Is it just me, or

[Mr. Happy]

does Carlos Lee's bat look very slow so far? Take away that one game, and he's looking really bad at the dish.

[MusicMan]

does Carlos Lee's bat look very slow so far? Take away that one game, and he's looking really bad at the dish.

I said this all last year.

[Ron Brand]

We were wondering about this tonight, was it his eyes or his bat speed to blame for not driving the ball but you can't tell by being in the stands.

[Mr. Happy]

I said this all last year.

Now I remember you saying that. However, I didn't pick up on it as much last season as I have so far this year. Seriously, he might be done.

[geezerdonk]

Arm weary from all the lifting off the pre-game buffet.

[jbm]

Is next year an option year, or is he guaranteed another 15 million plus?

[MusicMan]

Is next year an option year, or is he guaranteed another 15 million plus?

Guaranteed.

[Lurch]

Is next year an option year, or is he guaranteed another 15 million plus?

18.5 guaranteed this year and again next.  Unrestricted FA in 2013.  Limited no trade this year, full (10-5) next year

[Ty in Tampa]

Guaranteed.

Yikes.

[jbm]

Wow, that's a lot of salary to eat if he has truly lost it.  Of course, its not like there is some handy replacement available anyway.  

[geezerdonk]

Wow, that's a lot of salary to eat if he has truly lost it.  Of course, its not like there is some handy replacement available anyway.  

an unfortunate metaphor

[Astroholic]

18.5 guaranteed this year and again next.  Unrestricted FA in 2013.  Limited no trade this year, full (10-5) next year

No shock.  This contract sucked from the get go and I like Lee.

[OregonStrosFan]

18.5 guaranteed this year and again next.  Unrestricted FA in 2013.  Limited no trade this year, full (10-5) next year

Levine did the research a couple of years back. Says Lee's contract structuring allows for limited no trade in 2011 and 2012.

[MusicMan]

No shock.  This contract sucked from the get go and I like Lee.

Exactly.  I don't think many (if any) of us thought the sixth year was a great idea.

[HudsonHawk]

18.5 guaranteed this year and again next.  Unrestricted FA in 2013.  Limited no trade this year, full (10-5) next year

Lee waived his 10/5 rights in exchange for the no-trade clause at the beginning of the contract.

[BlownRanger]

Lee waived his 10/5 rights in exchange for the no-trade clause at the beginning of the contract.

Isn't that pretty much like a trophy wife agreeing to forego a pre-nup if everything is just put in her name immediately?

[HudsonHawk]

Isn't that pretty much like a trophy wife agreeing to forego a pre-nup if everything is just put in her name immediately?

I suppose it is, at least in Lee's case.  He waived his no-trade rights for the years in which it'd be pretty much impossible to trade him anyway.  But such a deal is pretty common among veterans who have or are close to the 10 year service requirement, but don't have the 5 years with the same team, and you didn't really know what value he'd have in 2012 when the contract was signed.

[Astroholic]

I suppose it is, at least in Lee's case.  He waived his no-trade rights for the years in which it'd be pretty much impossible to trade him anyway.  But such a deal is pretty common among veterans who have or are close to the 10 year service requirement, but don't have the 5 years with the same team, and you didn't really know what value he'd have in 2012 when the contract was signed.

No but the fake boobs were already there..just not sagging yet.

[S.P. Rodriguez]

No but the fake boobs were already there..just not sagging yet.

Ya'll are acting like fake boobs are bad.

[MusicMan]

Ya'll are acting like fake boobs are bad.

As Orwell wrote, "Fake boobs good, real boobs better!!"

[geezerdonk]

Fake? What fake? That is 100% genuine grade A prime Carlos.

[Astroholic]

Fake? What fake? That is 100% genuine grade A prime Carlos.

Met A Phor.  or two!

[moriartp]

Ya'll are acting like fake boobs are bad.

They are.

[Waldo]

Carlos has fake boobs?

[Lurch]

They are.

wrong.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Fake boobs shouldn't sag.

[Bench]

They are.

I guess you don't know anyone who's had a mastectomy.



/surveysthreadfromhighhorse  

[Alkie]

As Orwell wrote, "Fake boobs good, real boobs better!!"

Pablo Orwell, one of the worst porno writers out there today.

[strosrays]

I guess you don't know anyone who's had a mastectomy.



/surveysthreadfromhighhorse  

No, it was a good point about making sweeping statements, and the human tendency to generalize about things, in general.  Still, I'd be curious to know how many women getting implants really.  Need.  Them.

[chuck]

Pablo Orwell, one of the worst porno writers out there today.

Why, do you sometimes actually get to, like, page 12?

I went to a friend's house one day and he had on his couch a book called Coping With ADD. He'd left his bookmark on page 8. No lie.

[Ebby Calvin]

I went to a friend's house one day and he had on his couch a book called Coping With ADD. He'd left his bookmark on page 8. No lie.

That's hilarious.

[strosrays]

Why, do you sometimes actually get to, like, page 12?

I went to a friend's house one day and he had on his couch a book called Coping With ADD. He'd left his bookmark on page 8. No lie.

Adder-  Add-  Starts with ADD

[moriartp]

I guess you don't know anyone who's had a mastectomy.


/surveysthreadfromhighhorse 

Several, actually, and please pardon my generalization. I've got a problem with boob jobs for the sake of meeting an unhealthy and moronic standard of attractiveness. Dropping thousands of dollars on an unnecessary procedure that only fuels further objectification of women? Yeah, that's hot. I say this being plenty familiar with A through D: nobody worth being with gives a damn about your cup size.

