Gary Matthews, Jr., reportedly headed to the Mets
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 22, 2010 10:49 AM CST
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PrintJon Heyman reports that Gary Matthews, Jr., is apparently heading to the Mets, who are looking for insurance in centerfield, given that Carlos Beltran is likely going to miss the beginning of the season. I liked this:
Matthews has two years and $23 million remaining on his contract and the Angels will be paying the vast portion of that money. Matthews also gets $500,000 for being traded.
That's the salt in the wound, right there. You dump GMJ and his awful contract, and you have to pay him for moving him. Although, since he was demanding a trade, maybe he was willing to waive that trade kicker.
This is also as good a time as any to remember that at the time, some in the media were lamenting the decision not to match the 5 year, $50 million deal GMJ got.
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I thought hurricane season was over...
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"too provocative for america"
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I like Franco.
He was great in the spiderman series as well as Pineapple express.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
thought he was pretty terrible in Spider-man - but was greatness in Pineapple Express.
(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."
his acting always stuck out as bad to me in spiderman
hes been good in some other things though. certainly not one of the acting greats of today though, heh.
the preceding post was a great success.
He will always get a pass from me for the greatness of Freaks and Geeks
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 4:32 PM CST up reply actions
Still need to get those, based on your recommendation this summer.
Is it on DVD?
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
Yes sir, that's how I saw em
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 4:59 PM CST up reply actions
This dude = scene stealer
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 5:05 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
From Halo's Heaven
10:55am: Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports tweets that the Angels will acquire Brian Stokes in the deal. The 30-year-old allowed 72 hits and 38 walks in 70.1 innings last year, striking out 45 for a 3.97 ERA.
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
the fact that the angels get anyone in return
is embarrassing for the Mets. Let alone someone who is a major leaguer.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
how do you do those cool boxes for quotes?
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
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@jasoncollette Amazing that Stokes had a 3.97 ERA despite his incredibly crappy supporting stats. 13% HR/FB at Shea…8% at Citi. Mets still overpaid
"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 22, 2010 11:16 AM CST up reply actions
This deal is embarassing for both sides...
The Angels still paying $21M of the $23M left on the deal, and the Mets actually gave up a player to get him.
He is being grossly misrepresented by ERA
Angels acquired RHP Brian Stokes from the Mets for OF Gary Matthews Jr.
Stokes is the owner of a 5.02 career ERA and a 1.62 career WHIP through 190 major league innings. He had an unsightly 1.56 WHIP and 45/38 K/BB ratio last season and he’s not likely to have much of an impact with the Angels this year.
Fugly.
"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.
Maybe the Angels actually got worse
At least GMJ sat on his ass on the bench. Stokes has to get used sometimes and I’m going to laaaaaaugh.
"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.
*
@SI_JonHeyman #angels get brian stokes in matthews jr. deal. #angels pay $21.5 mil of $23.5 mil left on matthews deal
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
Well, if it was reactionary and wrong, then there's a good chance it was Galloway.
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
Nope
That’s from a Jim Reeves column.
Of course, he’s long since semi-conceded he blew that one, but Adam enjoys sticking it to him every time the GMJ subject comes up anyway, which i also find amusing.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 2:13 PM CST up reply actions
umm
i saw in SI that said angels were only paying 2 million of the remaining 23.5! Hope thats not true
reverse that.. Mets only paying 2
(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."
I love that your story just happens to have Harden in it....and the way you refer to him...
seriously though, that was in April of ’07……before any of this madness started and Hurley held the franchises future on his shoulders……haha…….little did we know
I don't think it's HIGHLY unlikely...
just not looking likely at this point
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jan 22, 2010 12:19 PM CST up reply actions
no, I’d still say HIGHLY unlikely to this statement
He’ll still be a big part of this teams success in the near future.
Hurley being a BIG part of anything would mean this team was not very successful. Hurley’s injury is still going to slow him down more than people want to admit, and by that time, he’ll be passed up for opportunity by other prospects not to mention the ones that have already passed him like Poveda, Kiker, Marteeen, Scheppers, Guitierrez. And, this doesn’t even mention the top rotation candidates this year of Harden, Feldman, Lewis, Holland, Hunter, McCarthy, Harrison, Moscoso, Nippert, Feliz, Mathis (CJ Wilson should stay in the bullpen).
Basically, it’s HIGHLY unlikely.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
are you the hurley supporter
that kept on yelling at adam in ST of ‘07 because you thought Hurley should make the majors and Adam was a prick who didn’t know anything about baseball?
you thought he was HH right??? i kinda saw it, and thought it was genius whenever you called it, if he infact was...
i’m not sure, but there are similarities, not saying he is though…….
