Open Thread: You say tomato, I say Tabata
ByProspect season is in full swing these days, and Baseball America is in the middle of posting their top ten prospects for each team. The Yankees list won’t be released until December 18th, but the Pirates’ list came out today, and old pal Jose Tabata checked in at number two behind Washington Heights’ own Pedro Alvarez.
You probably all remember Tabata as the talented, yet troubled outfielder that would tantalize you with his natural ability but frustrate you with his childishness. The Yanks shipped him to Pittsburgh in the Xavier Nady-Damaso Marte trade after having to suspend him twice for insubordination, and the now 21-year-old has enjoyed a bit of prospect rebirth with the Pirates. He hit .293-.357-406 between Double- and Triple-A in 2009, easily his best season since playing with Low-A Charleston back in 2006.
It’s all too easy to look back and judge trades in hindsight. Heck, the evaluation of Tabata trade has been a roller coaster since it was made. When it was made, everyone love it and called it a steal. When Tabata and Ross Ohlendorf were doing well for the Pirates while Nady and Marte went down with injuries, it was an awful move. When Marte turned Chase Utley and Ryan Howard into Corey Patterson and Yuniesky Betancourt en route to the World Series, it was pure genius. It doesn’t require any brainpower to judge a move in hindsight, nor is it an accurate way to do things.
The reality is that it was a move the team had to make and a move Tabata needed. The Yanks were just two games out of a playoff spot at the time of the trade, and adding an everyday outfielder enjoying a career year plus an accomplished lefty reliever made all the sense in the world. Meanwhile, it’s clear that Tabata was frustrated by the season he was having in 2008 (.248-.320-.310 before the trade), pulling himself from a game and leaving the park (suspension #1), then slamming his bat at the plate and showing up an umpire after looking at strike three (suspension #2). I can’t see Tabata making that kind of turnaround with the Yanks. He needed a change of scenery, and in the end it worked out for both parties.
Anyway, that’s my evening rant. Use this as your open thread for the night. The Knicks are in LA taking on the Lakers, while the Nets’ drive for 0-82 will continue out in Denver. Anything goes, just don’t be a jerk.
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I’m still basking in 27.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.....id=7123029
Watching this is the best.
I’ve seen that so many times. In fact, I’ve gone back and watched some of the archives from the year. Yesterday, I watched the Cervelli HR game. Day before, I watched the last regular season game in which A-Rod killed. I miss baseball
Everytime I see your name, I think of Esteban Colberto, Steven Colbert’s Mexican doppelganger.
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You’ve figured me out!
This trade makes even more sense now after seeing that Tabata had a slugging percentage WORSE than his OBP.I feel like that is something that’s really hard to do.
Here’s my two cents as to why trading Tabata for Nady and Marte* was a good move:
Nady and Marte played well, when healthy. The primary thing driving down their value was not poor play, it was injury. Had they stunk, that would be one thing; but they both played above average with stretches of excellence. We got good play at both RF/LF and at RP from the two of them. Good enough to be more worthwhile than what Tabata would probably be able to give us by 2011 (when he’s finally MLB-ready.)
Had they failed, the trade could be judged in hindsight as a loss for us, because we traded a good young prospect for two subpar players. But we didn’t; we traded a good prospect for two GOOD players who just got unfortunately injured. And those injuries were unpredictable; neither of them had injury red flags pre-trade.
Hard to knock the trade for Nady blowing his arm out on a freak throw and Marte being nicked up by the WBC.
JMHO.
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* Yes, I left out Ohlendorf, Karstens, and McCutchen. They’re irrelevant. They were fringy, surplus arms that we probably would have non-tendered or DFA’d at some point by now due to our numbers crunch and their lower ceilings as prospects. The trade is, for all intents and purposes, a 2 for 1. Tabata is the only guy we truly valued; the rest are flotsam and jetsam.
Karstens already got DFA’d by the Pirates so he sucks badly
But Ohlendorf is like a GM on the field!
