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Stanford wrote:What do you guys think about the Giants offering a third year?
craig01 wrote:Stanford wrote:What do you guys think about the Giants offering a third year?
At 22 mil per year, it would be a huge financial gamble for a guy that doesn't exactly get around in the OF. Plus, he is missing a few marbles meant for the "team" he plays on.
If I was SF, I'd say no way in hell would I add a 3rd year.
Reporting from Tempe, Ariz. -- Vladimir Guerrero is a year older but not a year wiser. The Angels' slugger inadvertently revealed Friday that he is 34 years old, not 33, as listed in the team's media guide.
The discrepancy was discovered by Yahoo! Sports columnist Tim Brown, who, as part of an interview for a story on Guerrero, asked the outfielder to respond to a quote from Manager Mike Scioscia.
Bickerstaff: who's up for kickball?!!
Ed Wood: Only if it's the no-pants variety.
Rafael122 wrote:Eh, Pujols I'm not too sure about. He was born in 1980, and he was born in the capital of the Dominican Republic, which would mean things are a lot more organized and structured there than in most places. But, I wouldn't be surprised if he's at least a year or two older. He's already balding.
Manocad wrote:I have an engineering degree, an exceptionally high IQ, and can point to the exact location/area of any country on an unlabeled globe.
A representative for Barry Bonds contacted the Twins to see if they had any interest in signing baseball's all-time home run hitter, who is 44 and a free agent.
"Who do you want me to get rid of, (Delmon) Young, (Michael) Cuddyer, (Carlos) Gomez, (Denard) Span or (Jason) Kubel?" Twins general manager Billy Smith said Thursday. "Which one?"
Smith said the Twins would pass on Bonds, who has 762 career homers.
The Red Sox recently took a pass on Barry Bonds after the slugger's agent, Jeff Borris, wrote a letter to the Red Sox and 29 other major league teams asking to give Bonds a job according to major league sources.
Catcher Ivan Rodriguez has agreed to a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Houston Astros.
The deal is contingent on Rodriguez taking a physical, the catcher said in an interview Monday on ESPN, adding that "finally, you know, [a deal is] very close." Rodriguez said there was interest from several teams, but the Astros were the team that showed the most interest.
Rodriguez can make an additional $1.5 million in performance bonuses.
Mark Teixeira appeared on New York-based radio station WFAN this morning and spoke, among other things, about why he decided to sign with the Yankees over other interested teams. Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times has transcribed a few of the more interesting quotes:
"I always had the Yankees in my sights, and one thing my agent and I had asked every single team is, we're not going to negotiate through the media, and we ask you not to," Teixeira said. "The Yankees were really the only team that did that. The other teams went out and told everybody their offers, told everybody that they talked to me, that they made this call, made that trip. The Yankees kept quiet. We talked all winter. When they were ready to make their final offer, it was a great offer, and my wife and I were excited about going to New York."
Asked specifically about the Red Sox, who made their December 18 visit to his home in Texas public knowledge, Teixeira admitted to being bothered: "I think in the end, it probably worked against them a little bit, because everyone thought the Red Sox were my No. 1 choice. ... The Yankees had a leg up all along."
greenbeans wrote:Yeah Tex, it has nothing to do with the Yankees going 10mil over what everyone else would offer, sure.
greenbeans wrote:Yeah, but that ends up being 16mil 8 years from now, or however long the contract ended up being. It doesn't really even matter though, whatever the Sox offered it was going to get beat by the Yankees
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