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…if you’re looking to kill time before lunch, check out the following blog posts and articles from around the web…
At his blog for Newsday, Ken Davidoff writes, ‘Alex Rodriguez, you owe me a month of my life.’
…and lord knows he can afford it, ken…
Using a calculator, at Baseball Prospectus, Nate Silver breaks down how the Nationals new stadium will compare to RFK.
Lastly, at his blog, Dugout Central, Mike Pagliarulo offers a first-hand scouting report on free-agent RHP Carlos Silva, who he believes will sign a four-year, $32 million deal, though he should really be valued around $3 million per year.
i am getting tired of writing moderately long, but well thought out, posts with no swearing or anything even vaguely non-PC and having them not post. Some of my best work.
If MC or the site is trying to encourage regular posters to give up and move on, it is working.
As I have said, it’s not a perfect system. Typically, posts in queue eventually appear, it just takes a bit of time. So, you may write a comment that does not show up, but it eventually does.
The problem is that people treat the ‘comment section’ as a ‘running dialogue,’ and so when comments are held up and delayed in queue, it slows down the discussion.
Of course, for those who are simply posting a comment, it’s not that big of a deal.
If there was ever a player and organization that belonged together, it is A Rod and the Yankees.
My best hope (purely out of spite) is that the sper boys meddle around enough to cause trouble, and all the huge contracts and aging players cause a collapse.
1st key is A Rod acting his age, and decliniing With any luck, ‘07 was his last career year. A nice nagging sore hammy would be a start!
beyond that, their rotation could be a wing and a prayer (a washed up Mussian, Wang, and 3 rookies?) All pending more trades, of course. Losing Petit, if he doesn’t resign, will hurt.
They still have an old, slow team with poor D.
What does this have to do with the Mets? Absolutely nothing, but I can’t take the same silly trade proposal discussions anymore!
Oh, Omar should call Boras and ask if he can still drop a $300,000,000 offer on the table, and as soon as Boras comes running, leak it to the press.
Just for fun of course.
Trying again to see if it hits.
hey, the boss posted the link to Newsday, so it is a fair game topic!
Speak of the devil!
No idea what happened to the first version, or why this one showed up!
I would love to know what the logic used by the site is, given some of the stuff that makes it through.
I’m glad to see that A-Fraud and the Yankees, once again, take the high road…
Pagliarulo compares Silva to Arroyo… I would take that for our 4th starter.
I just cant believe that this plays out with Arod re-signing with the Yanks with his tail between his legs
Boras/Arod clearly needed the yanks back in the game to set the market. Otherwise no one else was going to make a reasonable bid
280 for 10 years is very reasonable. Fred and Omar should toss a 10 year 300M take it or leave it offer their way and see if there’s a bite.
Otherwise they are staring at an evil empire across the river with Arod and the bullets to land and sign Santana and another 5 + years of being second class citizens.
Matt, I have to hand it to you … your comment about Ken is perhaps the funniest thing you’ve said! LOL!
I liked the little bit of info on the new National’s park. It’s interesting to see how the stats of all the National’s as well as NL East players will rise due to the move. I think this will help Ryan Zimmerman greatly in terms of his numbers (especially fantasy). Add one or two home runs for the Mets players (Delgado-I think he’ll have a better 2008-/Beltran) who have had balls die in the huge outfield of RFK. I wonder if there is another statistical analysis on Citifield. I feel as though the statistics would be similar, but I think the new stadium faces more towards the wind. Meaning more deep fly balls will die, making it more of a pitchers park. That’s just what I think will happen, any info/comments on this would be great. I’m not a crazy stat guy, but they are fun to just play around with.