(thinks)
You know, that’s probably a bad thing.
Ohlendorf is cool, and i am happy he is having success at the back of the Pirates rotation, but he’d be cannon fodder in the AL East.
Does this make any sense? In MLB 09: The Show, I made a Road To The Show player and he is in AA. It’s June now and his stats are like this:
about 210 ABs
.450 AVG
.467 OBP (I am too impatient to take so many pitches)
.673 SLG
1 HR (Inside-the-park, too. His Power rating is 23)
25 Doubles
10 Triples
WHY WON’T THE WHITE SOX CALL HIM UP? All I get are these messages like “You are good enough, just wait and your time will come” and other stuff like that. AA is getting really, really, really boring. By the way, I know you all care about a fictional baseball player in AA. They made it real hard to get to the Major in this game.
Oh yeah, only K’d 4 times.
Answer:
Your team is run by Kenny Williams and Ozzie Guillen.
THat is an incredible measure of realism.
What if you made the guy suck more at getting on base, play 1B juuuuust well enough that if you squint he looks like a tolerable defender, and be about 30? Then could you trick Dayton Moore into giving up Soria to get him?
That is an incredible measure of realism.
Indeed.
My advice to you, JM: Start swinging for the fences. If you want to get called up to the show for Kenny and Ozzie, having a .250/.250/.500 with no walks, lots of K’s, and like 25 homers is way better than your pussy-ass .467 OBP. OBP is a made up stat anyway. Homers are where it’s at, baby, not triples.
If you could manage to get your uniform dirtier as well, that will help.
the parlor mob is on that soundtrack. one helluva band.
In the game, I spent a year at AA. Began the next year in AA and after two starts was moved up to AAA, pitched well with a few complete game shutouts and didn’t even get called up. Started the 3rd season w/ the A’s in the bullpen, dominated, but didn’t crack the rotation until I bitched about it. Great game though.
Pardon my sophomoric question, but what system is this game for?
I have a couple of hand-me-down consoles (PS2 and original X-Box) so I am assuming that these (relative) antiques won’t cut it for the Show.
PS3 only.
I’m the MAN at Bases Loaded on my NES.
Classic.
I wish I had a NES. All of there newfangled contraptions just don’t do it for me. I love me some EA Sports games for Sega Genesis.
I will also whip your ass at Pitfall on the Atari II.
You have to do a season at AA and AAA before going to the Majors. It’s the same whilst pitching. It’s frustrating.
Is Eladio Moronta any good?
Some scouts compare him to Raul Mondesi. Above average speed, plus arm and projectable power.
does any other team have a player scouts compare to Sean Green? i’m smelling challenge trade!
does any other team have a player scouts compare to Sean Green?
Hold on, lemme get my “Jewish Sports Stars” leaflet and check.
/AirplaneJoke’d
OK. Since this was deleted in the other thread…
Is it out of the question to make a trade for Miguel Cabrera as the Tigers have put him on the market, and plug him in Left? He played LF for a few years back in his Marlins days.
if you want an egregious fielder in LF, just trade for Adam Dunn.
We could also bring Feared Williams out of retirement…
the pitchers will cower!
Yes, it is out of the question.
If he can be had for one single decent but flawed, straight up, Soriano-for-ARod style, where the Tigers kick in some money to make it more palatable, I’m interested.
If not, pass. Miggy’s price tag will likely be way too high. The 1B/LF/DH question is moot, IMO. Before we worry about where we’d play him, we need to be offered a sweetheart of a deal or it’s a non-starter.
I’m pretty sure he’s eaten his way out of the outfield already.
He might have drunken his way out of his marriage as well. We’ll see.
He is pretty fat. Maybe rightfield? Move Swish to LF. Wouldn’t be horrible and Miggy’s (rhymes with piggy) bat would more than make up for his below average defense. The problem is he costs 22 million a year. Why not just get Holliday for 17 (who you dont have to give up any prospects for) who will be good offensively AND defensively. Holliday also had a higher WAR than Cabrera did last year (5.7 vs 5.4)
AL WAR > NL WAR
I just can’t see him in RF for a full season. I think that it would get ugly real quick with the potential for disaster as Miggy is built for 1b or DH.
