Here's another great Grady quote.

Little turned 57 on Saturday but wasn't planning to do much by way of a celebration. All he had on his agenda was dinner with broadcaster Charlie Steiner. "I'm getting as far away from celebrating as I can get," Little said jokingly. "I'm having dinner with Charlie, so that's probably anti-celebrating."

I rarely post but I am here daily. I agree with Sam DC but what you wrote in #4 was sheer class. Have a great season. Go Blue!

Thanks for letting us know Jon. -Dave

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more like matt white if the dodgers feel miller needs to be stretched out as a starter in AAA.

WCC Championship game on ESPN.

BC

I just find myself, as a fan of his and someone who very much understood the choice he made and thought Colletti was out of line, turning off when he gets all in a huff about his "integrity" being threatened. I mean, as much as I don't blame him, he did make those pretty strong comments about the idea of staying in LA in the papers and so I think he just ought not get on a high horse about the whole thing.

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I sort of chuckled at this quote in that same story, from Randy Wolf. "I should feel nothing. And I do," he said. That's technically grammatically correct but something sounds off about it. And it doesn't.

I remember all the Jesuits who taught me at UCLA. They were on leave from UC Santa Clara.

The wait seemed like an eternity.

{fetal position}

22 Speaking of roses by other names, is there any difference between "opt-out" and "player option"? J. D. Drew, in essence, elected not to exercise his option on the rest of the contract. Teams frequently choose not to exercise their option on a player's contract. Player's agents, however, are smart enough to realize that there is value there and negotiate a cost to the team if they choose not to exercise their option. So why was J. D. Drew's opt-out/option free ? (Sure, he would have left anyway, but at least he'd provide some of LuGo's inflated salary.)

Everybody...Look at the man! Look at the man with the wrong links!

And I don't think it's uncommon that, when the option runs to the player, the player doesn't have to pay if he exercises it (even though teams often have to pay if they decline to exercise). Because money only runs one way in these deals.

But I don't think that makes it "free." It's part of the overall deal. Maybe the Dodgers got the out years cheaper because they agreed to the option, and both sides took risk in the deal so constructed. Or maybe the overall salary was slightly lower than it would have been w.o the option/opt-out.

If money really only runs one way, then the union has far better negotiators than the owners.

Your last paragraph is a point well-taken. I suppose we'll never know what the quid pro quo was for the option/opt-out, if there was one. Unless DePo is going to start talking. (I don't recall anyone thinking at the time that Drew's 5-year, $55 million was at all undervalued, though.)

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I'd like to see much more about this, but it would change the way I think about the liquidation of Edwin Jackson and Chuck Tiffany (if not the wages of that liquidation). I wonder what Nate and Repent of Burn think about it.

Who needs a cup(holder) when you can drink straight from the pitcher...?

It's like Ryan Howard. Why should the Phillies give him a monster contract when they control his rights through his prime, he'll be 31 when he's a free agent, and other teams will overpay for his decline? They shouldn't

If there was any loyalty left in sport, maybe I'd feel differently. But there isn't, and I don't.

Do you thing Billy Beane weeps over Mulder and Hudson's recent health problems? I highly doubt it.

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The Kevin Goldstein piece today said that EJ's fastball is sitting between 92-97, which, (a) seems like a wide variance and, (b) makes me a little sick to my stomach. Wasn't the biggest problem with him that he'd lost speed?

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Be patient. He traded his ologist for an iatrist after that last outing.

Once the Prozac works its way deep into his roots and branches (early June), he's going to be lights out.

Did you hear about the UCLA grad who had to steal his first three answers from the fifth-graders, then quit on the fourth question? I wonder if that's on You Tube.

You really need to clarify that...

Boooo!

And the broken cycle was D4P-centric...

BOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

75 Why does that sound like the song to some Jay Ward cartoon?