Is Mueller still under his initial contract...?

It was on Diamond Leung's blog.

http://tinyurl.com/yoxmfr

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=slanguage

The team price seemed awfully low to me when they bought the team, but I had no idea that it would be worth $600 million after only three years.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0711/mlb.worst.free.agent.contracts/content.1.html

Two are Dodger disasters (Dodger Boy days); Texas and Colorado each make the list twice as well. Also, one of Texas' "worst contracts" is Chan Ho Park...

Will Kershaw pitch at least one game for the Dodgers or Ned won´t let this happen?

Link: http://tinyurl.com/2kehqa

Never sign a fly ball pitcher to a big contract to play in Colorado.

Football, in my mind, is the exception when it comes to having a contract. And it seems amazing, frankly, given that the punishment football players get puts them in jeopardy every minute.

The NFL contracts are not all guaranteed, partially a result of having a union much weaker than the MLB players' union.

That is the second definition of "ankle," as in, "to hit in the ankle with a tire iron."

I tend to think that Gene Upshaw is one of the worst union negotiators in any industry.

22 unfortunately----yes.

35 - Well, obviously a sport where the minimum salary is $400k is remote from real life. But I certainly don't think baseball is some lone exception.

The only position the Dodgers could seriously upgrade at without A-Rod is CF, and that just isn't going to happen (without seriously downgrading LF anyway). The best way the Dodgers win this offseason is by not playing and saving their chips for 09 when Peavy, Santana, Sheets and Bonderman might be on the market.

Worst Case scenario: ugh

I'm saving your scenarios into the queue for recall. Those are well planned out.

Come back, Vinny, come back...

I guess I'm saying that given NedCo's history, I will consider it a miracle if two or more of Kemp, Laroche, Billz and Kershaw aren't gone next year.

If the stories are true, and McCourt stepped in to block Ned from making a big trade at the deadline, what does it say that the Dodgers finished fourth? Is McCourt now seeing the "error" in his ways-- namely, listening to Logan, Ng et al?

I know this is all speculation, but my gut says be prepared for a worsed case scenario.

I do not know if Miguel Cabrera will.

I am not sure why I am so fretful of the kids being traded for nothing. Nothing of the sort has happened so far (though some reporters have indicated that McCourt stopped a Texeria deal earlier this year).

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When Bonds, um, ankles the Giants, the only Giants who will hit better than a league-average catcher -- yes, catcher -- are Randy Winn, Lance Niekro, Nate Schierholtz, Dave Roberts, and Fred Lewis.

LAT'ed is when a comment is posted just before a new thread starts. Named after LAT because, well...

Don't worry, things like that and the mysterious unwritten rule are learned with time here. We are actually very much like a cult in some ways :-)

Now that the Marlins, for the first time, is actually shopping him, there is a reluctance to deal, almost hopefulness that the Angels or some other team makes a deal so we can save our kids.

I am not advocating the Kemp, LaRoche and Kershaw deal, that is too much but I do think that a deal sending 3 really good players could be possible and is something the Dodgers should seriously consider.

He has such a sweet glove though...

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I do not like it either, thankfully it is just for a year.

I would venture to say there are key differences between today and other years when we attempted the "win now" philosophy.

1) The Pitching Staff is better now, top to bottom, than it was from 1999-2002.
2) In years past it was laughable to argue that the Dodgers were only "a player away." I think this time, the Dodgers can truly be just one player from being a serious contender.
3) The constant of the last few years was a solid bullpen. That can go a long way.
4) Even in a worst case scenario, the Dodgers will still have Martin and one of Loney/Kemp. That's pretty good to compete.

What njr is alluding to is that if NedCo goes for broke (which I don't think will really happen), the Dodgers will be very good for a couple of years but then sink into the same tank the Giants are in.

That's the cause for our DT paranoia.

I think everyone agrees with you, it's just who you define as "really good players", and whether they include are star young pitchers.

Beyond that I think the hope that someone else makes the deal is an implicit belief that Ned won't get good value for what he gives up, even if what he's getting back is Miggy.

I forgot to add this: there are some actual legitimate players worth shopping for this time around, as opposed to other years. Namely, they are A-Rod, A Jones, and M Cabrera.

Most sites I frequent have an equivalent to LAT'ed, by the way. What with the ease of posting a blog entry, it's not unusual for somebody or somebodies to be merrily responding to the previous post while the blogger is creating a New Post (thus NPUT, merely an initialization for new post up top--not an acronym; acronyms are pronounceable, initializations are not).

In this case, I think the above scenario happened so frequently to LAT that the phenomenon acquired his screen name as shorthand.

/end pedantry

I totally agree BHSportguy. But knowing my self I'm gonna be plenty upset that we traded 3 studs but Miggy Cabrera should even out my frustration & I'm sure with do time I'll be glad he is sporting Dodger blue.

Sometimes it took, sometimes it didn't. ;)

I feel like our farm system can restock itself with good pitching, but hitting seems to be much shallower and harder for our

I think we ALL do Marty but we have to give up something to get something. It's gonna be a fun off season I just hope NedCo doesn't blunder.

I don't know what I would do without this site during the day.

"...harder for our draftniks to restock"

Underline = place an underscore (_) immediately before and after text

® = type & followed by "reg" followed by ";" (no spaces)

© = type & followed by "copy" followed by ";" (no spaces)

™ = type & followed by "trade" followed by ";" (no spaces)

Not sure of the Mac™ commands for those symbols.

you know how to do accent marks Eric? for last names & stuff, that's the only think I don't know how to do.

Call me crazy but isn't Kershaw, LaRoche and Kemp much > Kendrick, Wood and Adenhart?

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

They see the Dodgers come to the table and they ask for more. Not really sure if that is reality or perception, but either way it's really annoying.