Plus the salary obligations would be prohibitive. I am not sure that the Alex comps are valid as when he was acquired he was thought to be a plus defender with excellent baserunning abilities. Obviously, the hit tool was epic, but my point is that, unlike Miggy, Alex wasn’t thought of as a one-dimensional player.
According to Damon’s wife, 3 interested teams have called for him.
In a related story, I may or may not have called Damon’s wife three times, letting her know I’m interested in her. She may be misinterpreting the message.
TSJC, we can always depend on you to speak for the male perspective on this forum.
You’re welcome.
In a story related to that related story, Michelle Damon has a major league pair of yabbos.
Here’s to the heroes who ensure the male voice will never drowned out in our modern world, something I often have nightmares about.
My nightmares are about bears.
Jay Cutler?
The problem with the modern world is that nobody looks out for the best interests of well-to-do white Christian males. THEY’re the new downtrodden minority.
Sincerely,
Glenn Beck
Maobama is also adding a VAT tax to the dowry of all wives for well-to-do white Christian males.
Sincerely,
Glenn Beck
Heh.
Does Beck actually know what a VAT tax is? I think if you tried to explain it to him, his brain might melt.
My parents, despite being highly educated, affluent people, LOVE Beck and Bill O’Reilly.
I just don’t get it.
Come for the racism, stay for the sexism.
IETC
I was driving up the NJ TPK the other night and my iPod ran out of battery so I was forced to play the scanning game on FM radio. I came across a church service broadcast and the pastor had the balls to say that most of the media portrayals of Christians and Christianity are negative.
They called for him, then worked the conversation around to her Playboy spread and asked how the marriage was working out for her.
Mike, any info on that DR kid we just signed?
I’ll have something later.
SPOILER ALERT: He’s Dominican.
So what you’re getting at is he’s lazy?
Stands to reason.
and has receieved boli from “arods cousin”
But Ortiz didn’t take steroids.
And as soon as he finds the real killers, he’ll tell us all about how he didn’t take steroids.
and he wrote a 92 in stead of 89 on his elibility papers
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He beat me to everything I have.
He beat me to everything I have.
That’s what JMK said!
Aw, crap. That sucks. That means he’s gonna be as fat as Miggy Cabrera within a few months.
I’d take the first six years of Mondesi’s career in a heartbeat.
I’d take his career in a heartbeat. 113 career OPS+ is better than Tino, Ripken, Tejada, Greg Vaughn, Matt Williams, Andruw Jones, Alan Trammell (for HOF), Mike Lowell, among many others.
I like to call those years “The Pre-Pernil Era”.
Maybe he can run for Congress if it doesn’t work out.
(Sad Trombone.)
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I just asked that earlier, like 3 posts before this
The Artist asked nicer.
Let that be a lesson to you, Salty.
What are the odds we never hear of this kid again?
(thinks)
High. One way or the other, we’ll hear from him again. We’re thorough that way.
In a related story, Melquisedec Mesa.
Doing a live chat on the blog at 7.30 PM. Come and join us here if you’re bored:
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Bored doesn’t begin to describe it. I’ve been looking for stuff to post about daily, and nothing interests me even slightly.
I’m heading over there right now.
“A New York Yankees official downplayed the suggestion that the team had a serious interest in White Sox free-agent slugger Jermaine Dye, according to Tuesday’s editions of the New York Post.”
I dont really want Dye, does anyone?
If it was 2006.
+1
I’m on board.
Wait a minute, did you say Jermaine Dye? I thought you said Mike Cameron.
Nevermind, then, forget I said it.
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That’s sexy.
i thought he said a bottle of hair dye, which i assumed cashman was buying as a recruiting gift for Andy Pettitte.
SPOILER ALERT: The hair dye is really HgH.
that explains why Clyde Frazier can now crush steel girders in his jaws.
