javy knows my name

Technically, only one of them is a brewery, but I'm curious, too.

This is in the same article and cracks me up:

Posting something like that with no link or citation is weird, and I shouldn't have to google an excerpt of it to find out where it came from. wtf.

WTF, Jersey? wtf what? did you think I was trying to pretend I wrote it? No I did not.

That is a Peter King article being picked apart by KSK FJM-style. Here is the link: WTF, Jersey?

That was in my sig for a while. That was an awesome FJM post.

This is a ridiculously stupid decision and I hate it.

More ha's

The only answer I would accept from Dusty Baker to that question is "I'd eat it and die." hahahahahahaha

Hahahahahaha [expletive] you, Philly

cc broke the rules, b& plz like like like

I thought when I quoted his post, it was pretty clear I was just referencing the one post. You think I'd want B2B to stop posting outlandish 5-team trade ideas? You, sir, are mad.

Reyes going to die and go to hell or something? No he's leaving the Mets. ...to go to a team owned by the devil incarnate

B2B + posting = FAIL

Who is asking what of whom in this exchange? I wondered the same thing. I CAN NEVER READ THESE THINGS

Goosebumps. Think he's the preferred guy to get Cashner stretched out? I sure do.

yeah, but where did you go to college? I chuckled

I might punch somebody

Exactly. Take the previous salary issue we've gone through. Our problem putting together a good team hasn't been because we had Soriano on the roster. It's because we had Soriano, Grabow, Miles, Reed, Koyie, Howry, Eyre, Kosuke, Byrd, etc., on the roster at the same time (some of those were productive players, but all were overpaid). If it were Soriano and then a bunch of cheap, productive minor leaguers, we'd have been in fine shape to go get a major impact bat and field a very good team. Going forward, if we have Pujols, expensive FA reliever, overpaid gritty MI, overpaid OF, overpaid unproductive C, overpaid productive reliever, overpaid productive reliever, overpaid productive FA OF, and average-ish FA OF, all on the roster at the same time, we're going to have trouble building a good team. But if we have Pujols, a couple of homegrown stars, and a bunch of cheap, productive players, we should have no problem building a great team. The key isn't to avoid big contracts, it's giving star contracts to star players and avoiding overpaying for support players and filler. We couldn't do that under Hendry, we absolutely should be able to do that under Theo and that's why it won't cripple us in the future. This is correct. It's also what Nuts has been saying for pages and pages on end when talking about how $25 million to Pujols in 2017 will only cripple us if horrible, horrible things have happened in the organization along the way.

Im assuming the derosa comment was because he could play 2B/3B/LF/RF in a pinch. Fair enough. I just heard solid utility player and I don't see that as a likely outcome.

Truffle's gonna be wishing so hard for the poop jokes to come back after this.

That would be excessive. And very unlikely.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Coming back to this for a brief second, this is the kind of situation that could give the team the arbitrage needed to compete sooner than the financial restrictions would allow. If you could manage to deal Zambrano and all but, say, 3 million of his salary for Morrison, that would give you the flexibility to use Jackson to get a young SP if you wanted. So Z+14 million for Morrison, a package based around Jackson and Cashner for Gio Gonzalez, Sign Pujols/Fielder, and use the remaining money on another SP like Wilson/Darvish. Then do your favorite low cost option for 3B, whether that's Headley or Stewart or Baker/DeWitt or Flaherty/Lemahieu or something else. That team competes immediately, and all the big acquisitions are under team control for 4 seasons or more. Castro Stewart/Byrd Pujols Morrison Soto Soriano Byrd/Baker Barney Wilson/Garza/Gonzalez/Dempster/Wells/Samardzija, Marmol/Marshall/Wood/Russell/Mateo/Beliveau/Samardzija This is awesomeness. Are people really going to let that grumpy old man influence dumping Morrison? How bad is the Marlins' front office, would you say?

Everything I hear about Lake indicates a total boom-or-bust guy. People aren't high on him because it's likely he'll be on an MLB roster. They're high on him because if his pitch selection and contact ability improve, and he figures out how to field his position adequately (sound familiar?), he's a potential superstar. DeRosa just doesn't seem close to his two most likely outcomes.

Good news about Martinez. Once again, I'd be happy with any one of the names reported by the media. YESSSS smart people running the Cubs.