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#1221 Re: The Garden » The MLB Thread » 773 weeks ago
I wonder how Boras explained to Madson how he went from getting a multiyear contract worth 10+ million dollars a year to settling for a 1 year 8.5 million dollar deal. Anybody ever read one of those booklets that Boras sends out to teams concerning one of his FA's? They're pretty funny. There's one a few years ago that compared Oliver Perez to Sandy Koufax.
The teams have the advantage because we're so close to Spring Training. They'll take whatever the best offer is at this point.
I've read that Jackson has been getting interest from the Yankees. But they only want to sign him for a one year deal.
Fielder has zero interest in a one year deal and the suitors are slowly disappearing. Blue Jays aren't interested. Neither are the Marlins. I think Boras is waiting to see if the Rangers sign Darvish (deadline is the 18th) before doing anything.
Here's a really long interesting article on the Hall of Fame written by Joe Posanski:
#1222 Re: The Garden » Amazon Kindle » 774 weeks ago
I'm a book person as well, love the smell of the paper, love spending time wandering around bookshops. I'm more interested in getting one for reading material thats online already rather than for converted books. I find it uncomfortable reading through a lot of text from a computer screen.
That's probably why I'll never convert to a Kindle/ereaders full time. After a few minutes of reading text from the computer my eyes begin to glaze and I just start skimming the page just to get to the end of it.
#1223 Re: The Garden » The MLB Thread » 774 weeks ago
I think Bagwell will make it. He got 56.0% of the vote this year and that was an increase of something like 14% from last year.
Piazza and Biggio are pretty much locks for next year. Schilling I think will get in because of his big game heroics. But he probably doesn't deserve to as noted by Axlin12.
The real interesting part is if the juicers (Bonds, Clemens) don't get the votes, I wonder which candidate benefits. Does Jack Morris get the final 8.3% needed to get in? Morris is in a tricky situation since he's only on the ballot for two more years then he has to go the Veterans Committee route. I could see Tim Raines getting a bump up from his 48.7% vote total this year.
I think Bonds gets at least 30% of the vote next year. I have no clue about Clemens, I think a lot of people still hold that appearance at Washington against him.
Bud Selig was given a two year extension today. I thought that fucker was supposed to retire after his current contract expired.
#1224 Re: The Garden » NFL Playoffs » 774 weeks ago
Yeah Pats will definitely wipe out the Broncos. You play zone vs Tebow not man to man. The WR for the Broncos is legit though. Both of the AFC divisional round games look like blowouts for the home teams. Might as well just wait for BAL@NE to begin in a week.
The real interesting games are in the NFC. NO@SF and NYG@GB hold far more interest and appeal to me. It's clear that for this year, the NFC is the superior conference.
#1225 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 776 weeks ago
Bono wrote:So what. In my opinion he's one of if not the only guy who has been able to genuinely carry a storyline over the past decade. He's not past it and he's a badass character. He still gets a huge pop when his music hits, he shouldn't be jobbing to the new scrubs on the roster who can't hold a crowd. untill they find a guy who can legitimately comand the crowd let Triple H carry the ball. As it should be. I sure as fuck don't wanna see Triple H ever jobbing to a douche like Ziggler.... CM Punk fine but there's so much shit on the roster these days. Triple H isa bright spot for sure.
Forgot to write this earlier- THAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH HHH. It's in fact a classic example of him not putting people over when he should. WHY THE HELL DID HE NOT JOB TO PUNK.
It made no sense and killed Punk's momentum, and having Nash didn't help.
*Ok rant about HHH over, Merry Christmas everyone!
I'm still trying to figure out what the point was of having Nash interfere with SummerSlam. I mean it helped no one but Nash and HHH. Del Rio or Punk didn't benefit at all from this. It helped derail the CM Punk momentum from the MITB win. I mean he was probably guaranteed a rematch at Wrestlemania with the Undertaker next year so it's not like he need the spotlight again for a while.
HHH might wrestle better than most of the current roster but he gives the same monologue promo and still buries guys.
And yeah, the previous list posted by AtariLegend is damning evidence against HHH. I'm pretty sure the WWE had other guys booked to win the title at Wrestlemania (Booker T and RVD) but they got nixed at the last minute by HHH.
I think of current guys Orton is probably closest to being overprotected. With the exception of HHH and Mark Henry, very few wrestlers have come out of a feud with Orton that have had their heat intact. CM Punk last year feuded with Orton last spring and lost all their matches and came out weaker. Same thing with Christian. I fear he is doing the same in his feud with Wade Barett.
#1226 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 776 weeks ago
Vince is a fucking moron. He also wants to develop entertainment stuff on the new WWE network that is supposed to roll out early in the spring of next year. Most of the people who will watch the network will watch because of the wrestling content not because of their interest in a reality show involving HHH.
#1227 Re: The Garden » 2011-2012 NFL Season Thread » 776 weeks ago
Most important game in 10 years coming up this Saturday for the Lions.
They passed the test and are in the playoffs for the first time since 1999. Personally speaking, I'd like to see a rematch between the 49ers and Lions in the wild card round. Looks like the NFC East Winner is locked into the #4 seed.
Bad day for the Vikings today. They win and knock themselves out of the Luck sweepstakes. And Adrian Peterson tears up his knee. He probably won't be ready or 100% for the most of 2012.
#1228 Re: The Garden » The MLB Thread » 776 weeks ago
It's a good trade for both teams. If OAK got prospects that were closer to the big leagues I would say the trade would have favored them.
Off topic (a little): Why doesn't Bud do anything about the Mets ownership situation? It's getting embarrassing reading about their money problems. I guess the Wilpons are friends of Bud so they get a longer rope to figure out their problems.
#1229 Re: The Garden » Happy Holidays » 776 weeks ago
Merry Christmas to everyone as well!
#1230 Re: The Garden » JFK assassination » 777 weeks ago
I read a couple of books about the topic like 10-15 years ago and I remember one thing: the evidence doesn't match the story that the government gave out. The forensics and general laws of physics don't support the government story at all. There is no way that one fucking bullet could have hit JFK then exited his body and then injured the Texas governor.
Now that you do mention, I remember how the books said the autopsy was suspect and not consistent. This one was a definite government coverup and conspiracy. I'm pretty sure that I remember reading that most of the witnesses who had other evidence that differs from the government narrative ended up dead.
Which leads to another question: Who would want JFK dead and for what reasons?
