They do have a great group of starting pitchers that are fun to watch. It is 180 degrees from our rotation. It also is very reminiscent of the Mets late 60's staff.
Big Papi did state this week that no one is goingto care if his heelblows out if they keep getting their asses kicked. That was a surprisingly negative comment from Ortiz.
The discussion over whether the Red Sox should have moved on from Buch raged at the time. A lot of us thought it was a no-brainer to go in a different direction.
Four or five teams were scouting Hill yesterday. He is not going to be cheap. He would have been very cheap if the Sox had moved on from Buch by trading him.
When I heard that Farrell had cancer, my first thought was that it was very sad, but my second thought was that they probably would not fire him because of the optics.
You are a hoarder. Hoarders die amongst the garbage they have accumulated and their bodies don't get found until they are in a very advanced stage of very stinky decomposition. I'll make the trade.
Or not squaring up for it. Ballplayers and their representatives are not real good at tax compliance. Some have even gone to jail. Jerry Koosman is the last one that I can remember.
The Mariners are about to complete a sweep of the O's so we will have managed to pick up 2 games in the standings over the weekend despite yesterday's embarrassing debacle.
What about the income tax consequences to the players? If player B gets $300 k of which $250 k is intended for player A, how would that work? Here there would be assignment of income issues. I guess if those issues don't exist in a flat tax environment.
And he predictably leaves a big costly hole at the top of your rotation for the stretch run. We bemoan how costly it is to find a top of the rotation pitcher midseason, yet Buch leaves us with that hole year in and year out.
CP176 has been telling us about Marco H since the middle of last season. I had an eye out for him during spring training. He has a good set of tools and he is well polished.