Odds & Ends: Lackey, Upton, De La Rosa, Wood

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Posted by: moneywinschampionships | November 13, 2009 at 08:48 PM

Wow man, I'm a Yankees fan and even I think that is highly uneccessary, whatever happened to friendly competition?

"TRADE Shelly Duncan for Albert Pujols"

I think I just pissed my pants by laughing too hard

I would love to see Upton in Wrigley, but I don't want them to trade their top prospects. Their MLB players they could offer wouldn't really fit into the Rays' plans, so that sucks. Here's hoping we get Grandy!

it would take half of even the yankees roster to pry pujols from st. louis jackass. that was the funniest thing i've ever heard. shelly duncan? really?

"Really? ESPN cheering for Boston? How hypocritical! They kept saying how the Yankees had to wait "nine LONG years," to win again. They ride the Yankees more than any other team in the universe."

LOL, ESPN supporting the Yankees. U dont watch too much dont you. Have you forgottn the first part of the season saying the yankees have alot of holes and are not as good as the Sox. ESPN rides whatever team wins the WS. Imagine the cubbies, thatll be the biggest riding. They have to wait not 9, not 80 , but 100 years.

Yankees:

TRADE Shelly Duncan for Albert Pujols
SIGN John Lackey for 6 years, 100 M
SIGN Damon
SIGN Holliday for 4 years, 40 M
TRADE for Torii Hunter

SS Jeter
LF Damon
3B A-Rod
DH Pujols
1B Texieria
RF Holliday
C Posada
CF Hunter
2B Cano

Posted by: YOYOYO | November 13, 2009 at 09:03 PM "

This is why people hate "Yankee fans"...

And ESPN has been on the Sox nuts since the 04 playoffs. And Im not saying that as a Yankee fan, but as a baseball fan. They have multiple times called Buchholz better than Halladay....

how about the cubs send milton bradley to the indians for kerry wood? The money is even and they essentially did that last offseason anyway. Eric Wedge is gone so no past conflict there. Yeah, I know i'm dreaming...

yankfan1: Suuuuure. So many people ride the Yankees it's asinine. ESPN calls Mo the best closer ever by far, and they totally ignore Hoffman. Rivera is better, but they never give Hoff ant recognition.

They acted just like the bandwagon Yankees fans, jumping on the A-Rod bandwagon the second he started hitting in the postseason. He went from postseason scapegoat to a baseball god in the ALDS. They talked up all of the positives, but didn't really mention Tex's struggles.

Everyone kept talking up CC beofre Game 1 of the WS, then they jumped ship after Lee killed it, then jumped right back to CC toward the end.

They may not be hardcore Yankee-lovers, but they are the biggest bandwagon NYY fans in the world. "Nine LONG years," my ass.

Oh, and don't forget how ESPN lives in the past to no end. Basically, they are totally delusional. They switch teams every 10 minutes, and they go with past numbers over present ones all of the time.

I think we can all agree that most of the"reporters," and anchors there are a joke and probably steal their stuff from Baseball Prospectus and mlb.com.

"Suuuuure. So many people ride the Yankees it's asinine. ESPN calls Mo the best closer ever by far, and they totally ignore Hoffman. Rivera is better, but they never give Hoff ant recognition."
That's because Rivera is the best closer ever by far. I know Hoffman has more saves but that's just because he's been a closer for 3 more years and has had more chances over his career. But if you look at their ERA's Rivera's ERA of 2.25 is 14th best all time among qualifying pitchers and tops among active pitchers (most of the pitcher's above Rivera played in weaker hitter eras) compared to Hoffman's very respectable 2.74 but that's still a huge difference considering Hoffman has played his entire career in the NL and Rivera has been in the hard hitting AL East his whole career and his ERA+ (202) is by far the highest of any player of all-time. The next closest player is Pedro Martinez and he is only at 154. That's nearly a 50 point difference between him and his next closest competitor. Hoffman's ERA+ is 147 which is 4th all time. However the thing that really sets Rivera apart from Hoffman is the playoff success. While Hoffman hasn't really had much playoff experience, he has an ERA of 3.46 which is respectable just not great while Rivera's postseason ERA is 0.74. Essentially if you see him it's game over. He has only blown 3 saves and 1 loss in his playoff career (compared to 39 saves and 8 wins) and all 3 were 6 out save opps. Now don't get me wrong Hoffman has been a great closer as I just proved it's just Rivera is on another planet from everyone else.

