― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
ED FUCKING KOCH! W. T. F?
Fucking Riccardi. He better pull of this Hillenbrand thing that I've been hearing rumours about.
I wish I could just turn on some hockey (World Juniors notwithstanding) and ignore all this.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
i wouldn't get too excited about shea.
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
i wouldn't get too excited about shea.I am also aware of this - but it would be nice to have someone on the team that's played SOME 1st base!Plus, I only became aware of his "colourful personality" ("Trade me faggot") after my last post.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
$500,000
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
http://rotoworld.com/content/playernews.asp?sport=MLB
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Koch as a hard-thrower to burn through some righties in the 7th or 8th, preferably w/ bases empty = not too shabby. Koch as your save guy, or your guy in a bases-filled situation = you get what you deserve. This pickup is in the same realm as the BoSox's transaction involving Matt "Mickey" Mantei - if he pans out, super duper; if not, whatever. Though I would think the Jays would do s'more scouring & scavenging before dropping nearly a million on a "proven veteran".
Tony Batista getting $7.5M overseas = HOLY CRAP!
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Fuck a bunch of Tom Hicks. He got roasted on drivetime radio today because he said that shipping off A-Rod gave them room to acquire veteran talent - only now he's tying major free agent acquisitions (ie Delgado) to shipping off Soriano to keep the payroll close to even. I hope they go 60-102 this year and he loses the Stars forever.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, they can hit a lick, too, & probably have the best infield in the AL, & still will even when / if they trade Soriano. Delgado is not needed @ all - he'll only be taking ABs away from either Texeira (right!) or DH-to-be Adrian Gonzalez (or maybe Texeira's the DH - I have no idea re: their defensive reputations), and unless either of those kids can fetch some upper-tier pitching, I'd rather have the kids.
Also also, the outfield - the weak spot in their lineup - gets a kick in the pants via their signing of Richard Hildago; full seasons of Delucci / Mench in LF, Nix / Delucci in CF, & Hildalgo in RF could be quite sexxxy. To be honest, I have no idea how they got 89 wins last year, given the shatty quality of their pitching, and I hesitate to give Buck any credit (because I'm like that). Orel's work, especially w/ the relievers, is probably a year or two away from being touted as Mazzone-esque.
However, unless they can flip Soriano for a solid pitcher - which is really all they need to succeed, at least in the regular season - I can picture them coming down to the Mariners' level. It seems like, this year, w/ the way the batting orders (hott!) & the pitching rotations (not so hott...) are shaping up, the AL West is REALLY going to beat the crap out of itself.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, wait...what was that? oh, yeah. it's dc's fault.
man, i really have a serious dislike for petey pete.
― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 14 January 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Geez.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Kinda discouraging: Delgado will "stand for" whatever nationalist hooey his new team wants him to...
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-spmets154116223jan15,0,7166561.story
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
(I might lose some respect if he accepts 3y/37M without a fight, FFS, JD Drew got 4y/40M!)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Neither have I, I guess.. I'm just a little sad that he'd feel like he couldn't continue to stand behind those positions playing for a US team. Which is really our culture's problem more than it is his.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
MIR, if it wasn't for the fact that:
- Delgado's a first baseman- Delgado's 3 years older than Drew (but only 3! that's surprised me!)
I'd agree w/ you.
Would someone PLEASE slap the Rangers upside the head and make the GM eat Mark Texeira's stat sheet from last year? If they're bitching about $$$$ issues, then they should not even think of signing Delgado when they have TWO (yes, TWO) 1B that can play full-time! Like, duh! And I'm going to keep on saying it because this just makes me so OFIOAU!
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Brad Fullmer (65)Eric Young (23)Herbert Perry (21)Brian Jordan (17)Kevin Mench (14)David Dellucci (9)Chad Allen (5)Alfonso Soriano (3)Michael Young (2)Mark Teixeira (2)Andy Fox (1)Adrian Gonzalez (1)
(See what I did there?)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Drew has had one good season (if you call 31 HR, 93 RBI good for a guy making 10M/yr). Delgado has had seven straight 900+ OPS seasons, including at least two MVP-quality years. Drew is injury-prone. Delgado is not -- last year was the only one in which he missed significant time due to injury, and he put up monster numbers once he came back healthy (so he's not showing any signs of slowing down at 32).
AFAIC, Drew is a monsterously larger risk at that salary, with a four year contract, compared to Delgado.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 20 January 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I guess for progressive athletes, I'll have to settle for my NBA boyfriend, Steve Nash, sweetly profiled in yesterday's NYT (he's reading Che's book and the Communist Manifesto)... who's Canadian, natch.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
the orioles have now added blockbuster signing bionic tony saunders. way to go. actually, i think osuna is a solid signing for the nats pen, though...kind of cancelled out by the signing of esteban loaiza. ack.
― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link