Rangers do not sign Matt Purke
by Adam J. Morris on Aug 17, 2009 11:10 PM CDT
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PrintWell, I had to delete the post with the original story that got taken down. T.R. now says Purke turned down $4 million and is heading to TCU.
Rangers get a compensatory pick next year.
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I hope he tears everything possible in his throwing arm next year
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 17, 2009 11:11 PM CDT reply actions 18 recs
THis
Fuck him
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Aug 17, 2009 11:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Rec this up
+999,999
Stop caring about the color of your glove and focus on your pitching.
by Texasportsfan on Aug 17, 2009 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions
I blame the people around him
The kid was probably gung-ho about joining the team, but got overruled by posturing agents and indignant uncles.
by Conjunction on Aug 17, 2009 11:15 PM CDT up reply actions
+1
although it ultimately comes down to him, I think its a little harsh hoping he blows out his entire arm
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
by MayurP on Aug 17, 2009 11:19 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
i only hope he gets drafted by a horrible team
and gets offered less than 3-4 million so that he regrets this for a long time
say the KC royals and a 1.5 mil offer or the nationals
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions
If the Nationals get Strasburg, Harper, and Purke in consecutive drafts I wouldn't call them a horrible team
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.
fair enough
i wouldnt either but you got what i meant
i hope he goes to a horrible team lol
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 11:33 AM CDT up reply actions
Ehh
because I was pretty excited at the prospect of having another excellent draft and considering what some of the other prep arms got, I think 4 mill was plenty fair….Plus, I’m already in a pissed off mood from having to do defensive driving all night
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 17, 2009 11:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Any idea of a timeframe on Scheppers signing?
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Dunno but this gives Scheppers some leverage
no way the Rangers can’t sign both Purke and Scheppers.
Really?
What options does he have? Japan? No. Indy ball? Not really. He will sign. It will just take some time.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
Inverted W!
Doesn’t mean his arm will fall off though it just means that mechanically his delivery isn’t ideal.
You got slurved!
I for one welcome our sexy* moderating overlords.
I'm upset, but you're just a bad person for hoping he gets hurt.
by cstorm15 on Aug 17, 2009 11:29 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't really care if I'm a bad person.
Turning down 4 mill (which just by scanning seems like that would make him the highest paid prep arm) doesn’t speak too highly of his character either…
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 17, 2009 11:33 PM CDT up reply actions
It doesn't?
What does this have to do with character? You’re just bitter that he’s not coming to play for your team, and therefore you don’t want him to play for anyone else.
I don't care what his reasons are
There’s nothing about this negotiation that reflects on his “character” or merits a future arm injury. I don’t see the point in demonizing him…
Sure
that’s part of it. But it also makes him seem like a spoiled, egotistical prick
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 17, 2009 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions
How?
Were you in the negotiating room as he flipped over chairs and pouted over us not giving him the right amount of money?
We get a compensation pick. He didn’t sign with your and my favorite team. Get over it. Wishing him a career ending injury just makes you look spoiled and like a prick.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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2 things I dislike about Purke
1. He turned down a guaranteed 4 million dollar deal to be a part of what seems to be a great development system.
2. His choice of school was TCU. Yuck!!!
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Shhhhh.
I don’t want to talk about it.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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So just because its an expensive school
You have a problem with it?
Bill Simmons: "I will tell you right now, if the Boston Red Sox traded Clay Buchholz for Justin Smoak, I will run around my neighborhood naked...celebrating for an hour. I love Justin Smoak"
I have a problem with overpaying for an education yes.
The school is fine I’m sure. Paying three times what I paid for my education doesn’t seem all that smart to me. Especially since you can’t say the quality was three times better than what I got.
I went to UT, btw.
Why do you have a problem with it?
Is it your money?
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
I honestly don't give a flying fuck.
I just wondered why you had a problem with other people “overpaying” for their educations.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
What you see as "overpaying"...
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
I suppose.
It makes perfect sense to me why you feel the way you do about your education ~ it was the extension to other people’s preferences and experiences that had me curious.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
While the price is ridiculous, yes
the class sizes are small and to my liking, and I’ve gotten to know my professors on a level I don’t think I would have been able to at a public university.
While it’s costing a fortune, I would definitely say it’s worth it.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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as my uncle said about his daughter/my cousin (who is a TCU alum himself)
She couldn’t get into UT or Tech so we sent her to TCU where you can buy a degree
It's like saying
“You know, it’s too fucking cold down there in the South Pole. God, I hate that South Pole weather”
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
No, it's really not.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
I'm kidding
but yeah, it is. Complaining about something that doesn’t affect you. But your rage is justifiable tonight.
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
I'm actually not upset at all.
More befuddled.
Anyhow, the difference (to my mind) in this case is the agency involved, and the judgments about other people’s decisions.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
Are you kidding me?
Horned Frogs??? That’s the best they can come up with? Oh yeah, I’m so scared of some horned frog coming at me. Can those even get you high or are they completely worthless.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
How's football/baseball up in Denton?
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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There's sports at UNT???
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
You watch out for Dodgeball this year.
We’re going to double our wins. Guaransheed.
I think Luke French has a lot of potential. TORP potential.-Dstar
I hear Competitive House Partying is on the rise.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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UNT's cool
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time there; couldn’t be happier with my decision. Tuition is comparatively cheap, housing is affordable, the campus is nice, the RTVF and Music programs are top notch.
Also, I’ve never followed college athletics, so I care very little when the football team craters.
...
I don’t understand why you exactly care. I can wish injury all I want and, guess what, considering I don’t have voodoo powers and am not Tonya Harding, it’s all in vain. And it’s not like I wished cancer upon him…I just think it’s amusing that he thinks he’s worth that much more than the other (some more highly rated) prep arms.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 18, 2009 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Dude be smart
don’t wish for the injury. Wish for the usually HS prospect losing effectiveness until he becomes a 14th round pick.
I’m a white boy who doesn’t think a black man is good enough to manage my baseball team. - LSJ
"I really think that" - LSJ, on being asked by AirJordan
that's the natural way!
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
Haha ok
I’d be fine with that
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 18, 2009 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions
I really don't care.
I’m just bored here at the station, and half the board is up in arms because we didn’t sign a guy over slot, who appears to have suspect mechanics. I felt like getting into it a bit tonight.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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Yes
but bad mechanics or not, he still has great talent. Mechanics can be fixed. Results may differ but still… that talent….
We’re all just pissed because he didn’t sign with us.
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
And also
we’re pissed for other related reasons:
1. we could’ve had Shelby Miller (who did sign) instead.
2. we were all pretty optimistic he’d sign, so the disappointment is even greater
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
I question the mechanics can be fixed idea
look what it’s done for Beavan. I am not impressed with the “new and improved” version. Take someone else rather than rework a guy’s delivery.
Beavan is clearly not "improved."
He still has some pretty interesting issues with his delivery. I lack the resources to be able to show this to you, though.
by NoNameOnCard on Aug 18, 2009 3:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Geez
A crappy slider, no K’s and his delivery still has issues?
I swear, every time I turn around I hear something else negatve about him.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
I don't hope something happens to him...
however, it is possible that MLB will take steps to calm the draft down considering the money thrown around. Maybe a hard slot system?
well...that's fucking great.
I mean, I guess it would just be a guy who you know, grabs bananas and runs. Or, um, a banana that grabs things. I don’t know. Why would a banana grab another banana? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don’t want to answer.
Purke
Is silly.
And foolish.
And very likely poorly advised.
by Conjunction on Aug 17, 2009 11:12 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
if im an agent
i dont care how much the kid wants to go to college, id pretty much not let him turn down that money. Not just for my own gain as an agent, but the kid is just blowing all kinds of money… if we live in the real world where risk is money, this is pretty much a 2-3 million dollar bad decision.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
What is going on?
