Howie Kendrick is awesome. You'd better hope they don't do something stupid and trade him.

[QUOTE=Thrillhouse]*Cough* it was a good Idea at the time *Cough* :(

but He's doing no better in Boston. :rolleyes:

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Nah, it was never a good idea - the money was too much, the expectations too high (even for a 5 starter) and the ignorance of his history insane.

Also he sucks for the Sox, but they're only paying him ~200k . . .

[quote=KSig RC]huh?

Anyway, I am still waiting for the tigers to show that they are a decent team. 3-11 vs the three best in the AL yet 59-20 against everyone else. Quite the pattern there, Detroit.

Duuuuude. I'm watching the Angels game right now and the camera man just totally ZOOOOOOMED in on a group of girls titttttties. So awesome. He must have left it there for 30 seconds. The group of 3 girls were dressed very appropriately for the 90 degree weather we are experiencing out here. Gotta love the commentary too. " Oh yeah, looks like good old Ronnie has found himself a goldmine!"

They did a similar thing for the Mets/Cubs game over the weekend. One of the analysts was on a rooftop near Wrigley, with a beer in one hand and surrounded by a group of girls. He said "Beer, attractive women, I might never leave."

The guys stuck in the booth didn't sound so happy about that one.

We used to do that while "scouting" other teams. You would see most of a game until a hot girl was walking through. The camera would show her instead of the next play:D

The Indians are paying 2M of the 2.2M he has left on the contract.

Yeah, it's interesting . . . as the pitchers pass their highs in IP, it'll be interesting to see how they hold together. For sure.

I never defended the signing of Jason Johnson, don't know what happened with the quotage from above.

First, Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle for not a whole lot. Then, getting Craig Wilson for Shawn Chacon?! All of this, without giving up Hughes or Tabata?

On behalf of all Yankees fans, thank you Brian Cashman.

Yeah, the world series may well have been won by New York this past weekend. If, and I say if their injured players can come back than the yankees will be tough to beat. They have been doing great with guys like Melky, Terrance Long, Andy Phillips, etc.

I want my team to get the wild card (or division but theres too much ground to make up) but if not.... I would love for the yankees to beat the sh... out of the tigers in the first round.

If they can get Bernie and Phillips off the field, that's worth some wins right there. I don't like the decision to dump Aaron Guiel though; if anyone should have gone, it should have been Phillips with the acquisition of Wilson. Andy is one of "Torre's Boys" now, though, so he may be entrenched in a roster spot.

The whole thing is that someone has to catch the ball at first, and Phillips is really the only guy who can do that on the current roster.

Adding Abreu pushes Bernie out, although Lidle will help about the same - good pickups, although they're still quite vulnerable when they throw the ball, it might not matter if they average 11 runs per game.

Massive deals - why would the Pirates make that trade? It's not like Wilson would be expensive in arbitration, since they NEVER PLAY HIM. I get the salary dump, to the only team that can actually take on the entire salary - OK, Gillick is a tools guy, so he got terrible prospects back. That's fine, it happens. But Chacon for Wilson? A valuable commodity for a terrible scrap-heap definition of replacement level?

In the immortal words of Happy Gilmore, "Why don't you just give him the trophy?"

True, I'd forgotten that aspect of it. At least his at-bats will dip, though.

The pitching staff still worries me quite a bit, as you pointed out.

Wilson will take ABs against lefties, too, so you prob won't see too much Andy Phillips . . . at least, comparatively. Then again, Wilson's 1B defense isn't exactly stellar, so who knows what Torre will do, after factoring in the "Cult of His Guys".

Yeah, but again . . .scoring 1,000,000 runs solves a LOT of pitching problems . . . I just couldn't be that worried, especially with Matsui scheduled back at the end of the month.