Sammy Sosa is the reason I fell in love with the game and the Cubs. The 90s lore of baseball, especially with the innocence of a kid is something you can’t replace. Especially with my old man…
I heard they were meeting with Roki Sasaki today. I would love it if the Cubs could land him. He's going to be a stud for a while. What are your thoughts on Sasaki Mick?
So happy Sammy is back. That makes childhood me so very happy. Yeah whatever he cheated blah blah who gives a shit… So many players cheated back then; pitchers, hitters, everyone. Who. Cares. It was an awkward time for baseball, but it’s so far in the past now.
When Tucker sees how fans embrace sammy at Cubs Con, my hope is it plants a tiny little seed into his head for when he goes after a long term contract in the off season.
I grew up in the Sammy era, and i can't feel anything but awkward happy over the situation. As a kid, i couldn't really grasp the implications of what he did, it was only "HE'S SAMMY FREAKING SOSA!" As an adult looking back....yeah it was messed up and wrong. But trying to sweep away all that childhood love and admiration is hard, if not impossible, I don't care who you are. And I'll admit to my own hypocrisy. When i hear the names Altuve, Correa, Bregman, Astros, I'm ready to start swinging. I'll double down on those feelings when it comes to Correa. I think everyone involved in that needs to be ripped out of baseball and forgotten about. But as far as it goes with Sammy, I'm happy and excited and I REALLY wish I could be there at the convention. Also shocked Ricketts finally allowed this to happen.
I am perfectly fine with not getting Lazardo. He is a good pitcher, but I want to see someone who has better health. If the Cubs turned him into a closer or something, maybe. I just don't see him as a starter pitching 180+ innings. I don't see him capable of staying healthy like that. We don't really need a starter right now anyway. We need bullpen help. We need a backup infielder. If we need a starter, we get this person at the trade deadline. I just like the idea better of Brown and Horton having a chance to be a starter. Assad can be that long man/spot starter in the pen. We have two guys who are highly regarded prospects that we need to see what they could be at the Major League level. As for an Ace, who says we don't have that guy right now? We have no idea what kind of seasons Imanaga and Steele could have. They are both damned good starters. Sure, we might need one at the trade deadline. I just like the idea of investing in the bullpen right now and seeing what our rotation can do. This way, if the Cubs have to go over the tax again, at least they do so with a damn good reason and the pen is also good enough for a post season run. I don't know if I like spending 11 million a year for a guy who isn't a closer. I know it isn't my money, just saying...I think it would be better to spend 14-16 million a year split between 2 guys for the pen if it isn't a closer. Like 6 million for one, 8 million for the other per year. Add an infielder who is worth 5-6 million per year capable of backing up Shaw and playing other spots in the infield in case of injury and I think the team has that depth needed. Let's see what they can do. Maybe use the left over money to sign a DH if they need to trade Suzuki because he doesn't want to be a DH. There are still some great bats out there available, via trade or free agency that can do a lot with that spot. Leave yourself a little wiggle room below the tax for a reliever if needed, go over if you need to trade for an Ace at the deadline.
I'm a veryyyyyyyyyyy longtime loyal cubs fan! and I'm talking since I went to my first game back in 1966! the cubbies have had a gang of FA's some worked out, the rest were bustsss. What irks me is that an FA who was lights out with their old team comes to chicago and becomes a bust!! look at dansby swanson (The White version of Jason Heyworth). so I don't expect the dude from houston to play out like a Juan Soto who just added +9/10 wins for the Mets. Da cubs need to be built for May, June, July before the AS break. then be mentally ready to play REAL games in Sept. If they just signed Swarber alone he was +6/7 wins along with bellinger when he is healthy +5 games. they need a stud starter hey take the plunge and get trevor bauer?? +7games and have a NAST BOYZS 7th, 8th, 9th bullpen.
Cubs will not give up any of top 6 prospects to marlins. That's why it's dead. Marlins want someone cubs won't give. Mariners WANT to trade Castillo but also Logan Gilbert. Cubs want Gilbert. They have what it takes to get him. Mariners botched extension talks. Imagine Alcantara, Assad or Wicks, Hoerner or Triantos, and Birdsell or Jaxon W for Logan Gilbert? That is a haul and it wouldn't hurt the cubs at all. Now you are playoff ready.
