AFL Rising Stars Game featuring several Reds prospects on MLB Network Saturday at 8pm
A little heads up that a few Reds prospects will be featured in a Rising Stars game on Saturday in Arizona and the game will be shown on MLB Network. The past two first round picks - Mike Leake and Yonder Alonso - as well as Chris Heisey and Zack Cozart will be on the NL roster. You can bet that we'll have a game thread up, so keep your eyes out for it on Saturday!
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It looks like the Pirates are trading for Akinori Iwamura
no word on who they are giving up yet. He was hurt for most of last season, but when he’s been healthy, he’s a 2.5 WAR second baseman who will make $4.85 million next year. That’s not too bad of a pickup for the Pirates, but it makes me think that they are playing for 2010 then if they are taking on nearly $5 million in salary for a player that is not signed for 2011.
Definitely a good argument.
from what i hear
they have plenty of money to throw around. even if they are not playing for the pennant next year, Aki will help them toward respectability. as long as they didnt give up too much talent for him, i really like this for them.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Nov 3, 2009 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
That's my thoughts.
Joe Randa-esque
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
similar
but the significance of this move, I believe, is that it is the first move of the off-season for the Pirates, and they are taking on salary. It’s not like they are going cheap until they have to spend. This leads me to believe they will be buyers this off-season. I wouldn’t be surprised if they spend 30-40 million for 2010 this off-season. I haven’t heard anything that they will do such, just that it wouldn’t surprise me if they did.
Definitely a good argument.
according to MLB Trade Rumors
The Pirates gave up Jesse Chavez.
There may be another player involved.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Chavez is a decent, young right-hander
but I would say the Pirates got the better end of the deal. It occurs to me that they might be in the process of taking on other team’s salary dumps. I wouldn’t be surprised if they traded for JJ Hardy. I wish they were dumb enough to take Willy Taveras.
Definitely a good argument.
According to the Pirates
it’s Iwamura for Chavez straight up.
Iwamura, a six-time Gold Glove winner and five-time All-Star in Japan, signed a three-year deal with Tampa Bay on Dec. 15, 2006, that included a club option for ’10.The Rays were expected to decline that option. The move would have cost them $550,000.
Instead, Tampa Bay added 26-year-old Chavez, who is coming off his first full Major League season. He led the Pirates with 73 appearances to go with a 4.01 ERA and a better than two-to-one strikeouts to walks ratio (47 strikeouts vs. 22 walks in 67 1/3 innings).
Sounds like a good deal for the Rays, too.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Not a bad little move
Hard to say if this portends other pickups for Pittsburgh or if it’s simply a bone to throw to their four Asian American fans. He’s obviously not going to push them to contention but moves like this can help with fan credibility. Or, maybe he can fetch a prospect at the trading deadline.
Also, Iwamura is pretty versatile. He switched to 2B in ‘08. Prior to then he had exclusively played 3B, in Tampa and Japan. IIRC he hadn’t even played 2B in high school.
Death Pool Question:
Lets say I live next to a family teetering on the brink of a massive Drew Petterson Style melt down. If iI were to put their names in the death pool, would it count if they make it on CNN?
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
Eh
People getting shot in Chicago happens all the damn time anymore. No one’s going to notice.
Plus the whole deal is that the Death Pool Lists are made with celebrities. You can’t just pick a random Canadian and hope he gets decapitated on a bus, but I guess you could pick a 19 year old Candadian folk singer and hope she gets eaten by coyotes. That would have gotten you mega-points.
Plus, I’d suggest that since you’re in Chicago, you should meet up with Brian B and pick his brain on how to kill people with the power of a few keystrokes, but it seems like anyone Brian B so much as glances at goes tits up. So tread carefully.
i was more thinking about the surburban area
when like a mom kills are 4 of her kids in a bath tub or something like that. The big time cases that make headlines across the country.
I’m not even going to try to guess who gets shot in Chicago.
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
And you're not kidding
Claude Levi-Strauss.
BAM!
by Brian B on Nov 3, 2009 7:06 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
mine did too...
no joke actually.
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
by justin007000 on Nov 3, 2009 11:18 PM EST up reply actions
she was 14 years old and has had teeth problems for a number of years
she ended up having a gland problem which caused her to lose control of her bladder, and the family had to reupholster some furniture, so after a number of different treatments it was either put her down or lock her up in a room with a litter box.
