Tuesday a.m. Rangers stuff
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 19, 2010 8:04 AM CST
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PrintReports are that Seattle has signed Felix Hernandez to a multi-year deal. How many years and for how much is still unknown, though, it appears.
Jeff Wilson has a story this morning touching on the C.J. Wilson signing, the Rangers scouting Ben Sheets, and an addition to the team's Far East scouting team.
T.R. Sullivan says that Wilson will come into camp as the Rangers' setup man, but will have a chance to make the rotation.
Richard Durrett has an ownership update, although it appears to be the status quo.
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The umps signed a new contract
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
Giving Bud more power with this one...
but, frankly, if it means less blown calls, I’m for it..
2009 season was ugly… 2009 postseason was unacceptable.
(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."
That's a fantastic...
deal for the Mariners.
by ghostofErikThompson on Jan 19, 2010 8:20 AM CST up reply actions
Agreed
Basically, he will be getting paid LESS than Lackey?!
"JD gets complete blame or credit for what happens in 2010 and I think Nolan wants it that way. JD is paid to be a real GM and needs to start performing like one." - Josey Wales
by Michael Cave on Jan 19, 2010 8:33 AM CST up reply actions
Well
Lackey was a free agent.
Felix was probably looking at $8 and $12 million the next two years, or thereabouts, via arbitration.
So if it is 5 years, $80 million — which is what Buster Olney says it will be — then that is $20 million per year to buy out his three free agent years.
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 19, 2010 8:53 AM CST up reply actions
Good pt
Still seems like an excellent deal for the Mariners
"JD gets complete blame or credit for what happens in 2010 and I think Nolan wants it that way. JD is paid to be a real GM and needs to start performing like one." - Josey Wales
by Michael Cave on Jan 19, 2010 8:56 AM CST up reply actions
Somebody that can read spanish
better than me might be able to tell us more clearly what the tweet says…
but either way, it’s an incredible deal for the M’s.
Churchill
“may very well be six years guaranteed and less than $100 million, with some incentives that could push it over the $100-million mark.”
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
by Kinslerhomer on Jan 19, 2010 8:29 AM CST up reply actions
This is the guy he got that from
@FranciscoBlavia @d_a_cameron Buy the beers & play the music because is a 5 years deal around 78 millions $. No option for a six season.
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
by Kinslerhomer on Jan 19, 2010 8:30 AM CST up reply actions
From the CJ thread, Churchill on Felix's extention
The money given to Hernandez in now (sic) way affects what’s available for Zduriencik to offer Lee. Having said that, I think there is very little chance Lee stay in Seattle, and I all but guarantee he doesn’t sign an extension prior to free agency.
[I actually have a feeling Lee ends up signing with the Texas Rangers next winter, but we’ll talk about that when the time comes.]
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
by Kinslerhomer on Jan 19, 2010 8:33 AM CST up reply actions
What do you think he will want?
Im thinking something at least similar to what Lackey got. So 5 yrs at around 80-85 mil? I wouldnt want him at that price (assuming he would come here).
"JD gets complete blame or credit for what happens in 2010 and I think Nolan wants it that way. JD is paid to be a real GM and needs to start performing like one." - Josey Wales
by Michael Cave on Jan 19, 2010 8:36 AM CST up reply actions
Probably and I agree
he’ll be 32 next year. I don’t want to spend that much on his 32-37 years.
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
by Kinslerhomer on Jan 19, 2010 8:40 AM CST up reply actions
I'd travel forward in time and quasi-voluntarily spooge all over my own grave if we could get Cliff Lee for 5/80 next off season.
But we, um, won’t.
Assuming he continues to be the kind of pitcher he’s been since his reinvention (which is to say a ~7 k/9, ~1.5 bb/9 ~3 FIP innings eating horse-monster), there’s no way he signs for that little.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
"Don't let the haircut fool you. I'm exceedingly wealthy." -Bill Gates.
by thedirkatron on Jan 19, 2010 9:30 AM CST up reply actions
Dude
Whatever you do, DO NOT go forward in time and spooge on your own grave. You’ll wind up fathering a race of zombies or something equally horrific.
It’ll be like that time when rats made sex to birds in someone’s birdbath, and created a whole new type of AIDS. Just don’t do it.
