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And the curse of Curtis Leskanic is broken.

Wow that was close.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:37 PM) Agreed. Even if they don't trade Konerko, with ARod at SS, they could afford to put Fields in LF, Owens in CF, and Richar at 2B. That's three minimum salaried players in the starting lineup. Outfield defense would be a litle shaky, but ARod would more than offset that. Add a couple of solid bullpen arms, and the Sox are in business as serious contenders. You're worried about OF Defense? Then I got news for you. We've actually got 2 more quality defensive OF's hanging out in winterball this season because they've been struggling with the bats. As soon as Crede is moved out of the way, then you put either Sweeney, or for defensive purposes, Pref. Anderson in CF, and you suddenly have one of the better defensive OF's in baseball with Owens's speed in LF.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:31 PM) I dont care what it takes or how many years, you sign Arod. His impact to the financials for the franchise will offset his salary. You immediately trade Konerko to the Angels to restock the system a bit, and put Fields at first. Thome, Arod, Dye, and Fields would be serious power. Arod as he gets older could slip into the DH position, and he will break records in our bandbox of a park. The revenue from him would be silly. Yeah, that all makes a lot of sense. Makes so much more sense than holding onto all those guys and dumping the black hole at the other position ARod plays...SS. Seriously folks...you want this guy, put him at SS or forget about it. We've got 2 bloody 3rd basemen right now. No offense. Sorry, just read that and it was overly mean.

There goes the Okajima Mistique. Come on Rockies. You got a challenge now. 1 run against Papelbon. It's been done. Maybe you should have dealt for JD at the trading deadline.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:23 PM) Something tells me that Ozzie and Alex would get a long fine--they'd have one of those relationships like AJ and Ozzie or Frank and Ozzie. Just my hunch... My big concern would be Kenny being able to convince him to play here after losing 90 games this past season. Care to guess the Texas Rangers' record the year before they signed ARod? 71-91. And they weren't exactly 2 years removed from winning it all.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 05:28 PM) Fantasy people with Tom Brady -- like me -- have to love how New England continues to pound teams in the second half, even after the opposing team is holding up a white flag. The league I'm in, QB touchdowns/yards aren't worth as much as RB or WR touchdowns/yards, and Brady is still one of the highest point players in the league. This week he even helps by getting into the endzone twice on his feet, three times through the air and throwing for 300. One of these weeks, there's going to be a moment with 6 minutes left in a game where the Pats are up by 42 and running up the score again, still with Brady in and throwing, and some defensive player is going to get pissed off enough to send a message.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:19 PM) Yes, I know it was an extension. But the annual salary would have at best stayed the same. Boras is thinking that ARod can go 7 or 8 years, $30 mil+, I think. Maybe ++, I dunno. But a lot. I'm not in on the game obviously...but I'll bet you that Boras could have gone to the Yankees and said that a 7 year extension worth $30 a year would keep him, and I'll bet the Yankees would have done it right now. They're about to dump an awful lot of money around to keep some consistency now that Torre has gone. IMO, if this was about money, he'd never have opted out. The Yankees could have met any price ARod genuinely could have asked for.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:18 PM) KW should be on the phone to Boras as soon as it's legal offering A-Rod $300M for ten years. A-Rod would fit right in with the Sox, giving them a legit number three hitter for once and plugging a major hole at SS. He'll bring in a lot of money int the later years of his contract as he closes in on the all-time HR record. The only risk would be if he sustains a major injury but sometimes it's worth a gamble. Do it KW! I gotta admit...I don't know about all the salary constraints...and I don't know how practical it would be to throw a bunch of money at him for a long time, but this is still the organization that threw all that money at Albert Belle a decade ago, and he would be a perfect fit for that position. Who knows if he'd actually want to play with Ozzie though, after Ozzie's random remarks before the WBC, despite the apology.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:16 PM) I figure he just doesn't want to play in New York. I really have difficulty imagining that anyone out there is honestly going to be able to beat the 8 years, ~$225 that the Yankees were rumored to be talking about if you count his extension and current deal. But even still, I bet that ARod could have probably almost named his price right now and the Yanks would have met it. I think the tabloid stuff this year with the Yankees combined with yet again leaving in the first round was the last straw. No matter how much people say about Boras's folks and $$$, leaving the Yankees right now doesn't make sense. They would have thrown money at ARod's feet right now to keep him from doing this if money was the only issue.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:12 PM) I don't think either is likely. The rumors were along the lines of 5 years, $140 mil, or $27.5 mil per. That's basically what he's earning now. Boras thinks he can do better. I think it's as simple as that. No, that wasn't the rumor. The rumor was 5 years, $140 million ON TOP of the 3 years, $28 million a year remaining on his current deal. So they were talking on the order of 8 years, $225 million or so, with the Rangers still picking up $21 mil.

