Hot Stove Thread

That Jones signing is awesome, since you know Boras was looking for $100 mil.

 

Sure it's a two-year deal. That's fine.

It's the $18 million he's getting for each of those that is the issue to me. Far too much.

 

And another guy will make more next season than the entire Flordia Marlins payroll.

 

Nicely put, sir.

 

Definitely a better signing for the Dodgers than the Angels -- but I think more than the contract length, it's because the Angels already have a deep, and very talented, outfield. They didn't need Hunter (who is not the be-all, end-all answer for Vlad protection in the lineup, either.)

Not that the Dodgers need Jones, either. But at least they only have him for two years.

 

Now where does that leave Pierre?

If the Dodgers can get rid of him, he's got to be involved in a trade somewhere. I'm sure the Orioles would take him, prospects and a couple rosin bags for Bedard. ...

 

The Orioles want a lot for Bedard.

 

We covered it, Simon. He was roundly bitch-slapped.

 

Fuck you.

My little one has Miggy stuff all over the walls of the room.

Last night, child, with tears in eyes said, 'I hate the Marlins'.

Because of my work schedule, those words 29 hours later, stand as the last words I have heard from the offspring.

You ridiculous apologists can yap about how these guys should scoop out of their personal wealth to compete with guys who have to do no such thing, but before you excoriate Loria, remember that John Henry, before he was spending $190 million a year in Boston, was just as cognizant of the massive problems attached to owning in a small market with baseball's idiotic "system" (calling it a system lends it too much credence and respect) and bailed on the Marlins after spending similarly. And Huizenga did the same before him, after pumping $90 million in 10 years ago and realizing it was looneyville in MLB.

And the Marlins fans? They support the team very well in TV viewership. If you go out there and pay tickets after the 1998 purge, or after the Derrek Lee 7-11 holdup of 2004, or yesterday, you are a FUCKING moron.

The red states may mindlessly fill the ballparks in small markets, rationalizing that "the lord works in mysterious ways" and really allowing baseball to get away with this garbage.

I'm glad that the Marlins fans say 'fuck that' to that prick Selig, and all you assholes who make fun of them.

Baseball fucked them when they took the all-star game away, and the system is installed to try keeping teams such as them out of the world series. How horrified must Selig have been when Beinfest matched all six numbers four years ago.

assholes

 

And they should. The kid's one of the only bright spots on that train-wreck of a franchise.

 

Your right, Simon.
It's Bud Selig's fault that one more scumbag owner is taking millions of dollars in revenue sharing money every year and stuffing into his already bulging fucking pockets while crying poverty and trying to get taxpayers to build him a new stadium.

What is Bud Selig's fault is that he will let a scumbag owner have a $15 million payroll next season while drawing more than $20 million from revenue sharing and at least $18 million from MLB TV/merchandising contracts.
The Marlins should be disbanded immediately if the scumbag owner is not going to make any attempt to compete.

 

I agree he should have to spend till he is breaking even.

That's it.

If you think that a $50 million payroll is "competing", than you are a greater apologist than I took you for.

System is broken.