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[Dolfan In NYC]

Playing the role of David Justice in Moneyball 2012, Manny Ramirez.

1 yr/$500K.  He must serve his 50 game suspension before returning, which according to ESPN barring rainouts or Godzilla attack is on 5/30.

[Tabe]

Rippa, on Feb 19 2012, 12:50 PM, said:

And Mike Cameron has officially retired

And fans in Seattle will always remember him for his awesome 2001 season and for being such a GREAT defensive CF while he was here.

Thank you, Mike Cameron, for your 4-HR game against the Yankees that was 2 feet from being a 5-HR game (fly ball caught right against the fence in the 9th).

Tabe

[OutlawStar51]

Add Raul Ibanez to the list of Yankee DH's this year, which currently sits at 5.  Although he'll likely be the full time vs RHP DH, except when Jeter or A-Rod need half-days off.

Actually not mad at that move, since Ibanez can still play the corner OF positions better than most of the other available DH's in the market, so he won't completly eat up a roster spot to hit in 75-90 games.

[Craig H]

Happy Theo Epstein Compensation Day. A couple media outlets in Boston are reporting that it will be a single player from the 40-man, likely a pitcher. I have a bad feeling my boys are about to lose Chris Carpenter, who had the best shot at replacing Marmol. I would rather it be Marmol, Gaub, Dolis, Mateo, or Russell. I'm guessing not Marmol considering the shit awful contract Hendry handed him.

[Dolfan In NYC]

Craig H, on Feb 21 2012, 10:44 AM, said:

Happy Theo Epstein Compensation Day. A couple media outlets in Boston are reporting that it will be a single player from the 40-man, likely a pitcher. I have a bad feeling my boys are about to lose Chris Carpenter, who had the best shot at replacing Marmol. I would rather it be Marmol, Gaub, Dolis, Mateo, or Russell. I'm guessing not Marmol considering the shit awful contract Hendry handed him.

When was Carpenter traded to the Cubs?

[Craig H]

Dolfan In NYC, on Feb 21 2012, 10:51 AM, said:

Craig H, on Feb 21 2012, 10:44 AM, said:

Happy Theo Epstein Compensation Day. A couple media outlets in Boston are reporting that it will be a single player from the 40-man, likely a pitcher. I have a bad feeling my boys are about to lose Chris Carpenter, who had the best shot at replacing Marmol. I would rather it be Marmol, Gaub, Dolis, Mateo, or Russell. I'm guessing not Marmol considering the shit awful contract Hendry handed him.

When was Carpenter traded to the Cubs?

Different Chris Carpenter. Possible same upside, though. He has some electric stuff and would definitely have a place as a closer, or if stretched out, maybe a middle of the rotation pitcher.

[Rippa]

Dolfan In NYC, on Feb 21 2012, 10:51 AM, said:

Craig H, on Feb 21 2012, 10:44 AM, said:

Happy Theo Epstein Compensation Day. A couple media outlets in Boston are reporting that it will be a single player from the 40-man, likely a pitcher. I have a bad feeling my boys are about to lose Chris Carpenter, who had the best shot at replacing Marmol. I would rather it be Marmol, Gaub, Dolis, Mateo, or Russell. I'm guessing not Marmol considering the shit awful contract Hendry handed him.

When was Carpenter traded to the Cubs?

Different Chris Carpenter

[Craig H]

Powerful Phil Rippa.

[Craig H]

EDIT: You know what...Some perspective: Theo is still better than anything given up.

[Rippa]

Well just for the record

Chris Carpenter is the compensation

[Craig H]

Rippa, on Feb 21 2012, 12:11 PM, said:

Well just for the record

Chris Carpenter is the compensation

PTBNL too, but in return for another player from Boston.

Now the Cubs need to settle the compensation for snagging Hoyer from San Diego.

[Gonzalez]

Hanley, biting the bullet for once.

[Gonzalez]

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Craig Calcaterra Feb 22, 2012, 1:41 PM EST

This is fun. In 2008, Marlins’ president David Samson apparently served as auctioneer at what I can only guess was a charity auction at a Florida Marlins awards banquet at a country club.

At the outset of the auction, he said, in what I can only guess was a joking manner, that the Marlins were the first item up for bid, minimum bid, $10 million.

Then, from the crowd, someone, in what one would reasonably assume was a joking manner, bid $10 million. I’m sure there were chuckles all around, and then the actual auction began.

Except the guy who bid $10 million now claims that he was serious and is suing the Marlins, claiming that they breached a contract by not selling the team to him for $10 million. Courtesy of Sport in Law, here’s the lawsuit.

This is why we can’t have nice things, people.

The suit was filed by an actual law firm too, not some weirdo acting on his own twisted behalf. Here’s hoping that the judge who is assigned to the case is especially cranky the day he or she reads this thing and kicks all kinds of lawyer and plaintiff butt as he or she drums this frivolous complaint out of court.  

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[TimLivingston]

I would have bid $6.83.

[Craig H]

This seems exactly like the stupid kind of thing that would happen to the Marlins, so I hope it goes through.

That said, given my moderate knowledge of contract law, and just going off the story, there's obviously nothing in contract law that dictates the team must be sold, nor is Samson in breach of contract since there is no contract. It's not even a verbal agreement for crying out loud. More than anything, I hope the judge tears the bidder a new one for being so stupid to throw money away to an attorney in an attempt to win this case.

[Brian Fowler]

There's a small part of me (the wants to watch the world burn part) that wants this to go the other way and have the ruling be that, yes, they did have to sell him the team for 10 million dollars.  Just because.

[odessasteps]

Brian Fowler, on Feb 24 2012, 04:50 AM, said:

There's a small part of me (the wants to watch the world burn part) that wants this to go the other way and have the ruling be that, yes, they did have to sell him the team for 10 million dollars.  Just because.

And then he moves them to Montreal.

[Brian Fowler]

odessasteps, on Feb 24 2012, 05:07 AM, said:

Brian Fowler, on Feb 24 2012, 04:50 AM, said:

There's a small part of me (the wants to watch the world burn part) that wants this to go the other way and have the ruling be that, yes, they did have to sell him the team for 10 million dollars.  Just because.

And then he moves them to Montreal.

Hm, I'm liking the idea more and more.

[Craig H]

odessasteps, on Feb 24 2012, 05:07 AM, said:

Brian Fowler, on Feb 24 2012, 04:50 AM, said:

There's a small part of me (the wants to watch the world burn part) that wants this to go the other way and have the ruling be that, yes, they did have to sell him the team for 10 million dollars.  Just because.

And then he moves them to Montreal.

I was thinking of the same thing.

[Dolfan In NYC]

Stop me if you've heard this one before. . . Grady Sizemore is injured.

Strained back.  Out til after opening day.