Not sure if you like the Beltre signing? Watch him field.
In better news: BELTRE BELTRE BELTRE BELTRE BELTRE BELTRE BELTRE BELTRE
One-year $9M deal with a 2011 player option at $5M, according to El Gammo.
WHEEEEEEEEEEE
(It’s not quite official, but it needs to be official. GET IT DONE THEO)
GOD DAMMIT NOT "SWEET CAROLINE"
What was your favorite baseball moment of 2009?
(via fuckyeahbaseball)
- Jim Thome hitting a three-run home run off Kyle Farnsworth on Opening Day because Trey Hillman is an idiot, giving us one of the best Dugouts of all time.
- Jim Thome hitting a grand slam and a three-run home run on July 17th.
- Jim Thome getting traded to the Dodgers.
Jim Thome brings my life joy and purpose.
Also:
- Orlando Hudson’s cycle at the Dodger Stadium opener, April 13, and Vin throwing out the first pitch.
- Chad Billingsley’s 11-strikeout, 0-walk game against the Giants, also in the Dodger Stadium opener, April 13.
- Clayton Kershaw’s 13-strikeout, 1-walk game against the Giants on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day.
- A few Tim Wakefield starts. But I’ll go with his near no-no against the A’s on April 15. 9 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 4 K. This started their 11-game winning streak. Wake is awesome.
- Chad Billingsley: 8 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 5 K on July 5 against the Padres. And he hit his first career home run and nearly killed Eliezer Alfonzo running over him at the plate (not after the home run). And then Broxton came in and ruined things. But the Dodgers won anyway.
- Randy Wolf: 7 2/3 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 10 K on August 16 against the Diamondbacks. He also hit a two-run home run and had an RBI double.
- Dodgers vs. Giants, September 19 and 20, because they kicked the shit out of Brad Penny on the 19th (lol schadenfreude) and then the Giants were up 1-0 on the 20th before The Immortal Tim Lincecum gave up that big-ass bomb to Endre in the third.
- NLDS Game 2. Sorry, Sam. Well, not really.
- And anything that resulted in me and Olivia spazzing out on the Internet, good or bad, including but not limited to Blake DeWitt tripping over home plate, Brad Ausmus managing the Dodgers, the rare times Mark Loretta did things that were constructive, James Loney’s first Dodger Stadium home run, nearly everything Vin has ever said about anything, Awesomely Average Jon Garland writing our jokes for us, and other stuff I can’t really think of off the top of my head. Because the Dodgers’ season crashed and burned, but it was awesome until then.
reblogged from fuckyeahbaseball
My aunt feeds my addiction.
She gave me a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card for Christmas. I just spent it on…
- Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles by Michael D’Antonio
- 100 Things Dodger Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Jon Weisman
- Lefty, Double-X, and The Kid: The 1939 Red Sox, a Team in Transition by Bill Nowlin
I can find the third one here in New England (and it’s really surprising I didn’t buy it the first time I saw it, considering my love affair with the Foxx/Grove Ath-uh-leh-tics of Philadelphia), but bn.com is currently giving everyone the member price on books. So rather than renew the membership ($25) and buy the book in a store, I bought it online.
I like books. I like baseball. Hence.
Also, I still have $56 in cash from my grandmother. A visit to the brick ‘n’ mortar B&N might just be on the agenda. Hmmm.
John Gillooly/Boston Globe. Awesome.
RUN AWAY, RAYMOND, YOU’LL CATCH THE SHITTINESS (via Big Bad Blog)
Not that I'm crazy about this deal, myself, but...
Let’s be fair.
2006-2009, Overall
Pitcher A: 117 GS, 781.1 IP, 760 H, 75 HR, 211 BB, 638 K, ERA+ 129 (ERA 3.50), WHIP 1.243
Pitcher B: 122 GS, 792.0 IP, 751 H, 96 HR, 203 BB, 723 K, ERA+ 116 (ERA 4.05), WHIP 1.205
John Lackey is one of these pitchers and he’s getting something like 5/$80M. The other one of these pitchers already pitches for the Red Sox and will probably be looking for more than 5/$80M in his extension.
Do you really know which is which without going to look it up?
Well, I guess that answers that.
These same Red Sox "fans" complaining about Theo's "bridge year" comment
are likely the same Red Sox “fans” as the ones who complain about how the team is turning into the Yankees because so many fans expect to win every year and reel in the top of the high-priced free agent heap. Funny, that.
I have one team whose fans are being treated to a nasty divorce and total financial uncertainty, and I have another team that might take a year off and wait for the next round of minor-league prospects to turn into major leaguers before they make plans for another parade. The fact that it’s the latter fanbase doing most of the complaining about its “situation” is just sickening.
