Transmogrified Tiger

Letting Wood go isn't a bad move in and of itself, you free up some money, get a draft pick or two. The moves that follow define how good an idea it was. If you let Wood go and then give out another Howry/Eyre contract to replace him with Scott Linebrink, then it's not a good idea. If you use the same money you would've used on Wood and bring in Fuentes, then it's fine(the disparity in picks may be worth the upgrade in health/left handedness). If you use some of that money on say, Juan Cruz, and the rest as part of a larger plan(Trading Lee and signing Teixeira for example), then it's a pretty good idea.

Now that could be interesting. Now I kind of want Derrek Lee to go. Where is this money coming from? Trading Lee? Not bringing Wood back? Trading Marquis?

Wasn't he pulled as closer at the end of the year? Yes, but his previous effectiveness in the role still drives his price up. It's the same concept that gets people like Bob Wickman and Todd Jones contract after contract.

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Gregg will be way overvalued because of his history closing. Nelson has been good for a couple years and will be first year arb eligible, but he's also 33. For my money, do a package of up to Pie+Ceda for Hermida and be done with the Marlins.

Anderson or O'Sullivan? Suicide is currently doubtful, but could be upgraded to probable late in the week.

hahahaha I think my favorite part was Braun's affliction t-shirt and skinny jeans.

Basketball Prospectus has their preview of the Central Division up. Link Projected Standings Detroit 55-27 Cleveland 48-34 Indiana 37-45 Chicago 32-50 Milwaukee 23-59

Al Yellon also seems to think us trading for Matt Cain, then packaging him and other players for RICKY NOLASCO is a great idea. That said, I have no idea how likely the probability is, it's a unique situation without much precedent.

In basketball, it's much easier to determine who the best team is through a short series of games. A far larger number of NBA first round series would go 3-0 than if MLB went to Best of 7 for the DS.

I like a good deal of what those Dolan rumors were. I wonder what they'd do if they were to trade Lee. Al Yellon had his (really, really terrible) projection/hope for what the '09 roster looked like, and he had a platoon at 1B. Any plus defense platoon bats come to mind for 1B? Maybe the Marlins would give up Jacobs in addition to Hermida? Would Toronto be open to trading Overbay? Nick Johnson? Conor Jackson from the right side(maybe with just Hoffpauir spelling him against tough RHP)? Is Garko available?

does that mean what i think it means Probably not

The Astros made it in '05.

You keep your greedy little paws off of Snaer.

I'm going to lose because the Vikings can't figure out the "don't touch the punt" concept. Awesome.

Full BCS Standings Interesting how the computer averages come out. 1. Texas 2. Alabama 3. Oklahoma State 4. Oklahoma 5. Ohio State 6. Georgia 7. Penn State 8. Utah 9. Boise State 10. USC Also of note, Kansas got votes in only one of the computer polls, and LSU and Northwestern are tied for 19th in the computer averages.

Derek Anderson is rapidly moving up my list.

16 is a decent enough spot for Mizzou. They have 4 straight "don't screw it up" games before the Kansas game, and if they win that then they'll take the North and have a quasi-home game for the B12 Title and a BCS game, at which point they should be approaching the Top 10 again by attrition.

Please take it to the Hamilton thread if you want to revisit that again.

I'm too irritated to use paragraph form. -Our offensive line is garbage, LT and LG both ignore a blitzing corner, then both go after him, letting the DE go untouched. Idiots. -Don't call a fade on 4th down, and don't kick a field goal. Momentum means crap when you're still down 32, you need a touchdown if you want a shot at a miracle win. -The offensive PI on Coffman was the worst offensive PI call I have ever seen, and then whistles get swallowed when Coffman gets tripped on a surefire TD right before that [expletive] fade call. -Stop running around like your head's cut off every time you need to hang in the pocket, Chase. Half the time you're in no imminent danger and you get frantic and ruin your chance at making a play.

I'll pull for Kansas if you pull for Missouri. Really, we have no choice. how does mizzou winning benefit KU? KU winning doesn't help Mizzou either. Let's just agree to hate each other.

He was joking, playing off my last post in this thread.

I'll never forget the one he did last year for LSU. He had a newspaper with a headline on it and he tore it to pieces, and then by the end he had done a magic trick making it whole again. He said something to the effect of "Now I bet you're wondering how I did that. I have no idea how I did that, I wake up screaming in the middle of the night wondering how I did that." Maybe the most entertaining thing I saw last college football season.

People in this thread who said Peavy was as good or better than Santana: Meph, Rob People in this thread who expressed reservations about trading for Peavy, and/or disagreed with Meph/Rob's characterization of him: I don't want to go back and count, it's over half a dozen. You're embarrassing yourself with this over-the-top "what is wrong with everyone why does everyone think this thing that is clearly wrong and I must bombastically correct you for the error of your ways" schtick. You're exaggerating. Over half a dozen? I think not. That is over the top. You may call it bombastic posting, but if you feel strongly about a subject I don't see a reason to put a little verve into it, instead of everyone trying to out Spock/robot each other. Plus, in order to get embarrassed I would have to care about the reputation of this little internet persona, which I don't. I basically get ganged up on about petty nonsense in nearly every thread I post in, oh no, I'm not proclaiming Jay Jackson is Tim Lincecum just yet, I'm such a negative guy, everybody pile on. That's part of what I don't like about these boards, what starts as a one-on-one disagreement turns into 7 people taking cheap shots at you personally instead of your argument. I just wish there was less damn posturing. Uh-oh, somebody thinks the fact that Josh Hamilton recovered from drug addiction does not make him a better baseball player than if he never took drugs in the first place! Better send out 10 guys with "internet tough guy" attitudes to deal with the problem. Off the top of my head, two people objected to Rob's characterization of Peavy/Santana as 1/2, one citing Webb, the other citing Halladay/Lincecum. Mhuber posted that he wasn't all that enamored with Peavy, citing his maximum effort delivery. Two people, including myself, talked about Peavy's less than sparkling away splits, and UMFan agreed with me when I brought it up. So there's your half dozen, I'm sure there's more. The reason lots of people respond to you is because you make up arguments and apply them to the whole board, and you do it with a very aggressive tone. I'm sure you'd find much better conversation if you left it at "Josh Hamilton doesn't deserve to be in the top 10 in MVP voting" as opposed to "why do all you mouthbreathers think Josh Hamilton is in the Top 10 in the AL?"

People in this thread who said Peavy was as good or better than Santana: Meph, Rob People in this thread who expressed reservations about trading for Peavy, and/or disagreed with Meph/Rob's characterization of him: I don't want to go back and count, it's over half a dozen. You're embarrassing yourself with this over-the-top "what is wrong with everyone why does everyone think this thing that is clearly wrong and I must bombastically correct you for the error of your ways" schtick.