This post is just a complete do-over, the facts, the sentiments, all of it What, people repeat themselves here a bazillion times over and over again? Get outta here, I don't believe it, you craz-ay, I think I wanna have yo' bay-bay.
Didn't we, reportedly, offer more money than the Dodgers for Puig? I don't remember hearing that at all. Are you're not thinking of the Cespedes signing drama?
I lament both, but I lament Cespedes more because the Cubs were actually close to signing him. With Puig the rumors were the FO were scared off by his "attitude" and whatnot so I don't think they were ever really in it. Now I just yearn for Soler to be freed to the blessed land of real baseball.
I guess it would kinda bug me if they were covered with them, but I wouldn't mind something like each team was allowed to strike a deal with an advertiser and end up having a patch or logo on each sleeve.
They said similar things about a certain guy with a certain beard who had crazy things to say about peace and love, my friend. That's right: I'm really Jesus Lincoln.
See, THAT just seems too rational to me, and I just don't see the union and especially the agents really letting it happen if the big later paydays start vanishing. But hey, we'll see.
you are most certainly wrong Then it is a startlingly different era of baseball that we are stepping into. look around, we've been in it for several years now. the decline of ped's and the rising average age of prime free agents has absolutely changed the way front offices should approach free agent acquisitions. you're absolutely right that the sheer level of injuries and rapidly declining performance is uncanny and unpredictable, but only insomuch as how *quickly* those things have happened So won't the game just adjust accordingly based on past practices as opposed to ideal ones? It seems unlikely that you'll be able to snag guys like Castro and especially Rizzo on such team-friendly deals real soon; we'll probably just see prime free agents becoming available at younger ages as their agents and the union talk them out of waiting. And the pitching thing especially just feels more like the fluky timing of a bunch of injuries in close proximity to each other as opposed to an actual trend.
No, it's luck. Theo is praising all of his accursed pseudo-voodoo shrines that it worked out this way. How often have we have seen a slew of this many major pitching injuries in such a short span of time? It was always a given you were overpaying for big talent before, but it really seems like a ridiculous number of big FA aren't just that and are instead just [expletive] their pants. I'm very likely wrong, but a ton of this just seems like good timing as opposed to an actual shift or trends that will continue.
That is the Kyle-est thing ever written on this site, and it didn't even come from me. :( http://www.quickmeme.com/img/0b/0b0ba53d1a6801a706cce2eb1f5454c60bda7e7526cfaf2f4b68786cc1b73dff.jpg
I'm still pissed we didn't sign every big FA. Theo's had a ridiculously lucky streak where basically every big FA and every big pitcher has inexplicably [expletive] the bed or ended up nearly crippled, but he's still an evil dick and I [expletive] hate the timeline The Plan with every fiber of my being.