Archive for December 18th, 2006

Unrelated Sport Note

Something we can all agree on, so rare at the Table. At a press conf. today George Karl, the Nuggets coach, called Isiah Thomas a “jackass”. Thomas costs James Dolan suspensions plus $500,000 fine. After “dim Jim” went to bat for him last week!

Mike Gonzalez

Just looked him up. 64 SO’s in 51 innings but 31 walks. The impressive stat is only 1 HR given up. The guy made $347,000 last year. Gonna take a lot to get him. I’d rather see him in the 8th than Farnsworth.

Mike Gonzalez

2006: 24 saves, none blown and a 2.17 ERA. I’ll take that. Three way trades are pretty rare at getting the trigger pulled, I would be pleasantly surprised if this idea had legs.

Trade proposal

How do people feel about the reports of the trade proposal of Melky Cabrera in a 3 way deal where the Yanks get reliever Mike Gonzalez, the Braves get Melky and the Pirates get Adam LaRoche? Melky’s trade value may never be higher – and Mike Gonzalez is still young (28 I believe) and [...]

Pitchers and Catchers

February 13th.