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  1. fxkatt
    Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking (too big an advantage to the already advantaged), but I wasn't 100% sure... I wonder if this $$ falls under the category of dead money or does it have a name all its own. (google got me nowhere) To me, it's plain old dead money.
  2. fxkatt
    I assume this is a 6:40 start. A little peculiar.
  3. fxkatt
    What about salary paid a player traded to another team as in we trade pitcher X and pay 60% of his salary to his new team. Is this part of the cap or just an owner loss. I assume it counts against the cap, but not totally sure. (I can't google this properly to find the answer)
  4. fxkatt
    Numbers often lie. That is, I would trade all our relievers for all of the Yanks relievers in a flash. But I would not trade all our starters for theirs---although this would not be in a flash, given Sale and Price.
  5. fxkatt
    Oakland 7 tough games left: 3 on road vs NYY, and 4 on road vs Houston... all the others are winnable games for them... very favorable at the end. They should be tough to dislodge from their current position. And we know how Cleveland plays the game.
  6. fxkatt
    I've always expected the possibility of a TB collapse, but it's another story with Oakland and Cleveland--and we have to bounce one of these two. I don't know the A's remaining schedule, but a lot will depend on that, I guess too. Watching Shane Green perform these past two nights, I wonder if we made any serious attempt to get him at the deadline. He sure seems to be helping the Braves.
  7. fxkatt
    Nope. A's lead, and Cleveland won. As of moment, we can only gain on TB.
  8. fxkatt
    Stephen Colbert is the only thing I watch at night (1st 17 minutes of it) but it's re-run week... dot dot dot
  9. fxkatt
    Well we're up 3-0. But the real goal is to keep the losses at 61 since both TB and Cleveland have won and Oakland, by some strange MLB fate, has the day off--yes, on Friday.
  10. fxkatt
    Except in the dog days of summer.
  11. fxkatt
    Imagine Tom Brady or any much lesser athlete going to Dental School after retiring? And according to my dentist, Gentleman Jim was one of the most "likable students" he said he looked funny hovering over patients because of his height.
  12. fxkatt
    Remember Jim Lonborg?? He had a vg career, which started in Boston. I think he had close to 300 ks and 24 wins in one season early in his career; then suffered a ski injury and was never quite the same, but still pitched for about 10 years or so. Anyway, I bring him up because my dentist told me that Jim was a classmate in Dental School. Yup, after retiring, he studied dentistry, and according to my dentist was still practicing as of a few years ago. Anyone somewhere in NE need a good old dentist.
  13. fxkatt
    A long time ago, they called it "the country club."
  14. fxkatt
    Right now, all the contending teams in the AL are losing together. So often, this happens during races. It's as if no team wants it when you wd think they wd want it the most. So, all's we got to do is buck this trend, and hopefully not start a new all-teams-win track.
  15. fxkatt
    I meant more team dead money... not based JD's season this year, but on the general drift of the team. As in, he gets injured in spring training or some such.. was referring to the word "Gifted" in the contract description.
  16. fxkatt
    I hope JD's opt-in doesn't turn out to be one more GIFT. May he play out the full season with eyes on either his next contract or a lower payout here.
  17. fxkatt
    Pry him loose with a 10 year contract... as long as it's not part of any salary cap, I'm with it.
  18. fxkatt
    Given all the dead money attached to this team, the next GM will be a goner too, unless he can build a winner with a 110 mill worth of salaries.
  19. fxkatt
    He's the opposite of Tom Seaver, who was all leg-powered. It's hard to imagine Sale, unfortunately, adjusting the way Tanaka and other crafty pitchers have. But I could be wrong. Besides, he may develop his own artfulness that looks nothing like earlier age-adjusted pitchers. As to his skinniness, there was Mariano Rivera, but of course he was a one-inning guy with power and finesse. 30 million a year for BP guy? Maybe he can develop a knuckle ball, and then even pitch beyond his contract (ha)
  20. fxkatt
    Yes, he has "dodged" TJ for now. Worse case scenario is that he delays TJ and is therefore out longer.
  21. fxkatt
    Much of what we can do, by way of surprise, depends on our opponents competitiveness in these last 5 weeks or so. The Yanks, unfortunately will be fighting for best AL record, and TB will be hungrier than ever. Our time to make a move is in August... esp out in the sleepy west.
  22. fxkatt
    It's not only that many on this forum disliked the Sale contract, but that many baseball writers and other experts were pretty shocked by it. I said long before it that 3 years at 75 mill wd be my offer. But if we had signed no extension, that would have been fine with me. My sense was that the 5-man rotation is too much work for him--at some point each season he would break down. (the only out to this wd be if he found a new pitching style, which he still might do)
  23. fxkatt
    Tampa Bay has a 54 million payroll. I doubt Oakland's is much higher, and both compete almost every year. And TB has gone most of this season with only two starting pitchers.
  24. fxkatt
    Unless this has just come down... no news till Mon-Tues on Sale's injury/condition. But it sure doesn't sound promising.
  25. fxkatt
    Sale the main reason for the upsurge.. now what
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