MLB 2011 season

Oh absolutely. You also are talking about us real life folk
If I'm a baseball player and making $50 million, and am offered $75 million.....well that's huge, but 50 mill is a damn lot for me. If I loved where I was I'd stay. 
Now like I said, if I was playing in Tampa Bay and got an offer from the Yankees, even for the same money (hypothetically) I'd go for the history they have and the city of New York. I assume I'm biased

Yeah, it's been talked about endlessly in this area and like it or not...we are stuck with him. He's not the only problem of course but still.....

Yeah it's insane. As for the moving...well this is just my personal opinion but I dont NEED a lot of money.
In general.
So, if I was Albert Pujols, (or lets say CC Sabathia since he really loved Cleveland) I'm already making a sh*t ton of money. Sure, they are offering me $30 million more, how can you not take it? Or the classic "business/family decisions" line but you already make more in year than I can even dream of in my life....I wouldn't go solely because "well how can I turn down that much more?"   Now I would go to Yanks for the history and all that, but just me.


Never know Catcher. The biggest payrolls in 2010 were who? Yanks, Sahx and Phillies. How well did they all do?
Or look at my Yanks the last decade or so. All I ever hear about is "waaaaaaaaaaaaaah baaaaaaaaahh they got so much money" but it never does any good. Playoffs every year? Yeah like you need $500 million to do that. Especially just to lose first round every time?
I'll take my 90s Yankees over this "team" one million times.
We are stuck with him...but in fantasy land I'd drop A rod in a heartbeat.

If anything WE got the raw end of the deal he used to be a great player. Perhaps even a 5 tool player.
He may have been better at the start of his NYY career but he never "wowed" any of us and now...he doesn't hit for average, he doesn't steal, he's a pure power hitter which means 7 times out of 10 its a long hit...caught at the wall. He certainly isn't clutch and I'd say a distraction.

Being the class act he is, Jeter says "all is good" and that stuff but Alex created a huge rift with him, and just brings so much negative attention off the field, as never gelled with the team I do think.


Edited by JJLehto - December 09 2011 at 11:40

JJLehto wrote: Yeah seriously, but these baseball players are the worst. Guess I can understand why, without any cap limits you are free to sign em for....well  lets say $254 million. Outrageous. Buehrle isn't a terrible pick up, as you said can be useful just not greatly. I know the Yankees faithful floated his name around but ultimately came to the same conclusion, wasn't worth it. Almost a shame to see Pujols go, I'm a random fan of the St Louis teams but watcha gunna do? Random: Glad to see that Symph X being played man :D

Yeah, baseball is a ridiculously lucrative business... Part of me wishes I would have tried to take a shot at getting drafted somewhere... I didn't have hardly any scouts come see me in high school, but when one season of MINIMUM salary in the majors is as much as what I make in 9 or 10 years at my current job... Ridiculous!

With his new contract, Albert Pujols will make more in one single at-bat than I'll have made this entire year. I would say that for that kind of money you can't really blame him for leaving St. Louis, but heck, they offered him just about as much. My guess is that he's thinking that by going to an AL team he can DH the last few years of his contract to stay healthy and keep his offensive numbers up.

And yeah, Symphony X's Facebook polls about what songs fans want to see live from each album have got me in a Symphony X mood lately. Usually Symphony X is mainly reserved for my car because it gets me pumped on the way to work, but it's good pretty much any time of day.

manofmystery wrote: Marlins withdraw their bit for Pujols and sign... Mark Buehrle?   I could be biased, because Buehrle is completely useless in fantasy baseball (and that's the only thing that keeps the sport alive), but that's not someone you throw a bunch of money at.    Pujols to the LAA Angels!  So, he goes from playing for my most hated manager (La Rusa) to maybe the next most so (Scioscia).  Knowing the eye Scioscia has for talent Albert will probably be on the bench for half the year .

Buehrle is actually somewhat useful if you use him the right way and have the right team around him... He had an ERA way under 3 at home this year, so if you streamed him against weak teams and at home he could have helped moderately with wins and pretty well with ERA. You just have to have a few high-K relievers to even out his absolutely atrocious lack of K's.

Personally I hate using pitchers with K/9 under 7 if I can help it, but every now and then, assuming you get them cheap, they can be sneakily decent.

rushfan4 wrote: Did somebody lose the key to the vault in New York?  Maybe forgot the password to their on-line bank account?

And at least that deflects some of the attention of Vernon Wells.

Marlins withdraw their bit for Pujols and sign... Mark Buehrle?   I could be biased, because Buehrle is completely useless in fantasy baseball (and that's the only thing that keeps the sport alive), but that's not someone you throw a bunch of money at. 

Edited by manofmystery - December 08 2011 at 11:01

Yeah, personally I hope that they seriously flounder because I can't stand Ozzie Guillen and because of the whole situation of lying about their profits in order to have the city/county pay for the vast majority of their new stadium... Otherwise I'd actually be excited to see the Marlins going out and signing players and trying to make something happen instead of dumping all their talent every time pay day comes around.

I think the Hanley/Reyes thing COULD be a bit overblown; people tried to do that when A-Rod was traded to the Yankees and had to move to 3B because of Jeter, too, and it wound up being nothing. The difference here, of course, is that Hanley is a notoriously lazy and work ethic-devoid immature player and Reyes is frequently injured. It might cause them some issues, after all!

It's easy to have money to sign lots of big names when you cheat taxpayers by lying about financial records....

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-05-05/news/six-lies-about-the-marlins-stadium/2/
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-08-23/sports/fl-hyde-florida-marlines-finances-08220100823_1_cabrera-trade-cameron-maybin-cody-ross


http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/05/2532405/sec-probing-financing-of-new-marlins.html

If I am not mistaken, the Marlins are moving into their new stadium this year, so they are expecting an influx of fans and money this year and are therefore building a team that will try and draw fans to this new stadium.