"haha little did we know" represented the fact that we'd have the #1 farm system for years in a row and be as loaded as we are now...
wasn’t saying anything bad about hurley, just saying we went from Hurley and a Volquez who “some” people were starting to write off, to stacked…..little did we know how bright our future was at that point, that’s what i was saying…
Wow.
It’s too bad little sarge turned into such a joke, but it is funny as hell that the joke was on the Angels.
Yes, but
Didn’t Matthews speak ill of the Rangers and claim other Rangers wished they could also join the Angels? How’d that work out for you G?
by Neftali's arm on Jan 22, 2010 12:02 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Well ... while he sucked personally he went to the playoffs.
So it actually worked out pretty well for him.
According to CJ
In his FA year, everytime he hit a home run he would yell cha-ching when getting hi-fived on the way back into the dugout.
Pretty douchey.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 4:35 PM CST up reply actions
That is douchey
"There are two girls that can take a pounding!" Tom Grieve
by Spadedsnake on Jan 23, 2010 12:41 AM CST up reply actions
Good news!
Oakland prospect Grant Desme retiring to go to the priesthood.
Probably one of the few times you can feel good about another teams pitfall. It’s for Jesus, guys.
by ab03 on Jan 22, 2010 11:52 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
I think the church would prefer it if
He played baseball and donated most of his salary to them.
the preceding post was a great success.
well obviously they wouldn't actually tell him to do that
But in a vacuum you don’t think they’d choose 20 million dollars to use on legit church needs + still having his involvement in the offseason and after his career?
Anyway, hey more power to him if thats what he wants to do, it certainly shows commitment
the preceding post was a great success.
i'm not going to claim that I know anything about what the church would want
me personally? I’d want him to play, make money, and give it to the church I just made up.
But I also don’t understand “the calling” and how sacrosanct the church holds that to be. The other thing is I assume he talked to somebody about this and they advised him at the very least to do what was in his heart and nobody in the church seems to be saying “that’s a stupid idea, we want the money.”
but what if....
pat robertson pulls an Oral Roberts and says he needs millions of dollars by midnight or God will kill him……
hypothetical....i realize Pat Robertson is an evangelical preacher and this kid is going into priesthood.....just making a stupid point
Dear god, i really don’t want to be in a religious debate right now……
I doubt it
I think they’re prefer all of the positive press they get from him leaving baseball. now they can point to him as a massive role model. i think that holds more value for them.
All the positive press?
Exactly how much press do you think they will get from a kid leaving A ball?
I’m with DShep here. They won’t admit it, but I’m pretty sure they would rather have him make millions and donate it to them.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
i don't think either of you are even considering what it means to get the calling
don’t think so practically about God.
its not like I mocked him for choosing it
Just a throwaway comment thinking that he could probably help more people with the money a ballplayer makes and going into the church later in life than doing so now. I don’t think its too crazy to think there is a person or two with the church that might think so too, though obviously the people he gets direct consultation with isn’t going to say something like that.
the preceding post was a great success.
Perhaps...
I’m not the best person to weigh in on the matter.
Admittingly it’s difficult for me to understand the religious side of something like this.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Um... No
"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 22, 2010 1:40 PM CST up reply actions
one of the posters at A's Nation
God hates Oakland.
and I’m ok with that
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
No problems here either
Josey Wales born on LSB July 18, 2006 Jumped the shark--That glorious day in 2008. RIP Josey Wales.
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
hmm
not really sure how big of a loss this was. This article points out some obvious problems with calling him a top prospect.
Old age, young league, high K rate, high BABIP. But still – a guy who had potential to be very very good.
I wonder what his prospects as a priest are...
20 souls a year?
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jan 22, 2010 12:21 PM CST up reply actions
You mean his VORP - Value Over Replacement Priest?
"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.
by WyoRanger on Jan 22, 2010 12:29 PM CST up reply actions 8 recs
None
He keeps them coming back Sunday after Sunday because they aren’t saved.
"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 Jan 22, 2010 6:12 PM CST up reply actions
Depends on their ballpark.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
by GhettoBear04 on Jan 22, 2010 3:16 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Jesus,
who knows.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 5:34 PM CST up reply actions
That's the kind of meat a priest eats.
Who gives a shit what Josey says.............................
by Lil' Jonny Donuts on Jan 22, 2010 5:57 PM CST up reply actions
Someone's Church Softball League
just took a major step towards he title
by texasraider on Jan 22, 2010 12:28 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
who'd I steal it from?
because whoever it is must be really smart
by texasraider on Jan 22, 2010 12:44 PM CST up reply actions
In fairness
Kevin Goldstein only said that someone’s team would be WAY WAY better.
texasraider is claiming that the team might actually be contending.
