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"how about "not having to pay this guy the rest of his $8 million this year"?"

Well if that was their motivation, then they should have traded him for prospects not a guy making 3.2 mil/yr


[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 4:22 PM. Reason : 3]

7/31/2006 4:21:17 PM

Perez + Heath Bell for Linebrink according to metsblog

7/31/2006 4:22:29 PM

well sometimes you take what you can get. the cubs are gonna sell out anyway regardless of this trade.

7/31/2006 4:22:55 PM

Julio Lugo to LAD for 2 minor leaguers

7/31/2006 4:23:44 PM

^^^ Don't know much about Heath Bell, but getting Linebrink further makes the Mets the best team in the NL. Linebrink has closer stuff and is already one the best setup men in baseball. Padres = Mets Bitch.

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 4:24 PM. Reason : ^^]

7/31/2006 4:24:31 PM

the mets could still use a solid third starter

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 4:25 PM. Reason : ^the mets were already the best team in the NL, linebrink is just icing]

7/31/2006 4:25:34 PM

well that was anticlimatic and unsexy

7/31/2006 4:29:41 PM

^^ Read that I said FURTHER MAKES the Mets the best team in the NL.

LA getting Lugo is a solid move. They basically now have a young, talented left side with Betemit and Lugo.

CBS Sportline is reporting that Soriano did not get traded.

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 4:30 PM. Reason : ^]

7/31/2006 4:30:26 PM

any more details about lugo?

7/31/2006 4:30:47 PM

i'm an idiot

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 4:32 PM. Reason : s]

7/31/2006 4:31:15 PM

i can't believe soriano didn't get moved

same for armas jr. and livan hernandez

the natspos are a doomed franchise

7/31/2006 4:53:46 PM

^ I agree. I really thought there would be atleast a couple of big trades involving Soriano or Livan or Oswalt or Tejada, but basically nothing major happened except the Abreu trade.

7/31/2006 4:59:15 PM

Sources (metsbog, cbs) are retracting the Linebrink deal now

7/31/2006 5:08:17 PM

wtf

the nationals are fucking idiots

that is all

7/31/2006 5:19:19 PM

The Cardinals didnt do anything but get Belliard for Luna.

7/31/2006 5:30:01 PM

The Red Sox did nothing...could be a blessing in design. Other than pitching I like our team, and hopefully Wells and Wakefield make strong comebacks(possibly clement as well).

7/31/2006 5:32:15 PM

it baffles me that the whitesox and twins did nothing to help their teams

7/31/2006 5:35:40 PM

Dude the Tigers picked up Sean Casey who is virtually a lefthanded Shelton but worse. The Sox needed pitching and couldn't get it.

7/31/2006 5:50:14 PM

dude casey is a good fielder, and walks and bats for average

exactly what the Tigs needed

7/31/2006 5:52:11 PM

WTF?

St. Louis announced they traded a minor-leaguer for Jorge Sosa?

I guess Duncan thinks he can turn around all of the Braves old misfits like Marquis.

7/31/2006 5:53:57 PM

ahahahah AWESOME

7/31/2006 5:55:28 PM

Didn't the Braves designate Sosa for assignment? The Cards probably could have waited a couple of days and not given up shit. I'm sure whomever the Braves got was a piece of shit anyway.





[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 5:57 PM. Reason : c]

7/31/2006 5:57:25 PM

yeah he was designated for assignment saturday

i don't care if we got a bag of big league chew, anything would be more valuable than sosa at this point

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 5:59 PM. Reason : ]

7/31/2006 5:59:04 PM

aha you guys got a taker for sosa

7/31/2006 6:06:07 PM

you say stupid trade for the tigers? look a tigers 1B made another error, thank god we got casey

7/31/2006 8:52:50 PM

orly bc im pretty sure detroit is losing to a shitty team

7/31/2006 8:55:38 PM

I thought casey was a pretty solid 1b ... guess I've been out of touch from baseball for too long ;x got cable just in time

7/31/2006 9:05:09 PM

yea you don't pick up defense at the trade deadline. you pick up impact play0rs

7/31/2006 9:06:12 PM

no he is,

we dont have him yet, we demoted shelton and had to roll out dmitri young to play 1B, who comitted 2 errors already tonight

^^^ yes they are losing to a shitty team, as will you guys vs the royals one game of the series

verlander is tomorrow

^ you mean like the sox did



[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 9:07 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2006 9:07:12 PM

i dont like that we didnt pick up another SP, i mean we are getting maroth back but kenny rogers is a horrible 2nd half pitcher

7/31/2006 9:14:45 PM

why would the sox pick up a guy like casey? they already have konerko, who is fine at 1b, and gload, who is backup 1b and also excellent defensively.

7/31/2006 9:19:45 PM

i wasnt saying the sox should have picked up casey, i was saying at least we did something

7/31/2006 9:27:54 PM

that made sense

7/31/2006 9:28:24 PM

for the sox, this has to signify them letting garcia or vazquez go in the offseason to make room for mccarthy, otherwise, why keep him when you could have gotten a package that included soriano and livan hernandez

7/31/2006 9:37:05 PM

cause you can't just say "hey guyyyys I got this $12mil starter that I am TOTALLY gonna let you take off my hands!" and uhhh how is livan hernandez any better?

oh and because mccarthy is cheap for like 4 years so that's why



[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 9:41 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2006 9:40:46 PM

dude did you not read my post, thats what i was saying, i was saying unless the sox see him as a starter next year, there was no reason for them to keep mccarthy

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 9:42 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2006 9:41:41 PM

obviously they are going to have to let garcia / vasquez go, I dont get what that has to do with the trade deadline?

7/31/2006 9:42:21 PM

nothing, i was saying that them not trading mccarthy signifies that

7/31/2006 9:42:58 PM

mccarthy is probably going to be a cheap solid starter for years to come. so your choices would have been the bloated soriano/hernandez contracts or mccarthy's 300k. no-brainer.

7/31/2006 9:43:56 PM

both contracts are up after the season, so really it isnt bad at all

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 9:44 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2006 9:44:20 PM

except that means at the end of the season you have nothing and you just gave away your cheap top prospect

7/31/2006 9:45:15 PM

if it wins you a WS it is supposed to be worth it


im out

[Edited on July 31, 2006 at 9:46 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2006 9:45:43 PM

well you fucking detroit tigers have made the postseason somewhat of a vague goal at this point!

7/31/2006 9:46:17 PM

7/31/2006 9:47:23 PM