Comments on: Go For Broke, Friedman

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:51:17 +0000

Less QQ, More pewpew.

By: DavidCEisen

DavidCEisen — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:27:53 +0000

While I disagree with Dave Cameron more often that a lot of people, why would you think it would be a good idea to trade three good prospects to a team in your division? You’d be setting up the Jays to be highly competitive in a year or two.

Meanwhile you can trade for Cliff Lee, who is cheaper, and will give you probably about 8 or 9 WAR the next year and a half compared to Doc who will give you 10 or 11 WAR. The difference between the two when you consider price and long term ramifications of the trade leads to Lee being the better trade target.

By: Joe Schmoe

Joe Schmoe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:37:14 +0000

And to any fans trying to defend the Yankees… just stop. Your new stadium represents everything that is wrong about modern Yankees’ baseball.
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I do believe the term for this is “butthurt”.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:58:49 +0000

everything that is wrong with modern baseball?
you missed it, the waaaaaaaaaaambulance left hours ago.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:44:00 +0000

the fence is only 9 feet closer in right field at the apex of where the curved fence was. less than 10% of the home runs according to hittrackeronline have fallen in this area.

Lots of other ballparks have a fence this same distance or closer. why is it only inappropriate for the yankees to have a park like this, when a team like the reds or the phillies can have essentially the same “popup” homeruns?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:26:58 +0000

Erik Bedard is really good.

By: B

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:45:11 +0000

Puffy, you’re right about this year and last year’s payrolls. The Red Sox don’t stick out as a huge titan, as you referred to it.

“There never was 2 titans of payroll. There always was 1 titan and the rest of major league baseball.”

This is just untrue, though. From 2004-2007 the Red Sox were spending a lot more than any other non-Yankees team. In 2007, for instance, the Yankees were at ~190M, the Red Sox at ~$143M, and the third team, the Mets, were at ~115M. Only 7 teams were over $100M while the Red Sox were spending ~143M…I think it’s safe to say they were a “titan”.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:49:10 +0000

The Red Sox have become the new Yankees (late 1990s era) not because of their front office, but because of the insidious bandwagon following known as Red Sox Nation. Yes, the Red Sox have an admirable and devoted regional fanbase but Red Sox “nation” has now become quite literal, as Red Sox chants drown out home crowds in ballparks everywhere. A significant portion of Red Sox fans have little to no connections to the New England area. ESPN and other forms of national sports media devote a disproportional amount of coverage to the Red Sox, and many Red Sox players are vastly overhyped. When other teams play the Red Sox, it is like these teams don’t even matter.

Go Rays! .

And to any fans trying to defend the Yankees… just stop. Your new stadium represents everything that is wrong about modern Yankees’ baseball.

By: Mr. S

Mr. S — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:45:30 +0000

While the Rays surely have a nice farm, the way some of these comments paint it, it just seems to be a bit hyperbolic to me.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:29:52 +0000

Doc costs way more to have and to get…