Dennis Leary special...good stuff.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Everytime I look at one of the "this day in LSB history"
I always check to see what I had to say. Everytime it’s nothing. I must have really took my job seriously back then.
"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.
Heh
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 2:16 PM CST up reply actions
We can only hope this is it
"If this video was an ice cream flavor, it'd be pralines and dick." Clark
re: Matthew Wilder-Break My Stride, 4/17/09
Sorry, he said he works for Ray Davis, not Greenburg
said he doesn’t know his share but that he’s a primary owner
by texasraider on Jan 22, 2010 12:44 PM CST up reply actions
know your friends better dammit!
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
I always thought the Kinks were underrated..
oh wait…
Vladimir Guererro - 2010 AL MVP
by RangerMad on Jan 22, 2010 1:03 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Count me in as a fan of The Kinks.
Great band to see live and “Celluloid Heroes” sneaks into my trust tree of excellent songs from the 70’s.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)
wow i agree with josey
i like the kinks too
I can't help it. I’m an asshole.
-brettgardner on Jul 7, 2009 10:55 PM EDT
IMHO, FWIW
YMMV
"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.
Lolerz!
From Maury Brown’s twit:
Gary Matthews to the Mets… And I remember when I admired Omar Minaya
"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.
Minaya will be a great GM,
Bobby Crosby for MVP, Kris Benson for CY /Peter Gammons
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
Speaking of Petey
did anyone see his MLB Network commercial that’s just him naming a list of players? What the hell was that commercial about? Am I supposed to be impressed that he can correctly categorize Kirby Puckett (RIP) as an all time great and not a rising star?
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
Whenever I hear people slurping Peter Gammons
I always remember the Crosby prediction. Absolutely terrible, even at the time.
meta-signature
If the Mets fired Omar today and
offered their GM job to JD, would he take it?
Vladimir Guererro - 2010 AL MVP
Yes
I’m sure the Mets would pay more, he’d have more $ to work with and he wouldn’t have a goofy ownership situation to worry about.
"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.
I dunno, bubela
A. The Mets may be his team, but it’s not like they would be some kind of ideal setup. Tough town, tough division.
B. Goofy ownership situation will be finito in about 10 minutes.
C. Most important, if I’d FINALLY turned shit into shinola, after 4 frequently painful years of ups and downs, enduring cheap, hindsighted potshots, ageist naysayers, and many failures, personally, I’d want to ride it out, now that the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is beaming big.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 4:56 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, I think he'd like to stick around
and see the fruits of his labors.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
Look Again
That light you see at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train – the Mariner Express. Doubt very much the Mets would want a GM that has never even gotten a team into the playoffs. Unless, of course, you think what NY fans really want is to see their Baseball America farm system ranking go up instead of a contender.
Foolish consistency is the hobgobblin of little minds - Emerson
If you are trying to make an ass of yourself, Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Jan 22, 2010 7:26 PM CST up reply actions
either him or Revo
(Wife) "So what do you want to watch on the T.V.? UFC or porn?"
(Husband) "Hmm... well, porn, I guess."
I think it was if I recall correctly
Him and his one sentence paragraphs.
"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 - Anyone else not able to check Google email?
when I click on Gmail it won’t load. been doing it for most of the day…AIDS.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
I just checked my gmail account
and had no problems. sorry
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 Jan 22, 2010 3:26 PM CST up reply actions
I can get into it through Opera, but not Mozilla...queer
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Firefox and gmail
gmail has had issues in regards to loading on Firefox — it is apparently a pretty common problem.
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 22, 2010 3:34 PM CST up reply actions
After not working all day, it now works, what the hell is going on around here?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
I am using Firefox 3.6 and it has worked everytime for me
so far.
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 Jan 22, 2010 3:44 PM CST up reply actions
how do I get the latest one?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
www.google.com
Duh!
: )
"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 know, I'm lazy man, I just went to mozilla.com and did it.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
x
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
thanks. I thought it upgraded automatically...it has a couple other times atleast..
..I thought it did anyways.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
So
What will be GMJ’s line this year w/ Mets?
"There are two girls that can take a pounding!" Tom Grieve
Both teams played hard
"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)
by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 22, 2010 5:21 PM CST up reply actions
What did you say after the ref after he T'd you up?
Josey Wales born on LSB July 18, 2006 Jumped the shark--That glorious day in 2008. RIP Josey Wales.
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
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