Michael Young quotes -- he's not happy

That might be the best post of the night.

You can hear its proper usage in one of the greatest blues songs ever.

maybe we should just let the players pick whatever position they want to play. Works wonders in coed intramural softball, why not the pros?

thank you god. im a believer now.

they gonna ask him to move to 3b? heh

…with regard to the repercussions of this among the other players…

this is the beginning of the end for JD. Shit. This is just bizarre.

Soriano style. He’ll get over it when he realizes he’s making 15 million a year.

If the contract is indeed down to 5/62 left, that’s atleast closer to market than the original extension.

Trading him before looked weird – why would the team dump their FOTF who won a gold glove and is a perennial all-star? Not everyone is as stat-centric as the Red Sox or A’s. But if Texas was selling their centerpiece, maybe they would begin to ask questions

Now, teams will look at him as a guy who has to be traded. Teams may be thinking – hey, the opportunity is here to get a franchise SS!

You’re making 15 million bucks a year. I wont make that in my entire life. Suck it MY.

Stole my line.

He retired.

Maybe there was a problem with how he was approached (but I can’t see how it was out of the blue, since there has been at least some widespread local discussion of this happening for the last year or so, and Andrus is pretty highly regarded). But Young isn’t helping his “high ground” by acting like this.

Going to your left at SS and going to your left at 3B are two completely different things. Going to your left at SS means going deep into the hole to get grounders. Going to your left at 3B is diving toward the line on a line drive. There isn’t a lot of lateral movement at 3B as opposed to SS

SBN’s undergoing maintenance then, so there’s kind of an endgame in sight.

yeah, you don’t want to miss that.

He has been a completely different, terrible player since shoulder surgery.

that is more important than championships. Sorry JD, you forgot the all-star games.

Do i still refer to him as the Face?

I hadn’t thought of that. It’s kind of like when a girl tells you that she turned down the opportunity to go out with friends to let you take her out on a date…that better be a goddamn good date.

The bar’s been raised.

all he has to do is hit for average. no OBP, no power, whatever.. his .285 with rangey defense and he can get by.

of course, he might come in and hit .225..

2 out of 3 have turned out great.

It ain’t Nolan.

The Rangers probably told Young that sometime in the next 2 years they may decide to make Andrus their starting SS. So they gave him the team-preferred option of learning 3b now, when the team a> wasn’t as competitive, so they could accept a learning curve, b> could get a stop-gap SS easier than a stop-gap 3b, and c> allow for him to be the one who made the decision, as opposed to him being forced out by a rookie.

Young read that as “Move now, or move later, but either way you are moving”
Nolan spins that as “You have a choice this year, and we won’t force you either way”

Both right.

I think it’ll be 50/50 Playoffs and this. I’ll probably tune into Ben and Skin since they promised more Ranger coverage. See if that’s true tomorrow…

on each of the shows.

“Obviously when Elvis came into the system, there had been speculation at some point in time that the request would come down. It was one of those situations that you didn’t know the time frame on it because it depended on Elivs’ development. It’s unfortuatne the timing is as it is this year with Michael coming off an outstanding season where he won a Gold Glove and was an All-Star. We feel with Elvis’ talents and Michael’s ability that it made sense to move Michael to third to try to put the best team on the field possible.”

“What you have to do is take everything into consideration and look at the entire picture and come to a solution that you think makes the most sense and in the best interest of the ballclub. I can’t say I know what that is and where that’s going to lead. It’s going to have to be talked about more with Michael and find out what his comfort level is and he’s had more time to think about it. See where he is in his mind and his heart. For us to think about other options if there are other positions for the club. From my perspective, it’s too premature for me to make a prediction as to how this is going to play out.”

and a pitcher in return. I’d be set

MY doesn’t have all that much leverage, afterall.

Young doesn’t go on a killing spree through the clubhouse.

Worst case…
Killing spree happens and Young gets everyone, but somehow Jamey Wright survives and pitches all 162 games for us next year logging over 1000 innings.

…for Brandon Wood.

How does Travis Metcalf feel about this? Did he call all his baseball friends and cry that he’s not being given his shot at third?

We should trade to Toronto for Vernon Wells. Shove that irony in MY’s face.

- Maybe the Rangers are trying to force MY now so they know what to do with Davis? If they think Andrus is close, they must feel similar about Smoak, right?

regarding the point about a trade on the table – its kind of weird that this exploded like this. Makes me think that there isn’t anything happening, and either 1> the Rangers want Young to open up his list of acceptable trade destinations or 2> Young wants to force a move.

If we have a true defensive SS in place maybe they would be more willing to take the hit at 3b for a while to see if Davis can improve to the point that he and smoak at the corners are an option.

any you can’t see the uniform, but your brain knows it isn’t Texas…

Great, I just managed to combine two superlatives rather poorly.

…a very tired community in about 8 hours.

All of this occurred after 10 pm.