SPLENDIFEROUS!!!
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/0.....-it-black/
i laughed out loud at that, thanks Jack.
“Your scalp needs halp!”
I want to stay 100000 miles from Figgins this offseason. That being said, does anyone think he has truly transitioned into an on-base machine? I’m trying to think of similar guys that developed into on-base guys into their 30′s, the only one I can think of with a similar skill set was Tony Phillips, who was a beast once he got to Detroit at 31.
I’m reposting this. Since nobody responded to this yesterday, I’ll assume nobody clicked the link.
Click the link. You will NOT be disappointed, I promise you.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3381278
Come on, click it. You know you want to.
I didn’t wnt to have to do this, but you leave me no choice.
The title of the post: Tell me about your man bits
NOW who’s interested?
I remember having a discussion like this with a mixed-gender group of friends back in high-school.
Miscellaneous junior girl who’s name I don’t remember: “What’s it like to have a boner?”
Young sophomore Tommie: “…Let me tell you all about it, baby.”
The internet’s changed things. Now instead of having that discussion, kids just gogle it, find this link, and voila.
(pause)
What the fuck is the internet?
I’m not a regular but I’m pretty sure that the Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another.
*google*
Miscellaneous junior girl who’s name I don’t rememberRebecca/Riddering/etc.: “What’s it like to have a boner?”Young sophomore TommieDashing young version of Rocky Road Redemption: “…Let metell you all about itshow you, baby.”/Cone’d
. . . mixed-gender group of friends . . .
When I first read this, there was a split second where I thought you meant a group of mixed-gender people. Bad times.
Meh, who knows, it’s been 15+ years, maybe one of those kids have pulled a Chaz Bono by now.
*cold shiver*
Finkle is Einhorn. Einhorn is Finkle.
This Thanksgiving I am thankful for my vagina.
This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for Riddering’s vagina.
You always know the way to my heart, m’lady.
Hey, I mentioned you!
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BIGGEST MUST READ OF ALL:
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You will not regret reading these posts!
All right..to get people to read the title of the second post is-wait for it-”Ladies with Big Breasts”.
The first post is full of sex jokes.
The second post is better.
http://tinyurl.com/yl4awow
Watch it.
Hahahahaha!
He’s already better than anyone in the Giants secondary.
I just givoogled that cricket noise you make when something’s not funny but damn, I can’t find it.
Consider it implied.
http://instantcrickets.com/
Thank you!
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But…I wasn’t making a joke.
The Tabata trade worked out since Marte played a significant role in helping win a title.
All the pitchers were basically filler. Tabata could be a 10 yr all star and its still a good move with what Marte did in the ALCS and WS. Luckily it wasnt based on his regular season which was awful.
he got healthy just in time.
this really was a charmed season.
this really was a charmed season.
Brett Gardner: Holly Marie Combs
Jerry Hairston Jr.: Alyssa Milano
Ramiro Peña: Rose McGowan
Eric Hinske: Shannen Doherty
Francisco Cervelli: Billy Drago
Charlie Silvera on Casey Stengel:
“He kept platooning, which caused the guys being platooned to play even harder when they got into the lineup. They’d say, “I’ll show that crooked-legged old bastard.’ That was fine with Casey. He wanted to win. And win today. None of that wait-till-next-year stuff. That was Brooklyn. None of that we’ll-get-’em-tomorrow. You were a Yankee. You got ‘em today.”
I love the Yankee way.
Did you see the THT piece on Martin?
An absolute blast.
Here, its a great read.
http://www.hardballtimes.com/m.....ly-martin/
Billy Martin was either insane, a tortured genius, or both.
I hadn’t seen that article–thanks for linking me to it. I read “October Men” not too long ago which focused heavily on Martin and he’s one of the most complex figures in baseball history. You love him, you hate him, you sympathize, fear, abhor, delight in, etc, etc. It’s difficult to peg down one feeling on the guy.
