Saturday, October 09, 2004
so yeah, bob melvin FIRED. good. he definitely deserved it. let him go wank around in arizona and learn. we want to win now, we don't have time for this losing shit.
howard lincoln said they are planning on a top 10 payroll and an operating budget that will lose them millions of dollars in order to win next year. i'll believe it when they shell out the moolah for some decent players. but its a good sign that he said that. and that they fired someone, at least. something had to give. we've got a lot of money to spend, like at least $25M
how to spend it, hmmmmmmm.....
pitching, do we need pitching? hmmmmmmmm......
right now we've got this in our rotation:
piniero
moyer
meche
madritsch
franklin
i'd like to see franklin out and back in the bullpen. so we need a new starter until king felix is old enough. might be this year, but he'll get injured like the rest. it depends on who we can get, really. franklin sucked it up though. i still like him, i just don't think he can be in the rotation. maybe not even moyer. moyer should be our #4 or 5 guy, not number 2. but keep moyer. moyer is a pimp. unless someone offers us something good in return.
bullpen is looking so so...
closer: guardado
setup: putz, soriano
long relief: shiggy, franklin, villone
i'd almost like to see some of our kids blow leads instead of shiggy franklin and villone. i'd almost get rid of shiggy and villone, and let thorton and nageotte have their spots, cycling whoevers hot down in tacoma up if needed. or spend more money for mediocre dudes who would blow leads like the rest of them. i don't know who we could get to do better than what we have when we have other more pressing issues. it wasn't our pitchings fault that we lost this year.
so now i guess i need to say what we should get. my team to not suck, potentially. so, we only need a pitcher, first baseman, outfielder, thirdbaseman....
3 of the 4. we need a left handed bat. i'd like to steal some people from our people in our division :) glaus or garret anderson would be funny. if we got one of them we wouldn't have to do as much to fill other spots. rangers-mariners clean out the farm trade?
bah, i'd make a terrible GM.
1. Ichiro Rf lh
2. Reed Cf lh
3. Lowell 3b rh
4. Anderson Lf lh
5. Bucky DH rh
6. Ibanez 1b lh
7. Boone 2b rh
8. Olivo C rh
9. Lopez SS rh
so yeah, get two players, a lh bat and a rh bat off of this list i'm going to make
anderson lh OF
drew lh OF
beltre rh 3b
glaus rh 3b
lowell rh 3b
delgado lh 1b
sexson rh 1b
beltran sh OF
we have ibanez who can play in the OF or at 1b if we need him too. so, therefore we should probably get glaus or lowell since there is no chance in hell we are getting beltre and we should get drew or delgado or garret anderson, since there is no chance at beltran. anderson isn't likely, drew isn't likely, and delgado will cost too much. so we are sunk. we aren't getting any of them. fuck it, i'd be happy if we could get one of those guys, but we can't because we suck.
i don't know why i even worry about this anymore. every year i wonder what we are going to do, and every year we do nothing. so screw it. i'm done. we aren't getting anyone. we are getting rid of everyone. they will sign ex-microsoft employees who pay them millions just to be on the team.
howard lincoln said they are planning on a top 10 payroll and an operating budget that will lose them millions of dollars in order to win next year. i'll believe it when they shell out the moolah for some decent players. but its a good sign that he said that. and that they fired someone, at least. something had to give. we've got a lot of money to spend, like at least $25M
how to spend it, hmmmmmmm.....
pitching, do we need pitching? hmmmmmmmm......
right now we've got this in our rotation:
piniero
moyer
meche
madritsch
franklin
i'd like to see franklin out and back in the bullpen. so we need a new starter until king felix is old enough. might be this year, but he'll get injured like the rest. it depends on who we can get, really. franklin sucked it up though. i still like him, i just don't think he can be in the rotation. maybe not even moyer. moyer should be our #4 or 5 guy, not number 2. but keep moyer. moyer is a pimp. unless someone offers us something good in return.
bullpen is looking so so...
closer: guardado
setup: putz, soriano
long relief: shiggy, franklin, villone
i'd almost like to see some of our kids blow leads instead of shiggy franklin and villone. i'd almost get rid of shiggy and villone, and let thorton and nageotte have their spots, cycling whoevers hot down in tacoma up if needed. or spend more money for mediocre dudes who would blow leads like the rest of them. i don't know who we could get to do better than what we have when we have other more pressing issues. it wasn't our pitchings fault that we lost this year.
so now i guess i need to say what we should get. my team to not suck, potentially. so, we only need a pitcher, first baseman, outfielder, thirdbaseman....
3 of the 4. we need a left handed bat. i'd like to steal some people from our people in our division :) glaus or garret anderson would be funny. if we got one of them we wouldn't have to do as much to fill other spots. rangers-mariners clean out the farm trade?
bah, i'd make a terrible GM.
1. Ichiro Rf lh
2. Reed Cf lh
3. Lowell 3b rh
4. Anderson Lf lh
5. Bucky DH rh
6. Ibanez 1b lh
7. Boone 2b rh
8. Olivo C rh
9. Lopez SS rh
so yeah, get two players, a lh bat and a rh bat off of this list i'm going to make
anderson lh OF
drew lh OF
beltre rh 3b
glaus rh 3b
lowell rh 3b
delgado lh 1b
sexson rh 1b
beltran sh OF
we have ibanez who can play in the OF or at 1b if we need him too. so, therefore we should probably get glaus or lowell since there is no chance in hell we are getting beltre and we should get drew or delgado or garret anderson, since there is no chance at beltran. anderson isn't likely, drew isn't likely, and delgado will cost too much. so we are sunk. we aren't getting any of them. fuck it, i'd be happy if we could get one of those guys, but we can't because we suck.
i don't know why i even worry about this anymore. every year i wonder what we are going to do, and every year we do nothing. so screw it. i'm done. we aren't getting anyone. we are getting rid of everyone. they will sign ex-microsoft employees who pay them millions just to be on the team.
