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These two teams made some great trading deadline acquisitions: Tigers: Delmon Young and Doug Fister Rangers: Mike Adams, Koji Uehara, and Michael Gonzalez That's what you do to try to put your team over the top.

There's nothing wrong with making predictions. They were making them on the pre-game. AJ went with the Tigers and Eric Karros went with the Rangers.

I like your list. I don't know much about Dave Martinez, except that he was a pretty heady ballplayer.

What about Duncan? He seems to perform magic on pitchers. He has turned many bags of trash pitchers into productive starters, and we have lots of bags of trash.

Plus, I really don't want LaRussa. It's Duncan that I want.

It's a wish list.

Wish list for 2012: Manager: Tony La Russa Pitching Coach: Dave Duncan Starting Pitcher: C.J. Wilson

Move him off third base. He definitely cost us a few games this season and last season.

He didn't want to sacrifice the future. Instead he opted to sacrifice the present for a nonexistent future. Theo will not be here when his draftees start making All Star teams.

Dombrowski eats Theo's lunch too.

Fister and Delmon Young were two huge pickups at the trading deadline.

You make some very good points. People who didn't see the game in the 50's or 60's just don't understand how different the game has become. Mantle was brute of a guy, but if you watched film of Yankee games back when he played you would see that Mantle didn't dig in like today's hitters. He swung harder than anyone and he would corkscrew himself into the ground on a swing and miss, but he was light on his feet in the box. They all were on their toes in the batters box. They had to be or the pitch would come under their chins. One day a few years ago, I was listening to that Bozo, Chris Mad Dog Russo criticize the quality of play he had observed watching a film of the '52 World Series. He said that the defense was not that crisp and that even the star players bailed out on breaking pitchers. I called his show and mentioned that the infields were real dirt back then, not the multi million dollar composite material in today's infields. They actually had an occasional pebble. Those infields were not tended to by PHD's. The fielder's also had smaller gloves. As to the bailing out comment, I had to remind him that they were playing day games and they weren't wearing helmets. They stayed on their toes mindful that they could get one off the old noggin if they had dug in. Today's players don't know how to get out of the way of a pitch. Those old timers knew how to avoid getting hit. Yaz swung as hard as anyone, but a pitcher couldn't hit him in the head. He said that he would move his head forward and duck under a pitch that was thrown behind his ear. Today's players dive into the pitch so early that they can't get out of the way if the pitch is thrown at them.

A lot of us give Doji crap at times when he touts some kid at A ball to be a star. I gave him guff rightly so in 2010 when he wanted to DFA Ortiz and bring up Daniel Nava. But when he is right you have to give him his due. The Red Sox should have picked up Napoli when Doji was touting him. I thought it was an interesting idea at the time. The Rangers got him and he has been a wrecking ball against lefties and he has 30 HRs in 113 games. His catching has improved to the point where he isn't that bad. He would have been a much better choice than Salty. Doji was right about the guy.

He's good.

Detroit is going to miss Delmon Young against the Ranger lefties.

Called it August 5th. Jacko sig'd it for 2 months. He dropped the sig 2 days after the Skanks got eliminated. That's not fair. I had put myself out there with 2 months to go. He would have kept that sig until next September if the Yanks had made the ALCS.

If they fire the idiot third base coach, we should have a lot less runners thrown out. I haven't heard that Bogar has been fired.

Based on the embarrassment that Theo caused me after changing my custom user title to "Theo Channels Me," I have changed it to something more appropriate. Theo's problem was that he didn't channel me enough.

Abraham on the RBI incident with Ortiz:

Charrington will get the job as interim would be my guess. There were a lot of things that JH did not like about the way the organization was being run. He seems pissed about the conditioning programs and the injuries. Wasn't that also Theo's responsibility. He mentioned not making the playoffs in 3 of the last 6 years. He is not a happy camper.

I have heard this before, but what is not legitimate about it? Are they doing some funny business with ticket brokers and scalpers?

A very interesting quote from John Henry: Edit: It looks like he thinks like I do--- that these cycles play out. Nine years as GM is a lot. Unlike JH, I never questioned Theo's sanity.