What?!
Stop caring about the color of your glove and focus on your pitching.
all i have to say is
fuck matthew purke
if we offered him 4 mil and he turned it down then fuck him
by dustinvandeman on Aug 17, 2009 11:12 PM CDT reply actions
I wouldn't agree so strongly
if I hadn’t read about Matzek’s deal.
Really crazy outcome here.
Right now I’m feeling like Matt Purke is an ungrateful moneygrubbing bitch.
"[Font} doesn't turn 19 until the end of May and his heater can already hit 99 on the gun. That's baseball porn." - Jason Parks
by hightowersmith on Aug 17, 2009 11:14 PM CDT up reply actions
exactly
if the better pitcher took less money
then fuck him
i hope he rips apart his rotator cuff
by dustinvandeman on Aug 17, 2009 11:16 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah the Matzek angle is what makes me particularly annoyed too. In the end, the guy said he wanted seven million and a major league deal, so you can’t say that he misled you, though, so ultimately I’m most annoyed at Texas for not drafting Shelby Miller.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 17, 2009 11:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Is Shelby Miller that much better than whoever is there at 13A next season?
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Bird in hand.
Otherwise, it seems like it’s too soon to tell.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
i dont think anyone can really say
the truth is, i think we just lost a year of development earlier. I hope this doesnt set us back, we do need to sign Scheppers as we need to be continually adding high end talent
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
I'd have paid to have listened in to the front-office conversations at 10:59pm tonight.
Someone’s risk assessment was off on this one.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
Nolan was the one who supposedly did all the due diligence/gladhanding
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
We'll show you Obama's birth certificate as soon as you show us Sarah Palin's high school diploma...
by Brian Thomas on Aug 17, 2009 11:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Wasn't it Nolan who talked to him draft day?
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 17, 2009 11:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I knew we should've hired Tom Glavine as team prez instead of Nolan.
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
Yes
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
We'll show you Obama's birth certificate as soon as you show us Sarah Palin's high school diploma...
by Brian Thomas on Aug 18, 2009 12:06 AM CDT up reply actions
I'll be most interested to read what's leaked to the Usual Suspects
in the next few days.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
by Josey Wales on Aug 17, 2009 11:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Looks like the big guy may have lost his stuff.
Surprising to see a baseball man just drop the ball like that.
"When he came up with that ball, hop or not, he looked exactly like a homeless guy who had found a long cigarette butt – only to discover it was soaked with gasoline. He could not have thrown out anyone there, even though Cust moves at about the speed of soil erosion." - Ed C.
by inactive lsb user on Aug 18, 2009 12:04 AM CDT up reply actions
Seems like maybe Nolan
shit the bed on this one…
We need more runs...
JD was a fucking wiz at signing his first rounders until your fucktard of a former pitcher showed up, Wales.
Take your boy and the both of you get the fuck out.
You’re ruining our grand rebuilding plan.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 1:52 AM CDT up reply actions
He's just another magic bean
why do you care?
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 18, 2009 8:07 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, that was the first thing that crossed my mind
Josey’s opinion is only his opinion until he needs a new one to bash JD some more.
"You dont know much do you, Big Steve?"
--Finnerty.Fan on Aug 13, 2009 5:13 PM PDT
Wasn't he admonishing us for talking too much about the draft on draft day?
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
Pretty sure he was
I seriously doubt he even knew who Purke was until he heard “Purke didn’t sign” and translated that to “JD failed to sign Purke and should be shot.”
What’s interesting is this: all “front office dumbassery” allegedly ended on that famed Glorious Day. Therefore, one of the following must be true:
a) If all dumbassery has ended, failure to sign Purke is not dumbassery. Therefore, Josey shouldn’t criticize JD for this.
b) If this is indeed dumbassery, then JD cannot be responsible and thus can’t be criticized. After all, Nolan took away all of JD’s power and Nolan himself is responsible for all decisions good and bad.
c) For it to be JD’s fault, then Nolan must not have actually taken away all of JD’s power.
Whether A, B, or C, Josey is still wrong. The flaws in his logic are so glaring that it’s really becoming too easy to shoot holes in his posts.
"You dont know much do you, Big Steve?"
--Finnerty.Fan on Aug 13, 2009 5:13 PM PDT
by WestTxAg06 on Aug 18, 2009 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
At this point I'm convinced he's nothing but a schtick machine
He gets off on the responses he gets to his JD-bashing. He probably still hates the guy like I still hate Ron, and may actually believe most of his shtick, but he mainly posts his rediculous criticisms just to incite the long flamerwars that pollute morning threads.
His latest thing of course seems to be for Hank Blalock – and I’m half-convinced Texas_Dawg is an alter-ego he created to assist himself in giving Blalock virtual blowjobs.
I don’t see why people respond to either one anymore, because they’ve gotten so blatantly transparent it’s not even a real act for them anymore.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
Yeah, same here
In the old days you could actually have a legitimate argument with him. He believed JD sucked, others didn’t, and the discussion could fly back and forth about the merits of JD’s various transactions (even if Josey dismissed every single prospect/draft acquisition as a worthless “magic bean”). But now, it’s very clear JD doesn’t suck. His trades and drafts have put together a scary good collection of young talent and a major league team that is clearly on the rise. It’s a tough time to be Josey.
I became convinced he was just a shtick machine yesterday morning on the Blalock/Smoak/Davis poll thread. His response to the statistical merits of each was simply “I didn’t see 25-15 listed up there”. Nobody in their right mind truly believes that playing Hank every day is the singular reason for the club’s record in the last month and a half, and nobody would seriously cling to that as their argument for playing Hank.
"You dont know much do you, Big Steve?"
--Finnerty.Fan on Aug 13, 2009 5:13 PM PDT
what a douche
cant believe he turned down 4 mil. that would have been one of the top 5 bonuses this year
Don Sanders' group
Which makes this all the more puzzling.
by Conjunction on Aug 17, 2009 11:14 PM CDT up reply actions
I see a certain minor league team having owner infighting
Kind of like a certain Premier league team’s owners
by Mark from OC on Aug 17, 2009 11:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Or more importantly
not working out a situation to own the Rangers together
by Brett Perryman on Aug 17, 2009 11:50 PM CDT up reply actions
damn.
all is forgiven. please buy the Rangers!
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
No way now
If he had any thought at having a part of the Rangers in the near future, he would not have offered such poor advice to a potential future employee.
by Mark from OC on Aug 18, 2009 9:51 AM CDT up reply actions
Man
Matzek the better pitcher signs for 3.9 and Purke rejects 4? I just don’t get Purke here.
Like I said in the other thread
The Rangers made him a great deal and he still turned it down. Given what Matzek got, I can’t imagine going any higher for Purke. Best of luck to him, but he’s not that likely to get more than 4 million dollars the next time he is eligible to be drafted.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
hes not likely to get more than 3 IMHO
especially if hard slotting enters the picture
if he has a leake-like career for TCU, ya hes getting that money
…but what if he doesnt?
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:46 AM CDT up reply actions
Now that would be funny.
He turns down $4m, then a hard slotting system is adopted, he’s drafted higher, but gets less money. I would have to giggle at that one.
Except
I think that even if that system were adopted, it wouldn’t happen until the 2012 draft. Doesn’t the next CBA run through 2011?
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
i thought it expired before 2011
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 11:33 AM CDT up reply actions
Welcome to TCU Matt.
Sad they couldn’t sign him, but I’ll definitely make it out to see him this year.
