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That ain't $8 mil a season, that's $8 mil over 2 years with incentives.

Wow that's 5 straight now. They've settled on a 8 man rotation, playing a zone defence and it's working.

Don't Minnesota also have 3 question marks in their rotation? Almost every team in the freakin MLB is going to have that. Some teams are lucky just to have 2 good starters in their pitching staff. So if we traded Lee for Miller straight up you would have preferred that instead. Now we have 3 holes on this team filled, a leadoff hitter, another good bullpen arm, and a starter who had good success last season. A lot of teams probably offered Wade Miller a lot more money and a longer deal than what he settled for. But he wants to pitch for a World Series team and get his value skyrocketing again after a good season. In 2 of the last 3 years Vizcaino has had excellent numbers with ERA's of 2.99 and 3.75. He's insane agaist lefties and has a K/BB ratio of about 2.5/1. We were never 1 guy away from winning this division. Signing a guy like Cabrera, Miller or Lowe for a lot of money was never going to put us over the top because we had numerous holes to fill. And we are still filling them, and expect Eckstein or Alex Cora to be the next on the list.

KW would have taken Miller over El Duque in a second if he could of, but there were about 15 other teams interested in Miller, and he went to the team who could help his value the most with a 1 year deal. Who wouldn't want to pitch for the defending world champions? El Duque@4mil >>> Cabrera@32mil over 4 years El Duque@4mil >>> Lowe@9-10mil over 3 to 4 years.

A few years ago it would have been 2 to 3 times a week. But I don't eat McDonalds any more, so I try to limit myself to once a week.

More importantly, the Magic beat the Spurs 93-87. W00t!

You think that's funny. The 5-9 Cowboys had 4 guys on this year's pro bowl roster. Shows you how bad the NFC has been.

Next season will be important for Sweeney, although I've got confidence he can do what he needs to do to get himself up to Birmingham by the end of the year. He started coming around in the 2nd half of 2004 anyways, so he should be able to continue on with that form. There's no way Young should be a 3 and Sweeney at 7 though. Sweeney is 2 years younger, was in his 1st season of minor league ball, while Young has played 2.5 years of minor league ball and is still only in low A ball. This got me though about Sweeney; Young - 66 BB's, 145 K's. Sweeney - 40 BB's, 65 K's Give Sweeney 2 more years like Young, and the power will start coming, but he's not even a power hitter. He's more like Jeremy Reed.

Kotex Boy trying to explain the benefits of overbidding for Troy Percival.

And it's all Cork Related.

Someone please call em to shut up then about their own careers.

Talks ongoing with El Duque according to Levine.

So if you were A-Rod, you wouldn't care if you were stuck on the Rangers for the duration of his 10 year deal (let's assume he never got traded) with a good chance that they wouldn't make the playoffs in that time.

He originally signed with Texas. That worked out well.

Mariotti: "I want Scott Bora$$ as my agent" Levine: "I want an agent who will get me where I want to play. Look at A-Rod"

Kotex Boy trying to cover his ass on Maggs and his injury.

Finally some questions in now.

Because it's going to cost at least 2 of Jon Garland, Damaso Marte or Paul Konerko and possibly Brian Anderson if its Randy Johnson.

No way would any team in the league take on Vazquez and his $11.5 million salary unless they pretty much gave up nothing and had lots of payroll space.

Is this on ESPN Radio or on a local Chicago station?

Still interested for Lowe @9mill per season I see.

DePodesta's just digging a bigger grave for himself if he does that.

Hopefully he got enough rest last night.

I don't know about everyone else, but that scenario worries the hell out of me. You know he ain't a good starter either, and he'll need to have one to get the critics off his back.

2004 Spring Training though he had lots of nagging injuries which limited the AB's he had, and he couldn't hit above .200 until April 16. But the more I look at Ecky, the more it seems he could fit our needs if he was signed which I still think is doubtful. I'm pretty sure St. Louis will offer him the starters job at SS since they missed out on Polanco, which would leave us with Cora if he isn't signed by another team.