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Poor Nats fans, they finally get a team back in DC and it's doomed to suck for a while.
If the Brewers decide to trade Carlos Lee, that will also probably hurt/complicate the market for Soriano.
Hopefully for the Nats sake, Kasten will make sure Bowden doesn't overprice Soriano and miss the market.
Since I don't want to root for a team with an established and reasonably recent tradition of winning (it would feel like jumping into a book at chapter 25), and certain teams (ex: Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Colorado) have to be eliminated for chronic bad management, that leaves me with the following options:
Tampa Bay
Kansas City (if one believes that Moore will actually get a free hand)
Texas
Toronto
San Francisco (once Bonds leaves)
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
I'm leery of choosing Tampa, since they will always be handicapped playing in the back room with a tight chip limit, but I like what the new management is doing there. The post-Bonds Giants could be interesting, except that Sabean will be doing the rebuilding, and I can't stand his philosophy. Texas, Cinci, and Philly don't excite me.
Decisions, decisions...
Buy really low on the Cubs.
In terms of prospects, the D'backs and Devil Rays (or maybe, maybe the Royals) have the most to offer you.
If Dayton Moore can develop pitching in Kansas City like he was mainly responsible for in Atlanta, I would feel comfortable taking away the "maybe, maybe" before the Royals. I truly think that David Glass is a good owner, and has mentioned (and backed up his words) several times to increase funds/support for a winning team, much to the peril of Royals fans (re-signed Sweeney, signed Juan Gonzalez, Benito Santiago, Reggie Sanders, Mark Grudzielanek, Tony Graffanino, etc. to improve teams, but they often backfired... bad luck, and bad decisions by Allard Baird), which is made all the more easier by revenue sharing.
I'd go Royals, but I'm biased. Join the good side. Join the light side.
What the heck do you mean by deplorable demographics? Jerk.
But I'm talking about politics, which alas isn't so much a matter of intelligence as which side does the better job of brainwashing the populace.
I suppose there are universities in Cincinnati, though, so I could probably stand living there for a little while. Try southwestern Missouri for a while, where I went trick-or-treating in my early teens and half the "treats" I got were anti-gay pamphlets.
Those were tricks.
Buying low on the Cubs did cross my mind - you certainly couldn't call it "bandwagoning" at this stage - but that would really be a case of jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
And yes, Toronto and Tampa would both be leading, excellent options if not for the 600- and 800-pound gorillas residing in their division. If Tampa ever actually won anything, it would be all the more supremely enjoyable given the stacking of odds against them, but I don't think they'll manage it unless Roman Abramovich gets bored with soccer and moves to Florida.
I think I'll have to narrow down the list, perhaps to (Milwaukee, KC, Texas, Cincinnati), and pay closer attention to those teams through the rest of this season and the offseason. Then, make a choice, order MLB.TV, and enjoy. No sense in rushing, here... I want to treat this choice like a marriage, and take it seriously for a lifetime. No guarantee the team I choose won't end up like the Orioles, but you gotta take the risk to get the reward. I'm just happy that modern technology will allow me to make a free choice across the entire league, instead of being stuck with a (DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh) option set, as would have been true last century.
All hail the internet!
The last-place team in baseball's worst division welcomes you!
Given their farm system, their GM (who seems quite effective to me), and the pool of mediocrity in which they are swimming, I don't believe Arizona is going to be in last place for long. Unless the Dodgers spend their money more wisely this offseason, I fully expect the Diamondbacks to win the division next year, and possibly start an extended streak. But they're not my cup of tea. Picky, I know.
That division, collectively, is two games over .500 as of right now.
Yeah, but the leader of the division is just six games over .500 coming off a year in which that same team won the division with only 82 wins. I'd call it the worst division in baseball (although the AL West isn't much better).
look left and look right before you get your chow mein sandwich at peking palace
there's a bus comin'
i thought the soriano trade was the uber faux
and i couldn't have been more wrong
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