NLCS and a little ALCS

[Garrick]

wow, i thought i heard them talking about pujols' contract last night... maybe that was rolen they were talking about? somenoe's contract is up next year, i guess i wasn't paying close attention.

[themonk]

Beltran's the one with the contract up, and I seriously doubt the astros will be able to afford the Bonds-type numbers he's going to be looking for.

And you know what that means...The darkness whose name we dare not speak is going to descend upon like a plague and try to spirit him away to New York.

[Jenks]

Rolen is signed long term too

We've got Edmonds for 2 more, Pujols for 7, and Rolen for at least 4. Walker, lmao, Colorado is paying 8 mil of his salary next year for us. YAY! They want to sign Renteria. Morris is a salary we can dump and put towards another pitcher. Reggie, 1 yr, Womack, 1 yr.


Beltran is either going to be a Yank or a Dodger imo.

[Garrick]

HE'LL STAY WITH THE ASTROS

wishful thinking... the astros need to win this year to have any chance in the near future. we stand to lose beltran, bagwell, biggio, kent and clemens. talk about expiring your team.


i will lose any respect for beltran if he goes to new york after winning a world championship in houston (assuming they win). i already have no respect for the yankees and their 5 billion dollar payroll.

[Jenks]

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here are 2003's numbers just for shits and grins.

man, The Mets are second, and they SUCK!



Team Payroll Tax

New York Yankees $180,322,403 penalty tax = 10,764,809
New York Mets 116,253,927
Los Angeles 109,248,680
Texas 106,277,880
Boston 104,873,607

Atlanta 103,912,011
St. Louis 101,825,848
San Francisco 100,061,211
Philadelphia 95,338,704
Arizona 92,665,040

Seattle 92,268,063
Chicago Cubs 86,576,763
Anaheim 83,235,098
Houston 79,946,964
Colorado 78,738,492

Baltimore 75,502,154
Chicago White Sox 71,336,029
Minnesota 65,318,977
Cincinnati 65,083,196
Florida 63,281,152

Pittsburgh 62,314,723
Toronto 61,175,638
Detroit 59,006,941
Cleveland 58,108,824
San Diego 57,871,722

Oakland 56,596,691
Kansas City 48,475,322
Milwaukee 47,294,226
Montreal 45,853,889
Tampa Bay 31,660,602

Total 2,400,424,777

[Garrick]

HAHAHAHAH... THE METS REALLY SUCK!!! how could you be so bad, yet pay that much? thats bad management there.

oakland actually did REALLY well for their salary cap.

[Jenks]

check out the Twins nearly getting it done for a third of the Yanks salary!

[Garrick]

championships cannot be bought. this year will be no different!

garrick anxiously awaits a reply from jibs.

[Jenks]

last year, a team with a third of the payroll, ROLLED up on the Yanks. lol, wildcard too, that was awesome!

[runningman]

I thin k even if they win he will go to Boston.. Someone special has to go there to break this damn curse.. Maybe the dodgers but nobody likes losing.. I don't ccare who you are.. My team the tigers need to spend more money in order to win.. I didn't know they were that low.. Even with the signing of pudge they are low..

[Garrick]

now i know what i heard... pedro's contract is up at the end of the year! pdro/pujols.... same thing

but yeah, if they lose pedro, beltran won't mak a lick of difference. they will have no pitching.

[Jenks]

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technically, Pedro doesn't make a lick of a difference either when it comes down to it, since he's the yankees' bitch.

[LobsterClan]

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Just curious-- anyone here actually read Moneyball?

[maddlingo]

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Congratulations to the Red Sox for tying the series from a 3 game defecit. If they can beat the Yanks in game 7 it will be the best come back in baseball history.

[superdave]

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Hopefully my Astros can close out the Cards in STL today. Munro, who pitched well last time, will get the call and I think it's a wise decision. If we lose Game 6, then we got Clemens, Oswalt, Backe, and Lidge for you STL ass tomorrow.

What sucks is the start time at 3:17 pm cst. I was hoping that the Yankees would beat the Sox, so we'd get a later start. I guess I'll have to sneak away early from work to watch the game.