More Coach Tanner...

by YourNameHere on Aug 15, 2008 2:11 PM CDT Comment 28 comments

University of South Carolina Coach Ray Tanner on Justin Smoak signing with the Rangers:

"It's going to happen. But has it happened? No, it hasn't happened yet."

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080815/SPORTS0102/808150357/1004/NEWS01

Hmmmm........ 75 words you say? Well, I'm thinking about changing my User ID. I think that using my real name, as I'm currently doing, doesn't really work well for message boards. You need to use a pseudonym that's clearly made up and just over-the-top asinine. You need something like "Jack Nicholson 1974", "thedirkatron", or "Adam J. Morris".

Any ideas?

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Perhaps

we should make this the catchall signing thread.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Aug 15, 2008 2:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Worth a shot...

From Richard Durrett:

“Smoak wants above-slot money and the Rangers are probably willing to do that. But they aren’t willing to break the bank.”

http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/08/draft-pick-update.html

Watching a player hit into a double play. A fan's delight. It's the only time in professional sports where you can sit on your couch, out of shape and drinking, and say, "Yes, I could have done better."

by YourNameHere on Aug 15, 2008 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess I can see their point on Smoak

Going over slot is one thing, but devoting a 40 man roster spot when they are over a barrel already has to hard to swallow. But I gotta say, after this week, they have to sign him. We have got to have a little bit of good news in this waste land of a week.

by texnykazrus on Aug 15, 2008 2:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

How

do you change your name?

by meatbonelefty on Aug 15, 2008 2:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Just create a new ID

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 15, 2008 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

We're not in that bad a 40 position

We have quite a few guys who would most likely pass through waivers and we wouldn’t lose and even if we lost them it wouldn’t be that big a loss. Guys like Metcalf, Rheinecker, Murray, Loe, Ellison. Could one of these guys turn into a good player…sure. But I can almost guarantee you Smoak is better than every single one of them. So if the rangers truly feel like he will be ML ready within 2 years I would be fine offering a ML contract.

Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.

by bigsteve on Aug 15, 2008 2:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i get your point

but letting metcalf go is courting disaster with blalock in an option yr (and maybe not playing 3b FT), vazquez a free agent and none too happy to lose PT to the syndrome-ladden Blalock, and Duran a rookie util guy who only started playing 3b last winter…

by Goyogringo on Aug 15, 2008 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm down with waiving

Rheinecker, Loe, and Ellison…

by tyd3311 on Aug 15, 2008 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

and murray may be done

if he has to have surgery again so that decision might make itself

by Goyogringo on Aug 15, 2008 4:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Coach Tanner’s gotta be tellin’ him to take the money and live the dream.

Rangers Farm Probables

by shroomer on Aug 15, 2008 2:35 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Coach Tanner needs

to receive a large, anonymous gift if this gets done!

"...my balls are really like a veiny flesh color" blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2008 7:44 PM EDT
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by Rodney on Aug 15, 2008 3:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

doesnt have to be anon

lol add in a lil extra to smoaks bonus and let him donate it lol

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by knockoutking on Aug 15, 2008 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

TheDirkatron is obviously the benchmark by which all asinine message board names are judged by

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 15, 2008 2:58 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Conjures an image

of a robot. A very soft, european robot.

What's the secret to a long life? "I masturbate a lot"-Ernest Borgnine. http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/08/14/icymi-ernest-borgnine-reveals-his-secret-for-everlasting-youth/#onepage

by DJCahill on Aug 18, 2008 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Matusz signs ML deal

via mlbtraderumors.com, says the Balt. Sun., for $3.2M. Doesn’t seem like too much money for the 4th pick, but it sure seems like getting a ML contract is the hot trend.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Aug 15, 2008 3:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

JD via DMN

Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said about 30 60 minutes ago that the club is closer to signing LHP Robbie Ross than they are 1B Justin Smoak.

That doesn’t mean deals don’t get done with both of them. “We have a player who wants to sign and play for us and we want to sign him,” Daniels said. “You’d like to think you could come to some sort of agreement.”

by Rodney on Aug 15, 2008 3:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Do you think giving the media bloggy updates

is a negotiating ploy? Why not just announce the verdict when it happens…? It’s always the same thing: we like him, he like’s us, were engaging intensively blah blah…

by Goyogringo on Aug 15, 2008 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good thing is

Smoak and Ross have the same agent, so JD only has to deal with one guy today.

"I dont care to debate with a troll." - Sharky

by RCCook on Aug 15, 2008 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dumb ass question

But what’s the cache of getting a ML contract? Is it because the salary is ML level as opposed to MiLB level? If that’s the case, can’t you just provide a big bonus and call it good? Why do people insist on being on the 40? It doesn’t change the arbitration clock.

Nothing pithy here. Please move long.

by WyoRanger on Aug 15, 2008 3:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Options

You only get so many options before you have to be released (I can’t remember how many).
Every year they’re on the 40 man but not in the major leagues is another option wasted.

by cjcheng on Aug 15, 2008 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sure

And I think it’s three options but it’s not like he’ll be a FA or arbitration eligible sooner. I just don’t see why it’s so important.

Nothing pithy here. Please move long.

by WyoRanger on Aug 15, 2008 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It means you can't be kept in the minors as long

meaning you have to be in the bigs for good by a certain date, meaning that in a lot of circumstances it very much does end up accelerating how fast a player is arb/FA eligible.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 15, 2008 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Speaking of options...

I may be mistaken, but hasn’t Scott Feldman been optioned a crazy amount of times, like 8, the past few years? How is that possible? (seriousness, not just rhetoric)

"But the major difference is where Showalter tried to overthink everything Washington at times seems like he isn't thinking at all. " - rentz

by hillcrest on Aug 15, 2008 4:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You can be sent

down to the minors as many times as they want each year. You only use one option each year.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Aug 15, 2008 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Options

You only use one option on the player per year no matter how many times he is called up or sent down.

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by nikpin on Aug 15, 2008 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've always assumed

that there are pension/benefits perks that go along with the ML deal. You’re set for life even if you John Daly all your dough away. Don’t know that fer sure tho’.

Rangers Farm Probables

by shroomer on Aug 15, 2008 3:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs