Bote McBoteface

Peavy is signed thru 2012 at 14.5m, 15m, 16m, 17m, with a club option for 22m in 2013. Harden's 7m is nowhere near that expensive. All 5 players SD would get in this deal total less than $9m, a big savings from $14.5m for just one player. Harden does, however, give them reasonably fair talent return for Peavy. This is not a pure salary dump, the Padres need a decent return, or the Peavy trade would have already been made to either us or the Braves. From our perspective, Harden is signed only thru 2009, whereas Peavy is locked up 4 or 5 more years. How can you value 1 year of Harden as being equal to 4-5 years of Peavy? We also are not giving up nearly all of our prospects as you claim. Oh wait, I see you have edited that. Glad to see that you recognize that we are not giving up a lot of prospects in this proposal. The issue is trying to trade for Peavy. San Diego has passed on our efforts to get him for Vitters and the usual suspects. We have to give up something substantial to get a guy like Peavy, don't you think? If you want to just pass on the Peavy idea rather than consider trading players like Lee and/or Harden, OK, but I think we need to face the fact that we aren't going to get a Peavy if we are unwilling to trade a big chip or 2. If you think San Diego would do the deal with Marshall and/or Wells substituted for Harden, great, lets try it. I just doubt if that would get it done. Yeah I saw a big list of prospects and assumed they were from our system. I realized the mistake pretty much instantly and edited it out, I was hoping nobody saw it. Still though, I'd much prefer to keep Harden, and although Harden's deal is small compared to Peavy, it still is 7 mil while Peavy is making, what, 9 mil this year? Long term though, yes youre right it is saving them significant money. I'd prefer to keep Lee, too, if possible. But I'd be much more willing to part with him than Harden. (Although Lee has a NTC and I'm not quite sure he'd be happy to waive it.)

The Padres are cutting payroll. They do not want to add Harden's 7 million. The deal doesnt really do anything if we include Harden anyways. Well, except for take away two very good prospects, plus our 1st baseman.

And considering Giles has already basically struck down a deal to a contender to keep playing on a losing team, I guess he's a loser to you.

Not to take this thread off topic again, but uh...."mine as well"? Really? Does that make sense at all?

This is completely and utterly ridiculous. What's so ridiculous about that statement? It's on the mark, besides a couple of good trades, overall his handling of free agency has been terrible. The farm system has not produced a quality position player in years. Despite the 2 division titles, he's left this team in a precarious position with the ridiculous deals to Soriano, Fukudome, Zambrano, etc. Uh, Geovany Soto?

Thats stupid as hell.

Technically, the spelling police handle small spelling errors. I'm with the spelling FBI, we handle the proper noun misspellings. That might be the lamest joke I've ever told.

Who is Rameriz, and why would Seattle trade Ichiro?

Don't Bradley's injury troubles mainly deal with his legs? Would Toronto's artificial surface really be a good idea for him? I guess that is partly negated due to the fact that he'll be DHing most of the time, but I would think if we can match Toronto's offer...the Cubs offer him a chance to play on natural grass, a chance to play on a team that will likely be in the playoff race every year of his contract, etc. I'd think we'd have a pretty big advantage assuming money is equal.

I meant to post that in the griffey topic :/

Has Barry Bonds officially retired? Maybe he can play right field!

I'm pretty happy we signed Dempster. Its a pretty reasonable contract, and although I doubt he'll ever perform as well as he did last season, he's always had great stuff...as long as he controls it he should be above average at the very least. That was a long sentence. Now let's get rid of Marquis and find a way to trade for Peavy or something.

lol

Yeah, but are they as big of names as Griffey?

I've heard of Raven Riley.

I've heard this from a lot of baseball announcers, and my friend and I are having a discussion about it right now. Is this true, and if it is, why is it true?

Maybe they're waiting for the Cubs convention? 8-)

Losing only has one o in it.

That home run was easily the most badass thing I have ever seen.

If we make the playoffs next year, which we should....there is gonna be so much pressure in game 1. Hopefully we can at least get home field advantage so that our fans can be dead quiet for us again.

Apparently the only teams in the running now are the Braves, Cubs, and Dodgers. No other teams will be considered. A deal to the Braves is supposedly close, with Yunel Escobar and prospects going to the Pads.

Do what I do, just don't start threads. And any time you post, just make it a somewhat funny one liner that might possibly get an "lol" out of one of them. Its....how I get my jollies.

I hear Peavy to the Cubs is a done deal, but the Cubs want to wait to announce it at the annual Cubs convention.

Has anybody drawn the comparison to the Brian Roberts thread yet?

I think I saw that quote weeks ago.