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[MLB] Greatest Owner of All Time Dead at 80; Greatest Stadium Announcer at 99.
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All right, league set up on Yahoo, head-to-head. Draft date friday March 19 8:15 EDT. Can be changed if we get a better consensus.
League ID# 238249
Password: maxfactor
Open to all, let's try to get at least eight and have it be an even number.
Yahoo also has live stat tracking free this year, so that's nice.
FROM WHEN WE WEREN'T AN EVIL SOULSUCKING EMPIRE
TO WHEN WE ARE AN EVIL SOULSUCKING EMPIRE
WE OWN BASEBALL
AND NONE OF YOU FUCKS CAN CHANGE THAT*
Herein since we're bored as fuck until spring training, you talk about:
- How great the yankees are
- How much the yankees suck
- trades
- rumors
- how much your team sucks
- how much the nationals sucks
- jesus fucking christ the nationals
- why geebs may kill himself this year
- why hope springs eternal for geebs every year
*please for the love of christ implement a salary cap
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feast upon its glory
Anyway, details on the impending Halladay/Lee/prospects trade(s).
To summarize: (aka copy/paste)
PHILLIES GET …
RHP Roy Halladay (from Toronto)
*RHP Phillippe Aumont (from Seattle)
*OF Tyson Gillies (from Seattle)
*RHP Juan Ramirez (from Seattle)
$6 million cash (from Toronto)
MARINERS GET …
LHP Cliff Lee (from Philadelphia)
BLUE JAYS GET …
*C Travis d'Arnaud (from Philadelphia)
*RHP Kyle Drabek (from Philadelphia)
*1B/3B Brett Wallace (from Oakland)
A'S GET …
*OF Michael Taylor (from Philadelphia via Toronto)
This is like the hugest trade ever. Two CY Young winners, some top frigging tier prospects, four teams. Dang.
Well, I guess we'll just have to wait until the trade is finalized before we know the exact details then.
quiet with your lies
for the jays obviously
man i hope the phillies win the world series next year so Doc can get himself a ring
Cause, we are going to destroy the Yanks this year
Drabek could potentially be a stud, but he had tommy johns recently
Taylor was a stud last year although he is a big strikeout guy
I don't know anything about the catcher
i anticipate at least 3 more years of sucking terrible
maybe more
looks like we have a good crop of stud pitchers
So for getting prospects, you should be fairly pleased.
They went and looked at Aroldis Chapman the other day and are talking about Joel Pineiro, Jon Garland and Jason Marquis as well.
He is looking for CC-type money, which I don't think the Phillies can afford. So instead of "renting" him for the year and then letting him walk, they moved him to replenish the farm and get Halladay for the next 4-5 years.
Yes he did.
Who knows, regardless if given the option of having Cliff Lee for 1 year, or probably slightly better than Cliff Lee for 4+ years, I'd take the latter.
Yeah well you know what? You're gay.
In other news, ESPN named Mariano Rivera its Cy Young of the decade. Which is just, well, another prime example of how closers are still overrated in the public perception.
Don't get me wrong, Rivera is probably the best closer of all time, but he's been nowhere near the most valuable pitcher in that span. Now obviously they are factoring in his postseason work, which was mighty impressive, but then again he had every single year but one to display his work, whereas certain starters such as Halladay and Santana just haven't had much opportunity in the postseason, but if you wanted to look at a stat like WAR, (at least since they started keeping track of it in 02) they both have at least double the value of Rivera, as does Sabathia. And they've actually won the award. Even Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez still have at least a dozen more WAR in that span.
Oh well, it's meaningless.
Wrong nation.
nope
the right nation
the best nation
Edit - Well previously at least.
Blah blah blah, Yankees are the best team of the decade, whatever. But they named the EXPOS/NATIONALS as the worst team of the decade! That's ridiculous! The Pirates have clearly been the worst baseball team for the past 17 years, let alone the past decade. They give reasons like how the Expos moved and whatever, but come on.
Cubs trade Bradley for Carlos Silva
Surely now you will win the World Series next season.
EDIT: Haha, holy shit, why in god's name is Silva making $12 million? That is just...wow.