Sosa Should Scram

Posted By Blackfive

As a lifelong Cubs fan, I have a hard time being tough on the team. However, I am one of the few that have thought for a long, long time that Sosa should go.

A lot of my friends think that getting rid of Sosa would lose the Cubs home runs. A lot of my friends think that I am crazy, and that Sammy has been one of the lynch-pins keeping their play-off hopes alive.

Have you ever seen Sammy Sosa really hustle after hitting a grounder? I have...maybe twice in the last four years. He's a made a few good plays this year, but only a few. He's a prima donna in an organization that is supposed to be made up of scrappers. The Cubs are not the Yankees. Never have been and never will be.

And, now, more proof of what Sammy Sosa really is...an arrogant, pouty @#$%.

Sosa sittin' on the dock of the pay
BY MIKE KILEY Staff Reporter

Sammy Sosa has been docked a day's pay for failing to remain at Wrigley Field for the Cubs' season finale Sunday against Atlanta.

General manager Jim Hendry faxed a formal letter Wednesday to Adam Katz, Sosa's agent, and also sent a letter to Sosa's offseason address informing the sulking slugger that he must pay roughly $87,400 for leaving the ballpark during the game without permission.

''The action Sammy took was indefensible, and I feel this is an appropriate fine,'' Hendry said. ''He should have been willing to stay with his teammates and dress in his uniform like everyone else did. He just shouldn't have left. There is no way to defend it.''...

Time for Sammy to go...no team needs a player that won't stick it out the whole season.

I won't miss him.

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Sosa Should Scram

As a lifelong Cubs fan, I have a hard time being tough on the team. However, I am one of the few that have thought for a long, long time that Sosa should go.

A lot of my friends think that getting rid of Sosa would lose the Cubs home runs. A lot of my friends think that I am crazy, and that Sammy has been one of the lynch-pins keeping their play-off hopes alive.

Have you ever seen Sammy Sosa really hustle after hitting a grounder? I have...maybe twice in the last four years. He's a made a few good plays this year, but only a few. He's a prima donna in an organization that is supposed to be made up of scrappers. The Cubs are not the Yankees. Never have been and never will be.

And, now, more proof of what Sammy Sosa really is...an arrogant, pouty @#$%.

Sosa sittin' on the dock of the pay
BY MIKE KILEY Staff Reporter

Sammy Sosa has been docked a day's pay for failing to remain at Wrigley Field for the Cubs' season finale Sunday against Atlanta.

General manager Jim Hendry faxed a formal letter Wednesday to Adam Katz, Sosa's agent, and also sent a letter to Sosa's offseason address informing the sulking slugger that he must pay roughly $87,400 for leaving the ballpark during the game without permission.

''The action Sammy took was indefensible, and I feel this is an appropriate fine,'' Hendry said. ''He should have been willing to stay with his teammates and dress in his uniform like everyone else did. He just shouldn't have left. There is no way to defend it.''...

Time for Sammy to go...no team needs a player that won't stick it out the whole season.

I won't miss him.

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