…that he’s a giant tool.

But in a different way from guys like Reinsdorf and Selig.

Most of the owners are, like, hammers. Cuban is a crescent wrench variety of tool.

his monies on a baseball team a little closer to home? And a lot cheaper.

The owners like people with deep pockets, but don’t have high regard for flashiness or johnny come lately. Cuban is both. He isn’t laid back, finance community, old money connected. He’s an internet geek who bilked a billion out of “nothing”. Looking back, ownership committees probably don’t want to go through another Bill Veeck era. My take on the ownership committee’s point of view.

but this article on fangraphs is a very good read for anyone still interested in talking about those two guys.

It’s a very good read and maybe the data will impress some of y’all Grink hataz out there.

I wonder how much the Sawx like Byrd.

Seems like with Crisp being superfluous and expensive they might consider Byrd a much better fit for them at a better price. TT + Byrd for Buchh + Crisp?

Or maybe they’d be interested in paying a chunk of Lowell’s salary and sending him our way just to be rid of him so they could move on Tex or use Lowrie, though I’m pretty sure there you’d have a no-trade to contend with.

There a so many options out there.

I’m with you.

I just want one freaking done. I wanna stop thinking about this.

Olsen is universally regarded as bad. But they’re good arms require more than a catcher.

I hope we hear JD inquired seriously on Miller/Johnson/Volstad. Sanchez is not dreamy.

If hes back its as the starter.

As for a backup catcher I wouldn’t worry about if the starter gets injured because we should have a guy in AAA who is ready if that happens. So my criteria for backup catcher is a guy who knows his role and plays decent defense. I don’t know alot about those guys you listed but off the top of my head Melhuise and Toby Hall would be my choices.

just based on the ’Stache

that hopes he doesn’t leave. I think he balances out TAG and I like their combo.

Rojas? Take the job and run buddy…..

But he would be the perfect replacement for Matt Vasgersian. Save for the omission of “Santa Maria!” SD fans might not even know the difference.

I love the Lewin/TAG combo

we can add him to the official, LSB-certified, Texas Rangers 2009 Pitchers’ Morgue

It’s worth checking into. Also, Basick said earlier he is good friends with him, and he is looking for 15mil over 3 years. Ehhh, wouldn’t be bad if he were deemed healthy, mebbe with some incentive clauses.

But he’s a bit like the Milton Bradley of the NBA. Extremely talented, but he just gets little sprains and pulls all the time. Over the last 4 years, he’s averaging about 65 games, which is not horrible, but compared to Howard’s 70, or Dirk’s 78.5, I’d just be scared to count on him as a significant piece too much going forward.

Plus, he’s not a very good shooter, which is already a problem for us with a better (though less efficient) shooter in Howard.