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and most of all I want K-Rod.

You friggin' New Yorkers and you're shopping lists. :mad:

You've got my Santana so go :censored: yourselves.

You have no idea how bad your douche bag teams and the Red Sox are for the rest of baseball. <_<

P.S. Go Tigers!

The Mets got Santana and wind up in the same exact spot as last year. The Twins are assured of getting to play at least one more game. Advantage Twins?

Bullcrap. If we still had Santana we'd have locked up our division two weeks ago.

That's your own GM's fault. I said i before the season and I say i again I see know reason why the Twins traded Santana. Sure he was to be a free agent after the season but you know they are probably compete for a playoff spot. Why not keep him and see where you are as a team. If your on the fringe or out come the deadline trade him then but if you are a position that the Twins ultimatly ended up you keep him and make a run at th World Series. If you have a chance to win now you try and win now and worry about the future later. The Twins GM made a huge mistake in trading him. Don't blame the Yankees, Red Sox or Mets they didn't force his hand.

Why didn't they just wait until the trade deadline? It didn't make sense to deal him like they did -- especially to take the deal that they did when the Red Sox were offering Jon Lester + Coco Crisp + more and the Yankees were dangling Philip Hughes (who despite his poor season is going to be a frontline starter eventually). They overplayed their hand, and took probably the worst deal of the three.

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Albert Pujols should not be in contention for MVP either because his team did not make the playoffs; therefore, he is not that valuable. Yeah he has some value, but not nearly enough to be considered the MVP. If the award was 'Best Player', then you could make an argument, but for MVP? Nah.

Agreed.

Fielder should've been the MVP last season had the Brewers made the playoffs, but their swoon knocked him out.

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Trust me, it's not said because there's a feeling that "Just one game" isn't of any importance. The reason it's said is because of the constant "Oh God oh God the ship is sinking were done and it's only April we need to spend X amount of money to make it better" mindset. It's just annoying and does nothing to help improve morale. And watching Mets fans (not all, but there are a certain, few, who take this mindset) bitch like the teenage daughters of Oil tycoons on their birthday because they didn't get EXACTLY what they want is what does it for me. Hell, I'd love to see the A's come within one game of the playoffs.

I don't want you to take offense to this, but it seems like you're always complaining about how bad the A's are. They were in the ALCS as recently as 2006 and have had a bunch of playoff appearances in this decade. You could, as a fan, be in a much more desperate situation.

Oh of course, I agree with you 100%. I think for the most part the A's are a very solid organization top to bottom. Do I feel that there are times they do things that I don't agree with, and that little to no sense to me? Of course, but that's why I'm not a GM. The point I was making is that there are teams out there, such as the A's and Twins, who would NEVER have a shot at players like Santana, Beltran, K Rod and so on. For people to be so absolutely demanding, when they have the second highest payroll in baseball to begin with, is what irks me.

And on another note, sure Texas and Seattle have had struggles that are tougher than the A's in terms of success, but at least they have (Or had) the money to bring in big name impact players, ala Alex Rodriguez to the largest contract in American sports history, or the M's with the kind of money they have dropped on guys like Ichiro, Sexton, Beltre, and so on.

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and most of all I want K-Rod.

You friggin' New Yorkers and you're shopping lists. :mad:

You've got my Santana so go :censored: yourselves.

You have no idea how bad your douche bag teams and the Red Sox are for the rest of baseball. <_<

P.S. Go Tigers!

The Mets got Santana and wind up in the same exact spot as last year. The Twins are assured of getting to play at least one more game. Advantage Twins?

Bullcrap. If we still had Santana we'd have locked up our division two weeks ago.

That's your own GM's fault. I said i before the season and I say i again I see know reason why the Twins traded Santana. Sure he was to be a free agent after the season but you know they are probably compete for a playoff spot. Why not keep him and see where you are as a team. If your on the fringe or out come the deadline trade him then but if you are a position that the Twins ultimatly ended up you keep him and make a run at th World Series. If you have a chance to win now you try and win now and worry about the future later. The Twins GM made a huge mistake in trading him. Don't blame the Yankees, Red Sox or Mets they didn't force his hand.

Why didn't they just wait until the trade deadline? It didn't make sense to deal him like they did -- especially to take the deal that they did when the Red Sox were offering Jon Lester + Coco Crisp + more and the Yankees were dangling Philip Hughes (who despite his poor season is going to be a frontline starter eventually). They overplayed their hand, and took probably the worst deal of the three.