Just need to make sure they can sign Scheppers now.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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I hope he tears his arm up in so many ways
In his first outing
Stop caring about the color of your glove and focus on your pitching.
by Texasportsfan on Aug 17, 2009 11:19 PM CDT up reply actions
you bet im pissed
this kid has horrible mechanics to be honest. i worried about us signing him. 4mil was the best he was gonna do. the rangers will sign scheppers though
baseBALLIN!
but at least the money will be there to sign him though
as long as the money was really budgeted
baseBALLIN!
Not really
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
We'll show you Obama's birth certificate as soon as you show us Sarah Palin's high school diploma...
by Brian Thomas on Aug 17, 2009 11:52 PM CDT up reply actions
This statement is false.
"When he came up with that ball, hop or not, he looked exactly like a homeless guy who had found a long cigarette butt – only to discover it was soaked with gasoline. He could not have thrown out anyone there, even though Cust moves at about the speed of soil erosion." - Ed C.
by inactive lsb user on Aug 18, 2009 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Except that it's not.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 1:54 AM CDT up reply actions
Your case?
If a team wasn’t able to sign their No. 1, and I was their No. 2, I’d drive a pretty hard bargain
by oc on Aug 18, 2009 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions
How hard of a bargain could you drive
When you’ve already pushed your development back a year as it is by not signing the previous year and your other options are Japan or Indy ball. Oh and you have some serious health issues apparently that already caused you to slide to the supplemental round this year so who knows how low you’ll drop next year. How hard a bargain could you drive?
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.
considering he has a tagline for a TCU radio station...
i dont think its like he is a bandwagon doucher.
You mad, bro?
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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Hope he catches the clap
from the first TCU coed he sleeps with
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
How did you know
Max has the clap?
" I have no faith in the GM making a move to help the big club but I’m on board."
Josey Wales on the 2009 Rangers. A team with 18 active players acquired by the current GM.
Shelby Miller
He signed for less than we offered Purke.
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:16 PM CDT reply actions
Seems like a stupid move if true
Turning down 4 million. Unless he really develops hes going to have a hard time matching that number in the future, much less exceeding it.
What do voluntary mean?
So who wears this?
JD?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
Purke's agents wear this
The org wasn’t at fault; they offered him more than he was reasonably worth, for fuck’s sake.
by Conjunction on Aug 17, 2009 11:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Do they represent any other draftees/players?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
Nolan
Doesn’t he run the show?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
It was his business partner's agency that advised Purke too
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
I know
Just trying to stir something up
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
Nolan
Well, he has to approve all the big decisions, right?
And Hicks controls the money. So I’d say it’s on both of them- particularly since Nolan said he had a good idea of what it would take to sign Purke- before it’s on Daniels.
Officially gay for Neftali Feliz
You're so predictable.
You waited a grand total of 30 minutes to bring up JD. We still know nothing about how the negotiations went down, and yet this is what you want to talk about.
At least now we get a sneak peak for your new shtick for the next few days…
30 minutes?
wow. that’s a new record. I think our Josey may be changing.
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
Pretty sure Josey has two posts ready to go
If he signed, all hail Nolan
If he didn’t (which happened), blame JD. He should have gone 7 million and ML deal. Nolan would have
Bill Simmons: "I will tell you right now, if the Boston Red Sox traded Clay Buchholz for Justin Smoak, I will run around my neighborhood naked...celebrating for an hour. I love Justin Smoak"
I can't think of any off the top of my head
Not many HS pitchers in recent history at least were even rumored to be able to get this much money.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Gerrit Cole...
I don’t know what the Yankees were offering him, but it probably wasn’t anywhere near $4MM. I don’t think a HS pitcher has ever turned down as much as $2MM before.
by NoNameOnCard on Aug 18, 2009 3:12 AM CDT up reply actions
Matt Harrington says "Hi".
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 3:33 AM CDT up reply actions
Welcome to Cosco...
I love you.
Love Idiocracy.
"if daniels was fired today, he would almost be sure to get another shot somewhere else as a GM
i dont know if you can say the same thing abotu RW" - knockoutking
fwiw
cole stepped away from the table 100% from what i understand
didnt even let the yankees offer more close to the deadline
veryvery interesting move for him imho
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:48 AM CDT up reply actions
But it was well understood with Cole that the chances of him signing were almost nil
He didn’t exactly hide that, and he made it clear that money was not the issue, but the Yankees though they could moneywhip him anyway.
"You dont know much do you, Big Steve?"
--Finnerty.Fan on Aug 13, 2009 5:13 PM PDT
Errrr... that's not the picture I've gotten from anyone.
Apparently he had a change of heart after being drafted and reversed direction.
He went from someone who was saying he’d have to be bought out of college to someone who absolutely wanted to go to school and wouldn’t even listen to offers.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 1:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Hmm, the way I understood it everyone knew all along that Cole was a huge signability risk and wanted to go to school
Perhaps I didn’t realize that he changed after the draft.
"You dont know much do you, Big Steve?"
--Finnerty.Fan on Aug 13, 2009 5:13 PM PDT
This was Nolan Ryan's business partner's sports agency??
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:17 PM CDT reply actions
Well, his duty is to his client ...
not to his business partner’s other business interest. If he let his relationship with Nolan temper his advice to his client, he was acting unethically.
I don't wish injury upon him but
I hope he sucks in college and gets drafted in the 5th roumd for a $400K bonus.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
My guess is that he ends up being drafted and signing for a bonus <4 million
Especially if MLB gets a hard slotting system (which has been talked about). This move is going to cost him at least a million dollars
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Is there only one more year on this CBA?
So 2011 will be under a new CBA?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
I hope he finds a beautiful TCU coed, marries her, has a lovely family, and gets a chance to use that awesome TCU education in an accounting office making 55k for about 40 years.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 17, 2009 11:54 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
....and then she cheats on him, gets divorced, and takes everything from him?
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
right after giving him herpes?
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
after he gets drafted in the 15th round
and toils away in the minors for 5 years
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
I don't get it
T.R. says he’s going to spend the next THREE years pitching for TCU. He has to wait 3 more years to re-enter?
2 I believe
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
TR is a moron that reported he had signed
don’t pay any attention to him
The Rangers have rolled up the welcome mat and bludgeoned the Angels with it. - Josh Lewin
I think he's eligible post soph year
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:21 PM CDT up reply actions
wow
that makes the gamble even that much bigger of a risk. I didn’t realize he couldn’t just re-enter next spring. lol… what an idiot.
maybe
he met a girl at TCU or something
otherwise, i dont get it.
for 4 million
you can meet a lot more girls.
"we’re a bunch of knee-jerking yahoos who like new and shiny things." -- FirebatM3 July 10, 2009
by Oddibee on Aug 17, 2009 11:21 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Seriously.
Gracchus (about Obama): I think he knows what America is. America is the mob. Conjure money for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of America is not the paper of the Constitution, it's the power of the media. He'll bring them debt - and they will love him for it.
by Aquaman, Esq. on Aug 17, 2009 11:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Something is rotten in the state of Sanomark.
He’d’ve gotten inked a while ago if his age’d checked out.
Plus that’d make 3 multi-million dollar LA SS’s this year.
How many of them mother fuckers do we need per season?
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 1:57 AM CDT up reply actions
We're going to invent a new game for our super-low minor leagues
Nothing but pitchers, shortstops, and catchers on the field!
washington nationals:OF :: texas rangers:SS
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:50 AM CDT up reply actions
Except that most of our shorstops are actually good
"You dont know much do you, Big Steve?"
--Finnerty.Fan on Aug 13, 2009 5:13 PM PDT
they had a good group
willingham, dukes, dunn, milledge, kearns, harris, etc lol
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 10:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Bwa Ha Ha! That'd make up for about 11.75 Matt Freaking Purkes.
