A Boy Named Seo

="DocTee"]Marlins trade closer Kevin Gregg (29 saves) to Cubs....Kerry Wood FA eligible at midnight. Their entire team payroll in '08 was $22.65M and they've gotten rid of these dudes, all arbitration eligible: DUDE, '08 SALARY Gregg, $2.5M Olsen, $405,000 Willingham, $405,000 Jacobs, $395,000 Wonder if they could end up with a payroll under $20M?

="seawolf17":20raxvdr]I'm surprised it doesn't start playing a midi file as soon as you open the page. Hey, BBWAA, 1997 called and they want their cutting-edge Web design back.[/quote:20raxvdr] Hilarious. Nymr83 Nov 12 2008 02:29 PM ="Benjamin Grimm":2r8jsv3a]Dale Sveum got a vote? For managing 13 games?[/quote:2r8jsv3a] Palmiero. Gold Glove. These guys just shouldn't have ballots. OlerudOwned Nov 12 2008 10:26 PM Give them a break, they just moved the thing off of geocities. Frayed Knot Nov 13 2008 01:08 PM ="Nymr83":340zi3t0]="Benjamin Grimm":340zi3t0]Dale Sveum got a vote? For managing 13 games?[/quote:340zi3t0] Palmiero. Gold Glove. These guys just shouldn't have ballots.[/quote:340zi3t0] Except that gold gloves are a coaches & managers ballot. Can't blame the writers for those. Edgy DC Nov 13 2008 01:21 PM Don't knock him off that high horse. It's a long way down. soupcan Nov 13 2008 01:59 PM Oh, snap.

Deep In the Gap... Going Hard Into Third... Warm-Up Tosses... Fisted Up the Middle... I can go on all night. That was not a title. That was just me saying I can go on all night.

"Taking all the Way: From Playmates to Gay-Gate, the Story of Mike Piazza, Sex, and Baseball". The title's kind of a mouthful. Pun intended.

I think they're all the same, but I haven't been drinkin' yet today.

John Quincy Adams.

Yeah, I remember that, too. Locks of Love[/url:2k8axono]is the charity. I think he had a family member taken by cancer.

I'm in love with their blog and how they love American action films with Will Smith and the Rock and all that, but the thing practically reads like a joke. ]we are now at the point where we can understand very much when people speak. We are even learning some slang talk. like the other day one of the players on USC team saw another player eating and he said, �What are you cracking on DAWG.� In America that means what are you eating my friend. Friends call each other DAWG here. Very weird.

That blog is the funniest shit ever. I'd never miss these guys' show if they get one. ]The American Football players are so big and have such huge muscles you would not even believe it. Each time they hit each other we are told it is like being in a car accident. These men hit each other many times per match. praise Allah that we have won a baseball contest and a not a football one. i don�t think we could even take a hitting once.

I get that. Sometimes the audience laughter made it seem like a joke at first, but I think their laughter was kinda joyful, too. Seeing old people sing Sonic Youth is funny, but it also seemed to make everyone feel good - the singers, the audience, and the director. That guy does have his faults, for sure, but he no doubt genuinely cares about the members of the choir. It made me feel good, so I liked it.

="soupcan"] Those things remind me of these things:

Fletch F. Fletch.

Boo.

Seawolf, you're my little buttercup. My vote makes it 2-15. The comeback is on.

Rogers was either going with the popular, but controversial Lucky Day/El Guapo definition of "infamous", or he's just gettin' all Chipper J. Jeets[/url:1drkl6im] on us.

"Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?" Better Off Dead, all the way.

Fletch.

