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Posted Tuesday October 13, 2009, About: Why Dolphins passed on Browns trade
The Dolphins have at least two players on the All Mouth, No Show team in Channing Crowder and Joey Porter and Sparano is concerned about team chemistry? Perhaps he means it would be too much of a strain on the staff to make sure the players pass all the drug tests so they could play.
Posted Monday October 05, 2009, About: Why Marlins may fire manager
The only logical reason I can think the Marlins would fire Freddi is to get a smooth PR operator to help sell tickets for the new stadium. In all the time this team has played under Freddi, they never quit and have a strong team spirit (the Uggla & Hanley spat aside). Bobby Valentine is poison to any organization he becomes involved with, but his style is so similar to Loria and Samson, that maybe they are meant for one another.
Posted Wednesday September 16, 2009, About: Umpire accuses Posada of 'cheap shot'
At least the umps came public with their bias. Professor Selig is in the MLB lab now trying to come up with the maximum punishment to hurt the Yanks chances in the playoffs. Posada was wrong, look for MLB to assign Joyce to the Yanks playoffs games, so you can forget about any favorable calls from the umps for the remainder of the year.
Posted Monday August 03, 2009, About: Piniella sticking with Cubs closer
What options does Lou have? Marmol, who loses control batter to batter, there is no consistency in the Cubs bullpen, so why try someone who has not siezed their current role and expect them to do better than Gregg? After throwing so many pitches on Saturday night, Cubs might have been better served to let Guzman try to close out the 9th or pull Gregg after the Uggla home run.
Posted Wednesday July 01, 2009, About: Nats preparing for more trades?
After watching the Nats stumble bum there way to three straight losses to the Marlins, I am surprised anyone commented on this trade between two pathetic teams. Marlin fans take note, both have new stadiums that were sold to fans to insure the competitiveness of their teams against the big bad market money teams. All the stadiums have done is enrich the owners and MLB, teams still stink.
Posted Monday June 22, 2009, About: Yankees GM ordered A-Rod rest
Here's a noble thought, how about Cashman taking a rest and elevate Gene Michael from consultant status back to a GM who knows something about baseball other than spending money. The Marlins pick up three good bullpen guys from AL teams this past offseason (Dan Meyer, Kiko Calero and Leo Nunez) and Cashman gives us Brett Tomko and Jose Veras, with a Minor league wonder Igawa on the side. Better to shift the blame to ARod, than on your own front office ineptitude.
Posted Wednesday October 08, 2008, About: Angels may look much different in '09
CC would be a great fit for the Angels since he is a monster during the regular season and shrinks in the playoffs. Maybe Artie can petition MLB & Battling Bud to always have the Yankees in the playoffs when the Angels make it since they are the only team the Angels can beat when the pressure begins.
Posted Monday September 08, 2008, About: Yankees scouting Japanese righty
Please a 33 year old Japanese pitcher, Hank save your money. Just look at the dubious FA pitchers signed in the 80's& 90's by your father and learn from his mistakes. Try to go after some talent in the Marlins organization, they all throw hard, will be cheaper and will actually enjoy playing in front of 60,000 not 600 fans a game.
Posted Monday September 08, 2008, About: A-Rod's slip of tongue: Yanks done
Now that ARod has admitted what most of us knew after the Boston series, (of course he was missing for the most part in those 3 games), we can put the 2008 season to bed. As a long time Yankee fan, I think the ARod years will be like the Winfield years, he will put up tremendous individual stats, break all kinds of personal hitting records, but never lead the Yankees to anything of significance. When Dustin Pedroia (mini me) outplays you and carries the Red Sox with Baby Yook (wah Joba hit me , wah), you know the Yankees were done.
Enjoy Madonna and Kabala in the offseason Alex, you will have plenty of time to reflect.
Posted Monday September 08, 2008, About: Patriots to look at Simms, Rattay
Guess Bill will have no recourse but to call back his video coordinator and develop new techniques to steal signals for Cassel, probably tapping into the radio signals in the stadiums around the league as we speak.
Perhaps Giselle will have a miracle cure for Tom, much like she used for the Super Bowl last year, and he will make a comeback just in time for the playoffs.
What is that old saying Bill, something about cheaters never prosper.....
