So who will the other two be, I wonder...

Links to the player pages at Inside the Dodgers.

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/A/Mario-Alvarez.shtml

"That's about all the news for today and I don't expect much more over the holiday, so this could be the last post for a few days."

Oh, and I've been out of touch the last couple of days, what happened with Nate and the Dancer?

I don't know but I got angry reading that tid bit just now. I seriously don't wanna think NedCo is that clueless, when I here the guy talk it's like he totally knows what he's doing but then I read stuff like that (especially cause he DID SIGN PIERRE!!) & I just don't know. The guy can talk no question about it but he sure can't walk the walk, I hope I'm wrong & I hope I'm just a little angry today & that it's clogging up my thinking somehow

Do you make the offer to Lowell and if he accepts tell him, "You'll have to wait until I see if I can get Cabrera"?

LaRoche's On Base bump is incredible though, and I do wonder if we might not regret losing him the most, in the end. Sometimes it bothers me he hasn't hit for a lick when he has had the chance. We probably shouldn't even be looking for a third baseman, really.

On the surface that seems like a pretty good idea...to just try and buy Cabrera. I wonder if that has been discussed....kinda like a posting fee.

Exactamundo.

While all these are rumors, let's face it, he doesn't want Laroche at 3B next year...

like I said, I know they're all just rumors.

But the fact that we've been rumored for Cabrera, Lowell, Crede etc leads me to believe that the Dodgers are definitely looking for a third baseman....

Nobody speculates about what the Pirates will do.

Never mind that, today also saw the release of Hearts of Darkness A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, which if you've never seen, well.. now's your chance. And Rescue Dawn, too, which makes a good double-feature.

http://whereisvanslyke.blogspot.com/
(Fascinating link on possible coaches for the Bucs)

OK, I got nothing.

I think agents especially, but also some GMs are just telling out and out lies this time of year under the cover of source anonymity that reporters respect even when they're obviously being used in a sleazy way.

Either Florida's GM is lying about Ned's offer, or Lowell's agent is lying about the supposed contract offer, or both.

I'm almost positive Lowell's agent is lying. Lowell set down a marker: Four years. If we offered it to him, why didn't he take it? I don't think it happened. But I think his agent wants other players to think he succeeded in getting Lowell his four years -- he just rejected it for personal reasons.

Think about it. You're a reporter. You know Ned's reputation. It's perfectly credible to suggest he would offer something like that. Reporter goes, "Hm. Plausible," and goes with it.

If the Dodgers are saying no news til after the holidays, I'm guessing the reporting on MCAB and the D's is also based on lies.

I don't see how he's gonna feed his family once his three-year contract runs out.

And I don't think Gammons or Stark are unethical.

Rosenthal strikes me as someone who just feels that he keeps having to crank out column after column because that's what Foxsports.com wants.

Turns out in Lowell's case that four years was two years too long. He'll be good for only two more years, so he got a three-year deal.

29- I don't get CSPAN3. I'm very bitter about it. I just found out the other day that I do get ESPNU. Now if only there were anything on it.

I know where they can find a centerfielder. Might we include ours in a deal with half his salary paid? Probably not, but probably as likely as a lot of stuff we have specutlated on in the past few days. Just wishful thinking.

Within the sportswriting field, a low level of ethics is accepted. It doesn't mean every sportswriter sinks to it.

And to drill down a little further: It's really the sources who are being unethical. The reporters I'm thinking of let them get away with it, because they themselves pay no penalty for being wrong. I don't know if that's unethical or amoral or just stupid. Probably a case by case thing. But one thing's for sure. When MCAB signs with the Orioles, Rosenthal won't be fired because he said the Dodgers were close.

House of Flying Daggers has nothing to do with Tolkien. I guess it's "fantasy", but not in the Comic Book Guy sense. It's a beautiful movie with a great soundtrack.

I bet you'd like it.

And then, they're also allowed to speculate about what might happen based on the lies they're told. It's just a mess - but that's what most people seem to want.