No way, though.
Not with the Cowardly Cattleman pissing the pilowcase as he fails at learning the ropes of being a big league front officeman with his minor league skillset.
Nol-y Cowparts needs to go, post fucking haste.
The guy is a blight.
This is why you don’t hire dumb-dumb ex-jocks who want to bring their minor league style to the bigs. It just doesn’t work.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 3:38 AM CDT up reply actions
He told everyone before the draft that he wanted Porcello money
Guess we didnt believe him
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:21 PM CDT reply actions
For Porcello money, we wanted Porcello
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
wow
dumbass. 4 mill pretty much sets you up. i hope he sucks at TCU and goes in the 10th round for 100k
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
by TxStCa on Aug 17, 2009 11:22 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
lol
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 17, 2009 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions
probably why i'm just threatening it on the internet
no real plans of following through, but it’s nice to dream, eh?
I'm in the on-deck circle
as you round homeplate, I step up to the plate and give Purke a Degeneration-X Suck it!
And then I run out and gve you a soft, gentle kiss on the lips.
You start to get mad, but then you realize… you like it.
We get married and science makes some new gay-friendly technology and we get some implants in our anus’s and have seven butt babies together that we name Adam J. Morris 1-7.
When we get old people will ask how we met, and we will laugh and tell the the story of our first kiss on the field at TCU the day Ollie C. killed Matt Purke and used his arm to club his head for a dinger. Then we’ll pour ourselves some big tall cold glasses of sweat tea and drink the fuck out of ‘em and smile at each other cause we’re in love like fucking teenagers even after all that time.
<3<3<3<3 THE END <3<3<3<3
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 2:03 AM CDT up reply actions 7 recs
I rec'd this against my better judgment...
because upon first reading, I beer went up my nose and it’s making my nose run, so it must have been funny. Wish I could say that I sprayed the proverbial beer all over my proverbial monitor… but that’s just not the case.
This is what happens to teams like the
fucking Nationals (last year).
No excuse and another Ranger FO embarrassment.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
Nolan already had that covered, he looked into it, said the kid was definitely signable
Purke’s advisors made an asshole out of Nolan.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
We'll show you Obama's birth certificate as soon as you show us Sarah Palin's high school diploma...
by Brian Thomas on Aug 17, 2009 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions
It does look like the front office miscalculated, doesn't it?
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
Yes
Purke & Co. and the Rangers FO are both at fault, here. They were too optimistic and passed up on Shelby Miller for this guy. As for Purke… C’mon! It’s $ 4 million. How can you turn that down?
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
I'm sure this was somehow Jonny Donuts fault
We’ll find out how when the guy behind the TexasDawg and Josey Wales usernames signs in as Josey tomorrow morning.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
The Yanks didn't sign their 1st rounder last year
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Aug 17, 2009 11:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Do they even need draft picks?
No championships in this millenium tells me they probably do.
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
hey josey wales
you are officially a trolling dumbass
baseBALLIN!
by kevzta on Aug 17, 2009 11:25 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Fuck yeah!!
The Rangers signed their 17th round pick, Paul Strong, a high school pitcher from Southern California…
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions
A Ranger FO run by the great Nolan!
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 17, 2009 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions
The Cow Coward needs to stop posing as a front office type and go back to being what he always has been when it comes to front office shit: Minor Fucking League.
The guy is a fucking embarassment.
He needs to be fired, then have his toenails ripped off and blended into a nice toe fucking nail smoothie that he will then be forced to drink cause he fucked this team over cause he’s stupid and a dick and he sucks.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 2:05 AM CDT up reply actions
JW
was he worth 4.7 mil? (what turner got?)
no.
was he worth 3.9 mil? (what matzek got?)
probably not
he wasnt better than both of those guys but he was set to have a top 5 bonus in the draft…what else did he want? porcello money? too bad hes NOWHERE as good was porcello was coming out of HS
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:52 AM CDT up reply actions
how does this affect the scheppers negotiations?
get him in quicker? maybe give them the ability to spend a little more money than they had originally planned on?
i bet that
if the money was really budgeted, that means there is the money to sign him. a deal with scheppers will get done
baseBALLIN!
How much did Strasburg get?
In Gut we trust.
Good for the Nationals
People expect him to get double what Prior got.
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
I'm confused...
your screen name makes it appear that the Great oc has offspring.
"if daniels was fired today, he would almost be sure to get another shot somewhere else as a GM
i dont know if you can say the same thing abotu RW" - knockoutking
by hillcrest on Aug 18, 2009 9:51 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
hell yes
I’d love to see stats on high profile kids (say, first rounders only) who turn don’t sign and end up getting a crappier deal the second time around.
Scheppers?
Didnt he pull this shit last year?
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
He was injured last year.
I don’t recall what he was offered.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
The good news
Arrested Development is on and its doing a great job at cheering me up. Plus the Rangers won again
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
yep
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Whenever I'm down
I go on Hulu and run a mini AD marathon.
by Conjunction on Aug 17, 2009 11:29 PM CDT up reply actions
So, quasi-poll
If Purke could have been had for 4.5, would you have sprung for it or told him to fornicate on his own and taken the 2010 pick?
I’m going with the latter.
Tough call
That’s not exactly some pocket change difference. Depends a bit on how negotiations were going but I’d probably just take my chances with next year’s compensation pick and keep the money for Scheppers and next year
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
TR by the way
Major reporting fail.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
Maybe Purke
looked at all the young pitchers on the Ranger roster and how well they are doing, and was afraid he’d have a hard time cracking the rotation with so many good young arms fighting for a spot…..
"Few things go together as well as Country & Western music and crazy people" Bob Dylan
Yeah, if that were true (and I don't think it is)
then that’d mean he’s a pussy who’s afraid of competition. And we don’t have time for people like that.
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
scottrlucasOfficially official: No on #1 M. Purke, #9 J. Blash, #10 T. Lemke, etc. Texas signed 25 of 51, Scheppers pending. #texasrangers
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
damn
no on blash or lemke. kind of a bad day all around
"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)
We expanded our lead on the Wild Card, Purke can go fuck his mother
by oc on Aug 17, 2009 11:32 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
Purke
Yeah, if he’d signed with the Rangers, he could have met Kevin Richardson’s wife. Now he has to content himself with mere mortal women!
Officially gay for Neftali Feliz
True
He’ll get a little bit from the scholarship, but that ain’t Jerry Jones money.
Officially gay for Neftali Feliz
it's barely even ipod money
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 17, 2009 11:37 PM CDT up reply actions
windows 7 = awesome.
just for the record
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:55 AM CDT up reply actions
Too bad Microsoft refuses to provide a clean upgrade from XP
They have graciously provided the ability to buy an upgrade and use it, but you have to do a clean install not an upgrade.
So, you apparently have to pony up for a crappy Vista upgrade AND a W7 upgrade to keep your settings, etc.
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
what settings do you want to save?
windows 7 >>> XP in just about every single way
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions
Maybe now J.D. can concentrate on jettisoning Blalock and finding us a catcher...with no offense to Richardson
or his wife.
Ephesians 3:20-21...and I can only imagine
FWIW
I don’t want Purke to blow his arm out. My hope is that he has a decent, not great college career, gets drafted and signs for less money with a crappy team, and then has to watch as the Rangers win the World Series.
Officially gay for Neftali Feliz
Apparently Liriano was just placed on the DL
didn’t this happen to another pitcher recently? Face the Rangers, get shelled by their mediocre offense, then act injured?
last year was brutal for him
how many innings was it? 230?