I loved Sammy when he was a Cub. I hated what he did. I hate how he walked out before that last game was over. But we’re all imperfect humans. I believe in forgive and FORGET. Let’s move on.
I'm excited that the Luzardo deal may be dead. I was never happy about that one when it leaked. There are far better options to spend our prospect capital on. 🎵Go Cubs Go🎵
You said Sammy should be welcomed back since he is the all-time Cubs home run leader. Wonder how many HR’s Ernie or others would have hit if they had cheated!
Agreed. It’s sickening that people even think Bonds is the home run king. I will stay with Ruth and I hate the American League and am 60 years old and I still have memories of 1969 watching games with my grandfather. But Babe Ruth only batted every 5th day for his first 5 years. He played in the dead ball era and traveling by train everywhere you went had to wipe people out. But Ruth never played in any other season than a 150 game season. So he played less games, he didn’t play during the live ball that just popped off the bat. And as I already stated, he was a pitcher with Boston his first 5 seasons where he only batted on days he pitched. How can he not still be considered the home run king still? He wasn’t even in shape in his career, he hit against pitchers that had the ball so scuffed up and pitchers throwing spit balls, if they go into the Hall of Fame, there has to be an asterisk. The best hitter of that era to me and I can’t stand the team was Frank Thomas because he did all of his with what God gave him. I can’t imagine what he would have done had he been on the steroids.
@@cubsbaseballchannel to be fair I am English and lived in the states from 1984 till 1999 and in that time I had two daughters and fell in love with the USA and the cubbies but what sammy sosa did along with bonds and mcgwire was in my opinion cheating on players who came before and after , in England any form of cheating in sports is absolutely frowned upon no exceptions or excuses anyway it’s just my opinion and live in England now but still love the USA and especially the cubs . Have a great Christmas 🎅 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire was the reason baseball came back after the 94 strike. The summer of 98 was a great one. The home run chase, the Cubs getting into the playoffs Kerry Woods 20 strikeout game. He gave us more good memories and made us happy than bad ones. I didn’t care if he did steroids. The steroid era was back in those days. I think Tom Ricketts ego got the better of him in this one. But for me and many other fans no apologies needed from Sammy. He probably won’t make the baseball Hall of Fame. But he should be welcome into the Cubs family.
I think many of us did need that apology. Not so much for the PED's, but more for the corked bat and the way things went down at the end. I think many of us did need that. It makes things easier to forgive when an acknowledgement of being in the wrong happens.
@@Paul-815 He wasn't the only one though. Clemans, Bonds, Canseco, Palmeiro, ARod and at least 200 other guys were doing it. So let's not forget that part of it as well. He wasn't the only one. We suspect that Piazza did. We will never know on guys like Jim Thome, Albert Belle and Frank Thomas if they did or not. There are guys in the Hall of Fame right now who could have done it and never got caught. So I don't know if they ruined baseball or not. I know it hurt like hell to go through all of that stuff. At some point, do we give him a chance to redeem himself or not? To make amends. I think we do. He is never going into the Hall of Fame. That is the price he paid for it. That many others paid for it. He says he is sorry. Let's see if he really is. Let's see if he is serious about trying to be better. If he shows his ass again, it is goodbye for good. If he is serious about being better though, then I can give him that chance. Steroids go back to the 1960's being used in sports. It started with Football players. I suspect it is still a problem in the NFL that goes ignored. It probably is a major problem in the NBA right now. Just saying, he wasn't the only one and we need to keep that perspective. We have no real idea of who used and who didn't.
@ true. But the guy in charge is the same guy who non-tendered Kyle Schwarber. They get another ace, and I’ll say it was worth it. But more likely, it’ll be another Hector Neris and Drew Smyly.
No hug from me for Sammy. Any cheater does not belong in the Hall of Fame and the single season HR record now belongs to Judge. Yes, Bonds was a cheater too!
You can’t cheat if it’s not against the rules or laws,And with what judge and all other players are doing with the stem cell treatments and creatine it is not all that different. Steroids don’t change launch angle, swing mechanics, and don’t enhance bat to ball skills.
