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  1. mothershipconnection
    I always assume they are jerking me around and being less than transparent until I have a firm job offer. Throw your resume around and never bank on anything until it's in writing. Even when I've been certain I was getting a job, I still scheduled interviews with other companies until the offer was made and I accepted.
  2. mothershipconnection
    It's believed that his elbow is in serious trouble, and he's getting pretty old. Still, before the injury he was an absolute monster. If they have any indication that he's gonna be OK, and he comes cheaply, he could be a fantastic signing.
  3. mothershipconnection
    his bi-monthly paycheck (which he gets all year, not just during the season like most players) is $583,333. Jeez, that's almost double what I get.
  4. mothershipconnection
    Where's the blueprint for the offseason people are demanding? It seems only the Yankees, Mets, Indians, and A's have made any moves we should really be envious of. We've signed inoffensive AAAA filler and didn't lose anyone but Torres that we didn't expect to lose. The rumors of Peavy just saying "screw it" and waving his no-trade could be true and we trade for him tomorrow and suddenly this is a great offseason. It's not like teams in similar situations have made all these fantastic moves while we sat here and missed out on everything.
  5. mothershipconnection
    i know i know talk radio You get a pass, Clarke Howard is darn near the only talk radio worth listening to. If for no other reason, it's funny to listen to him explain just how incredibly cheap he is and get out of his mind excited about saving 6 bucks.
  6. mothershipconnection
    Actually, if you ask any historian, it was Yoko Ono who truly orchestrated the great purge.
  7. mothershipconnection
    SWEET! Braun Jersey, Yount Jersey T-shirt, and Brewers T for me, Fielder jersey for my girlfriend. Total $69.55.
  8. mothershipconnection
    I'd potentially like Millwood in either a salary dump for a marginal pitching prospect, or a Millwood dump + affordable player of need/value for Bush. However, I'd need to see what the FA market dictates he's worth a little bit first. It may be better to sign a FA pitcher if the market is really soft. I wouldn't have interest in Padilla unless they were dumb enough to swap his one year of junk for Suppan's 2.
  9. mothershipconnection
    why would the yankees want soup? Because for them, he's a reasonably-priced long reliever. But seriously, Cameron does not have nearly the surplus value to offset Suppan's negative value, unless it's July of their walk years and the trade market for pitching is lackluster. We'd need to either add more surplus value or take on a player with some negative value to make it happen.
  10. mothershipconnection
    A hundred a sixty million for a pitcher? Good lawd that's a lotta money. How bout I give you 60 bucks and you shoot some tennis balls at me. ESPN radio said the Yanks have offered Burnett a 5 year deal. You'd think that after getting out of bad deals they wouldn't immediately act like idiots again.
  11. mothershipconnection
    but giving CC the right to get out of the contract is ridiculous if we receive no protection. The Blue Jays were dopes for letting Burnett have a one way opt out contract. For Burnett it was a no lose situation; pitch well and get paid even more or get injured and still have the security of a long term contract. Situations like this creates a no win situation for the team and a no lose situation for the player. If CC insists on this we should just let him walk. A "lose-lose" for the team is the entire point, though. Opt-outs and other clauses like it have subjective financial value. Let's say the team can only pay $X for a player over 3 years and the player wants $Y. If $Z is the subjective value of the opt-out clause and enough to cover the gap between X and Y, the team may add it in lieu of money to make the overall value of the contract high enough for the player to sign. If it's either $110MM over 5 years or $100MM over 5 years with an opt-out, you've gotta decide if saving those $10MM is worth giving up that kind of power to the player. So in this situation, you can either add real dollars, or modify an offer to include something with a subjective financial value. My employer giving me more vacation time is a "lose-lose" for them. I'm not productive and at work, AND they have to pay me. But the alternative is giving me a raise, which costs money they don't want to spend.
  12. mothershipconnection
    Good signing. Worst case scenario is that you sign someone else and either release him or trade him for someone's Jason Conti to fill a hole.
  13. mothershipconnection
    I'm not as certain about Thomas, but Griffey's in for sure. I'd vote for Thomas, and think he'll make it, but he may need to get past playing lots of DH, being under 2,500 hits, and the fact that 600 homers seems to be the new 500, and he didn't make it.
  14. mothershipconnection
    GM (or Delphi or whoever supplies them) produces some garbage fuel pumps, though that doesn't necessarily sound like a fuel pump failure.
  15. mothershipconnection
    In a trailer park in Wisconsin, late 1979, a produce department manager/rock musician and a hair dresser conceived a child. Because the child would grow up in Wisconsin, he had no choice in what teams to cheer for, especially when the only other big league team near him played in a giant bubble that was less appealing than that trailer.
  16. mothershipconnection
    It's tough to say that before we even know what holes we have yet with 100% certainty. Say Sheets accepts arby tonight, and that makes SP less of a concern. Word. A rotation with Sheets and a healthy Gallardo at the top is better than the rotation we had before the CC trade, which still allowed us to be very competitive. Putting Gallardo's career 3.35 ERA back into the mix is absolutely huge, and I wouldn't bet a significant amount of money on CC having a better year than Yo. If Sheets managed to stay healthy all year (yes, a ginormous "if"), we could legitimately have a better rotation than last year. If Sheets accepts arbitration, I think we're a quality 3B and 2 good RP's away from being very competitive again.
  17. mothershipconnection
    What I've always heard about Johnson is that he's a loner and socially-awkward rather than an outright jerk. So it seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't ruin "chemistry" while not adding to it either.
  18. mothershipconnection
    Or Calista Flockheart. Japanese people LOVE Ally McBeal.
  19. mothershipconnection
    I disliked living in Texas and moved away as soon as I got a chance. Then I got an offer of 30% more than I was making to move back here. I accepted on the spot. It may take more to get Dunn in Milwaukee, but if the market now dictates that he's not worth an arbitration offer, the competition for him may be weaker than Juan Pierre's arm.
  20. mothershipconnection
    The Happening is one of the worst pieces of crap to every be burned onto a plastic disc. DON'T rent it. It's not a niche movie or something you may like despite what your friend says because the two of you have different tastes in movies and you often like the ones he doesn't. Incorrect, you will not enjoy that movie, nobody can. Step Brothers, on the other hand, is great if you like either of the leading men.
  21. mothershipconnection
    I want at least 4 unicorns, a griffon, 7 magic beans, and the Wicked Witch of the West.
  22. mothershipconnection
    Stubkins
  23. mothershipconnection
    Suppan may actually make more solid starts this year than Hampton will have scheduled starts (half of which will be scratched).
  24. mothershipconnection
    I'd buy the Sanyo Eneloop batteries. Seconded. They're all I use now in my Wii remotes and beard trimmer. My girlfriend says her Sonicare toothbrush goes twice as long with them as it did with Rayovacs. I think I paid $17 for an eneloop charger with 4 AA's on amazon.
  25. mothershipconnection
    Here's hoping he stays healthy enough to play a full season. To bad it's a Safeco. Ugh. Branyan's the ultimate Safeco/park effect-proof hitter. His K's will all still be K's, his walks will still be walks, and his 500 ft homers will still clear the fence in any park.
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