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
I guess it's a well known fact in the league at this point
If you can’t shut the Rangers down, something is wrong.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
Oh, man.
ML club’s great and all. Compensation’s ok. But this one hurts.
I wish the kid luck. Seriously.
I hope he makes it back to the draft and makes good money.
However…. One day he’ll wake up and realize he could have been in the same rotation as Derek Holland and Neftali Feliz. That’s going to be tough.
kling klang king of the rim ram room
He probably figured he couldn't break the rotation!
I mean he ain’t no Martin Perez.
by diamond_dave on Aug 17, 2009 11:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Signing Scheppers will go a long way in making me feel better
Getting both him and Purke would have been optimal, but if I had to choose only one to sign, I would’ve picked Scheppers.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott
by ReallyCreativeScreenName on Aug 17, 2009 11:39 PM CDT reply actions
I don't wish for him to suffer any injuries
I do wish other things for him:
1. I wish his gf cheats on him with miles.
2. I wish his car gets stolen.
3. I wish for him to have crappy seasons and ends up being TCU’s mopup guy.
4. I wish somebody told him, “Hey, you remind me of Sam Narron”
So yeah. Fuck Purke. Fuck Tazawa. Fuck Ynoa!
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
Anyone know anything about Purkes family?
Do they have money?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
Whatever they have, I'm pretty sure they don't make 4 million dollars in any given day
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
How much more do they think
he can get in two year? And is it worth the risk?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
If you are looking at this as a business decision
it is the dumbest move ever, period. He has no control over his health, and the track record is horrible for guys making this call. The only way you can rationalize it, and the only way he needs to rationalize it, since it’s his life, is that the money is not what he’s basing his decision on. Now, if he were willing to sign for, say five million or six million, this was a really, really dumb decision.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 18, 2009 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions
Yup. It's hard for me to characterize his decision and what it says about him
without knowing what aspects of it were most important to him (and his family). Hard as it is to imagine that playing baseball at the highest level and earning as much money as possible weren’t the two most important factors, without knowing or having heard from the kid, it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
and what else could he be basing it on?
TCU is a good education, but you can buy your way into better schools w/ $4mm. And college is an absolute blast (take it from someone who took it for all it’s worth) but it ain’t $4 mm good.
Essentially he banking on being a top 3 pick in a loaded 2011 draft.
by Sherman McCoy on Aug 18, 2009 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm not supporting his decision, don't get me wrong
but there are a lot of people who would claim that you can’t put a price tag on your college experience.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 18, 2009 12:23 AM CDT up reply actions
and they're all morons
you can go back to school at age 23 with millions in your pocket and still have a damn good time.
I have friends in their mid/late twenties having a hell of a time in college now
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
College
I think mlb pays for college even per the mlbpa agreement
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
it's a standard clause in most HS contracts
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Aug 18, 2009 8:11 AM CDT up reply actions
thats what i thought
4mil plus a free education, sign my ass up!
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
well consider that playing a major sport at a major college is pretty much a full time job
and a ton of that college experience really isnt a college experience… I just dont understand this. Is he an only child? I bet his parents had alot to do with this too. There is just something about the aura of college that makes parents feel better about things… ugh, i wanna slap someone in th face, this is just so stupid
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
No price tag theory
I agree with that theory.
Also. It’s not either or in his case, he may very well makes millions throwing a baseball and still have a fun college experience.
The college experience of big time athletes is very different from that of regular students.
I went to a D2 school and even there you barely ever saw those kids around, and that was in the fall.
In the Spring?
Forget about it.
Those kids didn’t exist.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Aug 18, 2009 3:39 AM CDT up reply actions
I understand that. Perceptions are often deceiving, but any college experience is better than none. That’s my position.
Again, if Matt Purke is a solid pitching prospect, someday, he will make some money pitching. If he was some high school fluke? Then we should be thrilled. We did not give him $4 mil?
Re: Life, college, all this big picture stuff, I agree with this sentiment below, taken from a commencement speech, given by David Foster Wallace:
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
If he was asking for $ 7 Mill where he got picked
Imagine how much more he would ask as a top 3 pick?
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
Maybe we luck out with the comp pick...
Get a new rich owner and hope for some reason that a Bedrosian or a Taillon falls.
I like it when i don't have to guess on BBTN
when the rangers highlights play. Just get it at the start and there they are. I love defense and pitching.
In Gut we trust.
JD
“It’s disappointing,” Texas general manager Jon Daniels said. “You draft a player with every intention of signing him. We just couldn’t make it work.”
Daniels said the silver lining is they have another pick in next year’s draft, but he’d rather have signed Purke. Daniels said the talks were amicable and went close to the 11 p.m. signing deadline.
Daniels said not signing Purke will have no impact on the team’s ability to sign supplemental pick Tanner Scheppers, who wasn’t subject to the trade deadline because he has no more amateur status.
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 17, 2009 11:50 PM CDT reply actions
x
trade deadline
Zuh ??
"When he came up with that ball, hop or not, he looked exactly like a homeless guy who had found a long cigarette butt – only to discover it was soaked with gasoline. He could not have thrown out anyone there, even though Cust moves at about the speed of soil erosion." - Ed C.
by inactive lsb user on Aug 17, 2009 11:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Okay, which of the following is more disappointing?
1) Failure to sign Purke
2) Hurley’s injury
Hurley's injury
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
I think I'm more dissapointed at missing out on Purke, myself
I like Hurley, but we’ve more than gotten by without him this year.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
Who is more valuable?
Pre-injury Hurley or Purke?
I think Purke has the higher ceiling
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
I really don't know
I kind of think Hurley might wind up a reliever because of his injury, myself. Which is fine, but I’d still rather have the high school lefty with the high ceiling than the 4/5th starter coming off an injury.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
No trouble at all
I am just having some fun surveying the relative loss in the value for the franchise from those two events.
purke
pre injury hurley < 2009 kiker
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:58 AM CDT up reply actions
I'll go with number 2
A healthy Hurley would have been awesome for this team and I think we’d be in better shape right now with him in the rotation.
Losing Purke hurts, but I definitely wouldn’t want to pay anywhere close to what he wanted and I think Scheppers is the better pitcher so as long as we sign him, it should be ok.
by behindthebag on Aug 17, 2009 11:57 PM CDT up reply actions
im not gonna get too into this
but kiker now > healthy hurley going into this year
go look at his stats at AAA, then rethink it, then come back.
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 9:59 AM CDT up reply actions
Who?
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
He didn't sign Fukudome
or Bradley.
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
How do these kids turn down millions?
Do they come from money or do they get insurance policies to cover themselves? I’d do damn near anything for $4Million… all these kids have to do is play baseball. I really don’t get it. They obviously haven’t had to work for a living.
Football=Fling... Baseball=Relationship
I think is
most likely not realizing that they aren’t necessarily the golden child going forward.
What do voluntary mean?
It's just the greedy nature of some folks
I am not sure what his aspirations are but I would sure as hell be content with having made 4 million of the course of my entire life let alone a minor league deal
And mankind is naught but a single nation - Qu'ran 2:213
Yea, that last part is really true.
the value of 4 million dollars on what it can do for your lifestyle is kind of amazing. He could honestly just sit on 3 million of that and likely live off of it for a long time if he doesnt make it in baseball.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
Are you kidding?
TAXES ASIDE! If you make no interest on $3MM… you still have 60 years of living at $50K/yr… or 30 years of living at $100K/yr… He could definitely sit on it for quite a while.
by NoNameOnCard on Aug 18, 2009 3:37 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm saying that...
at today’s rates, a risk-free return doesn’t yield much.
