MLB Offseason 2011

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I hear that Steve Garvey is up for buying the team. He seems to have some good ideas.

Oh, and I'm not a Dodger fan by any means, but...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiUVQ-pla24[/yt]

 

[Skywalker]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hopefully the Dodgers' next owner will be much, much better.

In other news, here are your 2011 AL and NL Gold Glove Award winners:

American League
P: Mark Buehrle (White Sox)
C: Matt Wieters (Orioles)
1B: Adrian Gonzalez (Red Sox)
2B: Dustin Pedroia (Red Sox)
SS: Erick Aybar (Angels)
3B: Adrian Beltre (Rangers)
LF: Alex Gordon (Royals)
CF: Jacoby Ellsbury (Red Sox)
RF: Nick Markakis (Orioles)

National League
P: Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers)
C: Yadier Molina (Cardinals)
1B: Joey Votto (Reds)
2B: Brandon Phillips (Reds)
SS: Troy Tulowitzki (Rockies)
3B: Placido Polanco (Phillies)
LF: Gerardo Parra (Diamondbacks)
CF: Matt Kemp (Dodgers)
RF: Andre Ethier (Dodgers)

 

[Timby]

^ I hear that Steve Garvey is up for buying the team. He seems to have some good ideas.

Garvey and Hershisher formed a group last year to buy the team, yes. Besides Cuban, who's been interested in the team for ages, those are the only names in play right now -- which makes sense, as $1+ billion doesn't just appear overnight. Right now, since McCourt just announced last night that he would sell, there are probably several groups and corporations determining feasibility (and also looking at the possibility of the team going to auction).

I'd love to see Cuban in control of the Dodgers, but after the way he got involved in the Rangers clusterfuck last year and completely boned Nolan Ryan & Co., I have to imagine that MLB would rather have Hitler's reanimated corpse owning a team before Cuban.

 

[Starbreaker]

Mike Quade fired

http://t.co/TZHcgJqy.

 

[Timby]

Mike Quade fired

http://t.co/TZHcgJqy.

Not unexpected, but also not entirely deserved. With a team full of malcontents and jackasses, 71 wins was probably a miracle. At the end of the day, though, I can't blame Theo and Hoyer for not wanting a mediocre at best, third-base coach turned manager to run their team.

 

[Starbreaker]

I feel bad for the guy. Maybe he'll get a decent job somewhere.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

National League[/U]
SS: Troy Tulowitzki (Rockies)

Tulo's the best thing the Rockies have going for them right now.

Cuban's been wanting to buy into baseball for a long time. Didn't he at least think about taking a run at the Cubs a while back?

With the way he's shaken up the NBA, do you really think MLB wants to let him in to sit at the table? It would be worth it just to hear him call Selig an incompetent fool, though.

 

[tomalak301]

National League[/U]
SS: Troy Tulowitzki (Rockies)

Tulo's the best thing the Rockies have going for them right now.

Not Carlos Gonzalez? That's quite a Duo between Tulo and CarGo, but if you don't want him, I would love to see him back with the A's.

On the Giants end, other than signing a couple pitchers to extensions, they haven't done very much. There's talk about resigning Beltran, which I would like, but I think I even heard something about getting Willingham from the A's. Not sure how I feel about that.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

National League[/U]
SS: Troy Tulowitzki (Rockies)

Tulo's the best thing the Rockies have going for them right now.

Not Carlos Gonzalez? That's quite a Duo between Tulo and CarGo, but if you don't want him, I would love to see him back with the A's.

I'll keep CarGo, thanks. I'd give Tulo the edge, based on his defense though.

 

[Timby]

With the way he's shaken up the NBA, do you really think MLB wants to let him in to sit at the table? It would be worth it just to hear him call Selig an incompetent fool, though.

Even without the NBA baggage, all his fuckery during the Rangers' bankruptcy and auction last year probably guaranteed that he will never, ever be approved to own an MLB team.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Looks like Jim Thome is a Philly...again. Linky

 

[Alidar Jarok]

That's nice. He'll be just a pinch hitter, but he was a key reason the Phillies went from the bottom of the NL East to where they are today. Great player who brought class to the steroid era.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Isn't Ryan Howard going to miss a lot of next season? Perhaps Thome was brought in to fill the gap.

 

[Timby]

That's nice. He'll be just a pinch hitter, but he was a key reason the Phillies went from the bottom of the NL East to where they are today. Great player who brought class to the steroid era.

Actually, word is that they're hoping he can play a significant amount of time at first base.

This is the point where I'd just like to remind everyone that Thome hasn't played first at all since 2007, hasn't played more than 20 innings in the field since 2005 and had his glove repossessed by the White Sox because he was really, really bad there in Philadelphia the last time.

So, in other words, this is going to be an incredibly funny experiment in just how bad a first baseman can actually be in the field.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, I blocked the last minute of the season from my memory so it did not even occur to me that he would play first base. Probably not a good idea, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Speaking of blocking things from one's memory: The new Marlins uniforms are leaking to the net. And yes, it is every bit as horrible as you might think (especially the orange version). Link

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Speaking of blocking things from one's memory: The new Marlins uniforms are leaking to the net. And yes, it is every bit as horrible as you might think (especially the orange version). Link

Great, the colors from the new logo are the new uniform colors

Now I'm going to look for a B&W TV.

 

[clint g]

Speaking of blocking things from one's memory: The new Marlins uniforms are leaking to the net. And yes, it is every bit as horrible as you might think (especially the orange version). Link

ugh kill it

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Pity that they have such a nice new stadium but at the same time coupled with such utter SHASH that they're calling 'uniforms'.

 

[Starbreaker]

Those aren't the actual uniforms... somebody did some concept art on the web.