Mark, as much as I loved him as a player, wasn't always the nicest guy either. Every player has an ego. Sometimes it gets in the way of understanding where some people are at. Not saying Sosa didn't make his share of mistakes. He did. I just think that failing to understand each other wasn't a one sided street. Mark belongs in the Hall of Fame in my book. You don't lead all of MLB in total hits for a decade and not make the Hall. The only one to not be in the Hall aside from Mark Grace who did it, Pete Rose. We know why he isn't in the Hall of Fame. But Mark has a really contentious relationship with the Cubs as well if I understand things correctly. Still is mad about not getting resigned before he left for Arizona. Has had personal issues since then. Now, I don't know if things have softened up and he has been back to the Cubs convention or around anything Cubs related. I haven't heard anything about him being around. I hope one day it will change. He deserves to be in the team Hall of Fame, he deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame wearing a Cubs hat. Every player has an ego though. They wouldn't make it to MLB if they didn't. It is communication they probably were not the best at.
Sammy Sosa is the reason I fell in love with the game and the Cubs. The 90s lore of baseball, especially with the innocence of a kid is something you can’t replace. Especially with my old man…
It’s ok to acknowledge that Sammy did wrong and also ok to be happy that he’s back in the Cubs family.
Welcome back Sammy, go Cubs go!
That's how I feel
Grate point with the awesome memories from the Sosa era. 👍
Yay Mick lets go Sammy coming back great for all of us a good sign!
I'm glad too!
I love SAMMY. He was clutch and that has nothing to do with drugs
I heard they were meeting with Roki Sasaki today. I would love it if the Cubs could land him. He's going to be a stud for a while. What are your thoughts on Sasaki Mick?
Go Cubs!
Let's not forget Wicks, Horton, and Brown should be able to contribute this year
They are foolish if they trade Wicks away. He going to be a stud sooner than we realize.
I think all 3 of those guys could have solid MLB roles!
Trevor Bauer should apologize to Manfred. And then we sign him as the closer for $1m BAM
And like Sammy... he's apologizing for what exactly?
So happy Sammy is back. That makes childhood me so very happy. Yeah whatever he cheated blah blah who gives a shit… So many players cheated back then; pitchers, hitters, everyone. Who. Cares. It was an awkward time for baseball, but it’s so far in the past now.
The city of Chicago should offer Roki a deal he can't refuse
When Tucker sees how fans embrace sammy at Cubs Con, my hope is it plants a tiny little seed into his head for when he goes after a long term contract in the off season.
We definitely need a closer. Another bat and a starting pitcher is necessary
I grew up in the Sammy era, and i can't feel anything but awkward happy over the situation. As a kid, i couldn't really grasp the implications of what he did, it was only "HE'S SAMMY FREAKING SOSA!" As an adult looking back....yeah it was messed up and wrong. But trying to sweep away all that childhood love and admiration is hard, if not impossible, I don't care who you are.
And I'll admit to my own hypocrisy. When i hear the names Altuve, Correa, Bregman, Astros, I'm ready to start swinging. I'll double down on those feelings when it comes to Correa. I think everyone involved in that needs to be ripped out of baseball and forgotten about.
But as far as it goes with Sammy, I'm happy and excited and I REALLY wish I could be there at the convention. Also shocked Ricketts finally allowed this to happen.
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I am perfectly fine with not getting Lazardo. He is a good pitcher, but I want to see someone who has better health.
If the Cubs turned him into a closer or something, maybe. I just don't see him as a starter pitching 180+ innings. I don't see him capable of staying healthy like that.
We don't really need a starter right now anyway. We need bullpen help. We need a backup infielder.
If we need a starter, we get this person at the trade deadline.
I just like the idea better of Brown and Horton having a chance to be a starter. Assad can be that long man/spot starter in the pen.
We have two guys who are highly regarded prospects that we need to see what they could be at the Major League level.
As for an Ace, who says we don't have that guy right now? We have no idea what kind of seasons Imanaga and Steele could have. They are both damned good starters.
Sure, we might need one at the trade deadline. I just like the idea of investing in the bullpen right now and seeing what our rotation can do.
This way, if the Cubs have to go over the tax again, at least they do so with a damn good reason and the pen is also good enough for a post season run.
I don't know if I like spending 11 million a year for a guy who isn't a closer. I know it isn't my money, just saying...I think it would be better to spend 14-16 million a year split between 2 guys for the pen if it isn't a closer. Like 6 million for one, 8 million for the other per year. Add an infielder who is worth 5-6 million per year capable of backing up Shaw and playing other spots in the infield in case of injury and I think the team has that depth needed.
