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At least Sterling has a broadcaster voice. Waldman is clueless and sounds like something out of Coffee Talk with Linda Richman

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I really hope Albert gets greedy. I think he stays in St. Louis, but it'd be great if he was taking up 1/3 of their payroll for the entire contract

Then I don't think you know any Sox fans. I look forward to the White Sox series more than anything other than Cardinals series. That has a lot to do with growing up pretty close to Chicago and thus having a good amount of friends who are White Sox friends. That said I am OK with interleague play ending. Don't really care one way or the other. Didn't you grow up in West Lafayette? As someone who grew up in the south suburbs at 183rd and halsted, I find this very amusing. I find your far south suburbs adorable

Nobody dares question the crazy old man. Or they, too, are incompetent and don't even realize it was a dumb move. I'm sure Kaplan got hard over it.

Nobody dares question the crazy old man.

Pass.

Rich Harden had maybe the greatest 2.5 month run you'll ever see from a Cubs pitcher, but yeah [expletive] him.

I have to imagine the Hawks are on CSN

You can structure it however you want internally. Set aside 25M a year for the first 5 years then you "pay him" 3/11 the next 3(Actually less than that due to the interest you've accrued over the first 5 years.) So... if you have a 35 year old player at the beginning of this deal, you'd rather be on the hook for an additional $11M for that player's age 41-43 seasons rather than being done paying him after age 40? May I ask why? If I think a player is worth 20M in his age 40 season(assume you're overpaying in the last couple years for a bargain in the first couple), I have a hard time imagining not being worth 11M over the following 3. I believe the point is that you're taking on additional risk when the player is most likely to be worthless. I'll stand by my statement that there are circumstances in which I'd rather be on the hook for 5/125 than 8/136. Just look at it like this: after three seasons of Soriano's deal, would you rather have 2/50 remaining or the 5/90 we're stuck with? I'd sure love for him to be gone after two more years and would pay the extra $7M per year to make it so. 2/50 vs. 5/90 isn't the question. You can't just erase the extra money that would have already been paid out to him. Re: "Most likely to be worthless" The point is you wouldn't sign a guy to that kind of money who is most likely to be worthless. Yes, I concede that I'd rather sign Aaron Miles to 5/125 than 8/136, but that's really Kyleing up the question.

You can structure it however you want internally. Set aside 25M a year for the first 5 years then you "pay him" 3/11 the next 3(Actually less than that due to the interest you've accrued over the first 5 years.) So... if you have a 35 year old player at the beginning of this deal, you'd rather be on the hook for an additional $11M for that player's age 41-43 seasons rather than being done paying him after age 40? May I ask why? If I think a player is worth 20M in his age 40 season(assume you're overpaying in the last couple years for a bargain in the first couple), I have a hard time imagining not being worth 11M over the following 3.

I'd take 8/136 over 5/125 for anyone. Me too. Not sure I would say that, especially without knowing the structure of the deals. You can structure it however you want internally. Set aside 25M a year for the first 5 years then you "pay him" 3/11 the next 3(Actually less than that due to the interest you've accrued over the first 5 years.)

I'd take 8/136 over 5/125 for anyone.

Holy [expletive]. I just assumed this was for like 7-8 years.

Sciambi is the best in the business.

Maybe it wasn't rhetorical, he was honestly curious.

Yeah Lebron was going to go to Akron or Purdue. He just didn't want to have to spurn one for the other, so that's why he went pro.

The tradition of not having a trophy given out.

More of a smug satisfaction about it, imo. Ugh, of course. I've enjoyed what I've heard of the B2 Show, but Kaplan has got to go. That's more of a general need than anything specific to the show.

Where did you get that impression? Are you serious Clark?

And it's unlikely Chad Tracy would get his last AB in the game if it was a remotely important position. Zambrano has a ~400 point OPS advantage (A much bigger advantage than Lee vs. Tracy) over Dempster. He's also a better baserunner. What a particular position is "expected" to do is irrelevant. Shortstops used to not be expected to hit either. It didn't mean Cal Ripken wasn't a hell of a lot more valuable than the scrubs most other teams ran out there in the 80s.

You're mistaken, it's a 4 year deal.

I can't decide which "Fred is old" joke to go with here. Back to the topic, I remember Meth defending Jason Marquis along the same lines: that his above average bat made up for his meh pitching ability. I just don't see how 2-3 abs balances out 6-7 innings of pitching. Do you see how starting Chad Tracy instead of Derrek Lee every 5 games would make a difference?

making fun of her HORRIBLE "goodness gracious!!" moment when Clemens came back to the Yankees. Waldman crying on-air after the Yankees get eliminated in '07.

WTF? Who takes a step down like that on his own choice? Altman did the same thing when he went to Creighton