who sources expect to be skeptical of separating from their families for an indefinite amount of time—perhaps as long as 4 1/2 months
scoop!
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
ACTUAL HOT STOVE CONTENT: puig to the braves
― na (NA), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
Royals acquire OF Franchy Cordero and pitcher Ronald Bolanos from Padres for pitcher Tim Hill— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 17, 2020
― na (NA), Friday, 17 July 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
#Rockies have informed OF Matt Kemp, UTL Chris Owings and RHP Daniel Bard -- who last pitched for the #RedSox in '13 -- that they have made the 2020 Opening Day roster, GM Jeff Bridich said.— Thomas Harding (@harding_at_mlb) July 17, 2020
Nice to see Daniel Bard back at it after 7 years out
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 17 July 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
crazy!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 17 July 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
Saw bard in a late September Nyy/Bos game during his rookie season and he was incredible
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 18 July 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
betts extension with dodgers rumored to be 13 years at $380+ million
― na (NA), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
! are there even gonna be people in 13 years?
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
He’s really good and all, but that will pay him until he’s 40! How’s that Albert Pujols contract working out??
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
i am . . . pretty surprised. given the financial losses this season and uncertainty about the future, i didn't think anyone would offer him anywhere near that. (also i wonder what sort of pandemic clauses now figure in new contracts)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
How’s that Albert Pujols contract working out??
to be fair, betts is five yrs younger than pujols was. though i do appreciate this from espn's sam miller today:
As good as he is, and even as relatively young (27) as he is, he's quite likely already entered his (graceful, gradual) decline, as most players in the majors are.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
(and as a red sox fan, if you had given me the choice of paying betts $30m/yr for the last five years of that contract knowing he was going to be dead weight versus paying nathan eovaldi $17m/yr for the next three years, i'd choose betts 100 times out of 100)
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
Mookie Betts Dodgers deal is official: 365M extension, 12 years, deferrals.— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 22, 2020
― na (NA), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
jeez
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Guess he’s not coming back to Boston huh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:07 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I wonder how much the Angels recouped with Albert being a playing legend, sometimes a franchise just want to sell jerseys too. I don’t think the exec. calculations are only based on WAR and on field results.
In any case Mookie is as close a dunk as you’ll get in baseball.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
also, mookie makes the dodgers' bowling team instantly better.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
so mad about mookieon the other hand, my kids could benefit from a sip or two from the well of bitter disappointment that has watered the tree of historical red sox fandom
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
I had a feeling Betts just didn’t want to stay in Boston. His excuse about testing free agency I guess was either just that, or the dump truck full of money he just got made him forget about all that.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
also worst fans and worst media and super racist city, but ASIDE FROM THAT.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
the red sox made it crystal clear they weren't go to offer him anywhere near the money or years he wanted. they never gave him the chance to decide whether he wanted to stay or not. i hate them for that.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
yeah.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
Deal includes $65M signing bonus, salaries of $17.5M, $17.5M, $20M, $25M, $25M, $25M, $25M, $30M, $30M, $30M, $27.5M, $27.5M. Total of $115M deferred. By contrast, PA values Gerrit Cole’s deal at straight $324M (9 x $36M) because contract does not include deferrals. https://t.co/bqWLUZh1Kt— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 23, 2020
about a 1/3 of his contract is deferred, so not quite the $365M it seemed to be. you got screwed, Mookie!
lol he is wealthier than many countries now
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
the real question is whether his deferrals are over before bobby bonilla's
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
i guess the sox did offer 10 years at 300M? when you compare to bryce harper or trout of course that looks pretty low.
i suspect jbj will be gone soon as well. the whole thing makes me sad. i remember going to see them, and noticing for the first time that if jbj made the last out of the inning, he had a thing with mookie where, as they were both running back to the dugout, he'd throw it - a very long throw - to mookie, who'd catch it over his shoulder like a wide receiver.
there's so much to hate about boston now, and those guys were one of the last things that made me feel like - 'we're the good guys'.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
If the Sox offered all that money undeferred, it might be worth more than his LA extension?
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
tbf . . . jbj is already 30 and his defense won't be able to carry him much longer. and they have at least extended bogaerts (for cheap)
but yeah
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
i would rather live in LA
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
I may run past Fenway Park (it’s 2 miles from me) when the Mets are playing in a week or so to check out the atmosphere, but otherwise looking forward to a Boston team tanking for the first time in awhile.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
turn the stove off and put on the AC
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
Foltynewicz DFA'd
― na (NA), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
We have signed RHP Matt Harvey to a minor league contract. #Royals— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) July 28, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
mets to sign bruce maxwell
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
jarrod dyson to white sox for international $$
taijuan walker to blue jays
― na (NA), Friday, 28 August 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Jays also traded for human refrigerator, Dan Vogelbach
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
that made me think of refrigerator perry. jeez, that guy has a really sad "personal life" section on wikipedia. :(
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
siri, tell me about the personal life of another public figure
Well, now I’m sad.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 29 August 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
rick renteria fired as white sox manager - not sure why since it felt like they overperformed or at least met expectations this season
― na (NA), Monday, 12 October 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
that is weird
what team dares hire aj hinch/alex cora
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 October 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
they fired don cooper too
― na (NA), Monday, 12 October 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
i have no particular opinion on how good a manager rick renteria is, but the way front offices value field managers is just bizarre
if you get hired to manage shitty teams -- which is usually where the openings are! -- you apparently get pegged as a guy who can only manage shitty teams
also ~curious~ which managers get multiple chances and which are never heard from again, e.g. gabe kapler vs. bo porter or willie randolph
also, lol
Huh pic.twitter.com/olaxPlvrll— B-Mad (@brianm731) October 12, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
i mean joe torre was a terrible manager for three different teams before lucking into being hired by a rich juggernaut in 1996. even then he was notorious for killing relievers (where are u now, scott proctor) although i give him credit for keeping all the egos more or less in check
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
wtf
Can confirm Angels granted White Sox permission to interview Tony La Russa for managerial opening, as @BNightengale said. I don’t know if he has desire to manage again, but he was apparently very invested/involved as a special advisor this year. Still seemingly has that itch.— Alden Gonzalez (@Alden_Gonzalez) October 14, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
please no
― na (NA), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
he would be a fun new role model for the young, exciting team they have
so much fun in the clubhouse
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
make abreu player-manager imo
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
LaRussa would ragequit once he finds out about the "Relievers must face 3 batters" rule.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
he'd be right to it's dumb
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link