Two Huge Announcements at Winter Meetings?
Via Will Carroll on Twitter
about 2 years ago
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by Stephen Schmidt on Dec 5, 2009 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
Carroll says one on Monday and one on Tuesday
From replies he’s made to other people, I can determine that it’s not:
-contraction
-a Selig extension
-the announcement of the next commissioner
-the Rays relocating
-a shortening of the season
-an expansion of the playoffs
-steroids-related
Someone asked Carroll if one of the two things involved the Rangers ownership situation, and he replied “Smart”
A "Zeile" for avoiding outs
Also unless Jerrah Jones or Mark Cuban is buying the Rangers
I’m not sure anyone would care enough for it to overshadow big free agent signings.
Can't be Cuban.
The other owners won’t let him in the club. Maybe Jones, though I haven’t heard anything about him wanting to own another team.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Dec 5, 2009 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah that's what I figured about Cuban
But outside of those two who, with the money and the reasons for interest, could be buying them, or part of them, that would be a big enough story for it to overshadow a major free agent signing.
Maybe it's not a sale
Maybe Hicks is filing for bankruptcy. We know he’s been having money problems. Or maybe the Steinbrenners are buying the Rangers to use as a farm club.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Dec 5, 2009 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
I thought he already had to file for bankruptcy
But would that overshadow free agent signings? it’s not like the rangers have a massive fan base.
Maybe Carroll thinks there won't be much signing news at the meetings
So these two things will be the news.
Still, it would have to be something like MLB merged with the Japanese league
for me to think that’s bigger than the Mets getting the Holladay brothers.
The Phillies have lost all their money?
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
It was a 3 way trade
We get Andrew Freidman
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
Death to the Phillies and Yankees?
That would be the greatest offseason ever!
Beer is good! And stuff!
Their going to rename the MVP award the Derek Jeter award
Instead of going to the best players in each league it goes to the most gritty player
DO WHAT JOSE REYES DO!!!
by Jadden Hopkins on Dec 5, 2009 9:12 AM EST up reply actions
My guess:
- This year’s buffet will feature only two types of meat, instead of the usual three; and
- They’re secretly replacing the regular coffee with Folger’s crystals.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Dec 5, 2009 9:25 AM EST reply actions
As long as it doesn't involve us in a negative way...
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 5, 2009 12:52 PM EST reply actions
Here's the first one - from the Metsblog twitter feed
And Jeff Wilpon likes it. Sweet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/sports/baseball/06stats.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
"For Jeff Wilpon, the chief operating officer of the Mets, the value in the software will be in evaluating free agents.
"If you take X player on another team who’s around a great cast of players," he said, "we want to look at him in our ballpark with different players around him to see how he will fit in.""
it’’s crazy that stats like that don’t already exist..
oh wait
Also
"It tells me that baseball is increasingly a business and less a sport, which has been going on for 150 years," Thorn said. "I’m just sick of stats."
…so all the revenue-sharing, increasing player costs and what not is okay… but stats=business?
I wonder if, since it’s software instead of paperwork, Omar won’t consider it “false hustle”
ugh - i hate that idea
that professional sports must somehow not be about money. go watch high school sports if you want amateurs, but otherwise anything that is covered by a newspaper or televised is no longer just about “sports” whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.
MLB is a business, and it operates one. i can see the just used that guy thorn for a closed, opposing view throw away quote but i have no idea what hes even trying to imply. that for the last 150 years, pro baseball wasnt trying to make money?
its like, grow up dude.
Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.
I think the 2nd big announcement
is that Bud Selig is gonna hire Steve Phillips as MLB’s Internship Coordinator
"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09
This is the other one apparently
http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2009/12/cubs-to-remain-jumbotron-free-at-wrigley-field.html
Will Carroll can go fuck himself
A "Zeile" for avoiding outs
Will Carroll
Thanks for a real life version of “Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine”
by James Kannengieser on Dec 6, 2009 11:38 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Why do they call it Ovaltine?
The mug is round, the jar is round. They should call it Roundtine. That’s gold Jerry. Gold!
"I see the job in bigger terms. Paperwork, that’s false hustle. It takes away creativity. People who are into paperwork are into covering their asses, so if things go wrong they can point to all the work they did. They’re thinking more about failure than success. The more paperwork the opposition does, the better my chances are. Know what I’m sayin’?"
great movie, watch it every holiday season
but on a related note, does anybody else find ovaltine to actually taste pretty disgusting?
by KeithsMoustache on Dec 7, 2009 12:35 AM EST up reply actions
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