Good Housekeeping

With all of this stuff going on, I'm going to wait until later to do a less angry trade recap. For now, I'm just going to mention some things.

The Bigbie deal didn't go through, according to Tracy Ringolsby, who's on the Fan right now, because O'Dowd "thought the Red Sox's word was worth anything." The Sox backed out. The Byrnes trade that never was makes sense, despite its obvious salary dumping overtones, because Shop(p?)ach is a solid defensive catcher with decent power (wooooo). If the deal went through, it would've essentially been Kennedy and the best setup man we've seen since Brian Fuentes for Quintanilla, Shop(p?)ach, and Stern. Maybe, just maybe, I commented too rashly about this. Not about the Chacon deal, but the Byrnes saga (post Oakland). If this was their plan, then I guess their moves make some sense. Then again, JD was supposed to be good. I think JD should play winter ball this year, by the way. Go to Mexico, play every day, get your junk in line.

On the subject of the Red Sox, I hear that Tampa Bay's front office is the worst in baseball. They ask for far too much and want to give far too little. They also got Kazmir on the cheap when the Mets were on tilt, though. Maybe they just don't play the downanout club game and actually want a fair deal for their good players. My knowledge of this the consequence of listening to sports radio on the drive home at 11:30.

I don't like the fact that I have a reason to root for the Yankees. I really don't like that at all. Stupid Chacon with his endearing cap angle. If I could, I'd root for the Indians and CC Sabbathia (one of two pitchers I see that could concievably win 300 games in the modern era), but they're far away and I'm just not blue-collar enough. I should move to Buffalo.

I thank the lord every day for the return of hockey and football. There is going to be absolute pandemonium starting tomorrow with free agency. I'm not sure where I stand on Footer and Forsberg, but there's some question as to whether the Avs will be able to retain either one. If all of the qualifying offers they extended get accepted, they will only have 5 million under the cap, and I think Foppa and Footer will command max contract (aka 7 million) money. On the other hand, the Bruins offered Joe Thornton five million dollars a year. ridiculous. He is a max contract dude.