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  1. Ding Dong Johnson
    So there's no risk of losing players if you claim Soriano. Got it.
  2. Ding Dong Johnson
    I agree with Steve Phillips?
  3. Ding Dong Johnson
    I think I understand the first part now, but not the second. If someone claims Soriano-and the Nats want more in a trade offer then the claiming team is willing to give, the Nats are left with 2 choices: pull him back, or let him go. If they let him go, then that team wouldn't have to send any players for Soriano. All they have to do is pay for Soriano, and I'm sure any team in the race would easily pay 2.5 million for Soriano for a month if that's all they had to give up. If the Nats pull him back, then the claiming team doesn't lose anything either. The only way the claiming team would trade players is if they agreed to a trade with the Nats during that negotiation period, and of course then the risk would be in the trade, not the claim. The difference here is that the Nats are not letting Soriano go for just a waiver fee and the rest of his salary. They are either going to trade him or pull him back.
  4. Ding Dong Johnson
    The claim has no risk only if the Nats withdraw the waiver request. If a claim is placed and the Nats do not withdraw the request, his contract is assigned to the team that placed the claim, and that team would then send players to the Nats for a guy that could possibly help them finish just short and bolt a month and a half later.
  5. Ding Dong Johnson
    Which again, just proves the point that there is no risk in putting in the claim. The claim is riskless. Risk does not exist for making the claim. No team would be at risk for putting in a claim on Soriano. Any claim put in on Soriano would come without risk. QFT... I'm not sure what about goony's point hasn't gotten across here the 500x he's explained it. Any team claiming him runs the risk of giving up prospects just to have him until the end of the season with no assurances that they will either make the postseason or be able to re-sign him. The claim is not riskless no matter how many times you say it.
  6. Ding Dong Johnson
    What exactly would be the gamble? The worst thing that happens is you get Soriano for nothing but what is left on his contract the rest of the season. Giving up talent for a month rental. You don't have to give up talent to make the claim. The claim costs a nominal amount of money. It's no risk. As soon as someone claims him, the Nationals will withdraw him and try to arrange a trade (which is where you would have to give up something.). Again, you don't have to trade for him if you claim him. There is no risk to putting in the claim. The Nationals are not putting Soriano on waivers for the purpose of granting his release. He will either be traded or the Nats will pull him back.
  7. Ding Dong Johnson
    They still suck.
  8. Ding Dong Johnson
    What exactly would be the gamble? The worst thing that happens is you get Soriano for nothing but what is left on his contract the rest of the season. Giving up talent for a month rental.
  9. Ding Dong Johnson
    This made me laugh.
  10. Ding Dong Johnson
    That really doesn't look much more promising than 2006's team.
  11. Ding Dong Johnson
    Call me crazy, but I think Dusty actually pulled Mateo to help inflate his ego. 5 innings gets that magical 'W', and he was matched up with Clemens. Mateo had the cajones to plunk the guy, and Dusty took him out on a high note. Take it and run, Dusty -- you're not getting props from me very often.
  12. Ding Dong Johnson
    Double-check your numbers because his appearance last night should have made him qualified.
  13. Ding Dong Johnson
    http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2005/01/chicago-cubs_112114177768677294.html
  14. Ding Dong Johnson
    Hamstring? That's what they're saying? I thought it was pretty obvious that he pulled some fat in his rear end.
  15. Ding Dong Johnson
    My guess is a lot of teams won't take the gamble with making the claim except perhaps the Red Sox.
  16. Ding Dong Johnson
    I appreciate what you're saying, but I'd rather see them all look sad and have talent.
  17. Ding Dong Johnson
    COBS WIIN!!!111!!!!!1!
  18. Ding Dong Johnson
    Wanted 20, 18's enough I guess.
  19. Ding Dong Johnson
    Ha, you suck! I never went 0-8 in college. yes, but you were no doubt 0-8 with females in college. :-) thanks to the all the clete chasing whores, i never went 0-8 in that regards :D I wish I was 0-8 when I look back at some of those skanks.
  20. Ding Dong Johnson
    At the 16 inning game in 2003, there was a second stretch in the middle of the 14th. I think it's a tradition, but we'll have to ask Len and Bob. Harry always used to sing again in the 14th.
  21. Ding Dong Johnson
    Ha, you suck! I never went 0-8 in college.
  22. Ding Dong Johnson
    I want 20.
  23. Ding Dong Johnson
    ANGEL PAGAN BATTING 3RD?!?!?!
  24. Ding Dong Johnson
    Of course. When Bob Boone used a 4-man rotation in 1995, Kevin Appier and Chris Haney both ended up with arm injuries. Leaving Appier out to throw 141 pitches right before he went down probably had something to do with his injury. I don't think Appier's "mechanics" helped at all either.
  25. Ding Dong Johnson
    Yes, that's got to be it. It becomes pretty obvious once you actually read what people write, instead of taking unwarranted jabs. Don't give me any garbage about unwarranted jabs. Nobody took a jab. You had been spouting nonsense in this thread that Hendry was a genius then an up-and-coming superstar from 2003-2005. Hendry has had his fair share of detractors since he was named GM, and just because you remember it differently doesn't make it so. The quotes below lead me to believe that you actually believe that "everyone thought Hendry was a genius until a couple of months ago". Then we remember things differently. That's the memory I had also. Where did you read anything negative about Hendry in that time span Goon?
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