Wow! I wonder when the Sox found out about it…we may have gotten Johan just in time.

In that case, Where is the best place to get a good look at the parade in october based on what anyone saw tuesday.

Somewhere in Minneapolis, Bill Smith has his head on his desk and is sobbing quietly.

Wow, so it is true.

Yeah, if was reported earlier in the off-season the Red Sox would’ve made a big push to get Johan.

I don’t know why they didn’t make a push for him anyway. The Sox had a great staff last year, but two fifths of it (Schilling and Wakefield) are old and missed significant time. And the young guys like Lester and Bucholz could be great, but you have no idea what they might give you over a full season.

Oh well. Their oversight is our gain, I guess.

He was probably just washing his truck.

It’s ok..

Maybe Tom Brady can pitch.

I heard he just became available.

I doubt they were counting on him for much, and it really doesn’t seem likely that they would have gone harder after Johan anyway.

They already have Beckett and Dice K to be their equivalent of Santana and Pedro, then the young guys after that (Maine/Perez?), with Wakefield and Shilling rounding out the rotation as the grizzled vets (Duque).

So yeah, Johan would be a nice addition, but they probably can do just fine without him, and still don’t need the salary.

Now, if Beckett had gone down…

Besides, the Yanks are the team that is going to have huge rotation problems this year. Could be a disaster by July.

OK, that might just be wishful thinking that Joba gets hurt again, Kennedy pitches like Pelfrey last April, Hughes has some rookie bumps, Mussina continues to be washed up, Petite blows up, and we saw the real Wang in the playoffs!

Rumor is he was flagellating himself with grief after Mitt Romney pulled out of the Presidential race.

Easy on the Schadenfreude Mets fans. Especially since we root for a team that is entrusting Pedro, Duque, Alou, Castillo and Duaner Sanchez in major roles this year without much of a safety net if things go awry.

Perhaps he could’ve let them know sooner so they could’ve entered the bidding for Santana - and that is what is causing the ‘friction’ between him and the team!

This makes getting Santana even sweeter.

BTW: SPAGS stays w/ the G-Men! Yes!

sorry, but that tag was hilarious!

And now I’ll try to reign in my schadenfreude. But the fact that it’s schilling and the sox makes it reeeeal hard.

Great, now he has time to run for office.

he probably hurt his arm trying to type a blog on his blog “38 pitches.” The self admitted terrible writer will now have plenty of time to improve.

How do you pronounce Lohse in Boston?

By the way I just heard that a Nats fan was overheard in his kitchen saying that he doesn’t care if the mets got Johan they will still lose 12 of 19 to the Nats

Remember when Clemens defended himself as saying he has shown the same aging signs as Shilling…yet Shilling keeps getting hurt every year and Clemens keeps taking HGH, I mean b-12?

WFAN had reported that this could possibly be a career threatening injury.
If this would have come to light a few weeks ago… we would be singing a different tune around here.

I assume he does, but can anyone confirm that Santana has a full no-trade clause in his contract with the Mets?

Not that I want to trade him, just curious….