan now that your beloved Andrew Friedman is taking over baseball operations there? Magic Johnson is just hands down a better owner than Tom Ricketts.

Which massively overpaid Dodger would become the new Soriano?  They've go so many to choose from. And Yasiel Puig's base running and other assorted boneheadery would make his head explode.

Hanley, Hanley, and probably Hanley.

My darkhorse is that Chuck would find a way to hate Clayton Kershaw.

[SKO]

Chuck, any chance you want to become a Dodgers fan now that your beloved Andrew Friedman is taking over baseball operations there? Magic Johnson is just hands down a better owner than Tom Ricketts.

Which massively overpaid Dodger would become the new Soriano?  They've go so many to choose from. And Yasiel Puig's base running and other assorted boneheadery would make his head explode.

Hanley, Hanley, and probably Hanley.

My darkhorse is that Chuck would find a way to hate Clayton Kershaw.

Well he said this:

As noted, Cub fans should be proud of themselves for not only failing to cheer the team for a "successful" season as they left the field on Saturday, but actually booing the pathetic play of the star performers: Alfonso Soriano, Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez.

After a three game playoff sample size in 2007, so I have no trouble seeing him roast Clayton for his postseason shortcomings

[Bort]

Chuck, any chance you want to become a Dodgers fan now that your beloved Andrew Friedman is taking over baseball operations there? Magic Johnson is just hands down a better owner than Tom Ricketts.

Which massively overpaid Dodger would become the new Soriano?  They've go so many to choose from. And Yasiel Puig's base running and other assorted boneheadery would make his head explode.

Hanley, Hanley, and probably Hanley.

My darkhorse is that Chuck would find a way to hate Clayton Kershaw.

Well he said this:

As noted, Cub fans should be proud of themselves for not only failing to cheer the team for a "successful" season as they left the field on Saturday, but actually booing the pathetic play of the star performers: Alfonso Soriano, Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez.

After a three game playoff sample size in 2007, so I have no trouble seeing him roast Clayton for his postseason shortcomings

Fucking hell, Internet Chuck.

[ChuckD]

Chuck, any chance you want to become a Dodgers fan now that your beloved Andrew Friedman is taking over baseball operations there? Magic Johnson is just hands down a better owner than Tom Ricketts.

Which massively overpaid Dodger would become the new Soriano?  They've go so many to choose from. And Yasiel Puig's base running and other assorted boneheadery would make his head explode.

Hanley, Hanley, and probably Hanley.

My darkhorse is that Chuck would find a way to hate Clayton Kershaw.

Strikeouts and shutouts are selfish.

Seriously, though -- it's definitely Hanley.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Strikeouts and shutouts are selfish.

I believe the term is "fascist." Ground balls are more "democratic."

[Slaky]

Dempster and DeRosa at the Cubs Convention

[Yeti]

Dempster and DeRosa at the Cubs Convention

Still not going

[Saul Goodman]

Dempster and DeRosa at the Cubs Convention

The convention really isn't for us.  It's for simpletons like Al who will tell their grandkids until the day they die about the time they related a mildly amusing anecdote to Dempster and DeRosa and both Cubs legends chortled.

[SKO]

Is there any other player that has made a bigger, dumber impression on the fanbase in a shorter amount of time than DeRo the HeRo? Good god. 6th or 7th most useful player on two fruitless playoff teams. This is like Bears fans freaking out over Tom Wad---ohhhhhh

[Bort]

Is there any other player that has made a bigger, dumber impression on the fanbase in a shorter amount of time than DeRo the HeRo? Good god. 6th or 7th most useful player on two fruitless playoff teams. This is like Bears fans freaking out over Tom Wad---ohhhhhh

I liked DeRosa...like I like Fresca!

[Quality Start Machine]

Is there any other player that has made a bigger, dumber impression on the fanbase in a shorter amount of time than DeRo the HeRo? Good god. 6th or 7th most useful player on two fruitless playoff teams. This is like Bears fans freaking out over Tom Wad---ohhhhhh

I liked DeRosa...like I like Fresca!

I heard you go to Corner Bakery because they have Fresca on tap.

[Eli]

Is there any other player that has made a bigger, dumber impression on the fanbase in a shorter amount of time than DeRo the HeRo? Good god. 6th or 7th most useful player on two fruitless playoff teams. This is like Bears fans freaking out over Tom Wad---ohhhhhh

There was nothing wrong with DeRosa either. Just because a certain segment of fans overrated him doesn't mean we all need to reflexively underrate him. The guy put up about $29 million of value while getting paid about 1/4 of that. Given that he was basically signed as a bench bat, he was a nice surprise.

And I'd also like to add a pre-emptive, "Huey is not a meatball" based on what I'm sure will be forthcoming.

[SKO]

Is there any other player that has made a bigger, dumber impression on the fanbase in a shorter amount of time than DeRo the HeRo? Good god. 6th or 7th most useful player on two fruitless playoff teams. This is like Bears fans freaking out over Tom Wad---ohhhhhh

There was nothing wrong with DeRosa either. Just because a certain segment of fans overrated him doesn't mean we all need to reflexively underrate him. The guy put up about $29 million of value while getting paid about 1/4 of that. Given that he was basically signed as a bench bat, he was a nice surprise.

And I'd also like to add a pre-emptive, "Huey is not a meatball" based on what I'm sure will be forthcoming.

Of course there was nothing wrong with him. He was a useful player. Not the best on those teams by a long shot, but a nice contributor who Hendry, amazingly enough, actually sold high on. I bear him no ill will, I just laugh at the fact that a decent contributor on two playoff teams that went nowhere is now a Cubs Legend basically because he had stubble and the appropriate lack of melanin. To again put this in the Bears analogy I speak best it's as odd to me as referring to "Bears Legend Roosevelt Colvin" or something. A nice player, not one you hang onto five years after his last appearance in your team's uniform.

[Quality Start Machine]

Is there any other player that has made a bigger, dumber impression on the fanbase in a shorter amount of time than DeRo the HeRo? Good god. 6th or 7th most useful player on two fruitless playoff teams. This is like Bears fans freaking out over Tom Wad---ohhhhhh

There was nothing wrong with DeRosa either. Just because a certain segment of fans overrated him doesn't mean we all need to reflexively underrate him. The guy put up about $29 million of value while getting paid about 1/4 of that. Given that he was basically signed as a bench bat, he was a nice surprise.

And I'd also like to add a pre-emptive, "Huey is not a meatball" based on what I'm sure will be forthcoming.

If Jepstink had signed him, he would have gotten flipped for prospects in his first year.

[Eli]

Is there any other player that has made a bigger, dumber impression on the fanbase in a shorter amount of time than DeRo the HeRo? Good god. 6th or 7th most useful player on two fruitless playoff teams. This is like Bears fans freaking out over Tom Wad---ohhhhhh

There was nothing wrong with DeRosa either. Just because a certain segment of fans overrated him doesn't mean we all need to reflexively underrate him. The guy put up about $29 million of value while getting paid about 1/4 of that. Given that he was basically signed as a bench bat, he was a nice surprise.

And I'd also like to add a pre-emptive, "Huey is not a meatball" based on what I'm sure will be forthcoming.

If Jepstink had signed him, he would have gotten flipped for prospects in his first year.

I can't tell if this is a compliment or insult to Jepstink.