Kill me now that would be the worst thing that's ever happened to anything, in history. I don't even want to live anymore. Ill shoot you if you shoot me, deal? The bodies with heroin needles in their foreheads would be piling up on Jim Hendry's doorstep if such a horrible day happened.
Is Canseco saying, and people thinking, that there's only one person in the HoF right now that used PED's? Uh, OK. If you believe that, let me talk you into buying a few other things.
I don't think this sentiment can be emphasized enough for the spazzes still in denial out there thinking that only a relative few players used PED's over the last 40 years.
I'm definitely interested in seeing this because of the filmmaker behind it. He's made a couple of really good documentaries and I'd be curious to see what he's going to do with this.
There's no logic in defending not offering arbitration. It was a stupid move. There's plenty (cost, health history), you're just refusing to see it. I'm refusing to be an idiot and assume he would have taken it. Arbitration is 1 year. It would not have crippled this team by any stretch of the imagination. Nobody said it would have crippled them. Stop being so melodramatic. It makes a ton of sense why they didn't chance an offer. It was by no means a make or break move either way. And you never refuse to be an idiot.
Sure, it's not ideal. But high payroll teams can easily get away with it and succeed. Not with the Cubs' circumstances at the time. When the team isn't being sold, yes, though even then it wouldn't be smart. That's some really expensive sentiment.
Can people set aside the player-crushes and look at this realistically for a second? Realistically it's ridiculous to pretend not offering arbitration was a good idea. If he accepts, we have a good reliever. If he doesn't, we get 2 draft picks. The downside is where? A good reliever with an injury history as long as the Bible... Not to mention the the fact that it's just a bad appropriation of resources to pay a closer 8-10 million dollars. Your logic has no effect on the might gooney/erik316stone tagteam.