"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin
To clarify...
he gets a $4 million bonus, after taxes let’s call it $2.3 million. He buys a house and car, let’s call it $2 million. He needs 3% return to get $60k a year, which is around the median income.
Just doing a search for active treasuries on the AMTD website, 2 year maturity gives a coupon of 1.0%. Of course, the yield to maturity is actually 0.879%. That’s as close as you can get to a risk-free return.
Stepping up the risk/return ladder, AAA munis are yielding 0.62%, giving you a tax affected yield of, I dunno, let’s call it 1.77% (at a 35% tax rate).
Stepping further up the risk/return ladder, A munis are yielding 1.18%, giving you a tax affected yield of 9.6%. Of course, A bonds have significantly higher risk.
Anyway, without dipping into principal, $4 million isn’t going to have you farting through silk.
"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin
And if he doesn't get drafted in the top 3 or 4 picks
two years from now, it’s the same $4 mil. If something happens and his value declines or his career ends before it starts, it’s NOT even the same $ 4 mil. To add dimension to the value of $4 mil, without a baseball career, at $150k per year, it’ll take him over 26 years to earn $4 mil. And he’ll have to pay income tax on that too. I hope that “college experience” is worth it.
And we havent even considered how much
Obama will have raised taxes in two years. Since he is spending a gazillion jillion dollars a day and has assured us that he wont raise taxes on us po’ folks, only on those evil people making over $250,000 a year, I reckon by two years from now if he signs a $4 mil contract the government will let him keep about $1.36 of it.
well
at least we know he will be surrounded by beautiful women
Post.Fail.
by red shoe ranger on Aug 17, 2009 11:57 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
underrated, rsr
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
by Josey Wales on Aug 18, 2009 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions
well played
I had the flu way before having the flu was cool
by TagDon'tTweet on Aug 18, 2009 9:13 AM CDT up reply actions
1310 Ticket
famous snake drop reference…
Post.Fail.
by red shoe ranger on Aug 18, 2009 5:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Me thinks
Now that Purke is not coming, we now use that money on Scheppers and get him signed in the next month to prepare him for the FIL or AFL
Bill Simmons: "I will tell you right now, if the Boston Red Sox traded Clay Buchholz for Justin Smoak, I will run around my neighborhood naked...celebrating for an hour. I love Justin Smoak"
My biggest complaint...
is that they didnt take Miller. We could have had Miller for a reasonable price. Now we have to wait a year for similar shenanegans.
I would have liked...
Tyler Skaggs or Mike Trout over Shelby Miller. I think there are a few others, too.
by NoNameOnCard on Aug 18, 2009 3:38 AM CDT up reply actions
On the bright side...
That $4 million can be applied to a free agent hitter, or to Ben Sheets.
I propose a 5-year moratorium on trading any young Ranger pitchers who throw over 90 mph.
Ben Broussard!
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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Jon Daniels
will sign Yuki Saito to finally gain a foothold in the Japanese market.
I’m a white boy who doesn’t think a black man is good enough to manage my baseball team. - LSJ
"I really think that" - LSJ, on being asked by AirJordan
Didn't the Fukumori signing do that already?
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
Yuki...
heh. That’s a girl’s name. Oh wait… It’s also a guy’s name….
あああああ…
See? You learn something new everyday….
(Sorry, all this Matt Purke fiasco has made me like this)
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
The only place that money
will go besides to Scheppers is Hick’s pockets to prop up the rest of HSG.
I read a note on BBTiA
that he apparently refused to come off the demand for a spt on the 40-man. Perhaps that was the sticking point.
So, carry on, young Mr. Purke-and good luck, cause you’re gonna need a lot of it after this clusterfuck of a decision.
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
If thats the case
then I think he got some really bad advice or didn’t listen to the advice he got.
What do voluntary mean?
Purke may be a fool, but James Paxton is simply stupid.
Turned down what was likely seven figures to head back to Kentucky. HE HAD AN ERA OF ALMOST 6 AND TURNED DOWN A MILLION DOLLARS FOR A SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE!!!! No way he makes even close to that this year. The chances of that happening are lower than Purke re-emerging as a first round talent in 2011.
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by Andy Seiler on Aug 18, 2009 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions
What a dumbass if that's true
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
This makes me a little less sad if this is true.
I don’t give out 40 spots to high schoolers if I’m JD.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
My mistake, I remembered wrong
It was a DMN thing earlier today from Jeff Miller. Here’s the link
http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/08/purke-evening-update.html
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
Take it for what it's worth, but Durrett's latest post
says it was the money, not the major-league contract.
Your 2009 Texas Rangers: "Can't take a fucking to save their lives" (lisa w, 2009).
I stand corrected.
Perhaps he came off that demand, but refused to come off the money. Either way, I think he made a mistake.
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
I can't believe Nolan blew this so badly.
We seriously need to consider replacing him.
/Purke is very, very silly for turning $4mil down
"I love winning." - rockin_rangers, on May 16, 2009
by ghtd36 on Aug 18, 2009 12:15 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
you serious?
Replace Nolan because a high school kid made a stupid decision?
by Sherman McCoy on Aug 18, 2009 12:16 AM CDT up reply actions
No, I'm clearly not serious.
It was a preemptive strike toward the inevitable JD haters saying that he blew this, despite A) making an extremely generous offer, and B) uh, it’s Nolan’s buddy on the other side of the table.
"I love winning." - rockin_rangers, on May 16, 2009
by ghtd36 on Aug 18, 2009 12:20 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Blame Nolan?
“Does not compute” say JD haters
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
The Blue Jays lost as much or more than we did.
Didn’t sign James Paxton (1st-S), Jake Eliopoulos (2nd), or Jake Barrett (3rd). It’s nice to find a team that’s failed more tonight.
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after 2007
and even last year i guess this just a pendulum swing back in another direction. disappointing, but not the end of the world. we have lots of good 18-19 year old pitchers to populate our system for the next few years.
it does seem like a ridiculous decision economically though. even if he were able to get $6 million in a few years it’s still an incredible risk for a very marginal benefit, one which might be nullified if it takes him longer to reach the bigs than it would have had he signed.
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Aug 18, 2009 12:29 AM CDT reply actions
on the plus side, they did sign Paul Strong
It’s something…
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
I know Purke signed with TCU, but I believe he also signed
with a juco(Angelina). If he hasn’t enrolled at TCU, he could still go the juco-route and be draft-eligible next summer(b/c of his age), correct?
"I’m not in the meetings and not part of the discussions; it’s not my responsibility. . My responsibility is to go out and win tonight. My focus is to win tonight. The club has to look at more than just this year." -Michael Young
Yes he could
but he’s definitely going to TCU
Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.
Incredible
I haven’t posted anything on a Rangers message board since the glory days of the ESPN message board 5-6 years ago. This shit pissed me off enough to create an account on here just to bitch.
I’d kill to have 20 bucks, and this fucking kid is going to turn down 4 MILLION? How much nerve must you have? He won’t get 2 mil out of the draft, and I truly hope his whacked out mechanics turn him into a mediocre second rate reliever in college.
yea, i know how you feel
400 grand and id about anything, 4 million? fuck me
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
The wildcard leaders didn't make you want to sign up?
In Gut we trust.
Reply fail
meant for UNT josh
In Gut we trust.
I generally don’t seek out a wider forum to bitch about the Rangers. I usually reserve that for a couple of people. I’m a changed man
the guys is willing to commit homicide
for a few bucks. hard to figure out what makes him tick.
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Aug 18, 2009 12:50 AM CDT up reply actions
When you’ve been unemployed for 8 months since graduating college you’d do some crazy things for 20 bucks too.
Would you give up a Klondike bar?