"To have the judgment and wisdom and personal touch of Nolan Ryan, and the tremendous group that JD has assembled, I think the Rangers on the baseball side are the envy of every franchise in baseball in terms of talent."
-- Chuck Greenberg
by RCCook on Jan 19, 2010 9:41 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Well they have Greenberg money now
And chances are that the new ownership group will want to make some kind of splash next offseason.
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'm assuming you mean Chris Young...
big splash…
(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."
Beckett
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jan 19, 2010 5:07 PM CST up reply actions
Lee supposedly wants...
…$23 million per year.
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 19, 2010 9:41 AM CST up reply actions
Ridonkulous.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Jan 19, 2010 9:42 AM CST up reply actions
wow, just wow
"JD gets complete blame or credit for what happens in 2010 and I think Nolan wants it that way. JD is paid to be a real GM and needs to start performing like one." - Josey Wales
by Michael Cave on Jan 19, 2010 9:43 AM CST up reply actions
Lee supposedly wants... …$23 million per year.
He might get $ 20 per year on a 3 year deal, but he ain’t going to get it on a 5 year deal, much less $23 per year. But a good way to get a 5 year deal at $17-18 per is to launch a demand for $23.
Well, Cliff Lee is a bad man...
Go Strangers.
by hightowersmith on Jan 19, 2010 10:17 AM CST up reply actions
@bigleaguestew New Stew: D12: Gammons says that bad knees nixed Bay deal in Boston http://dlvr.it/bRS
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
That Mets deal looks worse and worse
"You promised me, Eckstein, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life, there have only been one set of prints in the sand. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" David Eckstein replied, "Because my little legs had gotten tired, and you were carrying me." And I looked down and saw that I was still carrying David Eckstein.
Then he grounded out weakly to second.
OT - Effn Inlaws...
I’ve been woke up every morning by at least 5am…this morn it was 345 am. Right now my father in law is walking around with his shirt off holding a blow torch…..
I had to go with him to Home Depot this morning to get a “plum bob”
Only good thing about their visit is they pay for everything and give me free labor….and he likes to hit the bars around 6pm which is nice.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Jan 19, 2010 9:45 AM CST reply actions
Is your father-in-law a sitcom character?
Sounds like it.
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 Jan 19, 2010 9:52 AM CST up reply actions
He lives in the Shenandoah Valley, is deaf in one ear and he plays both the banjo and dobro.
I need to write a story around him.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Jan 19, 2010 9:55 AM CST up reply actions
oh man
anybody that walks around sans shirt with a blow torch is somebody I’d like to have protecting my household
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jan 19, 2010 5:10 PM CST up reply actions
Joel Piniero
Angels are in on Piniero, per Olney with the Mets and Dodgers.
…and are not watching Sheets throw today.
(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."
That's fine by me...
Piniero is a big bag of meh imo.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Yeah, they need to meet his demands of
3/30…yep :)
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"When you have a weapon on your shoulder like he has, you can be cool." RW on Perez
And the little bastard threw it for a swinging strike three in a 3-2 count. He’s blessed. And ballsy.
Evan has an update too
The bet: A very perturbed Bud Selig warned both sides to negotiate in earnest with each other and to not say anything to anybody until the deal was done. The general feeling is Selig and baseball want this finished and feel there is a deal to be made. They want the sides to concentrate on getting the deal done and nothing else. And as part of that bet, you can rest assured Selig probably threatened Tom Hicks that MLB would do whatever it could to seize control of the club if Hicks Sports Group tried to wriggle out of the sale process to go with a suddenly more attractive deal from Houston’s Jim Crane.
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"When you have a weapon on your shoulder like he has, you can be cool." RW on Perez
And the little bastard threw it for a swinging strike three in a 3-2 count. He’s blessed. And ballsy.
I kinda like this Selig fella.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
by Cecilio's Guante on Jan 19, 2010 12:08 PM CST up reply actions
You mean in a
at least Mussolini made the trains run on time kinda way, I suppose.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
by t ball on Jan 19, 2010 12:41 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
lock the two in a room with nothing but an Ozarka bottle and a bedpan
don’t let them out until it’s finished.
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jan 19, 2010 5:12 PM CST up reply actions
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