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I can only speculate but George Mitchell didn't implicate Damon because Mitchell is a former member of the Sox FO and Damon was such a cherished member of the Sox?
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It's almost like having another pitching coach on the team
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Not really ST-related but not worthy to start it's own thread either but im listening to Smoltzy with D&C on EEI and wow, talk about a player who's gonna make a fantastic TV personality when he retires
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I really wouldn't mind seeing a few dozen owners get together and have a press conference to explain the importance of a salary cap.
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And maybe the Yankees are hoping the Mariners want another feel good story and send Ichiro, King and Clement for A-Rod
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If nothing else, it may bring some of the fans back that left when the team went to s*** in 2004
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It's the fact that the Sox do scout, draft and develop players so well that would lead me to believe they'd be successful even if there was a cap on payroll
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Right, he complains only after Yankee money beats him out on a big time free agent/available player and that's the problem I have with Henry being the spokesperson about a salary cap, everytime he does it its done at a time when 90% of people will dismiss it as sour grapes.
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Sean Avery wouldn't have a pro hockey career anywhere near the NHL if he didn't walk a fine line on the ice. It's making fun of Jason Blake's cancer, calling Georges Laraque a monkey, categorizing French Canadian players as chickenshits, calling Dion Phaneuf's girlfriend sloppy seconds and jawing with a fan from the penalty box that cross the line. Say what you want about Avery but last season, the Rangers' record was significantly better when Avery was in the lineup than when he wasn't
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Fine, but does Graff play in Boston the way he played in KC/Milwaukee after that fairly significant error he committed against Chicago in the prior post-season?
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its amazing how many threads these days are just descending into back and forth insults
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I can respect your opinion but I think you're in the minority. Anyone else think the Sox should've kept Graffanino over signing Loretta?
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How frustrating must it be to be a Braves fan this off-season? There were reports that the team was very close to signing Furcal, Burnett and Griffey yet all three went elsewhere. Not to mention the Peavy trade talks that fell through.
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It looked damn good on Mark Loretta
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He's by far the most exciting player in the NHL, he plays every game like he has a stick of dynamite up his ass
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or Edgar Renteria
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Ideally I think, you make a floor of $50 million and a cap of $80 million but the PA would never agree to that and the cheap owners would never agree to that
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Pretty much, yea. But I know where this is going, the argument as to whether the post-season is a crapshoot or whether it depends on if your team is built for the post-season and that really isn't the point here. The Yankees have succeeded just as much as the Twins in this decade and there are enough examples that can be provided by Selig about small-market teams reloading with their own prospects to fight any argument about whether there should be a salary cap in baseball. Personally, I would love a salary cap. I love watching how GMs creatively manuever through a cap in every other sport every off-season.
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Curt moved on in the sense that he doesn't have an affiliation with either organization anymore
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Selig will argue that there is as much parity in baseball as there is in any sport so there doesn't need to be a system to control how much the Yankees spend but deep down, he wants to give the Yankees every advantage to succeed because the Yankees doing well on the field is good for baseball in general in a money-making sense. But succeeding in baseball is still about developing a farm system that can consistently feed your major league team, not spending ridiculous amounts in free agency. Face it, that strategy has yet to work for the Yankees.
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A-Rod doesn't condone them either but he used
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It's not really big news cause it isn't the first time he's called for one before. In one sense, I agree he should be calling for it cause his franchise does have deep pockets and thus, it has a bigger impact that if say the Pirates kept calling for a cap. In another sense though, it sounds kinda petty cause he's a direct rival to the Yankees.
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I guess the AJC report was premature cause Griffey is going back to the Mariners for 1/2+incentives