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  1. mul21
    No way that happens. First, I don't think Pujols is a guy that would do that. Second, the contract he is under right now is below his current market value because when he signed it, it bought out a couple years of arbitration where he would have been paid significantly less than the $14M avg or whatever the contract is worth. Plus, how often do you really see a contract in baseball ripped up? More often, you see years added on with maybe a slight renegotiation of the remaining years.
  2. mul21
    There was talk down here on sports radio yesterday that he doesn't want to sign a deal for less than the avg annual value of whatever Colorado offered him that he turned down. That was like a 4 or 5 year $18M per I think? If it does end up over that, it'll be because there are option years and incentives that Boras will make them include just so he can save face and say he got Holliday his $18-19M per year deal. I think he'll be with them and it may be an 8 year deal with only 5-6 years guaranteed.
  3. mul21
    Yeah, the Clippers immediately came to mind when I thought about it.
  4. mul21
    that's the tri-fecta. It could give us a good boost rebuilding the team. Trouble is, do you trust Hendry to be the guy responsible for getting max value in return? And not just trusting Hendry to get the best value, but trusting him to not devalue those guys at the same time he makes it known they're available. And no, at this point I don't trust him to do either.
  5. mul21
    You can't eliminate the risk of a bad deal because of the dollars we're talking about, but you do have to minimize risk to allow for future spending and improvements. Nearly everyone with a brain in their heads cringed when the Soriano deal was announced. Not because of the annual value, but because of the 8 freaking years in length. $17-18M for 5 years wouldn't have been bad, but the those last 3 years are going to kill the payroll. Which, getting back to Byrd, is why there wouldn't be outrage at a 2/$12 deal, but when you go to 3/$20-21M, people start getting a little bent out of shape. The next 2 years, you probably need him, but why give him the extra year when you may well have production available from Colvin, Burke, or even Jackson in CF by that time.
  6. mul21
    Seriously, you don't even care about trying now. Not sure what this is supposed to mean. I'm not advocating that the Cubs should be run like the Marlins. No, but you're trying to make an issue that isn't nearly black and white be black and white. Marlins or Yankess with no middle ground when there clearly is. The Cardinals are a mid-level payroll team and have done a pretty good job of being competitive most years. They've made smart moves in acquiring players and have mostly avoided that deadly long term deal that cripples you for years. They also haven't sold off players and rebuilt every 3-4 years. And they haven't signed any huge FAs either. It can be done. People are pissed because Hendry has not only made some questionable moves in wasting money on lower level FAs, but has now effectively handcuffed the club for the future by signing guys like Bradley, Soriano, and Z to huge deals and dishing out the NTCs he has.
  7. mul21
    How much more do you think he'll actually get if signed as a catcher vs. 1B? Also, assuming it's going to be a 5-7 year deal, wouldn't it be worth it to maybe overpay for a guy like that with a fantastic track record and really good peripherals to play 1B for 150-160 games a year and do the best you can to guarantee he's healthy for the duration of the contract than to have him play 130 games a year and possibly get hurt or fall off a cliff in the 4th or 5th year of that deal? All of this is assuming of course that Soto doesn't continue to be terrible like he was this year.
  8. mul21
    My biggest issue is that they seem to have no idea how to get a decent look at the end of the game. I don't know if it's bad coaching or piss poor execution but I'm getting sick of seeing it. The D and rebounding will come, but the end of game stuff has been going on since Dee left.
  9. mul21
    UMass and Memphis. He was coach at UMass several years ago when they made the Final Four (I believe that was the year UK won the national championship under Pitino). Let's be more specific here. I'm pretty sure it's every school he's ever coached at and left.
  10. mul21
    And why is any of this true? Because the people in management positions completely fubared the handling of the situation. Suspension, bad mouthing, and just general stupidity in dealing with the situation is what caused it. Get that through your head. If Theo Epstein had the same issue, you wouldn't hear a peep out of him about how difficult the player made the situation. He didn't bad mouth Manny when he had to get rid of him. He may have overpaid to get rid of him, but he got something decent in return. The way the Cubs allowed the situation to play out is the reason that there was a perception the "he couldn't come back". If they kept their mouths shut and dealt with it like adults instead of 10 year olds, Milton might be a Cub still and maybe provided some much needed production next year.
