Will Carroll, for the most epic of wins.

I don’t jump into the comment fray that often here, usually just take in Adam’s posts. But I know just enough of the backstory of you knuckleheads to know that this is pure genius from Carroll. You boys couldn’t have asked for more. Well played.

is that earlier in that same thread Josey said this about Cruz:

He’s a good player but he’s going to be 30 years old next year (July 1) and has had exactly one good year in The Show. It’s much better to trade a player one year early than one year late.

I guess that means that Crawford really sucks.

I’m sure he’ll claim he was.

lmao…rofl. rofl rofl rofl

Yes…I think so.

I doubt Josey will post in here

so many people have been sucked into a vortex by josey wales.

crazy. he’s probably saying, dance minions, dance…heh.

anyways, isn’t Crawford a FA after next year?

and never post, but this is classic. thank you, josey d. wales!

lmao!

Will Carroll FTFW

You’re welcome LSB.

I didn’t realize starting that sub-thread would lead to the troll being exposed so badly by Will Carroll though. That’s funny shit right there.

Although I said I wouldn’t deal Cruz for Crawford either, so perhaps I’m one of those guys who overrates the players on his favorite team. Just can’t see giving up 4 years of Nellie for one of Crawford. Oh well.

but doesn’t it kind of suck that BP readers will think that is the the type of commenter LSB has?

everybody here represents the site…which is why i wouldn’t mind a more liberal use of the ban stick

or crying I don’t know which

That’s pretty sweet.

I can’t look anymore….

ever received 100 rec’s?

If not, it’s gonna happen here.

then I see Josey show up and post in this very thread. which if it were me, I would steer clear of, alltogether. maybe disappear for a few months.

in this epic thread. Wow.

when this happened.

can we get a pick’em update so that we can all bask in my complete domination?

can’t describe the joy I’m feeling.

Now ban him.

but there is no way this team should consider trading four years of Cruz for one year of Crawford straight up.

But it isn’t so much that the Rays need to add something to the deal, its that the deal doesn’t make sense for either side. The Rangers need to parlay Cruz into a long term answer at position of need (although some might argue a middle of the lineup RH OF bat would qualify), and if the Rays trade Crawford coming off a career year, they will want a package of young guys.

But in truth, we are nearing the point in the economics of baseball where one year of a great OF at $10M is worth less than four cheap years of a good OF, so JW’s sentiments can’t be deemed too far off from the truth.

That is all..

This is one of them.

Carroll surely could have found a crazier trade idea.

All Josey was saying is that he wouldn’t be interested in a Cruz for Crawford deal, one for one. If you threw in a high quality arm, he would.

I think at the base of the argument, most here would agree.

Now whether Tampa Bay would laugh at the idea or just hang up the phone, I don’t know. But even JD wouldn’t make the one for one deal.

I hate you and you are a stupid sonovabitch. This news makes me very happy. I hope you go away forever because you provide no insight, no intelligence, no thoughtful comments, and nothing positive to this website, ever. I know you think you are the only smart one here, but you are in fact simply the most stubborn and dumbest poster here.

You are fail embodied.

some of them kind of sad things:

- he isn’t just schtick

- he doesn’t do this just for the attention

- he actually believes everything he says

- he actually thinks he’s rational

Unbelievable. It’d be one thing if he just said Will Carroll he was an idiotbut I like how he tried to parse down his stupid trade suggestion to convince people that he’s right. He’s really not a troll in the same vein as Sharky. He’s just a stupid, stubborn malcontent.

At least trolls are fun and most boards seem like they have some guy who just offers schtick. This dude is just annoying and unamusing. And I shudder to think what will eventualy happen to someone’s psyche after it becomes apparent that so many people wish so many bad things on him.

I hope I’m not on some sniper list.

And what I think is great is that the comment itself was very middle of the road, mild even for Josey. Cruz for Crawford may well be a bad deal, but asking for a premium pitcher is obviously over the top. But any number of silly posters could make a similarly silly claim (“Salty for Buchholz is fine, but only if they throw someone else, like Bowden, in” – remember those posters?). So it means that Will Carroll regularly reads the comments to see that the silly trade suggestion is more than just a fan without perspective, but part of a long history of almost intentionally wrongly thought out (but actually traceable) logic.

So, bottom line: Hi Will.

Josey is forced to stick with his argument. Normally, he’d run away by now and hope everyone forgot about his stupid trade proposal. But he can’t. He must defend his honor or some crap.

Josey, you want me to help you out by asking some direct questions so you can run away for a while?

I just had to leave my mark on this thread. And add an additional rec. This should be the highest thing in LSB history.

Josey goes down with the ship. Credit for that right??

…is that most everyone agrees that would be a great deal for the Rangers, but Josey continues the argument anyway. It’s like when someone says they found their keys in the last place they looked, except Josey would keep looking

One year at $10M for four years at, perhaps, a total of $15M? I’ll take the latter with slightly lower production.

I rec’d.

I think you have to credit Josey with an accurate initial point. Nobody gives a crap what Tampa woiuld or would not do in a trade that won’t be proposed by anyone or executed even in weak minded fantasy transactions. You simply don’t send a middle of the order bat, your second best hitter and second best defender, who you have cheaply for four years for one year of a top of the order bat who costs 14 times as much per year. Even moreso when your four year mid-order bat is also your second best defender (Elvis is good in a more critical defensive position). I have always liked Carl Crawford, but not for Nelson Cruz straight up and not even if Tampa sent cash to adjust. Will of course looked at it from the trade angle, as have many here, which is pure supposition – shouldn’t happen, couldn’t happen, won’t happen. And thus no point in hyposthesizing what Tampa would or would not have to do. Trade talk gets berserk.

I go away for a day and this happens?

Those of you who are trying desperately to make him look like an idiot are failing miserably.