Duck-Billed Catechist

Actually, now Tom Hicks is off the hook for signing the worst contract in Baseball History.

 

A 7-year contract for a 32 year old player? Are you shitting me?

It's similar to the Cubs' 8-year deal for a 31-year-old Soriano.

Dang. They also sound optimistic about resigning Konerko.

Wally Backman is still in baseball?

Why did the Dolphins choose not to run, like, at all?

Our long national nightmare is over.

Yeah in the end he got a good gig, but he didn't want to leave and wasn't happy with the way it went down. Farmer wanted to do play by play and kind of forced the issue.

 

Yeah I really thought the Jeter thing was a misprint when OilCan posted that. Wow.

Huh. I had no idea. That sounds like what happened to Tom Paciorek (except with Hawk in that case).

Baseballreference wins:

 

If you go to the website and click the "we can't believe it either" link, it takes you to a ranking of their "Runs Saved" stat that shows that Jeter cost his team more runs defensively than any other person who spent even an inning at SS in the American League. Go voters!

It probably should've been Alexei Ramirez, eh? Kind of funny, since he was statistically a very bad 2B. He always had the physical tools, but this year he seemed to have better concentration.

Yeah Rooney got fucked by Farmer.

Really? I thought he got his dream job with the Cardinals.

The A's have made a lot of strange moves during the last couple of years ($10M for Ben Sheets and the Matt Holliday debacle).

The Low Heat.

KCRW (LA) and KEXP (Seattle).

I always liked him. It's amazing to me that he's only 76. He looked like he was 80 when he was still managing.

People need drugs to get through the work day because they work in windowless offices with a bunch of jerks (everyone else).

Right. Mine has blue LEDs. Like the sky. Minus the LEDs.

That sounds like a terrible idea. Do you really do that?

It's kind of similar to SAD treatment (which is is more of a 45 degree angle than straight-on).

Anyway, filtered coffee in moderate amounts is shown to have a net health benefit in study after study. Carm down.

There's no way that the Marlins would consider trading Mike Stanton for any manager in the game.

Here's a BS article that 2bobs will appreciate:

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/deluca/2845568,CST-SPT-deluca29.article

Pot roast made out of the children of your enemies?

Does anyone think that they should eliminate the travel/off days? Then the strategy and roster utilization would be more similar to the regular season. On the other hand, the off days let the fans see more of the very best players.

The Twins happen to have lost a bunch of playoff games in a row, but it's silly to think that they'll never win a series in the near future. They probably need more front-line pitching, but that's their only real weakness.

Are any of the members red, though? Maybe the jim part is a metaphor.

I suggest listening to I'm A Wheel until your ears bleed.

I'm no surgeon, but severing a nerve to remove a cyst sounds like a little more than just a "less than perfect" outcome. If my livelihood was jeopardized by a mistake like that, I'd also be inclined to sue.

 

For the doctor's sake, I hope he explained that this was a possible complication of the surgery and Braden knew the risks going into the procedure.

He's alluding to Braden's perfect game.

But the fans deserve this. Right?

The fans deserve a swift kick in the pants.

Paper Airplane Pilots - The History of Flying got a fair amount of attention on VC. I suspect that these tiny record labels, like most record labels, are a thing of the past.

Just curious - who would you say was first?

I thought that Josh Johnson was having the best season before he got hurt.