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geez, k-rod's comment was even worse "just look who has the most saves". dude is also to demanding to be paid as much as rivera. i think he's being way more disrespectful to mo than papelbon

even if he was 40 for 40 with a 0.00 era he'd be fighting a losing battle here. i think he just wanted to piss off some yankee fans

i think we should draft sean taylor

good for green bay for not letting him hold the team hostage. fuck that phony

$500 on espn giving 'best nfl player' to favre

wright wears pink shirts too, i think he's approaching the victorino zone

i'd honestly agree with you 100% if he weren't so injury prone. but i think there's a good chance he's back on the DL before the seaosn ends--and then you're not getting the package they got from the cubs from any team. his numbers over the past month are off the charts and he's healthy, so you can either trade him now while he's at his peak, or you can gun for the playoffs, exercise the option on him, and then run the risk of him getting hurt again. 7 mil down the drain is nothing to the red sox, but it's a lot to the a's. as far as the team goes, i dont think they make the playoffs anyway, but if they hold onto harden and he gets hurt in august and misses the rest of the season you figure they are done. if it happens to him in chicago an the a's miss the playoffs at least they have what they have instead of a dude coming off an injury who you'll have to begrudgingly exercise an option on just so you can hope he stays healthy and is pitching well next year so you can trade for him for a lesser package since he'll just be a half season rental at that point. plus, gallagher is a good talent and if dudes like gaudin, smith, and eveland can succeed in oakland i'd bet a paycheck that gallagher can too. i dont know if the fans will be that pissed off anyway. im familiar with their philosophy, you're familiar with their philosophy, so im sure they are even more so than us. billy doens't like investing long-term in pitchers, there's always been a ton of turnover in that rotation. they draft mulder, trade him to stl for haren (among others), keep him for a few years, trade him to ari for smith and eveland (among others), and eventually smith and eveland will be traded for other good young pitchers. if im an a's fan, i notice this and put my trust in billy

yeah he's an exception--and probably because he's a position player and a safer long-term bet--and look how that turned out. but hudson, mulder, and haren have all been traded before they were fa eligible. and zito was shopped but i guess they didnt like any of the offers for him

well harden is in the last year of his deal. he's an ace, no doubt, but he's really injury prone and if the a's dont exercise their team option harden is going to want ace money and a long term deal. the a's don't do that with plyers who stay healthy so there's no way they're goign to do it with him.

gallagher can contribute immediately though. with the luck the a's have with starters iwouldn't be surprised if he had a good run. you know how bean puts it, they aren't sellers, they are buyers AND sellers

i think the a's were smart to sell high on harden. the dude's too injury prone. sean gallagher is a good player too

maybe that dealer at the trop is his mother

i helped my parents move that day and they had no cable, so i was listening to it on the radio in the car and it was torture. "garcia complete to owens" "garcia complete to owens" i thought i was listening to an old broadcast stuck on loop or something. i couldn't believe they wre having their way with us possession after possession after we had beat up on them all game. i couldn't visualize it at the time and i still can't now. i never watched a highlight from that game except the final play and im kinda glad i never bothered to find any

who do you hate more? him or jim finn

there's more to every position than just offense though and there aren't any .217 hitters at any other position. i'm not doubting how important he is to the red sox as a leader/battery-mate/defenseman but an all-star selection is generally a stat-based achievement

what i meant was they might not be checking the box scores or the league leaders when they vote on the all-stars. nothing against varitek, but he's hitting .217. him being on the team is more of a testament to how much aj pierzynski's peers hate him than how much of an all-star they think varitek is

varitek was actually a player vote too. shows how much they pay attention to the other games.

yeah if im rodgers and favre comes back im demanding a trade. it's bad enough this dude was supposed to be the number 1 pick and fell as far as he did, but now he's gotta put up with this crap?

yeah as opposed to chan ho park and vincente padilla

same thing with baseball cards. nothing produced from the mid-90's and forward is going to be worht shit cuz there's 1,000,000 of every card

well to be fair, the contracts aren't guarenteed and the team has the unilateral power to terminate the contracts whenever they want. so it's tough to fault these guys for trying to get as much as they can while they have the talent to demand it. that said, it's kind of a moot point anyway. the dude's not happy with his contract but as of now he's not making too much noise about it, not holding out, etc. if he wants to drop little hints like this im fine with it--he's handling it better than plax at least

he's not happy with it

7 rbi in 7 games. dude's for real. it'll be a shame if they send him back down or put him on the bench when blalock returns

probably just a not so subtle hint about his contract situation