Let's see what they can do. Maybe use the left over money to sign a DH if they need to trade Suzuki because he doesn't want to be a DH. There are still some great bats out there available, via trade or free agency that can do a lot with that spot.
Leave yourself a little wiggle room below the tax for a reliever if needed, go over if you need to trade for an Ace at the deadline.
I'm a veryyyyyyyyyyy longtime loyal cubs fan! and I'm talking since I went to my first game back in 1966! the cubbies have had a gang of FA's some worked out, the rest were bustsss. What irks me is that an FA who was lights out with their old team comes to chicago and becomes a bust!! look at dansby swanson (The White version of Jason Heyworth). so I don't expect the dude from houston to play out like a Juan Soto who just added +9/10 wins for the Mets. Da cubs need to be built for May, June, July before the AS break. then be mentally ready to play REAL games in Sept. If they just signed Swarber alone he was +6/7 wins along with bellinger when he is healthy +5 games. they need a stud starter hey take the plunge and get trevor bauer?? +7games and have a NAST BOYZS 7th, 8th, 9th bullpen.
Tucker is really good! Hopefully he can handle Wrigley
I always want more pitching.
I WANT TO HEAR SAMMY SING THE SEVENTH!!!!
Same!
Keegan Thompson and Caleb Killian...makes or break season?
Cubs will not give up any of top 6 prospects to marlins. That's why it's dead. Marlins want someone cubs won't give.
Mariners WANT to trade Castillo but also Logan Gilbert. Cubs want Gilbert. They have what it takes to get him. Mariners botched extension talks. Imagine Alcantara, Assad or Wicks, Hoerner or Triantos, and Birdsell or Jaxon W for Logan Gilbert? That is a haul and it wouldn't hurt the cubs at all. Now you are playoff ready.
My preference is Tanner Scott for the bullpen. Would be nice to have Scott AND Hoffman or Yates to pair with Hodge.
Sammy says base a balla has been a veddy veddy guud to me
I loved Sammy when he was a Cub. I hated what he did. I hate how he walked out before that last game was over. But we’re all imperfect humans. I believe in forgive and FORGET. Let’s move on.
I'm excited that the Luzardo deal may be dead. I was never happy about that one when it leaked. There are far better options to spend our prospect capital on. 🎵Go Cubs Go🎵
Didn’t we pay $8m for an idiot to blow just about every save last year? So yeah for sure pay $11m for a great closer!! LFG
Hahaha! Yea
Yeah he likely was using performance enhancement of some kind
But the dude still needed to hit the ball
Still have to make solid contact
Forgiveness
Is more than saying sorry… - Samantha James (Just Friends)
You said Sammy should be welcomed back since he is the all-time Cubs home run leader. Wonder how many HR’s Ernie or others would have hit if they had cheated!
Agreed. It’s sickening that people even think Bonds is the home run king. I will stay with Ruth and I hate the American League and am 60 years old and I still have memories of 1969 watching games with my grandfather.
But Babe Ruth only batted every 5th day for his first 5 years. He played in the dead ball era and traveling by train everywhere you went had to wipe people out. But Ruth never played in any other season than a 150 game season. So he played less games, he didn’t play during the live ball that just popped off the bat. And as I already stated, he was a pitcher with Boston his first 5 seasons where he only batted on days he pitched.
How can he not still be considered the home run king still? He wasn’t even in shape in his career, he hit against pitchers that had the ball so scuffed up and pitchers throwing spit balls, if they go into the Hall of Fame, there has to be an asterisk. The best hitter of that era to me and I can’t stand the team was Frank Thomas because he did all of his with what God gave him. I can’t imagine what he would have done had he been on the steroids.
I can't argue
What your saying to your children is it’s ok to cheat😢😢
@@dannyreardondr if someone used steroids when it wasn't against the rules, is that cheating?
Its not but Sammy paid a steep price
@@cubsbaseballchannel to be fair I am English and lived in the states from 1984 till 1999 and in that time I had two daughters and fell in love with the USA and the cubbies but what sammy sosa did along with bonds and mcgwire was in my opinion cheating on players who came before and after , in England any form of cheating in sports is absolutely frowned upon no exceptions or excuses anyway it’s just my opinion and live in England now but still love the USA and especially the cubs . Have a great Christmas 🎅 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire was the reason baseball came back after the 94 strike. The summer of 98 was a great one. The home run chase, the Cubs getting into the playoffs Kerry Woods 20 strikeout game. He gave us more good memories and made us happy than bad ones. I didn’t care if he did steroids. The steroid era was back in those days. I think Tom Ricketts ego got the better of him in this one. But for me and many other fans no apologies needed from Sammy. He probably won’t make the baseball Hall of Fame. But he should be welcome into the Cubs family.
