"Right, honey. What's happening?"

You're a lucky dude. My ex once got pissed off because I told her I'd call back during the '05 ALDS. She never really did get sports.

From last night — Sterling: "Deep center, over Melky's head, Stairs' rounding third, he'll score. Wait. Here comes the throw...

That was a laborious game to watch on the TV, never mind actually being there (I feel bad for JL, who said the same thing I did), though I did discover a ritual that seemed pretty effective throughout. I hope it works for everyone else, since I'll probably be at Uncle Woodrow's all day tomorrow...

Bottom line, these guys need to rest as soon as possible (after clinching the PS) and so do I. g'nite zzzzz...

and thanks to the yanks for winning! i know it doesn't mean a whole heckuva lot, but i would really like the division. 3 is my very favorite number and it's definitely magic. earliest to clinch is monday afternoon. nice way to kick off a week.

let's go yan-kees!!!

off to last call...

For all the suckiness that is Farnsworthabsolutelynothing, I can't figure out why his ERA is only 4.98. I would of thought it would have been about 25.87 by now, but sub 5?? Weird.

So if Moose has a bad (really bad) game today, does that mean he gets the boot from starting in the playoffs? I guess he would get one more start in before either way. But if he has a bad game and Kennedy has a good one, you have to think IPK is the favorite going in no? Especially if Moose has two bad starts before the playoffs. Anyways, just thinkin random thoughts.

The BX1 bus is pretty wack-assed. It takes it about an hour and a half to get from Riverdale Ave in the Bronx to the Stadium. It's almost easier to take the subway to downtown and come back uptown and get to the stadium in about half the time. And if Utopia Loews Paradise is the theatre I think it is, I sure hope they fixed the place up since I was there last. The place smelled like day-old urine and had seen its better days... then again. it didn't help that my friend and I went there and paid good money to watch a Judd Nelson movie at the time...

Melky Cabrera. 4th outfielder, my ass.

Hold on to that dame, ok?

New York Magazine reports Boras is pursuing such a deal.

http://tinyurl.com/2f6hnv

I seriously doubt my post here gave Boras the Cubbie idea, so don't blame me if it happens.

128. Sliced Bread
By the time Boras The Spider is done spinning his magic web, A-Rod will own the Chicago Cubs. That's where I see this thing headed.

147. Sliced Bread
132 I was half-kidding when I posted 128 but in the light of day it's not as crazy as I initially thought.

A-Rod as an owner/player of the Chicago Cubs? Why not? He and Boras could easily scratch up an investment group and a hefty down payment.

And who needs WGN when you can have "A-Rod TV" 24/7? "Cubbieography" and all that.

Boras is thinking BIG. Bill Gates BIG. You could hear it in his voice on the radio the other day.

$30 million per and a monument at the new "House That A-Rod Built" would be nice -- but not as nice, nice, very nice as OWNING THE CHICAGO CUBS.

I liked the post, though! I can see my wife getting side-tracked like that, too.

10 I thought players couldn't have a stake in the team(ala Jordan and the Bullets, er Wizards). It seems like if it was possible, teams would have already done it as it doesn't cost them anything except part of their profit when they sell the team.

My thinking was more that Boras would lead an investment group including A-Rod to purchase the club.

NY Mag is reporting a different scenario.

I think it was during the last Yanks Diamondbacks series when the thought of Boras and A-Rod purchasing the Cubs occurred to me.

Great headline - great summary as usual -

Check out this Schilling video - it will make your day ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0FgwXbKro&NR=1

"According to the magazine, Boras is peddling a Second City deal that could go for an average of $30 million a year over 10 seasons, with much of that cash backloaded for the 32-year-old Rodriguez - who would then be given the right to buy a chunk of the Cubs at the contract's conclusion. The report does not indicate who would pay for this proposed, precedent-setting deal."

First: If 10yrs/$250m was nuts when ARod was 25, is someone REALLY going to offer him 10yrs/$300m when he's 32? I love ARod, but he ain't worth $300m... its just too much.

However, they offered him the right to buy stock AFTER his contract is up. If there is a 'conflict of interest' rule, this might be a sleazy way of getting around it.

However, after a $300m contact, added to the $200m he has alreay made, couldn't ARod buy stock on his own? Are they just offering it at a special price?

Hell, Forbes says the Marlins are worth $226m+/-. ARod can buy 51% of them now, and the other half after he gets his next contract.

The Yanks are worth over 1 billion. How about George throws ARod 7yrs/$200 and 2.5% of the Yankees (a mere 25m, but who's counting)

ARod will have enough money to do whatever he wants. I can't see these deals as that viable. What will affect ARods choice is most likely where he and his wife WANTS to live, where a team has a reasonable shot at the PS, and maybe were the stadium is condusive to HRs.

Actually, ARod would be a God in Boston and hit 60 HRs in Fenway easily. My fear is Boston will get him. And then he will post a 2.327 OPS in the post season, against US!

This is the first time I've felt that he might actually leave.

As far as the ownership stake, Cheney gets all of his Halliburton stock back when he's done "serving", if I'm not mistaken (though I probably am...)

If we sweep, Sox have to go 5-2.
Short of amazing pitching and blowouts, in order to sweep we would probably have to use MoJobaViz pretty hard.

Possible but highly improbable.
We can now sit Shiva for any 2 games we had in the bag, and then blew.

booooo!

;)

and actually, i think i would have gone with Our Melkman always rings thrice, since he did have 3 huge consecutive run scoring singles ...