2014 MLB Thread
 

Might as well get this going for the new year:)



Jerry, get the checkbook out and let's get Tanaka!

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I miss Prince.

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I still don't get that move Tom, he was a major part of the Tigers offense.

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Well here's to hoping the RedSox get picked to finish last in their division again!

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It's hard typing with crossed fingers!
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Hoping we field a MAJOR LEAGUE TEAM this year and not another AAA one.

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Reinsdorf and company did just save $20 million by the Bulls giving Deng away.:r:r There's no doubt the Sox have the money to spend and can play the bidding war, however that's not the issue. Tanaka will have to want to come to Chicago over the west coast (likely where he ends up)

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Something else I thought was interesting with Tanaka, Kenny Williams was quoted in the Sun-Times as saying he was out of town "on White Sox business" when he wasn't at the Hurt's HOF press conference.. Of which will result in very good news for Sox fans in a couple days... At the very least, the Sox are going to be bidding high for Tanaka.

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Normally start the season convinced that the Cards need pitching. This year may be different for a change ... 8 potential starters for 5 slots. We'll see. What are we, just a few weeks from report day?

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I hear ya. A's have done that for a while. 2 years in a row to playoffs, 2 years in a row knocked out. Maybe this year they can make it further.

Looking forward to the season.

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A's have had a very nice team the past couple years, hardly AAA.

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We just have a different opinion on what a AAA team is, his AAA team makes the playoffs 2 years in a row :r


Oh A-Roid 60 minutes tonight, this should be fun.

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Yeah, you want an example of triple A? Look no further than west 35th street, Chicago IL:gary

A-Roid is full of lies

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Before that, I was saying. The A's did nothing but there AAA team, the Rivercats would win quite a bit. Nothing for the major's

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You know the Yankees are trying to figure out how to void his contract as we speak, at least if he got suspended for 1+ years they had an out on having to pay him, but with it under a year they are boned, granted it makes me smile.

I can't see how they can even let him show up for spring training, I'm assuming he won't with the ban in place, of course he will say everything that guy said was a lie and how he is going to sue everyone in the northern hemisphere how they are all out to get him and try to deflect this and blame others. He's a lying sack of crap.

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I bet there's language in his contract that has him covered. With the Yanks needing someone at third, maybe that lowers the interest in Tanaka.

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Yeah, the Yankees are always frugal when it comes to buying players.

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LOL what happened to Cano? Granderson? How do you let them go like that?

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I think originally they were making a case that if he was suspended for over a year they could void his contract and there would be no more payments, interesting that it ended up being 161, one game LESS than a full season.

Maybe Jeter will move to third so a younger prospect can come up and play short :r Just kidding we know that will never happen.

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Grandy's a nice player, but overpaid for a team with 3 CFs. And Robbie's a nicer one to whom the Yanks would have given $24 M a year . . . but for 7 years, not ten. Remember, Cano fired the most mercenary agent in sports, Scott Boras, to go to somebody even more mercenary, Jay Z.

But of course, you'd know nothing about that, as the Black Sox have always kept all their players. :D