Peavy "hates New York" sez some guy who works for some team. ] Mets, Yankees not likely to get Peavy BY KEN DAVIDOFF | ken.davidoff@newsday.com October 20, 2008 Neither the Mets nor the Yankees appear likely to pull off a trade for Padres ace Jake Peavy. It appears increasingly likely that the Padres will trade Jake Peavy. But neither the Yankees nor the Mets rank among the favorites to land the 2007 National League Cy Young Award winner. Peavy, armed with a no-trade clause, already has indicated to the Padres the teams to which he would accept a trade, agent Barry Axelrod told Newsday yesterday. He has a full no-trade clause and five years and $81 million left on his contract, assuming he insists that his new club pick up the $22-million team option for 2013. "Jake strongly prefers the National League, and it would take major enticement to get him to agree to go to any American League club," Axelrod e-mailed. "He has obviously had a lot of success in the NL and feels very comfortable there. Also, he is a pretty good hitter, and he views that as an advantage. "We have not been approached on any specific team, but have given the Padres an idea of the teams to which Jake would consider going. They are definitely being proactive on this and seem to really want to make it happen." The Braves, Cardinals and Brewers are believed to be among the teams that both possess the young talent necessary to land Peavy, 27, and serve as appealing locales to the pitcher. He told the Houston Chronicle that he would approve a deal to the Astros to play with friend Roy Oswalt. But the Astros don't appear to have a strong enough farm system to pull off a Peavy deal. The Padres think they could find a match with the Yankees in a Peavy trade, but Peavy's de facto exclusion of the AL takes the Yankees out of the equation, focusing them on free-agent targets such as CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe as they attempt to improve their rotation. The Mets aren't a safe bet because a) they probably lack the young talent necessary, and one official from another team said this past week that Peavy, who was born and still lives in Alabama, "hates" New York anyway. Axelrod, who lives in San Diego and is friendly with Padres general manager Kevin Towers, told Newsday on Oct. 3 that he thought the Padres would retain Peavy for the 2009 season. He now is less optimistic about that. Staff writer Kat O'Brien contributed to this story.

Ken Rosenthal guesses at stuff. ]Mets. Definite interest on the club's part; the question, as with the Yankees, is whether Peavy would be willing to play in New York. The Mets could offer lefty Jon Niese or righty Robert Parnell, and the Padres no doubt would want Daniel Murphy, an impressive hitter who is defensively challenged. It'd take more than that. Wouldn't it?

I like that the Rays dog piled the hell out of one another instead of jumping in a circle like dorks. A+ celebration.

What's the green leaf for on the upper deck?

smg58 wrote: I'll be surprised if Peavy gets dealt before a few of the high-profile free agent pitchers sign. He's not the best pitcher on the market as long as C. C. is out there. And the durability issues that would apply to Sheets or A. J. Burnett apply to him as well. He's worth looking into, but I'd get a read on the free agent market before raiding the farm system again. Peavy's had 200+ innings and 30+ starts three of the last 4 years (173 IP and 27 starts last year). He's way more durable than either of those two, sez me. Given his age, his already in-place contract, and his awesomeness, I'd make every effort to get him.

I didn't know DePo had a blog. A cool one, too.

San Diego UT: ] �I would say our preference is pitching,� Towers said. �Probably next, it would be middle of the infield. Pitching more than anything. If we moved Jake, we'd look for controllable pitchers, preferably starters in a significant enough package to where some are major league ready and some are close to being major league ready. �It's got to be something we're excited about short term and longer term that makes us better, and I'd say pitching is our primary focus. If we move Jake, we're down to (starting pitchers) Chris Young and Cha Seung Baek. We've got a lot of good young positional players. �We're looking at pitching more than anything.� I'm not sure what he's getting at, but I think he wants pitching. Pelfrey, Niese, and Wilmer Flores.

Centerfield wrote: 2. Having no idea what is value was: There were GM's who lamented the deal afterwards saying "I wish I knew Kazmir was available." It is grossly incompetent to move your best prospect without first calling everyone and seeing what they have to offer. Hell, the least they could have done was leak it to see what came back. They leaked everything else, why not do it with something that could help you. Like Ben Grimm said, almost everyone knew how dumb this was besides the guys in charge. It's incompetence at almost an incomprehensible level. I don't remember much of anything anymore, but I do remember being at my bro's in NM and reading the rumors fly on the interwebs hours before the deadline hit. I do remember reading Kazmir's name thrown around, probably for Zambrano, but remember not at all taking it seriously, chalking up to WATP-type rumors, and being floored when it actually happened. Somebody leaked something.