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Dude, Theo just sat down at a restaurant, what's he going to order? Tell me what you "see".

All's well. Been busy with work and working on the new house. The whole thing needs/needed paint and cleaning on the inside. About 75% done there. It's got a pool that had pond water, frogs, etc in it. Had to clean that out, then had to service/replace half of the pump equipment. Still need to paint the rest, and then get started on some landscaping. It was a foreclosure, so we got it for a song, but it sat for a while and the previous people in it were renters, so it needs work. I'm still checking in from time to time at work, and I see the next generation is doing a good job handing it to the bbdoc. Hope all is well with you too.

Nippert? Wasn't this one of the guys Jacko was soiling himself about right before the Yankees traded Johnson back to Arizona, but they ended up with Dusseldorf instead?

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Mindless? Au contraire, mon frere. It actually requires a good deal of thought to recognize the accuracy and utility of that table. Those that use it have enough upstairs to see that it summarizes about 95% of what you say, and since that is the case, it has the utility of saving them the time it takes to read your tedious posts. Are people that use wikipedia mindless compared to those that use archaic bound reference material? I think not.

No, he's terrible and worthless because he's terrible and worthless. This has nothing to do with his aneuryism and everything to do with what he did with his chances where it counts.

Rosenthal and "great reporting" are mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to his current job, covering the sport of baseball. I'll allow it might happen if he were to provide updates on the goings on in the Shire.

Maybe all the s*** talking in the Yankee gamethread was a bit premature. Masterson's s***ing yourself proficiency has about reached the peak of the mountain.

That's the least of your worries. I hear Henry fancies himself a playwright and producer. He's been buying up scripts off-Broadway, but he hear he's primed to make his big move. The only thing is, he needs the startup capital after this latest hiccup in the stock market. Does this sound familiar? Bye bye, Lester, and Pedroia, and Papelbon, and....,and....

If they are more than a one line response, I don't read them anymore. I only read the first sentence. From that I get the topic, and once a I know the topic, I can summarize the content from a table. [table]Topic|Team|Content Prospect|Yankees|The player in question is made of 150% pure awesomeness. Fear us. Prospect|Sox|He could be good, but this is why he won't be. Signing|Yankees|This is the missing piece. We'll win 160 games, and the umps will screw us out of 2. Signing|Sox|Risky move, overpaid here, they'll regret this. Injury|Yankees|They don't get hurt. Hypothetically, if they did, the recovery will be speedy with no impact to ability. Injury|Sox|Everyone is a ticking time bomb. Once hurt, they'll never heal right.[/table] Seriously, this table can be shown to have a 97.2% accuracy rating.

Bump. Since the post before this one, over a full month..... .300/.396/.678, 9 ab/hr File this with Smoltz's shoulder, Penny's shoulder, etc, etc...

Yeah, because it's sparked so much already.

All night? http://brooksbaseball.net/pfx/zoneplotn.php?xml=http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2009/month_07/day_08/gid_2009_07_08_nyamlb_minmlb_1//pbp/pitchers/121250.xml&sp_type=1 Hardly. Analysis - 1 Watching The Games - 0

Sorry I've been away for so long. Internet service wasn't hooked up at my new house until Friday, July 3. I'm currently doing work in the house, so I couldn't get away for any appreciable period of time to use a place with free WiFi. To be honest, there's more work at the house than I anticipated. If somebody is interested in taking over my team, then they can have it. I'll be busy doing things in this house for the next 3-4 months. If nobody is interested, I'll try an keep up, but there will be lags in my participation. Again, sorry.

Why? These guys know what the score is. Boras knows Lucchino calls the shots for the #2 spender in baseball, and to stay competitive they'll need to deal with him. Lucchino knows Boras won't spite the #2 spender over some innocuous comments in the media. So, they'll take shots at each other, but when it comes time to do business, they'll drop it and do what they need to do in each others' best interests.

Tejas is putting on a hitting clinic in the 4th. Three solo shots in the first 4 batters. 3-1 'Horns (game 1, I think).

Ryan Strieby, 1B, MiLB

This reeks of, "I'll say something contoversial for attention", better known as, extreme douchiness. If you wanted to be cute about Pedro's performance that night, you could have at least picked the next best player on that field, Manny Ramirez. For me, Pedro.

I don't know what it is, because I don't care about batting titles. When I looked at B-R, who typically bases their qualifications on how the awards are given out, I noticed that Guerrero wasn't on the NL top-10 for 2003, despite hitting .330, which would have put him in the top-10. He only had 467 ABs that year. Again, I don't know the answer, but it wouldn't surprise me if your memory blew goats.

How many ABs will get him qualified? If it's in the 480-500 range, he probably won't qualify.

Here's his contract and incentives: Base: $1.5M Opening Day 25-man: $1.0M Games (50, 55, 60, 65, 70): $0.5M ea - if all $2.5M Games on 25-man (30, 60, 90, 120, 150): $0.5M ea - if all $2.5M He's earned the first incentive, and the first two from the Games on 25-man Roster, so he's at $3.5M now. Through 65 games, he's pitched in 24, so he's on pace for 60 even. Let's assume that if he's traded, as a closer his usage goes up a little and he pitches in 65 games. That means he'd earn another $3.5M the rest of the season. I'd be willing to bet the Sox would trade him, if they wanted to do so, with their responsibility being the base + incentives earned to date, so the receiving team would only be on the hook for his remaining incentives, which would total $3.5M if my assumption is met. In that scenario, the receiving team would get an established late game reliever at little to no risk. If he gets hurt, they owe him close to nothing because incentives won't be met. I'd say that makes him an attractive solution to their needs. Re: draft compensation if he's retained and offered arb. There's a club option at the same base, with clauses for incentives and what happens if the option is declined. The incentive clause says that if the option is picked up, in 2010 he will earn any incentives that were unearned in 2009. This is pretty big, IMO. This means that if he finishes out the year healthy, he'll be dirt cheap next year. He'll have earned his Opening Day 25-man roster bonus for $1.0M, he'll have already earned the Game Appearance and Games on 25-man Roster incentives to the max of $2.5M (in my assumption, the 70 Game Appearances would still be unrealized, meaning a $0.5M bonus would still be out there in 2010). They have their closer for a base of $1.5M with no (or almost no) incentives. Very attractive. If the option is not picked up, the player is released outright (no arb offer, therefore no draft compensation). So when you total it up, a team trading for Saito would be getting their potential closer for a max of $3.5M this year and $2.0M next year, with total protection from the risk of injury if it occurs before they pick up the option. I'm sure that will garner some interest.

Mike McDougLOL.