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Check out this idiotic Votto trade rumor!

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=gammons_peter

 How idiotic can you get? Surely Jocketty wouldn't do something so stupid? Would he? Surely this is just something that Gammons made up or misinterpreted. I just can't believe any GM would even consider doing this in the Reds postion. If this were to turn out to be true and Jocketty went through with it could you still support this team in 09? I'm not sure that I could.

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it’s Jermaine Dye to Cincinnati, Joey Votto to Anaheim and Chone Figgins to Chicago.

by Red Menace on Dec 21, 2008 12:14 AM EST reply actions  

20 bucks says that Gammons heard this "rumor" from Steve Phillips

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Dec 21, 2008 12:21 AM EST reply actions  

This is the kind of rumor that drives me nuts

Only a complete moron would trade Votto…and our moron is the manager – not the GENERAL MANAGER.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

by Madville on Dec 21, 2008 12:58 AM EST reply actions  

If this were to happen

I would quit watching, period. That is if I survived the heart attack, and the suicide attempt….

by thedecline19 on Dec 21, 2008 1:52 AM EST reply actions  

I don't get it.

We want to build long period of time. I didn’t come here for the shot run.

by Gray on Dec 21, 2008 2:20 PM EST up reply actions  

this isnt a rumor

its just pure speculation on the part of the author. he’s giving an example of things we dont know about, things that could be simmering under the surfaces, beyond the horizon out of the view of the media. there is nothing to this rumor so dont get all lathered up about it….yet.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 21, 2008 10:04 AM EST reply actions  

I hope he doesn't know what he's talking about

I don’t want to see Melky Cabrera in CF for the Yanks another year. The Melk Dud is a future star…of the Mexican League.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 10:48 AM EST up reply actions  

It is speculation, but it's also Gammons

Which gives it credibility for a lot of readers and the press. I agree that he’s talking out of his ass but he’s practically winking at his audience with his use of italics.

by ken on Dec 21, 2008 12:09 PM EST up reply actions  

If this happened

I would go crazy and throw my computer out the window. That is one of the dumbest trade “rumors” I’ve seen in my life.

http://naptownsfinest.com

by Colts Homer on Dec 21, 2008 3:52 PM EST reply actions  

Other news of note

The Angels have withdrawn their offer to Mark Teixeira. That leaves the primary suitors as the Nationals, who would be a 70 win team with Tex, or the Red Sox who would then have a very expensive bench player. Either outcome will make Slyde’s head asplode.

The other long shots are the Yankees, who already signed Nick Swisher, and the Orioles, Tex’s hometown team. Maybe the Reds can put in a bid after Gammons’s proposed trade goes down.

by Brendanukkah on Dec 21, 2008 7:21 PM EST reply actions  

of all the big ticket free agents out there this year

Tex is the one i would love for the Reds to spend 180 mil on. sure, we have Votto and Yonder and EdE and Frazier and so on and so on, but none project to be as good as Tex. the guy is a switch hitting Gold Glover who will OPS .900 for the next 8 years. the odds of him making even that big a contract worth it are pretty high.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 21, 2008 7:32 PM EST up reply actions  

Eh

You’d be paying a lot for an extra win or two. Per Chone – Votto: 285/365/494; Tesh: 291/391/531. After two years that gap may disappear altogether.

Plus, he could turn into Todd Helton.

by ken on Dec 22, 2008 8:48 AM EST up reply actions  

but he wouldnt be replacing Votto

Votto would move to LF. Tex would replace the whole in LF.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 22, 2008 10:13 AM EST up reply actions  

It would be great for 2009

But we’d have quite a logjam at 1B/LF to sort out afterwards and this will eat into all those extensions I want to see for Bruce, Votto/Yonder, and Volquez/Cueto. I’d rather not commit so much to that end of our defensive spectrum for 8 years. If we were an AL team with a bigger budget, I could probably go for it even though there’s still a significant chance that the last four years of the deal would be a drag.

by ken on Dec 22, 2008 5:41 PM EST up reply actions  

good point re: extensions

i guess im not so much advocating signing Tex as much as i think he will likely be worth the money some team pays him. i dont think the Reds should sign him, but given the choice between him, CC, Burnett, Manny, et al i would take Tex, even though his contract will be the biggest.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 22, 2008 5:54 PM EST up reply actions  

I haven't started my research into my team preview yet

But I did see that people have been calling first base a whole for the Nats to fill. Probably because Johnson can’t go three weeks without suffering a horrific injury, and Young should have been traded by Bowden, but then got diabetes.

by Brendanukkah on Dec 22, 2008 12:39 PM EST up reply actions  

I am not going to make a Brendan's mom joke here.

I am not.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck

by PeteyHendrix on Dec 27, 2008 2:20 AM EST up reply actions  

get your shots in while you can

as of 12:00 AM on Jan 1, a Brendan’s mom joke is a bannable offense.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 27, 2008 10:26 AM EST up reply actions  

Poor 2009

Brendan’s mom goes off the market just as its ball drops.

by Brendanukkah on Dec 27, 2008 12:20 PM EST up reply actions  

sorry about my 1/4/09 offense

i didn’t see this.

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack

by justin007000 on Jan 4, 2009 5:07 PM EST up reply actions  

that would be the stupidest thing ever in the history of everything

by sharks on Dec 22, 2008 1:23 AM EST reply actions  

and that's saying something!

Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill

by chandrathan on Dec 22, 2008 8:41 AM EST up reply actions  

We won't have Andy Phillips to kick around any more

Well, maybe we will. He hasn’t gone far. He’s signed with the Pirates.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 22, 2008 7:21 PM EST reply actions  

is that Blue Steel?

We’’re in process of trying to a guy with a trade record of working with pitches

by Slyde on Dec 22, 2008 7:25 PM EST up reply actions  

Could be

Either that, or it’s Andy Phillips molesting a cookie at a charity event.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 22, 2008 7:30 PM EST up reply actions  

And speaking of the Pirates...

…MLB Trade Rumors says they’re in hot pursuit of Rocco Baldelli.

Also, they offered Daniel Cabrera more money than the Nats gave him. He took the Nats’ offer because he didn’t want to leave the area.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Dec 23, 2008 6:43 AM EST up reply actions  

flick ping?

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Dec 22, 2008 10:03 PM EST reply actions  

Cookie looks like Mr. Bill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

by Madville on Dec 23, 2008 3:34 AM EST reply actions  

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