wow @ the return for Miller
― Phlegm Snopes (WilliamC), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
I still have trouble believing that somebody let Dave Stewart be a GM.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
i can only guess that they put that package together for fernandez, didn't get him, and decided 'who's the next available starter?'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
re Dusty's brothers-and-Latinos assertion, beyond his domestic-violence gaffe
@joe_sheehan Per Fangraphs' SPD calculation, nine of the top 20 fastest players in MLB last year were white. (min. 100 PA) Eleven weren't.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Mets-Bucs talk
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/113657/mets-pirates-talking-swap-involving-neil-walker-jon-niese
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
idgi. niese not only sucks, he's making just as much as walker
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
the pirates have been pretty good with taking scrap heap pitchers and turning them into good starters
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
also niese was bad last year but for his career he's been pretty decent
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
not that i quite understand why the pirates were so eager to get rid of neil walker (defense im assuming?)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
i don't think his defense was particularly bad and i don't think his offense was particularly good. maybe they're lining up for someone else? they also have josh harrison who could fill in
― nerd shit (Will M.), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
walker's in his last year of arbitration, expected to make around $9m, and then want more in free agency than the pirates would be willing to pay. i can understand trading him, but he's pretty good, and i'd rather have one year of him than one year of niese at the same price
niese may benefit from ray searage and shifting and such, but the pirates now basically have half an infield -- half of which may not recover from chris coughlan's slide until late spring
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
i suppose the trade may serve the greater good to mankind if it makes the mets bring back bartolo
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
praise be, no Murphy
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Kendrick and Murphy are kinda fucked in this market..
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 10 December 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
well i can't imagine them getting big years, but if chase utley can get a deal . . .
plus the dbacks are in win-now mode because dave stewart's gut says so. they've already lost their next first-round pick; might as well sign murph too
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
sweet dreams are made of theeese
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 December 2015 04:28 (eight years ago) link
Asdrubal!
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/113694/mets-close-to-signing-infielder-asdrubal-cabrera
Infield defense is clearly the Mets' shore-up... maybe with an outfielder to come as well.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 December 2015 05:37 (eight years ago) link
Lawrie to White Sox for pair of pitching prospects
http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/12/9/9882896/athletics-trade-brett-lawrie-white-sox
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 December 2015 05:47 (eight years ago) link
well it appears that Walker and Cabrera are both below-avg defenders, so no paradigm shift after all
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:01 (eight years ago) link
@joe_sheehan Asdrubal Cabrera and Michael Cuddyer will make almost $20 million in 2016. #mets
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link
walker's not that bad a defender. and anecdotally he makes better decisions than murph, which isn't saying much but still
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
Tanner of the Bad News Bears made better decisions than DM
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
@Ken_Rosenthal 28mSource: Sipp with #Astros is three years, $18M.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
padres made two rule 5 picks, then traded for two others. strange
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
cardinals signed jonathan broxton to a two-year deal . . . with a full no-trade clause
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
...
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
but why
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 December 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV5HT8aWUAAhHUj.png
lol
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
hehe
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 10 December 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
The Orioles have pulled back their free-agent offer to Chris Davis for nearly $150 million as the team tries to go about its business, with or without the slugger, a source told ESPN.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 December 2015 05:51 (eight years ago) link
i don't think i see headlines like that nearly enough: "Team says 'Fuck it.'"
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 11 December 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV9rDScUYAA05kq.jpg
yesssssss
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
sounds like J-Hey is a Small Bear
my lord, the Cards fans moaning on twitter.
― bnw, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
it's like they're introducing their new creation just before they activate it
― nomar, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
lol. Greink-bot is now ready for your voice activated queries.
― bnw, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
this was posted on the cardinals SB blog the other day, imagining the worst-case scenario of heyward joining the cubs:
http://i.imgur.com/R0Qg19w.png
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
good lord
― nomar, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
http://twiki.org/p/pub/TWiki/SmiliesPlugin/love.gif
― nomar, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
it is an impressive line-up. great time to be a cubs fan
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
@BestFansStLouis running wild
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
Jon Morosi @jonmorosi 8m8 minutes ago
#Cubs have agreed to terms with Jason Heyward, multiple sources say, and are not done yet. They are trying to trade for a starting pitcher.
― franklin, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
cld still be fun in store for small bears
Baseball's Best Fans Retweeted
Zachary @zachEdwards10 Heyward is a trader
The Good Beard Haver @HarrisNye 13m13 minutes agoSmh Jason heyward another classless trader who values money over winning
― nomar, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
i'll feel better when we get the Cubbies picks... and then they get taken away for the hacking.
― bnw, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
Cards need to sign Cueto now
― frogbs, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
no thanks
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
he's the one player where personal things (like him ending a player's career and not really giving a shit about it) get in the way of the practical.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
I'm just in it for the Twitter
― frogbs, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
the Best Fans thing continues to annoy me because, i mean, just listen to any sports radio call-in show, anywhere. but yeah the moaning on various messageboards and twitter and elsewhere is nauseating right now. "heyward betrayed us" waaaaaaaah
people keep tossing out a 6 yr/190 million figure (who knows the source of this) as the cubs winning offer, and taking this as evidence that heyward took less money to play for the cubs than the cardinals offered (assuming cardinals offered 200+). if that figure is true, it's $31.6 million/yr, and puts him in line to enter free agency again in his age 31 year. and it's likely that the teams that offered 200 or more (nationals, probably the cardinals, maybe others) offered 200 over 8 or 9 years.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
i believe the phrase is "heyward betraded us"
― nerd shit (Will M.), Friday, 11 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link