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
ive been unemployed for 8 months since graduating college
and i went to uta
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Aug 18, 2009 1:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Something will work out
I was unemployed for 10 months after graduating in December 2006, got a job and then was laid off in late June of this year. Keep your head up and something will come along.
The Rangers have rolled up the welcome mat and bludgeoned the Angels with it. - Josh Lewin
Thats the hope. I have a useless history degree, and I’m trying to get a teaching job. Hopefully something will come along after I begin subbing. I’d like to have a job so I can call in sick when the Ranger clinch.
I worked with some of my friends
doing odd and end construction jobs and house flipping (when there was still a real estate market) in order to keep my head above water until something permanent came along. Probably going to start doing that again since I am again jobless.
The Rangers have rolled up the welcome mat and bludgeoned the Angels with it. - Josh Lewin
I think I've located your problem.
You went to UTA.
Gracchus (about Obama): I think he knows what America is. America is the mob. Conjure money for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of America is not the paper of the Constitution, it's the power of the media. He'll bring them debt - and they will love him for it.
by Aquaman, Esq. on Aug 18, 2009 1:07 AM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
lol
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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Sad, but possibly true
I have a freakin’ masters’ degree from UTA and I barely make over $30K a year. Imagine if I’d just stopped at the bachelor’s degree- I’d probably be the night-shift manager at a Pizza Hut…
Officially gay for Neftali Feliz
So whats the big deal?
He’s a good pitcher and one of the ones I hoped we would get, but still he’s only one pitcher, HS at that. We get the pick next year and perhaps with our outstanding scouting department we select a better player with the pick. Maybe we use our pick next year to get a Type A hitter or pitcher this off season because we know we have another first rounder. All in all, its not that big a deal. If it is a recurring theme that we don’t pony up for our picks then it’s a bad sign, but its not.
The big deal
is that they are less likely to get someone in Purke’s class with the pick next year. I’m not devastated, because I wasn’t completely sold on Purke, but that’s not a good thing.
by Brett Perryman on Aug 18, 2009 1:04 AM CDT up reply actions
Why are they less likely to get someone in Purke’s class? The reason he dropped is because no one thought he was a good bet to sign, and he didn’t. We took a chance that didn’t work out, but next year who is to say that another player that doesn’t slide because of signability issues. There were plenty of players this year and in past years who have slid because of money and there will be again next year. That doesn’t mean we should pick a guy who slides or a guy that doesn’t because we think we can or can’t sign someone. We should weigh the risk/reward again and make our pick. Our history has shown we have been successful doing this and that this single pick was an aberration.
The problem is we have to sign that player next year because we get no compensation for him
so you have to pick a player you are 100 percent sure you can sign. That means not taking chances on guys that fall because of signability, because by definition they are going to be tough signs.
The Rangers have rolled up the welcome mat and bludgeoned the Angels with it. - Josh Lewin
We also have two picks next year
So we have options. Make our “safe” pick that we can sign for sure and we can still take a chance with our other pick. Or we could get that Type A FA and still make a “safe” pick with this pick. I have faith in our scouting department that we won’t flop on our face in next years draft. In reality the draft is a major crapshoot anyway and there is no way to know if the guy you paid big bucks to will pan out any better than the guy you took because he would sign for slot.
Well put
I wasnt ulta high on purke going in, and still felt nervous about him signing. But theres not great odds they get upper talent at that spot next year. All we can do is hope another smoak situation happens (which isnt bloody likely)
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
x
from a purely business standpoint I just don’t see the sense of turning this down.
- Because of the time value money, a dollar you earn today is worth more than a dollar you earn tomorrow, and much more than a dollar in 2011. If Purke goes on to succeed at TCU and gets $6 million in two years, that’s not truly a $2 million because you have to discount that gain to accurately compare the present value of the two options.
- There’s tremendous risk associated with this move. Forget the possibility of injury — as many have stated, the kid could just not develop. There are simple formulas where you input the chances this guy gets hurt or regresses and you get the money value you’d need in order to take on that risk. I bet that number’s pretty high.
- And someone can help me here, but: doesn’t this delay the kid’s entire baseball life cycle by two years? Won’t this mean that he’ll reach his arbitration years two years later? That he’ll be eligible for free agency two years later? I know that he could (did?) try to negotiate a major league contract or a spot on the 40 but I get the sense those are pretty rare.
I don’t know if it delays it a full two seasons, but it certainly delays it.
He is certainly taking a huge risk, one that I certainly wouldn’t take or advise my son to take.
by Darrell McKown on Aug 18, 2009 1:11 AM CDT up reply actions
from a pure business standpoint
this decision is about as bad as it gets. In terms of value, he likely cost himself a good 2million dollars. Heck, even Mike Leake, the 2nd best college pitcher got around 2.4 million or something.
Throw in all the present value assements, risk factors, and from an economic sense he’s really netting himself an incredible loss in value, value that isnt gonna be made up in any sort of future development help that college coaching/experience might give him b/c the coaching and experience in the minor leagues by all accounts would be significantly better over the same period.
the only benefit he is gaining is the so called “college experience” but how much of an experience can he really get when he’s pretty much practicing and playing ball full time?
again, i wanna punch this kid and especially his advisor for turning this down.
"The House That Ruth Built, 85 years old, goes out as The House That Hamilton Knocked Down"
I'm not that worked up over it
They took a shot at a guy they thought was a value pick at 14. They offered him a bunch of money and he didn’t take it. We still get the 15th pick next year, where we can take a college pitcher who will be easier to sign and likely will get to the majors quicker than Purke would have anyway.
High school pitchers are extremely risky. Given the strength of the system, I understand them taking the shot, but I also understand them not going higher than they did to sign him. I don’t think there’s any reason to blame Nolan, JD or anyone else. They took a shot and it didn’t work out, but the rules work in our favor (with the pick we get next year).
God screwed us
When a peer told me that other teams were scared off from top pick Matt Purke after being told that God is “guiding his negotiations,” I told my buddy that if it were so, God would want a soul in the bargain, and the Rangers had already sold theirs.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/081909dnsposherringtoncol.3ff4ced.html
When will people learn that God doesn't work?
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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Maybe he switched
to Boras and he’s making his clients call him God now.
by Feliz es bueno on Aug 18, 2009 1:23 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Should I yell at the first game that Purke pitches at:
“Where’s your $4 Million God now?”
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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Seems Nolan and JD could have
Asked Josh Hamilton to intervene – and warn him about the evils that lurk in any idlenss from college time.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Aug 18, 2009 2:02 AM CDT up reply actions
To be fair, there are many non-Christians at my school. Me included.
There’s a fair amount of people who aren’t clinically insane on campus.
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I'll just hope he pitches well and not hear him talk otherwise.
I only wish I weren’t a senior, so I could potentially have class with him.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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You act like I was just drafted by the Rangers over slot.
"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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God seems to have forgotten the fact that if he had signed with us, he could've put more money in the hat at church.
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
Rangers can no hit curve ball. Straight ball, they hit it very much. Curve ball, bats are inept.
If he really is that religious
Couldn’t we get Hamilton involved?
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Just got to the bottom of the posts
Same thought in a reply above.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Aug 18, 2009 2:02 AM CDT up reply actions
TCU
Although, I would rather see him as a Ranger how can you fault him for not wanting to play in one of the most beautiful college ballparks at Lupton Stadium and giving up the college life of partying. Some remarked that you can always go back but truth is how would you react if you showed up to a college party and you were about 6-7 years older than the other people that were there. Also, if he wants to go to TCU he should go now since there is hardly any “non-traditional” students who go there (people who are older than 25).