I meant best in this era and possibly best ever*

""Ortiz was really good in the second half of last year. What about big, bad Swisher in the postseason? FAIL."

He was our 4th OF who shouldnt have been starting, but Nady got hurt."

He's the RF who should have been starting since opening day, and I believe they were splitting time prior to Nady getting hurt. Swisher is better than Nady, and please dont try to say he's not by saying he strikes out a lot or tell me what your eyes see.

"Peter Gammons works for them, come on we've all read his nonsense."

Not even close. He is the biggest Red Sox fan/Yankee hater in sports. He was born in Boston and raised in Massachusetts. He covered the Red Sox for the Boston Globe and every time it comes to the Yankees he puts them down and praises the Red Sox. I don't know what you've been reading but obviously you must be thinking of someone else.

Maybe you're thinking about Buster Olney since he used to be a writer for the New York Times and he covered the Yankees for a long time and he even published a book about the recent Yankees dynasty. He is a huge Yankee fan on ESPN.

"Peter Gammons works for them, come on we've all read his nonsense."

Not even close. He is the biggest Red Sox fan/Yankee hater in sports.

Posted by: ericbrat20 | November 14, 2009 at 12:43 AM
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Don't forget the bit about him being a Hall of Famer.

"Mike Axisa... For some reason it was erased...

But, why would you post something on your site that makes fun of a tunnel in Boston collapsing (which would result in people's deaths)? There is a rivalry, and then there's crossing the line."

Agreed. Kinda tasteless considering it's my job to inspect those exact tunnels to make sure it doesn't happen again. And ironically enough I'm a New York fan (Mets though I hesitantly admit it).

Sorry to sound like a moron, but what happened with the Bridges and what did Mike post?

Posted by: lakersdodgersyankees4life | November 14, 2009 at 02:39 AM
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He posted it on "River Ave. Blues". He didn't create it, it was made by a guy named "sic". The name fit's. I don't know why in god's name the link is still up, as this site stand's for something other than page after page of b.s from two side's, over a topic which has nothing to do with MLB Trade Rumors or the like. At least I thought that, once. At first I thought Mike just posted it on the blog,nothing more, nothing less, but when I see a line like "How awesome is that?", I begin to question thing's.

NY will always be better? See '04 (especially the ALCS and the most epic fail of a fail in sports history) and '07. Did NY win or BOS? Where did the Yankees play in the '08 postseason? On a video game!

Posted by: cubs223425

Way to live in the past. You're inviting Yankee fans to bring up they have 27 championships, most in any major sport, not to mention hell of a lot more than Boston. Plus, the most recent one...

And everyone knows ESPN loves Boston. Especially Gammons!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/11/national/main1790112.shtml

LYD4L, here is another answer. I hope yo find it to your liking

thanks for the link. For some reason, I knew Mike was an Administrator at the other site... If i remember, they would but a little note at the end of stories he would write about where he wrote and how to contact him.

Again, thanks for the link. I guess I do miss things in CA...

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Who is going to take on the hurt that is Kerry Wood next.

hahahalf of the sox world series team was on roids

How much are the yankees gonna spend this offseason? They bought the three top free agents last year, and now i think we can pencil in Lackey and Holliday as yankees next year. Make no mistake about it, the 2009 WS was purchased. Anyone who says otherwise is in denial

Oh my fault. RS outspent Rockies by 94m in '07.

Sheesh. I posted that picture on my personal site, I'm allowed to do whatever I want there. I didn't link to it here, a commenter did.

I see no one in here is up in arms about the drivel that gets posted on Sons of Sam Horn, which is far, far more popular than my site is.

Upton isn't going anywhere. It would be an extremely sell low for Tampa and unless they are offered some good prospects, it won't happen.

"The Yankees had a lot of holes in the beginning of the year. They closed them with steroids and HGH."

"hahahalf of the sox world series team was on roids"

Can we please stop these steroids comments please? Both teams had multiple players doing steroids so it is pointless to try and make fun of the other teams for this. Both teams had players who cheated, hell most teams had players who cheated thats the way the game was back then so quit trying to make fun of other teams players for taking steroids because in the end your only going to look like a hypocrite.

Not sure how him killing a guy means the BA people were wrong.

I'm pretty certain everyone at espn is either a sox or a yanks fan.thats why the rest of us who like the other 28 teams are all so sick of hearing about both teams all of the time.