Posted Monday February 11, 2008, About: Red Sox never wanted Santana
I agree that the Sox did not really want Santana, but not for the talent they had to give up, more for the amount of $ they had to give up to sign him. Boston is definitely in a position of strength with not only the ML team, but the level of talent in their organization. Why upset Josh Becket who, or at least whose agent, would have made noise about renegotiating his contract if Boston had signed Johann.
Wakefield might only be an average pitcher in terms of W/L & ERA records, but he is a winner who will do whatever Boston asks and is a definite thorn in the Yankees side when he faces them.
I think the Twins overplayed their hand because though they would have had less quantitiy of players from Boston or NY, they would have received more proven talent than what they got from the Mets.
The Mets need to get where Boston and NY have been, they are desperate and threw the necessary money to get Johann. Not a Red Sox fan, but certainly can't fault them for sticking to their idea of what was necessary to pull the deal off.
Posted Thursday January 10, 2008, About: Carroll may want dual role
If Arthur Blank goes through with this move, giving Carroll control over the players and coaching, NFL fans can soon start calling him "Sgt. "I Know Nothing Schultz".
After being so badly burned by Petrino how can he be so willing to jump back into the college scene to turn his team around.
Lately when has a hot shot college coach proven his skills and style carry over to the pro teams to make this type of move.
Blanks claiming ignorance on Michael Vick, being burned by Petrino, turned down at the last minute by Bill Parcells, he is surprassing the reputation of the
Brown family who ran the Bengals into the ground for NFL owner incompetance.
Go back to selling nuts and bolts at Home Depot, at least you understand that market.
Posted Thursday January 10, 2008, About: Yankees giving up on Santana?
Obviously Lets do bongs has been doing a few too many with such disparaging comments about Melky. Arm not much better than Damon's, then why did he lead the Yank OF's in assists, have you seen Johnny Damon throw from the OF or rather bounce the ball from the OF, to make such a stupid comment,
While Abreu may hit better and have the overall better arm, his attitude is a bit tiresome, playing when he feels like it, sloppy in the OF when he doesn't feel like it.
Bobby A. at one time was one of the best OF's playing, but his time with the Yankees has shown too much lack of interest in his defense. I would take Melky over Mike Cameron any day. if Mike Cameron is such a hot OF FA, why is going on to play for his 4th team and not drawing much interest in the FA market?
And yes the Marlins did handle the Yanks in '03, but that team is no longer on the field and if David "I hurt my back since I am so fat" Wells had finished game 5 the Series would have been different. I was at the Fla games and when Contreras came in he was like a deer in the headlights, just wilted under the pressure that the Fat Man left the Yanks in.
Go back to **** your bong since you don't know Yankee baseball.
Posted Wednesday December 05, 2007, About: Schilling wants Santana in Boston
Since Schilling is the TRUE GM of the Red Sox, it is nice to see he would approve of this deal for Johann. He pushed Nomarr out of Boston (with help from Nomarr's agent), by whining about his defense and decided to unretire when he saw how much money the Red Sox threw at Dice-K last year, so I would assume he will be the new Clemens and find ways to unretire over the next few years as the Red Sox keep on acquiring pitching talent and paying them more than he got for leading the Sox to 2 World championships.
He needs the money to pay for the extra size hats his ego requires.
Posted Thursday November 29, 2007, About: Three frontrunners for Santana
If the Twins remain smart they will continue to play the Red Sox and Yankees off of one another to get the best possible combination of players from the "winning" team. I think the Yankees will blink and go above what they are publiclly saying since Hank S. would not want the stain of losing one of the top pitchers in baseball to Red Sox.
Theo and the Red Sox seem to keep their cards must closer to the vest and will only want the deal on their terms, which if you are to believe the hype around Ellsbury, he would not be included in their deal.
While Theo only has to service the needs of Red Sox nation, Hank has to meet the needs of George, plus the Yankee fans, therefore he will do everything in his power to overule Brian Cashman to get Johann.
Posted Monday November 19, 2007, About: Boras' Dice-K windfall falls short
What shock and surprise, Scott Boras may have overstated the value of possible revenues in pushing Dice-K's contract, I am sure Boston took the figures with a grain of salt.
While the Red Sox perhaps overbid on the posting fee to insure getting Dice-K's services, you can't underestimate the publicity the club got when Dice-K officially signed. Certainly this was one of the actions in seeing the Red Sox become more popular nationally.
