well it seems to have killed the conversation and this thread. btw the howler monkeys in CR are really awful and will hurl shit at you if you get too close to them. talk about not good at dinner parties.
Really? Sounds like my first wife. Maybe we already crossed the line BZ spoke of and don't know it. And the PC factor is NOT off the charts. Beyond the known galaxy, yes. Charts, no.
well i'm pretty sure i don't need to worry about Grizz but maybe Tuborg is not feeling too happy. then again i didn't make it, and i thought it would be funny given the topic of discussion. maybe not.
grizz, we need you... Are Angels out of Tanaka bidding? By AJ Mass | ESPN.comJanuary, 14, 2014 | 9:01 AM ETOn Sunday, the reports from Japan were that the "finalists" in the race to get Masahiro Tanaka's signature on a contract had been narrowed down to the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels. Well, it seems that list might have decreased by one.> To continue reading this article you must be an Insider __
I doubt it says anything definitive, but given that they didn't meet with him when he was in the States, I can't imagine they will go the $100M+ (excluding the posting fee) that it will likely take.
Not sure anyone other than Dodgers or YAnkees ever had a chance. Tananka knows what he wants and is presenting himself to us.
i've maintained all along that he's ours if we want even more so now that it's down to us and the yanks, and him having specified that he wants to play on the west coast
Irish, accepting what you say that his desire all along has been to play for us and he has the same agent as Clayton we can consider the following. Many in baseball are pissed about how much we have spent on our roster and have said if want to bully everyone and just pay what ever to get Tananka we probably could. Not good PR. If we sign Kershaw for a mega contract and Hanley for a big contract and then sign Tananka there would be meltdown. Now it appears Kasten has been laying low and said if something presented itself and it appears it may be. You even have folks saying with Kershaw not signed we may need to go after Tananka it is much easier to do it now and in a couple of weeks when it dies down ink CK and Hanley. Same amount of money but it may be the sequence that makes the difference. Since CK and Tananka have the same agent all the easier to pull off.
let em be pissed they were pissed at the yankees but the yankees won championships the pr aspect will only affect the jealousy of others it certainly won't stop players from wanting to come here -- just the opposite in fact, if this were 5-6 years down the road, we'd probably (have enough prospects to) go after price too imagine if guggenheim bought the team in the 90's... it would have been us and the yankees every year hopefully that's what the future holds for us now
i really don't care if we sign him or not. some of the best deals are the ones you don't make and i just have a feeling this guy is going to bust.
and if he is a bust...guess what? he's our #4 starter...#5 when Urias eventually makes it up in 2 or 3 years. a 100M dollar #5...lettem be mad at that. this franchise was robbed and we're back like never before. like the guy above said...if you're hated, you're doing something right. nobody cares about the Cubs at all...THAT is where we don't wanna be.
Well I am a hoodlum Raider fan. At my age, I'm just not concerned about "how things look" to others. That's one advantage to growing old, maybe the only fucking one. And sometimes even if it comes from the most questionable of sources, if it's right what the guy said, it's right. Example: Napoleon said "the saddest thing next to a battle lost, is a battle won." Yet, he continued and had them over and over, and had himself coronated. Little faggot, but he was right. So right.
On Sunday, the reports from Japan were that the "finalists" in the race to get Masahiro Tanaka's signature on a contract had been narrowed down to the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels. Well, it seems that list might have decreased by one. As David Waldstein of the New York Times tweeted Monday, the "consensus in Japan right now" is that the two favorites to sign the pitcher are the Yankees and the Dodgers. Not that this settles the discussion once and for all, but "the word is his wife prefers to be on (the) West Coast." And now we might have some insight into why the Angels seem to have dropped off the list of contenders. Apparently the Angels never met with Tanaka during his American tour. Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times reports that general manager Jerry Dipoto confirmed the lack of a meeting between the two sides, which DiGiovanna called "an indication that the team might not be a serious bidder for the 25-year-old right-hander." "We did not meet with Tanaka," said Dipoto. "We were not scheduled to meet with him … Nothing more than that. I'm not going to walk through any details. I'm not going to say we're in or out. I'm not going to comment one way or another." DiPoto did, however, add that he liked the makeup and depth of his current pitching staff.
