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WTF is Brian Cashman slipping into the coffee of these other GM's? First Nady for nothing, now they just picked up Pudge Rodriguez from the Tigers for Kyle Farnsworth. Is there some secret deal that the general public is unaware of?
Breaking news: Insider footage of Cashman informing Farnsworth of his decision. |
Quasi, that is fucking hilarious. I didn't know where it was going at first.
I am not worried about the Yankees getting pudge. He was good when he was all 'roided up, but not so much now. He can still throw and ht well enough for a backup catcher, but I also have heard that he is a bad pitch receiver and used to call lots of outside fastballs, so he could throw out runners. |
eh the pudge deal isn't really that big of a deal.. if anything, Detroit probably got the better player.
And I swear to fucking god. All this Manny shit has me pissed off. Did I seriously hear Jason Bay for Manny? fuck me proper. This is like Roger Clemens all over again. I don't give a shit if he's a baby or not.. trade him and your season (if it isn't already) is down the tubes. How the hell are you going to find someone to step in and keep a lineup like Papi-Manny-Drew? Fuckin A. |
Junior might be going to the White Sox. Konerko's bat has been really quiet recently, and guess he'd sit once in a while, let Swisher play first and Griffey would be every day in the outfield. Seems a little bizarre to me since I don't see an obvious place for Griffey on the ChiSox, but that team has always done weird things and made them work.
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-----Added 31/7/2008 at 12 : 54 : 28----- Looks like Dunn to Tampa Bay is dead. Tampa Bay and Toronto are trying to get Jason Bay. maybe one of them will snag him and Manny will stay put. |
Whoa. Manny to the Dodgers. And for Bay? Wow, I just don't get that one.
And it's a four game sweep of the Brewers in Milwaukee. That'll make the road record nicer and give us some room to work with. We're 4 up on the Brewers and 3.5 on the Cards. |
Well, shit, as long as he didn't go to Philly, I could care less where Manny goes. Of course, I'm still sour that the Mets didn't get Nady back. If what Cashman gave them was all it took to land him, hell, the Mets shoudl've just given the Pirates a bag of cash.
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This is the stupidest trade boston could have possibly pulled off. Seriously, you have to pay Manny the rest of his $7 mill, and you give up Hanson and Moss. DUMB DUMB DUMB. They could have just dealt with manny for 2 more months and cut him loose. No need to give up 2 kids that good.
Jason Bay will never be a Manny. He may do ok, but he's under enormous pressure. I think the Pirates came out of this mix as the winners. And Hardin to the cubs.. just great. Thanks Theo. I used to think you were smart. |
Boras would never had let Manny stay in Boston anyways. No money in it for him. Now the Dodgers get good-guy Manny for the remainder of the season so they can both cash in with free agency next season.
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My luck, I'll be watching Manny in pinstripes next year :rolleyes: |
But he may not have. If Manny stayed being good Manny and played the game the way he is capable, the Sox might have picked up the option year. The only way for him to hit free agency next year is to act up and force a trade. Now he can be on best behavior to show the rest of the league he isn't a malcontent and is worth the $20+million/year for 4 years he is looking for.
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One of the conditions of him accepting the trade was that the Dodgers would not exercise the option years on his contract.
I think it will be a big mistake for any team to sign him for more than 2 years. Actually, at the money he'll want I would only do 1 year. He's a 36-yr old DH with bad knees. Way too much risk. |
The most surprising trade for me was the Griffey trade to the Chi Sux.
It seems really weird this year, teams are stockpiling OF positions and positions they don't need for that run and giving a lot away for what they don't need. The Chi Sux needed pitching, not Jr. I just don't know ..... weird season. |
So the Sux will move Swisher to 1B and platoon him with Konerko. Griffey is going back to CF. We'll see if his old ass can still play CF. It helps the Sux to sit Konerko.
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They might be better off with Junior at first, though they may not want to move him in the middle of the season and a pennant race. At least Swisher has played there before.