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:09 PM) leave it to a Yankee to make an announcement like this a few innings before the Red Sox are about to win the World Series. Joe Buck just noted that Red Sox owner John Henry was on his blackberry and smiling, and assumed it was because he knew ARod was available, and not because HIS TEAM WAS 6 OUTS AWAY FROM A SET OF RINGS. This is actually funny. If I was the Red Sox, I would be genuinely annoyed.

QUOTE(PHAT ALBERT @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:06 PM) Must already know he has $30m times eight or nine elsewhere.... The issue is...he basically already had that coming from the Yankees. The rumor was about $28/8 counting the years already existing, and that's with the Yankees already having $21 million from Texas. LOL, Joe Buck saying John Henry is on his blackberry is smiling...and yea, it's because ARod is available, not because they're 6 outs away from WINNING THE F***ING WORLD SERIES you moron buck. LOL ARod upstaging this.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 08:07 PM) 3. Ramirez. Obviously thats not going to totally stop the Cubs for pursuing Alex, but Al-Rod would have to be signed before Aram was traded. You have then really minimized the value of Aram, because you have forced your own hand. TheRiot?

And ARod upstages the Red Sox sweeping.

You don't opt out of $28 million a year, esp. if the team is the Yankes and they're already willing to extend you, if you want to play in a city.

Oh yeah, it's on. I bet deep down, 1 of 2 things happened. Either the Yankees offered him a fair deal, and he genuinely decided he didn't want to stay in New York any more after the beatings of the last few years, of there's some element of tampering by another team, which will never truly be found out. One of the 2.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 02:42 PM) He could be suffering from a case of Rich Daley syndrome, where he suddenly forgets who he knows, and what he agreed to... According to the Washington Post, the guy who arranged the Presser, John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's director of External Affairs...has already resigned. Of course...resigned in these times is defined widely enough to include "promoted to Head of Public Affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence".

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 02:45 PM) John Edwards, keep your hands out of my f*cking pockets. I work my ass off for what little I have, and I do NOT like being told WHO I HAVE to help with my money. I give freely to charity of both my time and money, and I don't need you, thru the use of confiscatory laws, to tell me I need to do more. But of course, it's ok for you to leave the bill for your war to people like me who'll spend our next 30 years of taxes paying off the couple trillion in debt and interest. That's perfectly ok. Even better when contractors run off with tens of billions of dollars...that's fine, as long as those mean Dems don't make the people running this war look bad. That emboldens the bad guys! You want to be blunt and rant, so can I.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 05:33 PM) Tex, I agree with you that this election period is too damn long. 3 or 4 months for the primaries, then another few for the general. Why do we need more? With Iowa and New Hampshire playing leapfrogging jackasses, who knows when the primary season actually starts?

Afraid this bit of geomorphology has me stumped right now, if I have some time I'll look into it more tomorrow.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 07:08 PM) Even at the trade deadline I wasn't even thinking about Ellsbury. It amazed me at the general ignorance of some people at the trade deadline about certain players' value. When the report of Dye for WMP + Delcarmen (or Masterson) being very close was talked about that morning, there were actually people who thought we weren't getting enough. "WMP strikes out too much and Delcarmen is a reliever. Buccholz and Ellsbury with Beckett thrown in or no deal!" You know, you didn't have to think that the entire Red Sox roster had to be thrown in to think that we weren't getting enough for JD in that deal when compared with the 2 draft picks we'd get if he walked.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 02:56 PM) 31 2B, 30 HR, 94 RBI and a .283 AVG is not a 30/30/100/.300 type season. It's a 30/30/95/.285/ (rounding up because I'm a nice guy) type season. I know it seems like nitpicking but rounding up 17 points and 6 RBI is rather disingenuous. Oh come on, dude, you're ignoring perhaps the most important part of those stats: Joe was on pace for a 30/30/100/.300 season easily until his back went out at the start of September. If the question is..."How good could Crede's numbers have been had it not been for his back" that's certainly worth noting. (last column = home runs that month) April .313 .360 .550 .910 4 May .294 .324 .451 .775 4 June .284 .312 .545 .857 6 July .281 .316 .596 .912 8 August .327 .351 .579 .930 6 Sept .179 .264 .282 .546 2 He went from looking like an all star to looking like Erstad there for a month because his back went out. If he really had "Figured it out", then clearly September is the abberation.

Mike Vrabel comes in on offense in the Red Zone, and somehow the Redskins simply don't notice.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 01:11 PM) I am really surpised to see Uribe's name on the list of guys who will be let go. That can't be right. I really don't see Kenny leaving himself dangling in the wind with Gonzalez or Ozuna as their #1 SS on the depth chart. It would really put him over a barrel in any negotiations. Unfortunately...what choice does he have? He has 10 days after the end of tonight's game to decide whether or not to pick up Uribe's option, and that option is expensive enough that you don't want to just hold onto him as a backup or trade bait. Either we hamstring ourselves in those negotiations or we waste $5 million, or we make a move within 10 days.