No Giles for Boston
by Adam J. Morris
on Aug 8, 2008 12:43 PM CDT
ESPN is reporting that Brian Giles is not going to waive his no-trade clause to accept a deal to Boston.
Supposedly, Boston really wanted Giles, despite having J.D. Drew and Jason Bay for the outfield corners and David Ortiz at DH, but Giles isn't going to go.
So, much ado about nothing...
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by chrisR on Aug 8, 2008 12:48 PM CDT 0 recs
Waiver wire
its always nothing. Every year this happens, and every year people get confused when some big named player is claimed and then isn’t actually moved. First we have a panic post about how Giles got claimed, so obviously the Rangers did something stupid – probably Nolan’s fault. Then the Red Sox want him, but can’t convince him to waive his no-trade. All this over an over-rated player making a lot of money. Yawn.
by JBImaknee on Aug 8, 2008 1:09 PM CDT 0 recs
Giles
Swore I read that he had a limited no-trade and Boston wasn’t included on his list.
Go Strangers.
by hightowersmith on Aug 8, 2008 1:23 PM CDT 0 recs
Doesn't he have full no trade?
10/5 guy, no?
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on
Aug 8, 2008 1:30 PM CDT
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Maybe he has the 10 but not the 5?
He’s been with the Padres for 4 + seasons, not sure how they count that.
Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
by t ball on
Aug 8, 2008 1:34 PM CDT
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Yah, I guess you're right
He’s been there 4 full seasons, plus the end of ‘03 and the start of ‘08.
His time in ‘03 and ‘08 would seem to add together to make a full year, but who knows how they tabumalate such things.
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by thedirkatron on
Aug 8, 2008 1:39 PM CDT
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Why would you make me watch that?
That was horrible.
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by thedirkatron on
Aug 8, 2008 1:41 PM CDT
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I don't think my almost comical whiteness
has anything to do with how much that sucked.
Terrible, terrible music.
Awful.
Lazy lethargic and uninspired rhyming over a cheap-sounding beat with some shitty faux R&B influenced shit in there for bad measure.
Surely you can do better than that.
God that sucked.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on
Aug 8, 2008 2:20 PM CDT
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ugh...
...that type of quality production is missing in hip-hop these days, you moron.
the guy took an old Isley Brothers song, cut it up, and created a “bubbly” effect… definitely a more genuine sound than other beats… it’s too bad you’ve been conditioned into believing otherwise.
cheap-sounding beat? faux R&B? huh?
by oc on
Aug 8, 2008 2:55 PM CDT
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Whoah, easy there, champ
Didn’t know he was your home-slice-of-bread.
Didn’t mean to offend.
Admittedly it may have sounded a little shittier being filtered through youtube, but that sounded very dime-store to me. The kind of shit you hear on every other radio station all the time. But then I really hate slow, R&B-type hip-hop, so I readily admit a bias.
That having been said… I’m not a moron, and the “conditioned to believe” argument is as cheap and it is specious. It’s what idiot hipsters always fall back when they don’t have a real argument to posit. You ca do better than that.
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by thedirkatron on
Aug 8, 2008 3:11 PM CDT
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you just arent cool enough to get it man
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
by rentz on
Aug 8, 2008 3:24 PM CDT
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Yes, faux R&B, yeah, cheap sounding
This is quality production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
I'm sure the Russians felt there were WMD's in Georgia, and that it was a hotbed of terrorism.
by DJCahill on
Aug 8, 2008 3:45 PM CDT
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One of the greatest videos of all time.
Is that guy still alive?
I wonder if he’s benefited from his interweb resurgence?
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on
Aug 8, 2008 5:21 PM CDT
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just think of the possibilities
live rick rolling! he could make a fortune
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
by rentz on
Aug 8, 2008 6:55 PM CDT
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Of course
Ricky is back on Tour! Line up those tickets when he comes to a city near you. Unfortunately I think its just the UK right now.
I'm sure the Russians felt there were WMD's in Georgia, and that it was a hotbed of terrorism.
by DJCahill on
Aug 8, 2008 7:10 PM CDT
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stfu!
Really? Wow. I’d go, but only if he promised that every other song would be the famous one. Cause I don’t want to hear the other shit. I could listen to that song 15 times in one night and be a happy freaking man.
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by thedirkatron on
Aug 8, 2008 8:02 PM CDT
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BoSox Still Looking For a Bench Bat
The Boston Globe added their two cents on Giles invoking his no-trade clause. However, the Globe did have this to say:
The Red Sox are still searching for outfield protection and may not be through scouring the waiver wire for another player who has cleared waivers who might protect them off the bench.
I wonder if they are interested in Cat?
by Excel Hearts Choi on Aug 8, 2008 2:41 PM CDT 0 recs
no one's interested in cat.
I blame it not on Ron Washington, but on society. Society is to blame. And Ron Washington. ~Ken Tremendous on Ron Washington sac bunting in the 11th vs LAA
by ivysafety39 on
Aug 8, 2008 3:04 PM CDT
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Fenway
Is possibly the one place Cat could handle LF.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
by Ed Coffin on
Aug 8, 2008 3:19 PM CDT
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if manny can handle it cat can handle it
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
by rentz on
Aug 8, 2008 3:24 PM CDT
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