/just rode my high horse to the top of Everest

[HudsonHawk]

Several, actually, and please pardon my generalization. I've got a problem with boob jobs for the sake of meeting an unhealthy and moronic standard of attractiveness. Dropping thousands of dollars on an unnecessary procedure that only fuels further objectification of women? Yeah, that's hot. I say this being plenty familiar with A through D: nobody worth being with gives a damn about your cup size.

/just rode my high horse to the top of Everest

As a connoisseur of boobs, I'll go ahead and make a sweeping statment...boobs are wonderful.  All of them.  Real or fake.  It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if they're surgically enhanced. 

[S.P. Rodriguez]

As a connoisseur of boobs, I'll go ahead and make a sweeping statment...boobs are wonderful.  All of them.  Real or fake.  It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if they're surgically enhanced. 

Amen.

[Duke]

As a connoisseur of boobs, I'll go ahead and make a sweeping statment...boobs are wonderful.  All of them.  Real or fake.  It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if they're surgically enhanced. 

In the immortal words of the waterboy "I LIKE BOOBIES".

[Limey]

Why, do you sometimes actually get to, like, page 12?

I went to a friend's house one day and he had on his couch a book called Coping With ADD. He'd left his bookmark on page 8. No lie.

I once bought a book about overcoming procrastination.  Never read it.  No lie.

[Limey]

As a connoisseur of boobs, I'll go ahead and make a sweeping statment...boobs are wonderful.  All of them.  Real or fake.  It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if they're surgically enhanced. 

[Ron White]  Once you've seen one pair of boobs... you pretty much want to see all of them.  Even yours, Grandma.  [/Ron White]

[Reuben]

I once bought a book about overcoming procrastination. I'm going to read it, sometime soon....  No lie.

FIFY

[strosrays]

As a connoisseur of boobs, I'll go ahead and make a sweeping statment...boobs are wonderful.  All of them.  Real or fake.  It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if they're surgically enhanced. 

A connoisseur would make distinctions between different types.  You sound more like a mass consumer of boobs.  An omniboobivore, in the parlance.

[strosrays]

As a connoisseur of boobs, I'll go ahead and make a sweeping statment...boobs are wonderful.  All of them.  Real or fake.  It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if they're surgically enhanced. 

Also, I am assuming Nancy Grace's boobs are lopsided, like her head.

[JimR]

Also, I am assuming Nancy Grace's boobs are lopsided, like her head.

and have feet in them, like her mouth.

[das]

and have feet in them, like her mouth.

Ewwwwww....

[Lurch]

Carlos will man 1B tonight with Jason Michaels taking LF.  Hate to see Wallace have to sit.

[Bench]

Carlos will man 1B tonight with Jason Michaels taking LF.  Hate to see Wallace have to sit.

He's sitting against a lefty starter.  Assuming it's not a CG, I would expect him to get in the game at some point.

[Lurch]

He's sitting against a lefty starter.  Assuming it's not a CG, I would expect him to get in the game at some point.

Fine point.  Then again, he's going to need that experience...

[Mr. Happy]

Fine point.  Then again, he's going to need that experience...

If it is a mere day, that's fine. But why sit him against a rookie pitcher?

[Bench]

If it is a mere day, that's fine. But why sit him against a rookie pitcher?

Mills is committed to working in the bench players regularly.  Giving Wallace a day off against a lefty is an easy way to accomplish that.

[strosrays]

Mills is committed to working in the bench players regularly.  Giving Wallace a day off against a lefty is an easy way to accomplish that.

I've always felt instinctively that a lineup where bench players rotate in regularly was the best.  I think I got that from growing up watching Earl Weaver's Baltimore teams.  He usually had a nine or ten-man pitching staff, and so had enough regular players to have several platoons going on at the same time.  For awhile in the early 1980s he regularly rotated three guys in LF -- two righthanders (Gary Roenicke and Benny Ayala) and a lefty (John Lowenstein.)

But some of the best teams ever (The Big Red Machine, 1970s Dodgers, 1960s Tigers) had very set lineups.  Those Reds teams had guys on the bench like Jimmy Stewart and Ty Cline, and whatever catcher was backing up Bench that season, who hardly ever played.

[Limey]

Mills is committed to working in the bench players regularly.  Giving Wallace a day off against a lefty is an easy way to accomplish that.

Interestingly, on a 16-hit, 11-run night, the "better offensive option vs. a lefty starter", being J-Mike in left, went 1-5.  Lee, who would've been playing either way, went 0-5.  I say this only to point out that there are lies, damn lies, and situational hitting statistics.

[MusicMan]

Interestingly, on a 16-hit, 11-run night, the "better offensive option vs. a lefty starter", being J-Mike in left, went 1-5.  Lee, who would've been playing either way, went 0-5.  I say this only to point out that there are lies, damn lies, and situational hitting statistics.

Lies, damned lies, and washed up outfielders.

[Limey]

Lies, damned lies, and washed up outfielders.

Against decidedly sub-par pitching last night, Lee looked horrible.  He needs to have a good first half of the season, so that some AL contender with a gimped DH will come calling.

[austro]

Against decidedly sub-par pitching last night, Lee looked horrible.  He needs to have a good first half of the season, so that some really rich AL contender with a gimped DH will come calling.

FIFY.