I don't think the drop-off in overall play between Bay and Ramirez is bad for Boston. However, Epstein and Lucchino and Henry must despise him to give up that much: paying the contract PLUS two players. Colletti should become the first general manager to be fired after winning Executive of the Year for this deal. They gave up nothing they cared about for two free months of Manny Ramirez. If they were worried about LaRoche, they would be playing him over Blake "Almost Sounds Like A Major Appliance" DeWitt. As a side note, after looking up the White Sox, is there any more underrated player in baseball then Jermaine Dye? He hasn't had a below-average year (OPS+ wise, at least) since 2003. He's probably going to hit 40 home runs for the second year of the past three. He hits for average, and doesn't strike out all that much for a power-hitter. And though I don't keep up with it I've never heard any issues with his defense. Outside of a young player on a lesser team (*cough*Nick Markakis*cough*), I can't think of too many more. |
Scott Boras is the devil. No doubt about it.
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Boras is not the devil, he is Hitler! The way he maneuvered MR like a puppet with the sole intent of creating a new contract that only Boras will benefit from is comparable to Hitler gaining Austria and Czechoslovakia without firing a shot, simply by browbeating. The only injuries to Manny's knees or hamstrings are in his head, after all there's a lot of confusion, what with his ass being in there too and all. I think last night was typical of what we'll see the rest of the year out of these guys. Manny goes 2 for 4, great numbers but no real contribution, while Bay goes 1 for 3, getting a wall ball triple and scoring the winning run with 2 outs in extra innings, on a hit Manny would have a gotten a single out of. He also made a diving defensive play that Manny would not have made this year. Manny hitting .330, 40 HR and 120 RBI's is a higher liability than a guy with good fundamentals, common sense, and less impressive stats.
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I think you guys will like Bay. His career OPS+ is 131.
As for Manny, I had not heard about the incident with their secretary. That's fucked up. It was great to see him GIDP in the 9th. The crowd went silent. He also misplayed a single into a triple. He did run his ground balls out though. The combination of Manny and Jones in LF and CF is wretched defensively. If Torre would just sit Pierre and Jones for the rest of the year and go with Kemp and Ethier in CF and RF they could probably mitigate most of Manny's defensive shortcomings. |
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Manny is a pretty terrible fielder away from Fenway (where he's sort of average). You're welcome LA. Derek Lowe should be thankful he's a ground ball pitcher with those guys. The incident with Jack McCormick (the traveling secretary, a 64-year-old man, and allegedly very nice guy) was totally inexcusable and really soured a lot of people on Manny being Manny. |
I'm lovin' Manny in LA, guys. Talk shit all you want. :)
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Nady is on fire. 1.313 OPS since joining the Yanks. |
The DBacks got Haren to agree to a contract extension. He will now be under their control for an additional two years plus a team option:
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It looks like Bay and Manny had good weekends and helped their teams. Should be an interesting end run.
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Who knows what it was about but it could be incentives or how the extra money was to be distributed or whatever. A few months back, Webb's agent started posting on some message boards about the contract situation. That was odd. |
MLB Baseball Predictions
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Tampa Bay Chicago LA Boston LA beats Boston Tampa Bay beats Chicago LA beats Tampa Bay to advance to the WS NL Phillies Cubbies Brewers Dodgers Phillies over Brewers Cubbies over the Dodgers Cubbies beat Phillies to advance to the WS Cubbies win the World Series |
Paul Byrd goes to Bosux for a player to be named or cash
Adam Dunn traded for bullshit to Arizona..... These teams better spend money this free agent year. |
I'm excited about the Dunn trade. I've been a fan of him for quite some time. He should help out a bunch down the stretch. I wouldn't call the trade bullshit yet. They got Dallas Buck back and to PTBNLs. We'll have to wait and see who they are.
They have quite a basketball team now: Rauch - 6-11 Johnson - 6-10 Clark 6-7 Dunn - 6-6 Qualls - 6-5 -----Added 12/8/2008 at 07 : 45 : 56----- Ortiz hit 2 HR in the first inning today. Wow. |
Rumors (from MLBTradeRumors) are that both PTBNL are on the 40-man roster, and at least one was claimed: Micah Owings. The other is supposed to be a position player.
Intriguing. |
This just in:
The Detroit Tigers have placed DH Gary Sheffield on waivers. |
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I know why it is getting play right now, but this isn't exactly an unusual situation. |
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Man the Red Sox-Ranger game was crazy!! What a slugfest. I thought the 1st inning was incredible. However, the game was still a cause for concern. While I love that our bats lit it up, I am worried about the pitching. Anaheim and Tampa will crush us if we allow that kind of hitting.
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Boston will be fine. |
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Scott Boras has sunk to a new low:
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News Flash.. Bora's Sucks. DUH.
In other news.. looks like we can finally have another skankee free playoffs. |
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