Comments on: Some news

By: blee1134

blee1134 — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:30:08 +0000

If Cust doesnt go into a prolonged slump, there will be plenty of teams interested in him this offseason.

I’ll use Guillen again. He’s a jerk. And if we can be honest, he’s probably a known juicer too. But he keeps finding teams

By: Typical Idiot Fan

Typical Idiot Fan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:37:53 +0000

blee,

Considering the fiasco surrounding Jason Giambi right now, exactly why is it so hard to believe that ‘roiding wouldn’t be the true issue? Pile on the “jerk” factor, and it doesn’t sound all that far fetched to me at all.

Just because Oakland was desparate enough to get him doesn’t mean that other teams would turn up their nose at the stench surrounding him.

By: blee1134

blee1134 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:24:59 +0000

Cust couldnt find a job because he was a known roider? Give me a break. The entire minor and major leagues are filled with “known roiders”.

He’s a jerk? Jose Guillen isnt though. Carl Everett? Nah. Milton Bradley’s found a few teams interested and will find another within the next couple days. The Padres sure jumped all over Michael Barrett.

He couldnt get a job because there are only so many DH spots to go around. Of those, I’d say the majority dont hold much value in a guy that would K 200 times in a season

By: dbookey

dbookey — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:52:24 +0000

How so? What happened to him?

“Dave Says:

I haven’t heard official word, but I think Michael Wilson’s baseball career is over.”

By: fetish

fetish — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:59:01 +0000

Question, how lucky have the A’s been in picking up low-risk guys compared to other teams? Is it just a matter of them picking up so many that at least some of them had to hit?

I seem to recall a certain John Mabry, who wasn’t fit to carry Raul Ibanez’s jock strap when he played in Seattle, turning into a world-beater in Oakland. I mean, that’s gotta be some luck right there.

By: Bullpen Joe

Bullpen Joe — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:55:44 +0000

In other news of the day, Wladimir Balentien and Michael Saunders have been named to the 2007 Futures Game, to be played July 8 and broadcast on ESP2. Complete info and rosters at minorleaguebaseball.com.

By: colm

colm — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:28:12 +0000

Just love that idea of Bradley and Guillen in the same clubhouse. Hilarious. Bring back crazy Carl. Trade for that Dukes nut-job. Whoopee!

It’d bloody liven up Mike Hargrove, that’s for sure.

By: eponymous coward

eponymous coward — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:59:44 +0000

I will grant that grabbing Bradley and then benching Guillen to give him playing time would probably turn the M’s clubhouse into a timebomb.

Uh, why are we grabbing Bradley to start with? He’s an upgrade on Guillen, but not a huge one (the injury history makes Guillen and Vidro look like Cal Ripken, with exactly ONE season with 140 games in 8 MLB seasons), and Jones and Broussard are inhouse options if you want to change the mix of players without adding someone who’s widely viewed as a jerk.

Wold I take a cheap offseason flyer on the guy to fill out a roster? Maybe. But at this point, I’d rather give Broussard and Jones playing time rather than import clubhouse cancers in a season where you’re tottering on the brink, anyway.

By: Ralph Malph

Ralph Malph — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:56:18 +0000

Apparently the man has issues and is best off most likely with a contender that those “issues” are mute.

If the issues were mute, we wouldn’t be able to hear them because they’d be silent. I assume you meant to say “moot”, but this would not be a correct use of the word “moot”.

By: Ralph Malph

Ralph Malph — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:54:12 +0000

Elijah Dukes belongs in jail.

To be fair, so does Mateo.

Granted this is probably true. But I have seen the press get things wrong enough times to not assume the truth of everything I read in the papers about things of this sort.

I seem to recall some news stories early on about a certain rape case in Durham NC that turned out to not be entirely correct.