User Comments, Suggestions, or Complaints | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Advertising
Buy MLB playoff tickets, plus 2011 World Series, 2011 ALCS tickets and NLCS game tickets. We also have Texas Rangers playoff schedule, tickets to Red Sox games and Yankees game tickets. Plus, buy Phillies baseball tickets, Tigers playoff tickets and the biggies like ALDS baseball tickets and 2011 NLDS tickets. |
Demarini, Easton and TPX Baseball Bats
|
AllianceTickets.com has cheap MLB Tickets. Get all your Colorado Rockies Tickets, Seattle Mariners Tickets, San Francisco Giants Tickets and all your favorite baseball tickets here. We also carry cheap Denver Broncos Tickets, Seattle Seahawks Tickets and Denver Nuggets Tickets. |
Page rendered in 1.0850 seconds
40 querie(s) executed
Reader Comments and Retorts
Go to end of page
Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.
EDIT: in that Bradley has the greatest potential
Couldn't Chicago have deferred some of this money to keep DeRosa around for another season?
Of course, they could have just not signed Aaron Miles.
I believe Kevin Towers went on the record after the Marquis and DeRosa trades as doubting anything would happen with Peavy and the Cubs.
I don't think anyone knows. I think the bigger obstacle to that happening now is that Moorad has agreed to sell the team. That kinda flew under the radar, but if it goes through, I could see the new owner holding on to Peavy (considering the only reason he was on the block in the first place, supposedly, was because Moorad's divorce).
Zell had as much reason as any owner ever to sell the Cubs rapidly and it's dragged on for this long. How could the Padres be done before opening day? I don't think this changes things from San Diego's perspective.
The legal troubles of Brian Giles, however, make him a lot harder to trade. San Diego's need to move Peavy's salary has increased if anything.
The Cubs could have also told Towers they don't want to make the deal through the press this time.
True, that.
Well, the new owner has already been indentified, which is much further along than the Cubs sale. The new owner could always say he wants Peavy included on the team. My two cents speculation, that's all.
Sorry, I keep getting Moores and Moorad's names mixed up.
The sale of this f***ing team will go down when I say it will f***ing go down.
Signed, your esteemed governor.
No more Howry or Marquis to kick around. (or McGahee, in SSR's case.)
I think the guy in this that is going to look like an idiot is Sam Zell, and I'm pissed that this jackassery is closing an already tight window with which the Cubs have to win a title with this team.
He already does. I'm sure he's cost himself millions of dollars not getting this deal done before the economy completely nosedived.
Have they been identified as the new owners? I know Moorad's statement was that he was leaving to pursue an opportunity but I guess that's pretty ambiguous.
Sorry, I keep getting Moores and Moorad's names mixed up.
You are forgiven so long as Dudley Moore and Sir Thomas More stay out of the discussion.
Yes:
snip
Wait till you see him at shortstop.
Wow. That's surprising.
Is San Diego the team with the weird requirement that they cannot be sold at a profit?
I don't know what requirement you're talking about, but I've never heard of anything like that involving the Padres.
Royals.
Yeah, the Cubs and Brewers both making the playoffs screwed that up.
And any profits from the sale have to be donated to charity.
It was Ewing Kauffman's idea.
JV, the one justification I've heard is that the Royals have so much trouble attracting players, and they don't have enough money to ridiculously overpay, so they get FAs that nobody wants, like Farnsworth or Jose Guillen. I don't know whether it's true, but it would at least explain those signings.
I don't know that it'd excuse them, though. They have only themselves to blame if they're such a sorry destination for FAs.
I have read on this site that the total amount of contracts for a baseball team can be depreciated over five years after the purchase of the franchise. Is this true? And wouldn't that tax rule favor building up the payroll before a sale?
It is my understanding that the depreciation rule still applies but I have heard some grumblings over the last few years about changing that. It may have changed and I might have missed it, but my current understanding is that its still there.
300
The rule was that half the purchase price of the team could be counted as buying the player assets, and that could be depreciated. Actual payroll/contract commitments weren't considered.
And since the start of 2008 has played exactly 20 games in the field with none in CF.
Granted, the scapegoat thing seems to be less of a problem with Piniella at the helm.
I believe most of the hold up has been over the structure of the deals which were not favorable to the Trib or to their tax problems.
Granted, the scapegoat thing seems to be less of a problem with Piniella at the helm.
I think Lou, Z, and Milton Bradley will be an amazing reality television show. Didn't Reed Johnson have some malcontent baggage too?
From where? He was very highly thought of in Toronto. The organization didn't cut him because of any personality issues - they cut him because they didn't think he was healthy after his back surgery. He was actually a fan favorite, and the Jays went out of their way to wish him well, and hope that things worked out for him.
I'm ok with it, but I want it on the record that I anticipate it to mirror the Alou experience.
Key Steps to An "Alou-Experience"
1. Successful but injury-prone veteran signs a deal
2. Unexpectedly, the player's best year with the Cubs is the third year of the deal, and the worst year is the first year.
3. In 2011, it is revealed that Milton Bradley's knees have not acted up since coming off the DL in Aug, 2009 because Moises Alou is peeing on them twice a week.
Dayton Moore's getting in touch with his inner Lincoln Park Trixie.
Ryan, I honestly didn't know. I thought there issues surrounding him, but my booze addled memory sometimes has lapses. I've been very happy with the Reed Johnson experience.
Or some other candidate for that title, I don't know much about reputed personalities.
As were most Toronto fans. It's possible that you may have blurred Reed Johnson in with some of the slightly less friendly departures from Toronto over the last couple seasons - Hillenbrand, Thomas, Royce Clayton, Greg Zaun, and assorted others (not all of whom are at fault for the nasty departures) - as well as JP's fine work in public relations in wooing such potential free agents as Gil Meche and Adam Dunn.
It's pretty close between him and Jacque Jones.
EDIT: I believe Ozzie Guillen was the perpetrator and not the victim of the hidden ball trick twice in one series.
Sure. The part of my post comparing him to other CFs was just an aside.
I guess I'm just thinking of when the A's acquired Bradley, so the discussion was fueled a lot by feelings on Beane. Anyway, a lot of people talked about Bradley's unimpressive career numbers; I just felt like pointing out that, when you look at his prime as opposed to his early years, he's really been very productive.
I know about the injury questions, obviously, which impact both his expected playing time, and his ability to play CF (and some interaction thereof, as playing in the OF full-time may cost him PT vs. DHing).
Maybe James was choosing his words carefully. A hidden ball trick doesn't "work" without someone getting picked off, so perhaps getting picked off was Ozzie's contribution to "making it work" on those two occasions.
Also, I swear, every time somebody stole 2nd base, Ozzie would fake that the throw went into CF. Every time. I don't think it ever worked.
You must be Registered and Logged In to post comments.
<< Back to main