"perhaps"

After the inclusion of that word, they can put anything following it and it wouldn't be wrong!

40- The other day. You jumped ugly with dzzrtRatt over saying that Lowell needed four years, when it was clearly an affected voice. I read it catching up on six hundred comments at a time, so I could mention it. I thought that was the allusion in 31. I've been looking for an opening to scold you over it, since.

Sheesh. Strike all of my comments in relation to Lowell needing four year.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7466954

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but Tim Brown has the Dodgers talking about Matt Kemp in a package for Erik Bedard.

That would certainly eliminate the Dodgers from any Santana or Cabrera blockbusters.

1) we deal Kemp/Kershaw/? for Cabrera. Then go cheap in CF with Cameron because Cabrera will get $12M in arb.

2) We lose out on Cabrera. With money to burn and losing out to the Angels again we go big with Andruw Jones. Then we have a surplus outfielder and the Pierre fantasies can play out.

I prefer 2 in a huge way. A Pierre/Cameron/Ethier OF will take all the fun out of having Miggy.

"But what if something happens?!?"
"What could happen to an old fashioned?"

I did not read any of the Chinese reviews, but I'm guessing the movie was received much better among non-Chinese speakers.

Otto Meyer: Yeah, that's what it looks like. They always use them.

Nervous Motorist: Who always uses them?

Otto Meyer: Who do you think?

He cant jump at all, nor is very athletic.

"the marlins are INSISTING on kendrick and possibly adenhart" from the angels.

maybe i'm reading too much into the word choices there, but it sounds like the marlins might be persuaded to get something less than both kemp and kershaw. i mean, i WANT millions of dollars, a mansion, and a bugatti veyron, but i'm not necessarily expecting those things to be handed over to me.

72 And yet he scored 18 and rebounded 16 against Maryland the other night. His footwork looks good to me as do his hands; those can be difference-makers for big men.

http://uniontrib.com/more/40man

I think that's a good idea, and it's a good way for a newspaper to provide something that probably couldn't fit in the daily paper.

Some of it is dated, as the players are the 40-man roster as of the end of the season.

He should have tried to lay it up instead of dunk it.

Re: sportswriters
I don't know how unethical some may be, but I do get a feeling that some of them will lobby for a specific trade that they like, and that may be the case with some Cabrera rumors. An example that comes to mind was last July when Evan Grant of thhe Dallas Morning News kept lobbying for the Dodgers to trade Kemp & Loney in a package for Texiera.

Obviously, the Dodgers know they won't have Kemp by January.

Take another look, do you see Kershaw's name? This is obviously the best way to find out what's going to happen.

How about Cabrera? Is he riding the float?

More importantly, what about JP?

etc.

I kind of don't like #5 specially cause Ned acquired Juan Pierre (I can't trust 'em) but I am neutral on him & if he makes the right moves I'll be the first to praise Ned Colletti but till then I'll be looking at him with a suspicious brow (sp?)

Looks like this could be the Bruins' first loss.

I'm gonna turn it to ABC, where an old favorite is on:

"Popcorn?! Toast?? What kind of a Thanksgiving is this Charlie Brown??"

Bleeders is right, but given the choice, I'd much rather go with the home grown option, all other things being equal.

We can't assume Andruw Jones is going to rake this season. The jury is still out on whether 2007 was a fluke. That's the other factor.

Aaagh! The Eragon series is very good, but cannot approach the greatness of the Tolkien books. The Eragon movie was not OK, it was lousy, terrible, awful, about the worst movie based on a book ever made. The Lord of the Rings movies, on the other hand, are wonderful, and a great counterpart to the books. You will be really missing something if you don't see them.

I'm still neutral towards him so nah. I wanna believe we have a great GM believe me!

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I'm telling you guys, stop reading Rosenthal. Your life will be that much healthier for it. It is tempting to drop him a line though, asking him what his deal is. But tain't worth it...

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