Drew

No thanks. Vizquel is a fossil, and does little to solve our biggest problem of a leadoff-hitting, table-setting outfielder.

Well, at least he treats his employees well. Of course they probably spend their noon hours locked in a closet whimpering and snorting crystal meth from the stress of working for Satan.

The Armenian mob is too hard to deal with.

I'd say Drew lands in Boston. Trot Nixon looks to be on his way out of town. Nice pickup, but as has been said already, 11M is a little rich and does not account for the pay bump he is likely seeking. It also does not seem to solve the most pertinent position-player needs of leadoff hitter and/or shortstop. However, while not the prototypical speedy leadoff man Ozzie says he wants, putting someone with Drew's OBP in front of Thome, Konerko, and Dye would score us a lot of runs.

These look like a Houston retread. But the thing is that with that beautiful script, Houston is some road uni piping and a revert to the H-Star logo of the 70s and 80s instead of that weird cattle-brand thing away and classic block numerals away from being something really nice. Arizona still struggles with the logo identity crisis, using the A sometimes, the coiled-snake D, and hardly any use of what would look far better on a cap--the db sleeve logo. First of all, the coiled-snake D looks very minor-league. The DB sleeve logo is the strongest of the bunch, and the A looks like it should be a low-budget airline. Second, while the type is more authoritatively serpentine than the previous version which was a simple tweaking and serif-trimming of Friz Quadrata (shudder), D-Backs in print reminds me of what one of my former coworkers used to call people she didn't like--"D-Bag". I suppose if Bonds or Sheffield were wearing one, it'd fit a little better. Third, I'd hate the home unis a lot less if they had piping. Home whites look naked without piping or pinstriping and no number beneath the name. All in all, another uniform redo that would look better in the minors.

Of course USA Today makes that trade. They're Yankee fans, and they get a lot better than we do because of this trade.

95% of the threads on Soxtalk.

QUOTE(knightni @ Nov 4, 2006 -> 11:09 AM) Buster Olney has an Insider article on how the gold gloves are a joke. Anyone a member that can verify whether or not he talks about Crede/Uribe in it? Well, they're not Yankees and their red socks got thrown in the bleach load, so no.

It's kind of like being a Congressman. Get in for your first term and then don't screw it up, and basically you're tenured.

There was a line about turpentine and pissing on brush fires that describes my feelings about doing anything that would land us Gary Sheffield.

*looks at Roenick jersey hanging in closet*

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 05:19 PM) Or Bobby Bonilla for Jose DeLeon. I still remember that one. An up-and-coming slugger on house money for someone who held the single-season record for losses in a season. Anthony Young, IIRC, tied it in a disastrous Mets season a few years back and then the next year the Cubs picked him up.

unless he nets us Ichiro or Crawford, no. And since both don't seem likely until the reign of Queen Dick...

Podsednik = F The stolen base project due by finals week was a third of his grade.

and Sutcliffe's cup.

I remembered Milwaukee as the anomaly, being farther west of Chicago but playing in the AL East. I remember the divisions looking like so: New York Boston Toronto Baltimore Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Oakland Texas Kansas City Seattle Anaheim

Pierre in LF and leading off I suppose wouldn't be bad, but I am not calling for Brian Anderson's head after this season. He was a rookie, he made some mistakes but also showed some signs of improving and I think we'll see a markedly better BA come April. There aren't many better defensive CFs out there on the market, let alone for the house money that BA is making. Unless you want to go for Carl Crawford, which is still far and away what I want Kenny to put in a box with a bow under the tree this offseason.

I disagree vehemently with 99% of what Mariotti writes about. But be that as it may, it's not the opinion he holds so much as how savagely he writes. He's not eloquent, he's not witty, he's just boorish and ham-fisted like that stupid drunk guy at the corner sports bar you wish would get cut off already. He was seen outside Wrigley Field during the Sox' '05 run saying that the White Sox don't have that feel-good quality that the '03 Cubs did and went on to further downplay the Sox' success. The sportswriter I really miss is Bernie Lincicome, who is now with the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Oct 14, 2006 -> 09:42 AM) Pujols has probably passed A-Rod as the best..... but no way is it Jeter... Seriously. Jeter isn't even the best player, let alone shortstop, on his team.

They probably will like it, because the current start time was 7:07. That means four minutes' more worth of ad space to sell before first pitch, or four more minutes ESPN can use to fellate the Yankees.

all 50 states surveyed on SportsCenter think A-Rod should be traded. The map looked like George W's version of utopia.

I'd rather hear about how the Mets will pitch to Pujols or how the Tigers will hit Zito.

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I wonder if we were to do it, which A-Rod would we get? Would it be the future-HOF A-Rod or would it be the floundering media moth? Would he be another José Contreras that couldn't deliver in the harsh spotlight of the Bronx and magically finds it elsewhere, or would he be another David Wells who is never as good as he is when he is playing for an AL East team? The upside to A-Rod is that he's healthy and has a verifiable birth certificate and a decade or so left in the tank, probably coming at a discount price because the Yankees aren't happy with him. The downside is that he's the Hamlet of baseball. Even at a discount we'd still have to give up a lot in talent and take on a lot in salary. It's worth asking about, although I'm enclined not to roll the dice. By strengthening shortstop, it is likely we would have to open up other holes.

At the beginning of the season there was talk of batting him eighth in the order with Crede in the 9 slot. I think that if you would have seen that, BA would have had a little more success. And the Mackowiak platoon goes without saying.