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Like Waitin' Around 4 My Man Art Shamsky 2 Get Wood (Or, Hmmm....) III
And how many WINS did the TEAM have with Sheff?
Take a playoff team, add Sheff, and you get a runner up, and then a LAST place finish. Let him go, and you get back into a tie for first after 162. Sheff went to the National League, where he BE LONGS. He MIGHT get a job next year. Or he might not. One half of a good season, for $ 42 million. Splendid.
DD's Free Agents
Since the end of the 2006 Season.
Adam Everett, $ 1 million for ONE season
Matt Treanor, $ 700 K for ONE season
Brandon Lyon, $ 4.25 million for ONE season
Francisco Cruceta, $ 400 K for ONE season
Jose Mesa, $ 2 million for ONE season
Sean Casey, $ 4 million for ONE season
Kenny Rogers, $ 8 million for ONE season
Todd Jones, $ 7 million for ONE season
THAT'S IT FOLKS! Splendid!
Like Waitin' Around 4 My Man Art Shamsky 2 Get Wood (Or, Hmmm....) III
Well, T-Bone. The GM "in-ked" my man Sheff and THAT "move" got C-Note, Polanco, and Magoo their > BAs in their EN-TIRE ca-reer(s). ALL this went down w/ my man Sheff in the 3. WHERE HE BE-LONGS.
Like Waitin' Around 4 My Man Art Shamsky 2 Get Wood (Or, Hmmm....) II
If Polanco's going to the Dodgers, or anywhere else, I hope they announce it this month, so the Tigs at least get a pair of top 50 draft picks.
But the Tigers won't sign Hudson or any other decent free agent. Not a hope in hell. He'll want a multi year deal, and DD hasn't signed a single free agent to a multi year contract the last three winters. Not even one of our own.
Besides, Polanco is better than Hudson. Torre was running Raffy's little brother out there in his place by the time the season finished.
DDummy's false dilemma...
Actually Dontrelle's contract was for $29 million. ...But who's counting (cuz DD obviously ain't)?
DDummy's false dilemma...
Boondock Saints- good flick.
The sequel was decent also. ALL SAINTS DAY
The accents were a little shaky for one that is raised in an Irish community, but overall a couple of very entertaining flicks. Sorta like Charles Bronson with a brogue.
Like Waitin' Around 4 My Man Art Shamsky 2 Get Wood (Or, Hmmm....) II
The ol' "zig-zag" bit, T-Bone. What IF you found out Polanco's headin' to Cha-vez Ra-vine and the O-Dog's AL-READY "in-ked" to take o-ver at 2100 Woodward in '10?
DDummy's false dilemma...
HOWDY Mr.V. Maybe I was dreaming but I thought I heard the name Venchezo in a movie I tried to finish watching around 2am here called "Boondock Saints" with Willum Defoe (sp) as a trully hilarious Antonioni kind of detective, about a couple of Boston Irish-Catholic lads ridding the streets of criminals with their pistols. Ever see it?
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DDummy's false dilemma...
Maybe George Goebel could do a better job, Philly!
Or Peter Marshall's kid, who played for the Royals. Name's Pete LaCock. I can see why he got himself a stage name for the Squares.
Not Paul Lynde, though. That laugh would never fly in a man's sport.
DDummy's false dilemma...
Splendid Job?
Sheffield, 3 years, $ 42 million, for what?
Bonderman, 4 years, $ 40 million, for what?
Willis, 3 years, $ 22 million, for what?
Robertson, 3 years, $ 21 million, for what?
Guillen, 4 years, $ 48 million, for what?
WHAT had ANY of these guys done the year before they signed to warrant those contracts?
Just look at what they did! Willis was the worst starter in the NL with a 5.10 ERA and a 1.60 WHIP. Sheffield spent most of the season on the DL. Robertson and Bonderman were a couple seasons from becoming free agents, and weren't near ACE status. Guillen was supposed to be a great hitting SS.
Jair Jurrjens and Gorkys Hernandez for Edgar Renteria?
The DD says he was "surprised" at Edgar's lack of range, even though it was no worse in '08 than it was in '07.
Just bad judgment on every single contract.
Magglio's $ 18 million option vests, for 9 homers, 55 RBI, and no defense?
And now DD claims to be strapped for cash?
Not enough to offer arbitration to a gold glove, great contact hitter in Polanco? For fear that he might get $ 6 million for one year?
Yet he signs one of the worst hitters in the entire game at SS?
With Inge hitting under .190 three months in a row, and not a plan B anywhere to be found? And Laird all in the same lineup?
$ 72 million in BAD contracts- players that no other club would take for free because their contracts are so bad. So now we have to read about how attendance was down. Yeah, down from record levels, in a season after the team finished LAST, despite a payroll that was so high that they had to pay a luxury tax on it.