I think many of us did need that apology. Not so much for the PED's, but more for the corked bat and the way things went down at the end. I think many of us did need that. It makes things easier to forgive when an acknowledgement of being in the wrong happens.
He’s a liar and a cheat. Don’t forget about the corked bat that he used by “accident.” Another perspective is that he ruined baseball.
@@Paul-815 He wasn't the only one though.
Clemans, Bonds, Canseco, Palmeiro, ARod and at least 200 other guys were doing it. So let's not forget that part of it as well. He wasn't the only one.
We suspect that Piazza did. We will never know on guys like Jim Thome, Albert Belle and Frank Thomas if they did or not.
There are guys in the Hall of Fame right now who could have done it and never got caught.
So I don't know if they ruined baseball or not. I know it hurt like hell to go through all of that stuff.
At some point, do we give him a chance to redeem himself or not? To make amends.
I think we do. He is never going into the Hall of Fame. That is the price he paid for it. That many others paid for it.
He says he is sorry. Let's see if he really is. Let's see if he is serious about trying to be better. If he shows his ass again, it is goodbye for good. If he is serious about being better though, then I can give him that chance.
Steroids go back to the 1960's being used in sports. It started with Football players. I suspect it is still a problem in the NFL that goes ignored. It probably is a major problem in the NBA right now.
Just saying, he wasn't the only one and we need to keep that perspective. We have no real idea of who used and who didn't.
They’ve subtracted more than they’ve added. No need for excitement
Not over yet
@ true. But the guy in charge is the same guy who non-tendered Kyle Schwarber. They get another ace, and I’ll say it was worth it. But more likely, it’ll be another Hector Neris and Drew Smyly.
Don’t care much for cheats
He disgraced the game of baseball. Calling it a mistake? He took roids intentionally. That's not a mistake. Oh, and didn't he cork his bat, too?
Well, Mythbusters proved that a corked bat results in an exit velocity reduced by 50 percent. So he wasn't very bright for using a corked bat.
@@DionysusAlS He wasn't very bright for using steroids either. See a pattern here?
No hug from me for Sammy. Any cheater does not belong in the Hall of Fame and the single season HR record now belongs to Judge. Yes, Bonds was a cheater too!
No thanks. Not necessary. All stats are illegal and should be removed from books. I threw all his stuff in the trash.
You can’t cheat if it’s not against the rules or laws,And with what judge and all other players are doing with the stem cell treatments and creatine it is not all that different. Steroids don’t change launch angle, swing mechanics, and don’t enhance bat to ball skills.
You’re not even adding in all the guys hopped up on prescription adderall
What rules in the rulebook did he break? I'd like to look them. I also would like to see the evidence he used...
I'll wait 🤔
Bro, your intro is wayyy to long.
& too loud. Blast my ear drums every time😂
Its barely 10 seconds. Get over yourself
@@TaterAvila ok.... not watching again. I'm sure many others are doing the same. idiot
I seen personally that Sammy was a selfish player. Don't take my word for it ask Mark Grace
if he will talk about it.
Mark, as much as I loved him as a player, wasn't always the nicest guy either. Every player has an ego. Sometimes it gets in the way of understanding where some people are at. Not saying Sosa didn't make his share of mistakes. He did. I just think that failing to understand each other wasn't a one sided street.
Mark belongs in the Hall of Fame in my book. You don't lead all of MLB in total hits for a decade and not make the Hall. The only one to not be in the Hall aside from Mark Grace who did it, Pete Rose. We know why he isn't in the Hall of Fame.
But Mark has a really contentious relationship with the Cubs as well if I understand things correctly. Still is mad about not getting resigned before he left for Arizona. Has had personal issues since then.
Now, I don't know if things have softened up and he has been back to the Cubs convention or around anything Cubs related. I haven't heard anything about him being around.
I hope one day it will change. He deserves to be in the team Hall of Fame, he deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame wearing a Cubs hat.
Every player has an ego though. They wouldn't make it to MLB if they didn't.
It is communication they probably were not the best at.