Hot Stove Thread

2007 payrolls:

Colorado Rockies: $54,424,000 (reached Wolrd Series)
Arizona Diamondbacks: $52,067,546 (won division)
Cleveland Indians: $61,673, 267 (won division)


good night shit for brains.

 

Christ. Five pages of this shit wasn't enough?

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/49211/

 

Not when a shit-for-brains asshole wants to blame the system for a scumbag owner's cheapness.

 

I'm sold.
Guillen will probably put up better numbers than Nancy Drew next year, so it will be even a better deal.

 

The Marlins did not have to deal Cabrera at this point. I like what they got for him, but if you are going to start trading great players who are that young and it isn't a walk year just so you can keep the payroll under $15 million, that is a disgrace.

Sure the system plays a part in that, but the larger issue is cheap-ass ownership that is going to keep dumping talent until somebody buys them a new ballpark.

And then a few years later, they will start doing it all over again.

Check out the Pirates for the blueprint on that one.

 

Supposedly, he might get hit with a 10- to 15-game suspension because he's in the Mitchell Report.

Re: Tigers, looks like the D-Train might leave Detroit before the season begins. Apparently the Marlins insisted the Tigers, who didn't necessarily want him, take him. So now they could flip him and add some prospects to deal with the loss of six from the trade to get Cabrera and Willis.

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/29431

 

One report in NY this morning has the Tigers flipping Dontrelle to the Mets

 

Not if they want prospects back they won't.

The Mets are a train wreck. Good column today by Ken Davidoff on how the only person high on the Mets prospects is Omar.

No prospects + aging overrated team + appalling lack of leadership beyond David Wright + historic collapse no one can get over + inept manager + overrated general manager + leaderless ownership = good fucking times. I'm loving every minute of it. Only the Marlins not trying and the Nats rebuilding gives the Mets a shot at finishing third next year.

 

And now we know ... the rest of the story.

And isn't Florida a red state too?

 

Simon: chill out. Lemme ask you this: with all the people living in the Miami area, is there a regional sports network like YES, SNY, NESN, Comcast, et al? And I'm still waiting on a good reason why Loria is refusing to use any of his money to build a new stadium. I'm sorry your kid was heart-broken after the mega-deal. Stuff like that shouldn't happen, but you, of all people, should know that pro sports suck and is a heartless business for the most part.

Hopefully, Maybin will turn into Junior Griffey 2.0 and Andrew Miller will make South Floridians forget about Dontrelle. But please, spare me the histrionics. I wasn't making this personal, so do the same.

PS - I realize that attending any sort of outdoor event in Miami during the thick of summer is madness. But what about games from April to early June or mid-September?

 

Anyway, outside of the Red Sox & Yankees, who else could conceivably wind up with Santana? Mariners? Angels? Dodgers?

 

Twins?

Latest talk is that Minnesota might be working on another contract offer.