MLB Offseason 2011
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Portland is definitely Seattle territory. From what I can tell, it looks like you'll be in a part of Oregon that doesn't have any other teams blacked out if you want to pay for MLB.TV
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Andrew Bailey to the Red Sox. In return, Oakland is getting Josh Reddick and prospects Miles Head and Raul Alcantera, and the Red Sox are also getting Ryan Sweeney.
Nice. Bailey seems like a solid closer, he's still pretty young, and he's cost-controlled for a few more seasons. I like what the Red Sox have done to bolster their bullpen, with Melancon and now Bailey. I guess this means that Daniel Bard is definitely going to the rotation. Hopefully he makes the transition successfully.
Nice. Bailey seems like a solid closer, he's still pretty young, and he's cost-controlled for a few more seasons. I like what the Red Sox have done to bolster their bullpen, with Melancon and now Bailey. I guess this means that Daniel Bard is definitely going to the rotation. Hopefully he makes the transition successfully.
God I hate the A's right now. They can't get their Stadium in order, and now they are GIVING away all of their talent. In other words, Billy Beane is either telling the fans go fuck themselves, or don't come to the stadium this year, or both. Yeah you can run the whole Moneyball thing, but that was 10 fucking years ago. If the A's are good, so be it. Before that happens, that franchise isn't doing a very good job selling the team to the fanbase who they hope spends their hard earned cash on going to see the team. Much like usual, the A's are a fucking minor league system for professional teams around the league. It's disgraceful and I don't care where the A's go. They probably should be contracted. 
Yeah well when the hell is that going to happen. The Giants are reported to block the move, and Selig has been sitting on his ass for almost 3 YEARS doing absolutely nothing. I'm more of a Giants fan than A's fan, but as someone who lives in the Bay Area and hears about this every god damn day, it really is disgraceful.
Oh, Selig isn't doing nothing. He's been stomping around and demanding that the city build the A's a stadium at its own expense, the same he's done in every other city with a team looking for a new stadium (like with the abomination of a deal that went down in Miami). He's like a little girl on Christmas who throws a temper tantrum because her Dad didn't give her a pony. And he holds his breath until he almost passes out and then the city capitulates.
Considering that Lew Wolff and John Fisher are now worth around $1.3 billion, they can afford to build a new stadium themselves if they want it. Demanding a fucking handout is just sick.
^ Hopefully Miami got stupid enough to take the whole enchilada of a contract.
That would leave so much money for someone like Cespedes.
That would leave so much money for someone like Cespedes.
Word is the Cubs are paying $15 million of the $18 he's owed just to get rid of him. I'm glad of it. There was never enough good to offset the bad from Z, especially the last few years.
That's no different than the initial estimates.
I wonder why it took this long and why Epstein met with Z and made it sound like he was willing to let him come back?
I wonder why it took this long and why Epstein met with Z and made it sound like he was willing to let him come back?
"Vell look. Zambrano's just zis guy, you know?"
One story talks about Guillen having a calming effect on Zambrano. Ay yi yi. Can't wait to see those highlights.
Chloroform couldn't have a calming effect on Z. 
Then again, maybe he'll be too busy laughing hysterically at that mutant dolphin sculpture thingy in center field to bother with smashing Gatorade containers or breaking bats or starting fights with teammates.
Then again, maybe he'll be too busy laughing hysterically at that mutant dolphin sculpture thingy in center field to bother with smashing Gatorade containers or breaking bats or starting fights with teammates.
What mutant dolphin thingy?
Because Theo and Jed have already decided that 2012 is a write-off, and Zambrano is already on the decline -- with his antics and falling performance, he certainly isn't worth his contract. There's absolutely no guarantee that he's going to rebound, either, so it's not like praying for a rebound year and then flipping him at the deadline was a sure bet. So, knowing this and knowing full well that Zambrano is not in the team's long-term plans, Theo made the right call, here: Trading Z for some value now, rather than risking no one being willing to take him at all.
Volstad had a pretty awful 2011, but he's only 24 and his problems are largely due to control -- and he's cheap.
The thing that will light up like a Christmas tree (and which will also apparently involve flying dolphins or marlins or whatever the hell they are) when a Marlin hits a home run.
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