Weekend random boring stuff
DMZ · December 31, 2006 at 11:05 am · Filed Under General baseball
Aubrey Huff agrees to a 3y, $20m deal with the Orioles
Mulder has some teams after him
Ryan Howard fired his agent and isn’t eligible for arb until after 2007 but still appears to be in line for a “big raise,” the Phillies said.
The Mariners can still make the playoffs with a Cincinnati loss and a Denver tie if the Jacksonville-Kansas City game ends in a tie or is won by one or two points.
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So much for the Huff plan. Good move for baltimore.
Sure is a nice move. Makes the Vidro move look that much worse.
the O’s also signed Bubba Trammell, FWIW.
oh, and Carl Everett wants to play for someone next season….
wasn’t Howards’s agent Larry Reynolds? seems to me I remember him agitating to get Ryan traded when Thome came in to play 1st for the Phillies…
Heard a rumor that Mariners will sign Chris Reitsma. Anyone care to comment on the ups and downs of this? SOunds like a 1 year deal with a club option. Probably for 2-3 million in the first year.
I don’t think the mariners have a chance even if they do make the playoffs. Vidro is terrible at picking up the blitz and aside from Ichiro their secondary is awful.
The Mariners can still make the playoffs with a Cincinnati loss and a Denver tie if the Jacksonville-Kansas City game ends in a tie or is won by one or two points.
That was hilarious. Also yet another reason (although minor) I don’t like football.
I don’t think the mariners have a chance even if they do make the playoffs. Vidro is terrible at picking up the blitz and aside from Ichiro their secondary is awful.
You forgot, Ichiro is a placekicker. Hargrove said it would be the best use of his talents.
I think you’re spot-on with Vidro though.
I don’t think Huff was a great move by Baltimore, at least not for the price. It obviously wasn’t the worst move all off-season, though. I just don’t think that’s saying much. Might have been different if they were in a better position and felt that his upgrade would be exponentially more valuable.
A few years ago I would have had a totally different opinion, but he’s really been deflating over the last three years.
I can’t go anywhere in Philly today without someone commenting about the Eagles game today. It’s sort of amusing.
if the Jacksonville-Kansas City game
I knew the Royals were bad last year, but I didn’t realize they got relegated to the Southern League. Oh well, maybe Meche will be able to live up to his contract there.
Sure, why not give Howard a raise if he’ll agree to be bought out of a few years of arbitration? Security in a team’s payroll is something worth money now and his security now is worth receiving less in the future. The devil is in the details, not in the concept.
I play on 3 soccer teams and this is, sadly, the sort of thing I come up with every thing season to figure our chances for the championship game each season. On the plus side, I do have job offers from 5 different NFL teams for this very thing.
Thisarticle in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by David O’Brien does not suggest reasons for optimism about Chris Reitsma’s future.
Although perhaps he’s being interviewed to be Bavasi’s new driver.
Perhaps this article is what I was referring to.
#5. That can’t be right. He’s not a Washington State native!
/scratching head
Well, but he is crippled up. That’s almost as good as having gone to high school in Snohomish County.
I’d rather have Snelling than Huff. Nuff said.
As for the NFL, I’m a longtime fan and I personally wish the MLB would learn a few lessons from the NFL’s success (most notably in how their commish knows how to reign in the players and their unions and keep things reasonable).
The NFL union was entirely broken. They’re probably the weakest union in pro sports (well, the NHL may have beat them). The result’s been horrible for players and great for owners. I guess if that’s what you want…
Now, they do an amazing job marketing and promoting their own sport. MLB would be well-advised to look to them for inspiration.
Generally, that’s what most baseball fans want. Players have a more visible and familiar face than owners, so they’re easier to blame.
If that’s true, then I disagree entirely with most baseball fans on whether that’s a just goal.
I think generally speaking that fan sentiment tends to be that it’s a bunch of millionaires versus billionaires and they don’t care about either side.
NFL Football has an inherent advantage over other sports in that they only play games on one day a week, with sporadic feature games on different days. This allows them to spend an entire week promoting one set of games, slow-cooking the fanbase’s interest to a revenue-heavy boil. There’s a stronger sense of ‘be there on Sunday or be square’ urgency on the fans’ part, which is why they sell stadia out every week and why their ratings and revenue goes through the roof seemingly no matter who’s playing on the field.
The other leagues play games almost daily, making for a lack of this sort of urgency, as if a fan misses a game on a given day, there will always be a game the next day or in a couple days, day after day after day. That’s an inherent advantage for the NFL.
As for the NFL, I’m a longtime fan and I personally wish the MLB would learn a few lessons from the NFL’s success (most notably in how their commish knows how to reign in the players and their unions and keep things reasonable).
That’s a chuckle. Have you seen what beer costs at Qwest? And tickets near the field are just as ridiculous.And don’t get me started about requiring people to buy season tickets to
exhibitionpreseason games as part of the season ticket package. It’s not like the savings get passed on to us.And on a more serious note- The Times did a series on NFL offensive linemen, who, generally don’t get paid great money (a few hundred thousand a year for a few years, which sounds good, but I know a fair number of people who make that), plus they have the bonus of dying in their 50’s from the extra weight they carry, permanent damage to backs, hips and joints.
Boy, those NFL players really get to live large, huh?
So, if you ask me if I’d break the players union so George Steinbrenner and other owners can make MORE money… no thanks.
I read the article in that series on the guy who lost his leg from a busted ankle. Man, people don’t realize the life-shortening sacrifice that many NFL players make to play professionally. Even with the millions that many of them make these days, I’m still not sure it’s worth the debilitating pain from simulating a car crash with your body 70-80 times a game, and the early death that comes once your career is over, a career that usually doesn’t last very long (4-7 years if you’re fortunate).