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Agreed, keep Riot as short. His natural position... :lol:

Probably Right Field, though he would be a much bigger upgrade in CF than RF. If you can get Griffey and Floyd in there a few times that would be an amazing lineup.

My bad. Anyways, back to getting Griffey.... :wink:

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-070728cubsbrite,1,3025243.story?coll=cs-home-headlines (Edited by moderator for copyrighted content)

Not really any new info. Looks like they're interested in him as a 4th outfielder. Might as well just bring up Murton instead of trading prospects for Church. I still want Church. FWIW, on the Nationals website they say the same things about us being interested in Church, so things may be heating up. Just glancing at Church's stats again, and not too shabby. 8th in the league in doubles, .343 OBP despite a bit of a down year, SO:BB ratio not that bad.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-2/118542421988410.xml&coll=1 Pretty bad year for Damon in the BA and Slugging % department, but he still has a .350 OBP% and a SO to BB ratio of 50:50.

Len hinting at the Dye rumors in his recent blog: http://blogs.trb.com/sports/custom/weblog/wgnsports/

Dye continuing his 2nd half hot streak (minus an 0fer in yesterdays game) with a 3 run HR in the first on Kenny Rogers today.

I have no idea why the Brewers would find it necessary to add to the offense. Same here, just throwing it out there since (I think) Rosenthal said it was a rumor.

Could this be a precursor to the Dye for Turnbow rumor from a couple days ago?

Does Inman start?

Thanks for the heads up Reds. Don't know who the Brewer's gave up, so i'm assuming they aren't too special. Seems like a decent deal for them, but it' not like this is the move that will give them any edges or anything obviously.

Doubt it since all three wouldn't even make contact early in the count, let alone the first pitch.

If we give them some good prospects i'm sure they'd pick up some of the salary to make his remaining salary respectable to us. Now it just comes to the question of whether or not you're willing to give up some good prospects for a guy up there in age.

They're currently ranked in the upper half of per game attendance in the major leagues. Just thought I'd note that. If you were aware of that before your post, we define the word "pathetic" differently. Look at their stadiums during games, they are never filled. Since Chicago is a big market i'd wager there's a bunch of scalper type of people who just buy a crapload of tickets hoping to sell them and are left with alot of extras, like they do for the Cubs, except Cubs fans actually buy most of the scalpers tickets. Let me see if I understand this. You believe that scalpers -- who have a significant financial disincentive to buy tickets they can't sell -- are buying "craploads" of tickets they can't sell? :shock: You don't know much about how scalpers work (my sister actually scalps tickets in Atlanta and was just talking about it with me the other day, so I have a little insight). Basically, they buy a bunch of tickets when the season starts at normal price, or if they know people, can get them a little cheaper if they buy a higher volume. Then, when gametime actually comes around however many months later, they shoot up the price (hell, look on stubhub, I paid 55$ for 20$ tickets for seats in the absolute last row in upperdeck). So basically they can afford to sell 1/2 of the tickets they purchase and still make a profit due to the increase in price they put on the tickets in relevance to the original price they purchased them at. Look, i'm not saying this is 100% the reason for what i'm implying about the Sox attendance, but it adds up. Edit: And when I was talking to my sister she said she had 70 tickets left (not sure how much she originally purchased) in a recent series and still made over 300$ in profit, and keep in mind we;re talking about Braves games where the seats don't exactly get filled.

They're currently ranked in the upper half of per game attendance in the major leagues. Just thought I'd note that. If you were aware of that before your post, we define the word "pathetic" differently. Look at their stadiums during games, they are never filled. Since Chicago is a big market i'd wager there's a bunch of scalper type of people who just buy a crapload of tickets hoping to sell them and are left with alot of extras, like they do for the Cubs, except Cubs fans actually buy most of the scalpers tickets.

If that's the case, then they better not expect a high-level prospect. No, 2.5 million isn't much at all, it's just that i'm a little irked that we even have to consider 2.5 million is too much.

I bet Krivisky wants a team's entire bullpen in return for Dunn. Kenny Williams is waiting anxiously for that offer.

Will Carroll says we would be the most likely suitor for Dye as we could offer a reliver and a prospect, but (gulp) we have to see if we can take on 2.5 freakin' million on his contract.

Damn.

From the Cards board: CHC Soriano lf Theriot ss Lee 1b Ramirez 3b Floyd rf DeRosa 2b Jones cf Kendall c Zambrano p STL Kennedy 2b Schumaker rf Pujols 1b Duncan lf Edmonds cf Rolen 3b Miles ss Molina c Wells p Surprised no Koyie for Z.

?? All they do is link to other online articles and ESPN Insider stuff... Like 3 years ago I remember they made up a bogus rumor but since then it's been like any other Prosportsdaily type of site. I completely made something up and reported it to mlbtraderumors as if it were a done deal. It was posted ten minutes later. I remember, but wasn't that a long time ago? I think they have new people running it, because i've went there about every morning this year and all of there rumors have links.

?? All they do is link to other online articles and ESPN Insider stuff... Like 3 years ago I remember they made up a bogus rumor but since then it's been like any other Prosportsdaily type of site.

http://msn.foxsports.com/fantasy/story/7051448