I was thinking more of someone like Lima. If they hate Abreu that much, maybe they'll throw in Utley.

http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2006/01/arrested-development-lives-sort-of.html

:-D

Sorry Jon, but not even Ed Wade would swap Utley for Sele.

Former Angels never die.

Stanford 75, Cal 61

I bow to the masses and use the preferred style.

It's not going to really become apparent until or unless technological innovation stops or decreases, leaders become more incompetent, and the gap continues to widen between rich and poor.

I do know that I won't become a parent for a while. So. There you go.

so, who wins the weaver sweepstakes? and when? i mean... dont pitchers have to report really soon? its already mid january!

noooo!! we need the draft picks. weaver needs to sign with another team. look at the diamondbacks system, we need to load up in the low minors!

I was right about Stossel digging privatization. I'd kind of like to punch some of the jerk Belgian kids he interviewed. The up-coming segment is on bad teachers, which should be a hoot. There's something inherantly suspicious about anybody who chooses to spend most of his day with teenagers.

Scott Boras

im sorry, hard to read that over the internet :)

anyways, i hope he signs with the indians and not the orioles.

if he signs with the indians= the dodgers get the 25th pick and the 31st pick. Another thing it does is pushes the angels to recieving the indians 2nd round pick instead of their 1st pick weaver is rated higher then paul bryd.

if he signs with the Orioles= dodgers get the 31st pick and the 52nd pick.

shapiro of the indians does have precedent for giving boras clients one yr deals to re-estbalish themselved in next years market (millwood), so its not that far fetch i think.

who should i order? should i just bite the bullet and get both?

"Staff hirings: The club named Jorge Martin as director of publications and Joe Jareck as assistant director of public relations"

I'm setting the over-under on either one of these guys at 6 mos. I wonder if they get to negotiate their sevarnce package when they get hired.

Can't spell, I must have had bad teachers and bad parents.

Tracy didn't sign Erickson. DePo did.

I think the difference between the Sele signing and those of some of the other cast offs is that at least this year Sele won't be competing for a rotation slot, as Erickson was. The problem with Erickson was that last year we desperately needed a fifth starter, and he had the best spring. This year we already have five serviceable starters, and their competition will be from the kids. Even if Sele pitches superbly, which I doubt, I suspect the best he has to hope for is Alvarez's old slot in the bullpen.

All I have to say is BEWARE OF SPRING TRAINING STATS...

Call it a curse or what...

2004- James Loney
Jason Romano

2005- Jason Repko
Scott Erickson

I hope the Dodgers dont get caught judging meaningless ST stats.

There were masses gathered outside the courthouse yesterday for the first day of proceedings.

Lots of people wearing t-shirts that read "we are not Los Angeles" and some anti-Moreno shirts and signs as well.

Seems like a good portion of Orange County wants nothing to do with Los Angeles.

I hope the city prevails. Los Angeles has no business being apart of the Angels.

I met Joe Thurston when he attended Sacramento Community College. A friend of mine went there and introduced me to him.

He's a really humble, genuine, likeable kid.
I wish the best for him in the Phillies organization.

i buy the BA book every year and bought it again this year but im looking to hear other opinions too. I might bite the bullet and buy both sickels and deric's books.

the excerpt you posted by deric about the dodgers top 15 was really good and impressive on his part.

Roll could stand to work on his passing, but he just keeps hitting the three-pointers. Is Howland well known for his recruiting prowess?

Hollins seems to be really good at taking the charge. But not much else. I really dig Mbah A Moute. Too bad he isn't five inches taller.

I need to find out what language that name is.

Or maybe Howland is just rounding up anyone available.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hawesst01.html

http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/pac10/washington/051110.htm

During the first week of classes, the crew coaches would have a table outside Pauley Pavilion and try to get people who looked fairly strong to join the the team.

I was not asked.

I wonder what his (golf) handicap is.

Jackson and tiffany traded to rays for baez.

Ned got raped on this deal.

Bad enough to take back all the nice things I've said about him.

Wow.

Good God. How did we avoid ending up with Pierre again?

Yippee!

In their history, the Devil Rays have come out ahead on three trades. It looks like it's four now.

It seems that Baez has a low strikeout to innings ratio for someone who is considered a fireballer.

All the more reason that we shouldn't be surprised if he doesn't stay with us. I think this is just the beginning of something bigger. Even though a lot of us don't think too much of Baez, he definitely has value out there. Let's not jump on Ned until we see how this plays out.

Maybe he will be good, then, in 2006--it is his walk year.

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=la

With Jackson gone, that's one less hurdle for Aaron Sele. This really could be a disaster...

Oh sorry, that was last night.

I blame this on poor parenting!

But Sele has real guts... And he's pitched for a championship team... ;)

Bad trade.

And who had the blown save? Eric Gagne, right in the middle of his save streak

Who was the first?

Btw, Draysbay cannot believe this trade actually happened.

141 - Too bad he never hit 30 HRs for the LAD or he would have broken the record he shares with Sheffield...right?

Too bad that Rolando Arrojo, Greg Vaughn and Jose Canseco are retired.

Roberto Hernandez is still playing. He's got the "mentor" role in the Pirates bullpen. He will share it with Gio Carrara.

Randy Winn was a D-Ray All-Star also