You know, as painful as it is, I’ve had to let a few people go over the years…
Yogi Berra… Lou Pinella… Bucky Dent… Billy Martin… Dallas Green… Dick Howser… Bill Virdon… Billy Martin… Stump Merrill… Billy Martin… Bob Lemon… Billy Martin… Gene Michael… Buck Showalter… Joe Torre…
If Billy was managing today, He’d get destroyed in the papers and online and I’d probably be one of his biggest critics. But as a kid, I loved him and reading about him is a real treat.
Billy Martin’s liver was brilliant.
On the 20-80 scale, I give Billy Martin’s liver a 90.
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Anyone else going?
Is Michelle Damon gonna be there? No?
Then no.
She has sharp knees anyway. WOULD NOT HIT!
Not her, but Mrs. Jose Lima will be there, doing her pole dancing routine.
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85,800 words and counting!
I’m now ten pages from 320, which would equal the most I’ve ever written.
So fucking cool.
Nice. How many pages are you aiming for?
Not a page count per se, but at the rate I’m going it’ll probably end up between 350-400. Which is too long, probably, but oh well. It’s fucking art, yo!
It’s a coffee table book about coffee tables, isn’t it?
You wish.
Only the weak can’t handle a 400 page novel on baseball.
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/t.....lrkNp1.jpg
http://behrrake.files.wordpres.....years1.jpg (safe)
do i get an autographed copy?
If you come to the signing.
where? and how much is the book? and how do i buy?
….You do realize I’m still working on the first draft, right?
Pshaw… just petty details.
Yes
preemptive strike
i just pre pre-order that shit
This is RAB. We’ve already inducted Jesus into the HoF.
Good point.
Thanksgiving weekend:
Florida State @ #1 Florida
#2 Alabama @ Auburn
#3 Texas @ Texas A&M
Who gets upset? Anyone?
If I had to pick one I’d go with Bama
Agreed.
Florida.
UT crushes A&M. That’s all I know and all I care about.
So, I’m at a basketball game a few hours ago, selling raffle tickets for the baseball team and our trip to Florida. I start talking to this guy who’s from New Jersey. When he finds out I’m a baseball player and that I like the Yankees, he starts telling me about a kid his son played with in high school who got drafted by the Yanks. He kept going on about the 400 ft home runs and what a great kid he was. I asked him what the name was: none other than Eric Duncan.
Not a great story, but I thought it was cool. Possibly even RAB worthy.
You’ve just mentioned Eric Duncan without immediately pissing all over him in rage and disgust.
You are now on Bo/Lanny’s shit list. (Don’t sweat it, it doesn’t make sense.)
I enjoyed it.
That is most def RAB worthy.
If you are ever having a bad day, I recommend watching Damaso Marte in the World Series absolutely own Chase Utley and Ryan Howard.
I don’t care if Jose Tabata wins an MVP, that trade was worth it for what Marte did in the WS vs. arguably the two best left-handed hitters in the National League.
Tabata for Marte and Nady = Gerald Williams and Bob Wickman for Graeme Lloyd and Pat Listach/Ricky Bones
Remember the secret to Wickman’s slider?
Fat?
Childhood farm accident.
Makes me want to chop off the top of my finger and go try out for a team.
I like my answer better.
Remember when the Braves traded Max Ramirez for two and a half months of 37 year old Bob Wickman in 2006, even though he had a 4.16 ERA on the year at that point? And he was lights out from that point on, but they still finished 9 games out of the wildcard?
Yeah… good times.
As hot as Utley was, those ABs were uuuuge.
Eh, he’s not really my type.
Tell us about your man bits.
They enjoy reading, napping, and long walks on the beach.
So what’s it like having a boner?
You know the Holocaust? Picture the exact opposite of the Holocaust.
No, I mean in your ass.
Heh.
What’s the difference between jelly and jam?
You’d have to ask my dates.
I’ve been waiting all night to use that one. You’re the lucky winner!
you don’t like huge abs? what about large obliques?
