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I think it will be something low profile like a bullpen piece-- not a major bullpen piece.

I think it will be something low profile like a bullpen piece-- not a major bullpen piece.

This will be the first of two polls that I will post tonight.

There was no video on demand in clubhouses for players to study in Mantles day, so I don't know how he was going to study pitchers. If there had been video in the locker room, maybe he would have taken a peek while icing his legs.

Shame on him. You call the cops when you learn that a child is being sexually abused. You don't report it to your employer. Sorry Joe Pa, but you messed up huge and disgraced yourself and the University.

There are two groups-- those who have accurately and correctly assessed the situation and what needs to be done and those who have incorrectly assessed the situation and what needs to be done. There are those who are right and those who are wrong. It has nothing to do with optimism, pessimism etc.

As usual, you state the case more clearly and succinctly than I.

I thought the centerpiece of the VMart was Masterson. I just think that getting a couple of draft picks for a guy of Papelbon's caliber is not something I would ever celebrate. That's just my opinion.

Not a compensation pick.

I didn't see Masterson on that list. Isn't that who we traded for VMart?

Check the list of first round picks. It's not that impressive, with the exception of 2005.

Of course they weren't the worst team in the league and they did have plenty of talented players, but they also had one of the highest payrolls in baseball and they have the highest ticket prices in baseball. I can't buy 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs and 4 sodas plus bring my dog like I can in KC and some other MLB cities. No, I have to go for my lungs to get 2 tickets and often times the seats are not side by side. For all this investment by the fans and the team, the 2011 team managed to pull off the biggest September collapse in history. No small market team has done that. Taking into consideration the investment in the. 2011 team and the high expectationsn the resulting collapse made the season something we'd all rather forget-- a collosal failure. If you want to celebrate such miserable underperformance, good for you. Many others live in the real world and acknowledge that 2011 was disastrous. Proof that things really were bad is that the FO and coaching staff has been almost entirely replaced. That doesn't happen when you have had a successful season. It happens when there is a crisis precipated by failure.

Correction, Papelbon is a great closer, not just a very good closer. He's the best closer in team history. He's not Mo, but he did get to 200 saves faster than anyone including Mo. Anyone who thinks that letting Papelbon walk is a good idea doesn't have an adequate Appreciation of the stability he has brought to the 9th inning for the last 6 seasons.