Coco won’t have to worry about coming back to Arlington any time soon to have his saves record blown again. He signed with the Reds today for an amazing contract. Four years, 46 million with an $12 mil option on 2012 and a $1 mil buyout. (Story here).
Seems a bit pricey – I don’t envision Coco as one of the elite closers (aka over $10 mil a year). I also don’t envision the Reds as being close enough to contending where they’d need an expensive closer.
The Yankees threw a stupid amount of money at Mariano Rivera, but at least he has a track record. Coco can save, yes – but I don’t see him as being THAT good.
What do you think?
Torii Hunter
I was planning on writing about Torii Hunter today, and how Arte Moreno seems to be trying to do what we tried to do in 2001 with Galarraga, Caminiti, & Arod by trying to be George Steinbrenner.
I don’t feel like writing about that after reading about Joe Kennedy. Seems petty. Hunter went for the cash grab. He would have been nice here, but oh well. Probably will make a run at Aaron Rowand, but at this point, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Marlon Byrd out there in 2008.
UPDATE: There’s a good post with a summary of various people’s feelings about Torii Hunter and the Angels. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. I particularly get a kick out of the notion read about moving Vlad Guerrero to permanent DH. One of the best arms in baseball, and you stick him in the DH hole. Smart.
UPDATE 2: Don’t forget Adam Morris’ thoughts on the matter. It’s pretty much what I feel anyway, so go read what Adam wrote I concur. :)
RIP Joe Kennedy
Black Friday, indeed. Saw this on ESPN a few minutes ago.
Free-agent pitcher Joe Kennedy, who played for Oakland, Arizona and Toronto in 2007, died early Friday of undetermined causes, reports ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick. He was 28.
May all of God’s blessings be with the Kennedy family, who obviously lost someone way too soon. I just hope that God’s plan for Joe’s early exit from the Earth will end up serving some greater cause.
Godspeed to Joe Kennedy, may his journey forward in the next life be one filled with the love from our heavenly Father.
Vazquez resigned
- IF Ramon Vazquez signed to a 1 year, $810,000 contract for 2008 [ Link ]
Arod’s Career Stats
Arod will retire in 2015 with 870 home runs, 3,694 hits, 2,499 RBI’s, and 2,477 runs scored.
So says a simulation of Arod’s career done by IGN on the MLB 2k7 videogame. Check out the full article, it’s actually quite an amusing read.
It does say that he remains a Yankee all this time, and that they win one World Series between now and 2015. :)
Several Moves
- OF Brandon Boggs added to the 40 man roster
- P Thomas Diamond added to the 40 man roster
- P Matt Harrison added to the 40 man roster
- C Max Ramirez added to the 40 man roster
- OF Victor Diaz designated for assignment [ Link ]
Madrigal Signed
- P Warner Madrigal signed to a minor league contract [ Link ]
Barry Bonds
Well, Barry Bonds was indicted this afternoon. I think this surprises uh, nobody? I’m not going to get into all the fiasco of that situation. I almost don’t care at all. I just wanted to bring two pictures up to the top of the site since he was indicted today.
They’re pictures taken in Philadelphia in 2006 when Bonds played there. I know Philly fans have a bit of a “reputation”, but sometimes it’s perfect. Several of the fans in left field at a particular game had some rather inventive signs out there. One was having a ton of them hold up asterisk signs. That was funny.
The other was a multi section, really long banner (with Bonds standing in front of it for added flavor) that said, “Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer, Aaron did it with class, how did you do it?” Quite amusing. Check ’em out:
Kenny Rogers
I changed the poll on the main page of my site, so if you’re reading this in an rss reader, or on another site that swipes content from others to make theirs, please visit my site to check out the poll.
Having said that I find myself distinctly indifferent to the possibility of him returning. I’m not going to get all bent out of shape over it as the camera stuff was quite weird, but I’m not going to champion the cause, either. I really feel kind of “oh, OK” towards that news.
What do you think? Comment below.
2008 Schedule
The Rangers released their 2008 schedule yesterday, and it has one major problem for me that I do not like at all.
Evening games are back to 7:05. This is a big problem for me, and that decision alone will probably keep me from going to more games than I’d like. The reason for this is I live and work in Garland, and am done work at 6PM. This means I have to fight rush hour traffic through the Dallas mixmaster to get out to the park, and rush around like an idiot just to make it in time for first pitch. If I have to spend as much money as it costs going to a game, I want to damned well ENJOY MYSELF, and not stress about all the flippin’ traffic I have to get through to get to a game. I want to see some of batting practice, check out the gift shop, and make it to my seat and get ready for the game. 7:05 game times pretty much tell me this will NOT be happening.
I’ll still go to a few games, but 2008 will be the first time since 1996 I have not had some sort of season ticket plan, or at least purchased one of the 10 packs. It’s too expensive, and now at 7:05, it’s pretty darned inconvenient, too.
Of course $12 gas for one game, and $12 parking, not to mention dealing with the hassle of the Glorypark construction nonsense won’t be any fun, either. Any of you guys remember what parking was like at Arlington Stadium when they were building The Ballpark in Arlington? It wasn’t any fun. It’ll be like that again I would imagine.
Anyway, rant over. I’ve taken the schedule and put into an .ics file (more info on ics), which you can download here if you want. This can be imported into a bunch of things like Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, Outlook, or anything else pretty much that has a calendar based function.
Download the zip file, uncompress it, and import. The TV schedule isn’t available yet, when that is available, I’ll update with that. I probably will not put the promotions schedule in there, as even though they make that available before the season, things get added a lot during the season, so it’s somewhat flexible, and makes it hard to schedule ahead of time.
Anyway, if you find this file of some use, please email me back (or comment here), and let me know. I don’t want anything for this, I just would like to know if someone is actually using it.
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