So even if Dice-K turns out to be overhyped and doesn't end up having as dominant of a career in MLB as he did in Japan, he still helped Boston win a World Series, brought tons of attention to the team and showed a load of class for the microsope he was under, all in all, not a bad inital return on the Red Sox's investment.
While Red Sox's managment may have some regrets, at least it doesn't sting like the Yankees disappointment with Kei Igawa, who definitely enjoyed more money in his contract due to the hype of Dice-K and did not deliver in '07.
Posted Monday November 12, 2007, About: Red Sox, Lowell testing deadline
You can't blame Lowell for wanting to test the market, the last time he had a FA opportunity, he did provide the Marlins with a home team discount to stay in Miami. They repaid him by beginning to trash him after the first year as his numbers began to drop, basically painting him as done in baseball prior to the trade to Boston. The change of scenery did Lowell wonders, as did playing for a town that has fans that care about baseball. What happen to Lowell was very similar to the transformation that Scott Brosius underwent when he came from Oakland to the Yankees.
As I Yankee fan I don't think the Red Sox are cheap, but they do seem to adhere to salary budgets and limits stricter than other teams do. They pay very well, just look at JD Drew or Julio Lugo, but the pay schedule still has to fall into the magical guidelines that Theo & team crunch in their computers. This adherence to these guidelines is one reason why ARod did not end up in Boston the first time, that and the union not letting ARod take the pay cut necessary to play in Boston.
Mike Lowell is a classy guy, a true professional and while his stats may not stay up if he moves out of Fenway, he still won't hurt you offensively, is a big improvement defensively for most teams and has the baseball knowledge to lead a team.
I think he will be partial to staying in Boston, but remembering how the marlins treated him his last year here, he may not give too much of a "hometown" discount to stay in Boston.
Posted Friday November 09, 2007, About: Mitchell Report to finger free agents
Much like the ARod story, this "leak" is another attempt by the commissioners office to try to keep FA salary offers in line and discourage teams from offering top dollar to players that may deserve it.
Bud Selig is more interested in protecting his friends in baseball than acting in the best interests of the game. This whole Mitchell report has been a farce from day 1, a tool used to show Congress & the fans they care about cleaning up baseball (of course they do) and as a hammer to threaten the players & union which has too much control over baseball.
Posted Saturday October 13, 2007, About: Will Yankees call A-Rod's bluff?
Wouldn't we all love to have ARod's decisions. Stay with NY, make no changes and still pull down $25M a year, opt out maybe move to someplace where everyone will love me, at least initially and make more money or opt out, watch the Yanks squirm and blink and make more money to stay in NY.
What a beautiful thing talent and a tough agent are.
Posted Saturday October 13, 2007, About: Big MLB names linked to steroids
When this report is released, Bud Selig and other owners may be able to keep certain names out of the report, almost guaranteed with Mitchell's relationship with the Red Sox, that no Red Sox players will be mentioned, though you probably will see Yankees mentioned prominentantly, even if based on nothing but heresay.
Then as the report is getting ready to be released some unnamed source in mlb will leak a few names to get everyone's interest up, the attorneys and players union will immediately go to court to try to suppress the report., once released there will be a bunch of noise for awhile, then we move on to something else.
Unless the report contains players involved in dogfighting, I don't think there will be much MLB can do. They chose to ignore the issues when the first surfaced and need some whitewash to show they are concerned.
Posted Friday October 05, 2007, About: Accuser: Isiah should be fired
The way the NBA is handling the Isiah case shows the double standard they choose to employ when necessary. Tim Hardaway, a retired NBA player makes some stupid comments when asked a question about **** in the NBA and the NBA immediately banishes him from the the All Star spectacle in Las Vegas, pretty much kills any chances of him working for a NBA team in the future and if possible would have publically flogged him to show him the error of his ways.
Isiah Thomas makes stupid comments in the workplace, to an employee of an NBA organization, has the comments declared truthful in a court of law, is found liable for the comments and the NBA decides that they cannot take any action since it is a "civil" matter.
While losing his job might be too much, after all he should suffer for what he has brought to NY as much as the Knick fans do, but how about the NBA forcing some counseling, maybe a supension, or something to indicate it would not support that type of behavior from anyone associated with their organization. For while the Isiah works for the Knicks, they are just a "division" of the overall corporation, the NBA.
Not sure what Isiah has that protects him since he has been given opportunity after opportunity even though he has pretty much failed at everything since he left the playing floor, but it would be nice to be if we all could be rewarded for our past failures.

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