Attendance was down, from record levels in 2008, but was fourth highest in the league, and fourth highest in the 109 year history of the Tigers! With the highest ticket prices in club history!
With THAT payroll in THIS division, DD should have at least one division title by now. He's getting beat by clubs with half the payroll, and now he cries poverty! Splendid.
DDummy's false dilemma...
Nice take on DDummy being stretched too thin, BB. Nice to see someone who puts words to music with a sarcastic edge. Thought I was alone in that regard. I was gonna recommend a replacement for Smokes, but I understand Cliff Arquette (Charley Weaver) of Hollywood Squares fame? passed on to that Secret Square in the sky several years back.
Just a Day Away From My Man Jeter Gettin' His 1st MVP In His HOF Career
That's the favorite thing about mine too, TD. Paid for
DDummy's false dilemma...
All we can believe is what we see and note the man's history which has been one of tearing apart the Expos and Marlins. He likes to gamble on talent which is fine for a GM but not so much for a club president, so maybe a financial overseer other than an obviously emotional owner would restrain his contract instincts.
I assume the park is kept clean and the food and merchandise vendors are first-class so he has a good operations manager. His TV and radio deals were atrocious from what I read here, again another venue he hasn't shown much interest in where a club president should have.
His relationship with the press has been odd to say the least. The one time he was forthcoming was when he spilled the beans on the contracts he'd inherited thinking the press wasn't there. He allows Ol Crazy to torture the writers with loss of access if they probe into his strange habits. There seems to be little coninuity between front office acquisitions and how they're used.
Frankly, I think Mr.I should take away DDummy's title of club president and retain him as a GM on the condition the new guy would have the final word on the club's finances and Leyland's future.
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DDummy's false dilemma...
Your "DDummy" has sure mad Septembers interesting three out of the last four seasons. Dave has his contract shortcomings, but overall has done a splendid job in this city since the 2005 season has ended.
I do agree with you on Leyland being a mistake signing. I can't fault Dave for Magglio's vesting thou.I firmly believe Ilitch overrode Dave and kept Ordonez in Detroit for 2010.... maybe 2011 also.
DDummy's false dilemma...
While I have no problem with Dave's desire to lock-down a team with contracts that could win 2 or 3 World Series, our concern is who he chose to gamble on for future-benefits. Sheff seemed ageless, Nate a bulldog, and Dontrelle a lefty with recently-nasty stuff. All played well in the newspapers but should have been suspect to a supposed genius tasked to know better.
And so now his errors in judgement leave Tiger fans with the prospect of dealing Jackson and/or Granderson and losing Polanco to stem the red ink. Or does it? I contend they should keep both, replace the catcher, and find a SS inside the system that can hit .270 with a little power. That's it other than jettisoning Ol Crazy.
Leyland is the true culprit here; DDummy's worst signing of them all, dooms us to another head-scratching summer of weird lineups and weirder pitching choices. I still cannot believer FernanDOH was in his 4th inning (?) when the Twins pulled the last floorboard from under him. Next is LARD; the worst hitter I ever saw anywhere, going 0-for with Avila in the shadows wondering what he'd done wrong.
And Aubrey Huff sitting on the bench when he'd come over with as many RBIs as Cabrera. Leyland's hatred of red hair again? Why would anybody in their right mind buy a season ticket in the middle of the most depressed city in America to have their heart broken at the end again by Ol Weirdo?
So the idea is floated DDummy's bad deals will now cost us one or both of our best and brightest. Make no mistake, Jackson is embarking on the beginning of an outstanding career and Granderson knows his new swing was a disaster for a leadoff man and can undo the bad habits. For somebody else. Wait, why?
Surely the front office realizes two black star players amidst all the latins is just good business in Detroit. Surely they know an injury to either Verlander or Porcello would leave the Tigers helpless without Jackson around. They have to know a fleet CFer is mandatory with Guillen and Maggy at the corners, right? Both are good deals money-wise too so again I ponder what DD is really up to. My guess is it was Cabrera and might still be if the conversations about the other two were deftly switched to being about him.
Cabrera is the one who gives them money-room, a cache of young can't-misses, and a position we can easily fill with a competent youngster. And remember, he was acquired for Maybin and Andrew Miller, two of DDummy's other blunders. Drinking all night with the Sox would have banned him from ever entering my clubhouse ever again. That wasn't a youthful indiscretion; that was arrogance and willful misconduct and an example must be made of it.
Maybe the obvious has or might yet dawn on Dombrowski; without an innovative field manager he can't make the playoffs. And without a solid and proven pitching staff and a wall-climbing CFer, the Tigers will stumble again and lose the crown to a lesser power.
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