MLB Daily Thread: 7.1.15 : Sox on a roll, Bobby Bonillas annual pay day & Hu will entertain us all.

[SlinkyRedfoot]

i remember matt youngs similar game like it was yesterday.

April 15, 1991 Cleveland Indians at Boston Red Sox Box Score and Play by Play | Baseball-Reference.com

Good fucking memory, though.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Good fucking memory, though.

dick.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

dick.

I won't argue with you there, but I was serious. I think it would take a good memory to remember that.

Young wasn't some remarkable pitcher who's name would be on the tip of someone's tongue, and that game was 24 years ago.

 

[Rock Strongo]

LMAO


Sox had john henry in the booth as porcello is getting clobbered…very awkward. It was near silent, til encarnacion hit a moon shot, to which henry said (and I quote) “so that’s what a hanging breaking ball looks like?”

 

[Rock Strongo]

I won't argue with you there, but I was serious. I think it would take a good memory to remember that.

Young wasn't some remarkable pitcher who's name would be on the tip of someone's tongue, and that game was 24 years ago.

oh, i thought you meant "oh, what a good memory"

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

oh, i thought you meant "oh, what a good memory"

Nah. I didn't get into baseball until about 2001/2002 and was primarily a Red Sox fan until 2007, so I don't have any first-hand memories from the 90's or earlier.

What really pisses me off is that I was at World Series games in both '95 and '97, but didn't give a fuck about baseball - was just there to party. I would kill a stranger to see the Indians in the World Series at The Jake these days.

 

[craigk217]

Interesting matchup between Boston and Toronto this afternoon. Buehrle was outstanding in June. Porcello was not.

I'm really wishing we woulda hung on to him and paid him what he wanted, now. Oi vey.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I'm really wishing we woulda hung on to him and paid him what he wanted, now. Oi vey.

I thought letting him walk was stupid. Dude's a horse. He's averaged 217 IP over the last fourteen years of typically well above average pitching. That's just sick.

 

[craigk217]

I thought letting him walk was stupid. Dude's a horse. He's averaged 217 IP over the last fourteen years of typically well above average pitching. That's just sick.

Our fng owner, Reinsdork, is a cheapass who was lookin to trim and go youth. Never wants to spend $$$ in the right place.

I didn't think MB was asking for anything absurd and, you're spot on, the dude is an inning eater that almost always gives you a QS.

Hindsight is a mofo, mang.

 

[craigk217]

Painful. Although Hunter has been mashing recently. Maybe you can get something out of the crackhead too, now that he's back.

My outfield started with Stanton, Harper and Myers. I was lucky to trade Myers a week before he announced surgery, then Stanton broke his hand. This week I started Harper, Melky and Michael fucking Taylor.

 

[cerealboi]

LMAO


Sox had john henry in the booth as porcello is getting clobbered…very awkward. It was near silent, til encarnacion hit a moon shot, to which henry said (and I quote) “so that’s what a hanging breaking ball looks like?”

Joe Kelly is somewhere saying to himself "I have to cruise around on a bus and this guy gets the airplane?!"

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I'm really wishing we woulda hung on to him and paid him what he wanted, now. Oi vey.

They let Buehrle sign with the Marlins @ 4ys/$58MM so that they could sign John Danks @ 5ys/$65MM.

In the following full seasons:

John Danks: 129 IP/Season - 4.88 ERA - 82 ERA+

Mark Buehrle: 203 IP/Season - 3.76 ERA - 107 ERA+

 

[Rock Strongo]

buehrle is a guy i always would want on my team.

horse.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Sorry to laugh, but hahahahahaha.

All of the sudden, Melky's SLG% jumps 110 points above his career average, then he gets busted for PEDs, and that all leads to a 3yr/$42MM from the White Sox.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

buehrle is a guy i always would want on my team.

horse.

For sure. Vastly underrated.

 

[chappee11]

Assuming the Yankees are current on Arod's pay, if he quit today, the Yankees wouldn't have to pay him anything.

However, if they did owe him, and agreed to suspend payments for ten years, then spread the principal and 8% APR over a 25-year loan, yes, the payments would be enormous. The Yankees wouldn't do that, though, because they're not retarded.

I dunno. They DID give $160m to Jason Giambi once. The extensions for Sabathia and Arod were also terrible.

 

[craigk217]

They let Buehrle sign with the Marlins @ 4ys/$58MM so that they could sign John Danks @ 5ys/$65MM.

In the following full seasons:

John Danks: 129 IP/Season - 4.88 ERA - 82 ERA+

Mark Buehrle: 203 IP/Season - 3.76 ERA - 107 ERA+

Dewwwwwwd ... you needn't remind me of that hot garbage. I fng hated that contract with Sanks. Hell, his brother, Jordan, prolly coulda pitched better than him.

Will certainly go down as one of Kenny Williams/Reinsdorf's worst deals ever. Wasted $$$ and I auto-pick the opposition whenever Banks takes the bump.

 

[chappee11]

Ryan Hanigan set to return. Can only hope that means the end of the Sandy Leon era.

Or Swihart. He is not ready at all.

 

[chappee11]

the streak buster.[/QUOTE

You and I hated that deal when it happened and had to endure endless bashing from everyone who said how great Porcello was. He's a shitty Derek Lowe.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I dunno. They DID give $160m to Jason Giambi once. The extensions for Sabathia and Arod were also terrible.

Negotiating against themselves for Sabathia and Arod was bad.

Their Giambi deal wasn't bad at all - maybe even good.