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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The deal is contingent on Santana cutting a long-term deal with the Mets — they have a 48-72 hour window to do that. Obviously that will happen, even if Santana asks for a billion jillion shmillion dollars. What, the Mets are going to hold a press conference to announce that they have to send Santana BACK TO THE TWINS? I don’t think so. That press conference would be followed by an announcement that the Mets will be playing next year’s games at the bottom of the East River.
The first person who texted me — the one who actually told me about the deal — is a friend of mine who is a scout. He HATED this deal for the Twins. “What in the hell are they doing?” he wrote, though he can’t really spell, at least on a phone, so it came out more like “Wat in the hel r they doooing?” His big problem is that he’s seen Gomez, the centerpiece of the deal, and doesn’t like him at all. Gomez is a 22-year-old outfielder a whole lot of speed and a body that projects powers. That part sounds good. But my friend thinks he had no plate discipline, swings and misses a lot and, like a lot of those toolsy guys, won’t ever hit enough — reminds me a lot of an old Royals prospect who was, coincidentally, also a Gomez, Alexis Gomez. Had lots of tools. And he might be a carpenter now.
and you were a Nady…
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I just had an "OZ" flashback - well done sir.
Give it to 'im Hardin fast.
DrMem, good one.
Yes...Bobby, Darin.
Or if Santana blows out his elbow and turns into Shawn Estes...
Then he'll end up in Cincinatti.
Score!
Repoz, you are kidding about your boys names, aren't you?
I'm not impressed by the big counting stats Pittsburgh puts up. 95% of its misspelling are the same--dropping a letter (and a silent H at that). To really gauge which city gives people the most problems, we need a metric that accounts for the number of wrong permutations. Cincinnati's multiple t's, n's and other n's and all the combinations thereof probably put it near the top. Albequirky is probably right up there too.
That is a tough one. Where would the Post Office get data on how people spell addresses? Hmmm...
Nope, I'm stumped.
Actually, the most common misspelling is "CrappyMcCrapTown".
J/k, Pittsburgh is fine, my wife is from there, took me ten years to get her to say "rubber band" and not "gum band" but we're all right now.
Of course...actually it's Cass, Otto.
Clearly.
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