Comments on: Backne Gets Scratched

By: josh

josh — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:37:04 +0000

i dont expect anyone to care but i need to bitch somewhere. made a trade in which i got granderson and gave youkilis (and more). granderson is 1/18 for my team and youkilis has 5 hrs for him.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:53:53 +0000

@KarlJ: My thought on the trades were A) Kenji and Jered are both a wash, and they shouldn’t even be on teams at this point. There’s definitely something better on the waivers. Halladay is having a solid season, which he will do as long as he avoids injury. V-Mart’s had some injury tweaks this year, but obviously a great catcher. Halladay and an upgrade at catcher is stronger than V-Mart and Weaver.

B. Lincecum for Tex is solid. Votto looks great, but he might get exposed. Cain’s shown flashes of brilliance in past seasons and could work out his kinks. I bet on Cain to return to his past than the unknown of Votto at this level.

C. Those two catchers are bleh and should both be dropped. Lincecum for Harang is not a great trade. A trade that is basically an apples for apples trade. There’s no point.

Do the straight up trade if you can. Tex for Lincecum.

EDIT: Cuz.

By: Chase

Chase — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:24:11 +0000

Erik makes me flustered. I saw it was 5-0 Seattle in the top of the first and I was like alright bedard is gonna get the win

By: BSA

BSA — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:16:59 +0000

Can Bedard lay a bigger egg tonight in Bedard? First his offense can’t score for him, then they give him five runs and he can only help the Rangers deposit his pitches in the bleachers.

By: BSA

BSA — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:56:00 +0000

Thanks for the tek past born on date. good chuckle.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:54:09 +0000

@BSA: They’re annoying me and I’m not even in that league. Penny’s a throw-in. He’s a first half player that is not having a good first half thus far. It’s risk and things happen. The trade should’ve went through.

@Russ: I’d do that. Varitek’s past his born on date.

@Dim: I wouldn’t use it on Hill at this point.

By: Dim

Dim — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:20:28 +0000

Lost out on Hart; use the waiver priority of Rich Hill or wait for Kershaw (And yes, every comment I make will end “or wait for Kershaw?”)?

By: Chase

Chase — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:12:59 +0000

grey, just traded geovanny soto AND rich harden…took ur advice….traded them for vmartinez and john lackey

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:42:50 +0000

hey grey, what do you think of dropping varitek for iannetta?

By: BSA

BSA — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:26:42 +0000

Hey Grey, regarding that vetoed trade of Vlad/Penny for Volquez here is a response to my being pissed off at another team who not only objected but added to it by posting to the message board. Here is a response I don’t get.
“unless its obvious collusion, or the deal is SO one-sided I wonder if the managers involved have been huffing their keyboard cleaner. This one was the latter. Just b/c cbs rankins ebb & flow you MUST take into account the overall value of the players involved & the repercutions to the whole league. Bottom line: Two #1 type players for 1 future star(on a poor team, by the way) can really put a league off balance. Dont count on either Penny or Vlad to keep slumping, their YEARS of solid play dictate that trend will end. Slumps happen to 98% of players, but they almost always come out of them.
But remember, if Im involved in a trade that bad, I would hope you did the responsible thing as I did, and object to it!!”