It has been a rough year for pets in my family. Last March our 17 year old beagle died suddenly of a stroke two days before we left for Florida, and while we were the other cat died from kidney failure while it was in the kennel… I also spent much of that trip feeling miserable with a stomach virus. Kind of the worst trip ever. I did get to see the Reds play a spring training games, in between jogs to the men’s room…
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
by justin007000 on Nov 3, 2009 11:46 PM EST up reply actions
*and while we were gone the other...
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
by justin007000 on Nov 3, 2009 11:48 PM EST up reply actions
holy cow
You had some old pets. 17 is really old for a dog.
My cat is 17 or 18 (not sure because she was an adult when I adopted her), so I figure she won’t be with me for much longer. She’s healthy…for now. My cousin is a vet, and she says cats aren’t really built to live longer than 10 years. Some live to be 20 or older, of course, but you can expect increasing health problems after age 10.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Yeah, that's tough when they get to be that age.
My cat I got when I was 5 lived 18 years and died when I was 23. She was fine until she started grinding her teeth one day. I took her to the vet, and the criminals there told me she needed a root canal. So we did that, and afterward, AFTER they gutted her mouth and charged me a fortune, they said she had some tissue in her jaw and needed a biopsy. Turned out she had a cancerous tumor in her face, which grew quickly until she could no longer eat, and I had to put her to sleep about a month later.
wow that is terrible.
The cat that was put to sleep yesterday we got in 1994 (2nd grade), and the cat we put to sleep last march we got in 1993 (1st grade). We also got the dog in 1994, and she was 1-3 years old. The vet was shocked by how healthy she was, when she went to the vet last November he commented that she was incredibly healthy given her age. A stroke took her down in the end, she had no other health problems and was at a healthy weight. I don’t actually ever remember the beagle ever getting sick. The only time she had to go to the vet for anything besides shots and standard checkups was when she started to develop arthritis in her back, and when she got a thorn that impaled her paw. I know it sounds strange since she was 17, but I was really shocked when she died, because she was healthy and energetic up until the end.
We have one cat standing and it’s age is a mystery. It showed up 6 years ago, and the Vet thinks it could be anywhere from 14-16 years old.
My parents did get a new dog though over the summer, nothing like a 9 month old beagle/black lab mix to liven up things. She has the intelligence and athletic ability of a black lab (she is able to climb the chain link fence), yet she has the patience, attention span, and discipline of a beagle, which creates a very loving affection, high energy dog, that still has a lot of manners to learn.
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
by justin007000 on Nov 4, 2009 12:53 AM EST up reply actions
what if i just have you sterilized.
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
jeez
I don’t think I’d agree to a root canal on a cat that age. The anesthesia alone is risky for an animal so old. Never mind the stress, pain, and suffering of surgery. The benefits would be so limited compared to the cost; at that age, they aren’t going to live too much longer anyway.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
She was perfectly healthy . . .
Except of course for the tumor that they conveniently told me about after the root canal. I’m sure if I bitched I could have gotten my money back or at least free euthanization. But there was no way in hell I was going back to that place.
Aside for the four years in college when my parents locked her in the basement, she lived a good life. Outdoor cat, never went to the vet since getting declawed as a kitten, had been shot by a pellet gun (we never did get the pellet out of her), tore knee ligaments, and smoked until she was thirteen.
How long can we talk about cats before the mods close this thread to comments?
by Brian B on Nov 4, 2009 2:29 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
if i were a vet i'd euthanize for free, especially if i have been seeing the animal for a long time
all of our pets have been seeing our vet their entire life, i feel like on top of the pain of putting a pet down, it is just salt in an open wound to pay for it.
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
have you seen the price of burlap lately?
my broker told me to invest invest invest.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Nov 4, 2009 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
my mom's two cats that she had prior to this generation of animals
each lived to be 18.
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
by justin007000 on Nov 4, 2009 12:54 AM EST up reply actions
We have a cat who is scheduled
to turn 20 this month.
We Are ... Marshall!
by Thundering Turtle on Nov 4, 2009 8:24 AM EST reply actions
that is incredible
if he makes it to 21, will you give him 21 shots?
"There is no harder thing than to have Glenn Beck outlive your child."-The Onion
Yeah.
Rabies. Ringworm. Heartworm. You get the idea.
We Are ... Marshall!
by Thundering Turtle on Nov 5, 2009 10:27 PM EST up reply actions
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