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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Don't worry about missing out on Cliff Lee, Yankee fans. The Mark Prior era begins!
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,396
    The Fixer wrote:
    This is off the top of my head, so I could be full of shit
    you are :mrgreen:
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    willingham to oakland. he would have been perfect for the phils
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Sox just signed Bobby Jenks. Looks like middle relief got a whole lot more expensive this year.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Question for you guys, since most of you know more about this stuff than I do:

    Let's say player X gets traded, and their old team must pick up a portion of their salary for the upcoming year. Does the old team simply write out a check for the amount to the new team, or does player X get two separate paychecks in the upcoming season, one from their old team and one from the new team.

    These types of trades happen all the time (especially with Red Sox shortstops), but listening to how the Phillies need to handle Joe Blanton, it got me thinking...
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Sox just signed Bobby Jenks. Looks like middle relief got a whole lot more expensive this year.

    if papelturd continues to regress jenks could be your closer. or bard, whose stuff is disgusting
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Question for you guys, since most of you know more about this stuff than I do:

    Let's say player X gets traded, and their old team must pick up a portion of their salary for the upcoming year. Does the old team simply write out a check for the amount to the new team, or does player X get two separate paychecks in the upcoming season, one from their old team and one from the new team.

    These types of trades happen all the time (especially with Red Sox shortstops), but listening to how the Phillies need to handle Joe Blanton, it got me thinking...

    I'm not positive, but I think the team just writes the other team a check. I remember reading about this when the astros kicked in 7 million of oswalts contract.

    I'm not 100% sure
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    I think it's a reasonable question because from a business standpoint, if the old team simply writes out a check for $7million immediately when the trade happens, that's a lot of potential interest their giving up to the new team in the time between the trade and when they need to start making payments.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,562
    I'll tell ya what, I like what the A's are doing.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    Ozzie may be the most entertaining human alive.

    http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?tcid= ... d&c_id=cws
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,562
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Ozzie may be the most entertaining human alive.

    http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?tcid= ... d&c_id=cws

    I hope this is exactly how the commercial airs.
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    That's too funny.

    You know what! I be tinking about this. I got the best gift for you for christmas. You can get me for christmas.

    So no input on my question the last page Cliffy? I thought you'd be the one to know the answer.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    That's too funny.

    You know what! I be tinking about this. I got the best gift for you for christmas. You can get me for christmas.

    So no input on my question the last page Cliffy? I thought you'd be the one to know the answer.

    Missed that. Was actually up in your hood all week and had little time to dick around. I think it depends on the situation and what the teams agree to. I know Arod is still not fully paid from the Rangers so he was getting two checks. If it is a smaller amount I bet they just write a check. I think it is something the teams probably negotiate. Not a fact but since Arod is still getting paid by Texas, I would imagine that's how it works.

    PS. Your airport sucks balls.
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    That's too funny.

    You know what! I be tinking about this. I got the best gift for you for christmas. You can get me for christmas.

    So no input on my question the last page Cliffy? I thought you'd be the one to know the answer.

    Missed that. Was actually up in your hood all week and had little time to dick around. I think it depends on the situation and what the teams agree to. I know Arod is still not fully paid from the Rangers so he was getting two checks. If it is a smaller amount I bet they just write a check. I think it is something the teams probably negotiate. Not a fact but since Arod is still getting paid by Texas, I would imagine that's how it works.

    PS. Your airport sucks balls.

    Boston and philly might be the two worst airports in the US. honorable mention to vegas and miami.

    I forgot about texas still paying Arod. Aren't the mets still paying bobby bonilla $1 million a year. haha, I love the mets
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Yeah Logan is crap. Never been to Philly. I've always thought the best airport is Denver. I stopped over there earlier this year on the way back from Seattle.

    It makes more sense from a management standpoint if the player receives two checks, that way there's not X million dollars going on the door for one team at one time. The other thing to remember too is that Texas has little to no income tax (same with Florida), whereas New York and Mass have high income taxes. This would complicate things when talking about BIG bucks changing hands.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,562
    I like what the Pad's are doing. Giants are such a fluke it's not even funny - Rox or Pads take that division this year.
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    edited December 2010
    greinke traded to milwaukee. I remember reading an article about greinke being overly talented and just getting bored at times with baseball because he is so dominant (this is how he came up with that 60 MPH curveball he throws at times). at one point he tried to talk KC into letting him DH on days where he didn't pitch. apparently he rips...I could see him hitting 5-10 bombs for the brewers.

    watch out for the royals in 2-3 years. their farm system is absolutely loaded
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Ozzie may be the most entertaining human alive.

    http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?tcid= ... d&c_id=cws

    only thing better would have been him wearing a santa hat or something.
    www.myspace.com
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    Brewers are all in. Pretty solid rotation. Should be able to take care of business in the central. If not, Greinke will be available again in about 7 months.
  • The Fixer
    The Fixer Posts: 12,837
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Brewers are all in. Pretty solid rotation. Should be able to take care of business in the central. If not, Greinke will be available again in about 7 months.

    I still think the reds are the team to beat there.

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