Pedro Alvarez is my pick for 2010 NL ROY.
Horace Mann baby!
Wrong.
2010 A.L and N.L ROY: M E L V I N
Mo laughs.
There is only one Kwitszachaderach.
Steven Strasburg.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, THAT JUST HAPPENED.
(Not really, though, no. My serious pick is Todd Frazier of the Reds.)
(Insert obligatory Edison Volquez joke here.)
Homer Bailey. Your mind, it is blown.
Stupid spam filter.
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There was once a video on Faces of Death where some Russian guy took a shotgun to this guy’s head execution style. It went everywhere! Needless to say, it was pretty awesome. Oh, and the beheading by the Chechen rebels was just…brutal.
You know what … I dont know if Alcides Escobar still qualifies at 125 ML at-bats, but if so, i think he could take it just b/c he plays a money position pretty darn well.
No, not HoMann!
(Then again, Collegiate has zero legit baseball prospects.)
So did a real ND fan actually give Jimmy Clausen a shiner the other night?? I thought it was some rogue BC fan.
Anyways, is Clausen #1 pick material?
yeah (on both counts)
#1? Probably not. But he’s top 10 material.
QB’s get overinflated, though, so every top 10 QB is kinda #1 material by default. It’s definitely Clausen and Locker in the dogfight for top QB on the board.
And, of all the uber-shitty teams who are locks for the top ten, most of them need QB’s, so yeah, he’s in the mix.
The Shitty Top Nine:
Browns – yup
Rams – yup
Buccaneers – No, since they took Freeman
Lions – No, since they took Stafford
Bills – yup
Raiders – yup
Seahawks – yup
Redskins – yup
Chiefs – No, they’re locked into Cassel
Plus, Frisco and Carolina are two of the 4-6 teams who could take a QB as well. If Bradford comes back healthy for the Combine, and McCoy has a good pro day, you could have 4 QB’s in the top 15 picks.
Why can’t Brady Quinn finish on a decent note? Quinn is at least as good as Sanchez right now. The Browns are not going QB shopping. They need to get a dynamic RB who can make plays out in the flat to lighten the load.
Why can’t Brady Quinn finish on a decent note?
He can. Doesn’t mean they wouldn’t pull the trigger on a new QB even if he does, though. The other thing complicating it is, who knows who the hell will be running the Browns come this April?
Quinn is at least as good as Sanchez right now.
Not fucking remotely, he’s not.
The Browns are not going QB shopping. They need to get a dynamic RB who can make plays out in the flat to lighten the load.
I agree. In my mock, I have the Browns taking whichever of the two stud DT’s fall to them (Ndamukong Suh or Gerald McCoy). I’m just saying, the Browns organization is most definitely in flux and they have to be considered a wildcard right now. Mangini is a dead man coaching. I don’t think they’d take a QB, but they certainly could, if a new regime comes in and starts cutting heads.
“Quinn is at least as good as Sanchez right now.”
“Not fucking remotely, he’s not.”
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I think he meant “playing as well as Sanchez right now”.
Quinn is at least as good as Sanchez right now.
Not fucking remotely, he’s not.
…..
I think you’re being a little too biased here. ‘Not fucking remotely’? Please. Right now, they’re not far off from each other. Not a good thing, because Quinn is 25 but he has also been given less chances than Sanchez.
I’d say you put Sanchez on the Browns right now, he does just as good or bad as Brady Quinn does and same with Brady on the Jets. They are both young QB’s – Sanchez will probably end up being a better QB. That’s my opinion.
But don’t act like Sanchez is miles above Quinn right now.
Yes, let’s all overreact to 5 turnovers against the Pats and 4 touchdowns against the Lions.
Not what I’m doing.
Brady Quinn is on the shittiest team in football with an idiot coach.
Jets >>>>>>> Browns
There is more to judging a QB than just the QB himself. Look at Jay Cutler behind a shitty Bears offensive line where he can’t get anything done.
Sanchez has had a terrible year. This is pretty undeniable.