6-7 yrs older? 4 mil richer?
at a college coed party? Yes, please
08/03/2009 A day that will live in infamy for the rest of the AL West.
by Michael Cave on Aug 18, 2009 8:47 AM CDT up reply actions
thats what a college girl dreams of!
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
-
"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 10:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Hate to say it
but I saw this coming…which is why Scheppers is a perfect fit as our 44th overall pick
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
I will say this
I hope the kid is in one of my classes this semester. I will make sure he regrets his decision…….but first I will wish him luck playing college ball though
Bill Simmons: "I will tell you right now, if the Boston Red Sox traded Clay Buchholz for Justin Smoak, I will run around my neighborhood naked...celebrating for an hour. I love Justin Smoak"
I don't see the hellfire and brimstone everyone is talking about here.
We lost a draft pick, a kid, a HIGH SCHOOL kid, who may or may not have made an impact in the long run. Our team made a run at him, but it didn’t work out. Fuck it. That’s his problem, not ours. We’ve got a hell of a farm system that’s going to bend over opposing teams for years to come.
WE’RE IN FIRST PLACE IN THE FUCKING WILD CARD OVER THE FAT NATION.
Forget Matt Purke. Let it go. Let’s stay excited about This Thing.
Way to not lurk and instead shit all over yourself during your first fanshot.
-FirebatM3 to Ryan2907. 6/3/09.
by SarasotaRanger on Aug 18, 2009 7:35 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Did I make this up
Or did the Astros fail to sign all of their first 7 picks from last years draft? If so, man life sure could be worse for us.
Two years ago
I don’t remember the exact number of picks though.
I propose a 5-year moratorium on trading any young Ranger pitchers who throw over 90 mph.
Whetever. Could very well have been a 4-million dollar bust.
Doesn’t want to come to a long-term contending team for WAY above-slot money? Fine. We’ll sign up Scheppers and go with our 20 other prospects. Until we find someone just like him in next year’s draft, sign him, and watch Purke go in the 6th round or something two years down the line. Go Rangers.
Fuck him
I’d sign a 10 year contract for 4 million to go to Huntsville. Bitch is gonna be a bust a regret never signing this thing. I could care less, about some could be HS kid in 3 years pitching in AAA. The time is NOW!
First place Texas Rangers!
Oh well
The final kicker is this kid’s going to be pitching like 40 minutes from the BBiA. He’s already made a celebrity of himself – now he’s going to be a pariah. For whatever reason, people (and I won’t be one of them) will want to see him fail miserably at TCU.
There is such little chance that he improves his stock, that he’s now a long shot. Good luck to this kid – he’s going to need it.
If everyone is so convinced that Purke is going to be a bust and his arm will fall off...
…then why are you upset the Rangers didn’t sign him?
I’m upset too, but the bitching and moaning in this thread is a little embarrassing…
The ultimate irony will be when his buddies want to go to a Ranger playoff game
and he can’t go b/c he’s living on a college budget.
You guys are sad.. Wishing bad things for this kid is wrong. He made his choice and we have to live with it. Yeah it sucks but grow up.
by rswilliams77 on Aug 18, 2009 9:29 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
I don't wish anything bad on him
I just think he is a douche, and by going to TCU rather than taking 4 mil, just proves my point.
I don’t get why some 18 year old is holding out for a payday bigger than 99% of most people ever see in a lifetime.
First place Texas Rangers!
wreck'd
Godwin's Law Version 2.0 (Rangers Edition)
"As a Ranger discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Danks, Volquez, or Young approaches one."
by LBBRangerFan on Aug 18, 2009 9:56 AM CDT up reply actions
why is it our jobs to wish long fruitful lives on retards?
I can't help it. I’m an asshole.
-brettgardner on Jul 7, 2009 10:55 PM EDT
i wonder if he'd be garnering this much criticism from the masses
if he was playing for the Longhorns rather than the Horned Frogs.
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theres a pretty good amount of TCU fans on here....
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 10:07 AM CDT up reply actions
there's a lot more though
that look down on TCU as a college choice.
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TCU isnt a bad school
at all
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Aug 18, 2009 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions
Having read all this, I have one conclusion
The Rangers are culpable.
Purke’s commitment to his asking price gives you room for one conclusion: he wanted an education and a college life. He wanted it probably about $5 million worth.
Did anyone catch anything about his intellectual level (grades, National Merit Scholar, class president, etc)? I didn’t.
Maybe he’s a very bright guy. Maybe he sees the “real world” just fine and wants an education instead of working out, playing cards and jousting with groupies.
Needless to say, this bodes poorly for his ML future — those careers apparently require monomaniacal focus.
All of this is on the Rangers. This is all scouting, and scouting the player definitely needs to be monomaniacal on the Rangers’ end.
All you can say about Matt Purke is did what he wanted. Genuine desire is never more obvious than when you make a sacrifice. And actually I remember having a lot in common with him at 18…going to college and forgetting the world was something I looked forward to all summer.
"[Font} doesn't turn 19 until the end of May and his heater can already hit 99 on the gun. That's baseball porn." - Jason Parks
by hightowersmith on Aug 18, 2009 10:13 AM CDT reply actions
He could have done all that
and still collected lots of money and gone pro. He can go to college anytime.
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I see that as kind of a twist in his overall strategy
If he wanted college above all, he’s probably OK with whatever money’s waiting when he gets out, whether it’s in the 1st round or the 10th.
I mean, literally, this guy did only what he wanted. We can conclude this because he was not bought at a huge offer price.
"[Font} doesn't turn 19 until the end of May and his heater can already hit 99 on the gun. That's baseball porn." - Jason Parks
by hightowersmith on Aug 18, 2009 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Did you turn down 4 million to go to college?
And if Nolan talked to Purke and gave the go ahead to draft him because he felt like they could sign him then isn’t the fault squarely on Nolans shoulders?
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.
And if Nolan talked to Purke and gave the go ahead to draft him because he felt like they could sign him then isn’t the fault squarely on Nolans shoulders?
Because Nolan talked on the phone instead of JD?
The Rangers org, Hicks on down, signed off on this decision. But if Nolan’s phone call was the sum total scouting portfolio for this player, well, that truly sucks.
But can we safely conclude the org had a little more contact with a projectable lefthanded pitcher from just outside Houston, Texas? I think so.
"[Font} doesn't turn 19 until the end of May and his heater can already hit 99 on the gun. That's baseball porn." - Jason Parks
by hightowersmith on Aug 18, 2009 10:31 AM CDT up reply actions
Apparantly Noland agent was the same guy/group advising Purke
Which means Nolan probably made a phone call and had the insight on what it would take to sign him and passed that along to the rest of the FO when the decision time came. Im not saying Nolan overruled everyone but I do believe it was his imput that eased the signability concerns that caused Purke to drop to us in the first place.
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.
Whatever.
You can’t plan on utter irrationality.
The kid may truly, honestly, genuinely value 2 years at TCU as being worth several million dollars. (I suspect he simply thinks he’s worth what he was asking and is confident he won’t get hurt in 2 years.) And if so he truly, honestly, a genuine dumbass.
He’s doubling down and hitting on 20. And he has a dad (who said his going to TCU was “God’s plan”, fwiw) and advisers dumb and irresponsible enough to support that call.
This isn’t turning down the money to go serve in the military, the Peace Corps, as a missionary, etc. Someone choosing that? Well, hey, money just ain’t their thing. And that’s cool. But this isn’t that… or anything close. It’s a kid gambling for more despite having an incredibly good offer. Whatever glorified community college he’s chosen to go to is irrelevant. That’s just a place to sit till he goes back to the table.
This isn’t on the Rangers at all as there was nothing to suggest the kid was utterly irrational and surrounded by equally irrational and irresponsible people.
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