  11. mul21
    I have tons of issues with batting Theriot in the top 2 slots. It's not ideal but it's better than Pods being the every day CF and hitting there. I guess I worded that poorly. It's the better of the not so great options available.
  12. mul21
    That would just be monumentally stupid unless Seattle is picking up a chunk of the money he's owed, and you just know that's not happening. Trading 2 yrs/$21M and a productive player for 2yrs/$24M and a guy who didn't pitch last year seems like a great idea to me.
  13. mul21
    Why do these jackasses seem to think that whoever ends up in CF needs hit at the top of the order? Cameron certainly wouldn't have if they had signed him. I would have no issue with Fuku and either Riot or whoever ends up at 2B hitting at the top with the new CF being in like the 6 or 7 hole. Idiots. Fuku Riot/2B Lee Ramirez Soriano Soto CF Riot/2B Pitcher
  14. mul21
    No, but Brett Wallace gave it a good shot last weekend. He got pulled over with a BAC of .232. You mean David Freese, or did Wallace run afoul of the law too? You're right, got my Cards farmhands mixed up. Not that Wallace is anymore.
  15. mul21
    No, but Brett Wallace gave it a good shot last weekend. He got pulled over with a BAC of .232.
  16. mul21
    Yeah, this was ridiculous. My dad wasn't able to watch and I must have texted him 5 or 6 different times that the game was over one way or the other. That game was probably more exciting than any Jordan era Bulls game I can remember, and I lived and died with those teams.
  17. mul21
    Nova had an upset or two coming. They really haven't looked all that impressive. They shoot way too many threes. They seem to be turning into a better version of Duke. I don't know about better, but certainly significantly less hateable.
  18. mul21
    They're absolutely not broke. Most of the eternal bottom dwellers have been getting more in revenue sharing money for the last several years than they spend on total payroll. Then you add in their ticket revenue and local tv money and the owners are making piles of cash. It's really pretty pathetic the way they do business and then claim they're broke.
  19. mul21
    Anybody have any thoughts on Torbush and Long. I'm ashamed to say I don't know much about either. Wasn't Long the OC at OU when Jason White was the QB? If so, I think that reflects pretty well on Long based on how well White played under him and how little of a career he's had after OU.
  20. mul21
    I'd much rather have Demp at 4/52 than have Lohse at the 4/42 the Cards have him at. I think he's a good comp for this discussion because he was locked up at the end of 2008 to a 4 year deal over the same time period Demp is. He's getting that with a much spottier history than Demp and 1 really good year.
  21. mul21
    He has shoulder issues that haven't been resolved. Sadly, I think it will come back to bite the Rangers in the butt. Do we have any idea what part of the shoulder is the problem for Harden? I know we have no idea the severity to which it may or may not be damaged, but I'm curious to know what the supposed injury actually is.
  22. mul21
    I think they'll steal a few more games than people think. They've really looked pretty good tonight and have been much more competitive this year than last. It helps when you don't have an unathletic midget playing a bunch of minutes at PG.
  23. mul21
    W/E. All I know this constant complaining and whinning about the lack of a playoff system is beyong annoying. Until the viewership drops, and the BCS/NCAA, etc, etc,etc begins to lose money, then the playoff system will never be given anything more then a token topic to talk about it. And I am fine with it. So all this debate is pretty much moot. I'm amazed they haven't come up with something yet just because of the money grab it would be. And to say nobody has a format is just asinine. 8 teams, 3 games, you have a winner. Pretty simple. Keep the bowls and have 3 games after they end. The current extra game plus a 2nd semi and then a championship game a week later. 1 more week, 2 more games to make money off of and the whiners about the student athletes can shut up because they'll be done before classes resume.
  24. mul21
    Crazy INT in the end zone with 45 seconds left to pretty much end the ECU-Houston game And Cinci takes home the Big East
  25. mul21
    Talk about a crappy way to lose if Cinci can punch it in.
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