Is he a rookie? Yes. Will he get better? Almost certainly. Is he playing that much better than Quinn, RIGHT NOW? No. To be honest, right now he may be playing worse.
It would be funny if the Nets beat the Nuggets. Doubt it though (now watch it come true…)
They’re only down by 10!
Now only seven!
THE COMEBACK IS ON!
I think the Nets should just go all out and break the NBA record. 20 straight losses to open the season.
If you can’t be good, be memorable.
(Side note: In a perverse way, I bet breaking the opening loss streak record slightly helps your cause of recruiting LeBron. Maybe he likes the challenge.)
Eh, probably not yet. You don’t do something for the challenge until you’ve won a title first.
Who are the Nets trying to get with the first pick in the draft?
John Wall.
Lebron + Wall = must watch
King James to the Nets would be epic.
Would be like this past offseason for the Yanks times two.
More of a fantasy than anything though.
Jay-Z is still working on the blueprint to get James to Brooklyn.
It might happen.
All the shit the Knickers have put me through, I want the Nets to get ‘Bron & Wall.
I want Lebron to surprise everyone and sign with the Lakers for a mid-level exception and then his reasoning to be:
‘It’s all about winning’.
I’m a Knicks fan but if the Nets got Lebron and John Wall, I’d switch allegiances that day. Considering how shitty the Knicks have been and for so long (and holy shit are the tickets expensive!), my patience has been thin for a while. Atlantic Yards looks like it’s proceeding.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....lWv6R2YkIQ
If the Knicks or Nets got Lebron, I’d start following basketball & become a fan of the team Lebron goes to.
http://www.gif24.com/gifs/simp.....etball.gif
So a couple of years ago, Melo was kinda overrated. Does anyone think he still is?
He’s taken a huuuuuuge leap this year. He’s gone from one of the best scorers in the league to one of the best players in the league.
Mets make their first big signing of the off season-
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/.....1ZHhNkM3OI
Another 3 years hearing about how ‘these pitchers are all babied nowadays’ from a guy who never pitched.
Does that mean Delgado’s not coming back?
Good! He now gets to refuse the salute the anthem elsewhere!!ll1L
/O’REILY’D
They’re actually a pretty solid booth. They almost seem to hate the Mets sometimes. Can be pretty amusing.
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/200...../#comments
Yankees sign Dominican prospect
According to Baseball America, the Yankees signed Dominican prospect Eladio Moronta. The center fielder, who recently had a MLB suspension for misrepresenting his age lifted, is said to have excellent speed and a strong arm.
On a side note: Suspended for misrepresenting his age? Really? Somewhere, El Duque is shaking his head and laughing out loud.
Waaaay late on that. 2 people brought it up already
Figured that, thought I’d post JIC (just in case, for future reference).
http://www.sportspickle.com/ar.....994-season
Awesome.
That would be so fucking great. It would be like Stephen Hawking in So You Think You Can Dance?.
When the Pirates win a world series with Tabata and Ohlendorf leading the way…call me please.
Pirates are my b team.
Calling it, right here and now. Pirates are making the playoffs in 10′, pushing out the Rockies for the WC. [Your mind, it is BLOWN!]
BTW, they beat the Phils in the DS only to lose to the Giants in the CS (that’s right, Torre out, Linececum and friends in).
You’re insane. I’d wage my year’s salary that the Pirates do not make the playoffs.
Ha! Galileo was called insane once, too!
AND JUST LOOK AT HIM NOW!!!!
/The Artist’d. Or Strawman’d. Whichever you prefer.
Ha! Charles Manson was called insane once, too!
AND JUST LOO–
/nevermind
My B-Team is the AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. I don’t have any kind of emotional attachment or rooting interest whatsoever to any team not affiliated with the Yankees.
2010 Pirates=2007 AAA Yankees.
That is fucking hilarious, and eerily true. GO PIRATES.
I’m going to have to start calling them the Pirankees.
Plus PNC Park is an amazing place to see a game (yes, i said amazing).