If Carlos Gomez becomes what I think he may (though he really struggled mid year), I'll be OK with it. The "tie-breaker" is that they kept him out of the AL.

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and most of all I want K-Rod.

You friggin' New Yorkers and you're shopping lists. :mad:

You've got my Santana so go :censored: yourselves.

You have no idea how bad your douche bag teams and the Red Sox are for the rest of baseball. <_<

P.S. Go Tigers!

The Mets got Santana and wind up in the same exact spot as last year. The Twins are assured of getting to play at least one more game. Advantage Twins?

Bullcrap. If we still had Santana we'd have locked up our division two weeks ago.

That's your own GM's fault. I said i before the season and I say i again I see know reason why the Twins traded Santana. Sure he was to be a free agent after the season but you know they are probably compete for a playoff spot. Why not keep him and see where you are as a team. If your on the fringe or out come the deadline trade him then but if you are a position that the Twins ultimatly ended up you keep him and make a run at th World Series. If you have a chance to win now you try and win now and worry about the future later. The Twins GM made a huge mistake in trading him. Don't blame the Yankees, Red Sox or Mets they didn't force his hand.

Why didn't they just wait until the trade deadline? It didn't make sense to deal him like they did -- especially to take the deal that they did when the Red Sox were offering Jon Lester + Coco Crisp + more and the Yankees were dangling Philip Hughes (who despite his poor season is going to be a frontline starter eventually). They overplayed their hand, and took probably the worst deal of the three.

If Carlos Gomez becomes what I think he may (though he really struggled mid year), I'll be OK with it. The "tie-breaker" is that they kept him out of the AL.

That's a good point. Looking back, I think the Red Sox offer was Jon Lester, Coco Crisp, Jed Lowrie, and Justin Masterson... that is a HUGE offer. I guess the point is that nobody blame the Red Sox, Yankees, or Mets... they were willing to part ways with a lot of talent to get Santana.

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Albert Pujols should not be in contention for MVP either because his team did not make the playoffs; therefore, he is not that valuable. Yeah he has some value, but not nearly enough to be considered the MVP. If the award was 'Best Player', then you could make an argument, but for MVP? Nah.

Agreed.

Fielder should've been the MVP last season had the Brewers made the playoffs, but their swoon knocked him out.

That's all well and good. However...

The Cardinals were never supposed to be in contention for a playoff spot in a fairly strong NL Central this year, and yet they were through the efforts of Pujols.

The Brewers were supposed to be in contention for a playoff spot last year in a horribly weak division and fell out of it.

There's your most valuable right there. These are different situations, and that should be taken into account.

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
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Albert Pujols should not be in contention for MVP either because his team did not make the playoffs; therefore, he is not that valuable. Yeah he has some value, but not nearly enough to be considered the MVP. If the award was 'Best Player', then you could make an argument, but for MVP? Nah.

Agreed.

Fielder should've been the MVP last season had the Brewers made the playoffs, but their swoon knocked him out.

Exactly. As Branch Rickey said to Ralph Kiner..."We finished in last with you, we can finish in last without you".

The Cards could've missed the playoffs without Pujols... (and before you say "Um, they didn't", that's my point...)

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Albert Pujols should not be in contention for MVP either because his team did not make the playoffs; therefore, he is not that valuable. Yeah he has some value, but not nearly enough to be considered the MVP. If the award was 'Best Player', then you could make an argument, but for MVP? Nah.

Agreed.

Fielder should've been the MVP last season had the Brewers made the playoffs, but their swoon knocked him out.

Exactly. As Branch Rickey said to Ralph Kiner..."We finished in last with you, we can finish in last without you".

The Cards could've missed the playoffs without Pujols... (and before you say "Um, they didn't", that's my point...)

Barry Bonds takes issue with your sentiment.

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said:
Today, we are all otaku.

"The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert

POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010

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I didn't notice until just now, but only two NL players hit 40 HR, and zero AL players hit the mark. The number of 40+ HR hitters appears to be dropping in recent years, and now we're getting to a point where it's almost the mid-late '80s again. I don't think pitching is getting any better, and ballparks certainly aren't getting bigger, so there's only one possible explanation. Anyone disagree?

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