Odds And Ends: Red Sox, Peavy, Indians, Torre

The Arrogance of Red Sox Nation amuses me. They seem to think any player is available to them because they have money.

The Arrogance of Red Sox Nation amuses me. They seem to think any player is available to them because they have money.

Posted by: OmegaMan | June 01, 2009 at 03:19 PM

The poll wasn't "Who do you thinks available?"

It was "Which player would you like to see in your uniform?"

And I'm pretty sure every legion of fans would be in line with the thinking of Red Sox Nation in wanting Adrian or Victor on their team.

I need not an article to prove arrogance.

"Chad Finn of the Boston Globe lists a number of players for the Red Sox to consider and asks fans which one would be best for the team." Why have the poll if somebody didn't think its possible? Hey let's have a poll never as to whether you would prefer to have the moon made out of cheese or hot dogs. Then we can poll every other baseball fan and ask who they are more tired of, the red sox or yankees.

OmegaMan,
When you graduate high school you're welcome to rejoin us on this site.

Yes, those stupid RedSox fans and their stupid idea of wanting good players. Friggin idiots.

The Indians should be in sell mode with Mark DeRosa regardless of how they're playing. Trading him for a back-end starter would be more beneficial to this team.

Money doesn't talk in business (any business)...
it screams!!!!

I agree Hermie13, if Pavano keeps it up I see no reason why they don't try to bring him back. Also, seeing as how we are pitching starved trading a starter would be pretty stupid, winning or not. If you trade him then you just end up rushing someone to the bigs.

Omega: Quote from the article.
"Gonzalez, whom the Sox have coveted since he was buried behind Mark Teixeira with Texas, might be one player for whom Theo Epstein would overpay. And you know he would have to."

The author fully understand that Adrian isnt going to be given to the Red Sox. It isnt highly likely that the Padres move him.

Carini26: I doubt the Padres want Anderson, given that Blanks is a 1B. The Padres want pitching, specifically top of the rotation pitching. And a trend I noticed with the deals involving Peavy, all the packages had the Padres wanting a left-hander in it.

Nats: Good morning Mr.Boras, nice day isnt it?

Boras: Enough chit chat, I want a gagillion bagillion dollars over 25 years and a golden statue of him out front of the stadium.

Strasburg: "woah, hang on"

Boras: "pipe down kid, let me do my thing"

Nats: "those arent even real numbers"

Boras: "they are now, this kid is THAT DAMN GOOD, and while youre at it, he gets a key to the city, a 3 playmate rub down before and after games and lastly, 3 pink jelly beans served on a 19th century english serving dish

Nats: ??????

“Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Tribune writes that Jim Hendry and the Cubs "picked the wrong guy" when they signed Milton Bradley instead of Bobby Abreu or Adam Dunn last winter.”

Well, duh! Lunatic off an obviously unrepeatable career year, posted as (nearly) an everyday DH in a notorious hitters dream of a park during his first real contract season – warning signs were absolutely everywhere. And honestly, the biggest of all might have been those 6 teams in 7 years. That alone should have been enough to limit the deal to a one year pact with maybe an option if they did somehow insist on signing him specifically. Instead, we promised a 3 year deal if he reached a certain amount of games played in (but not started) – a goal of a mere 46% of the teams actual contests with even as little as an inning played.

There was never any upside to the contract. At absolute best we would be paying market value for his production. But everything surrounding him depended on a “what if”, and at least 4 of those “what ifs” would have had to come true to get that absolute best situation we are paying for. Contract was a joke from the very start.