Smart money for the Red Sox

Posted: January 10, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
Tags:

I’m a big fan of signing a veteran pitcher when you have a young staff that could use some seasoning.

So the Red Sox signing of John Smoltz to me is a very good move. With the quantity of young pitchers on the staff the presence of a vet with the experience and presence of a John Smoltz can only make them better.

With the signing of Brad Penny as well that gives them 4 new players coming off injury shortened seasons. SI has some thoughts:

It could be that they’re just being smart. Those four players are each signed to incentive-laden one-year contracts that will cost the Red Sox a base total of $12.2 million, or $4.25 million less than the Yankees will pay the injury-prone A.J. Burnett in the first year of his five-year contract (or, to turn the tables on Boston, just $200,000 more than they’ll pay the rapidly-aging Mike Lowell in the second year of his three-year contract).

If even one of them pan out for the season it will turn out to be more smart moves for one from one of the smartest GM’s in the league.

Not that big a fuss

Posted: January 9, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
Tags:

I think he should have just stuck with his I’m not a Rickey guy.

After Rob Neyer of ESPN, Sports Illustrated’s Extra Mustard, the mighty Deadspin, and a whole slew of bloggers who picked up our lead in questioning Simpson’s glaring omission of MLB’s all-time steals leader from his 2008 Ballot and created an online lynch mob …

Well, Corky wants to say that if he could do it again … he’d vote for Rickey.

Too little, too late in my book.

He also could have said: “Hey if Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Bob Gibson, Rod Carew, Reggie Jackson, Stan Musial, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson or Tom Seaver or any of the other fine candidates of the last 40 years didn’t get in with 100% of the vote what makes Rickey think he deserves that honor?”

Yeah Rickey deserves the vote but C’mon.

Via Baseball musings.

Hmmmm again Update Big whoops!

Posted: January 9, 2009 by datechguy in war
Tags: , ,

Noticed this at the Muqata:

According to PA law the presidency now automatically goes to the Speaker, but (Hamas) Speaker Aziz Dweik is currently in jail in Israel, making (Hamas) Gaza-based Deputy Speaker Ahmed Bahar next in line. Abu Mazeen is claiming he can extend his presidency for up to another year (he has been taking lessons from Ehud Olmert).

I don’t know if anything will come of this but with the UN now trying to bail Hamas out it will be interesting to see if this serves to blunt the impact of the French deal that Hamas rejected that was a PR win for Israel.

Update: Remind me to not hit save while running out the door, I meant to copy and paste one piece of the post and grabbed the whole thing. Just got back and noticed it now. My apologies to the muqata for snarfing his full post it was unintentional.

Fake stuff

Posted: January 9, 2009 by datechguy in war
Tags: ,

We mentioned yesterday how Little Green Footballs confirmed that a photo that was thought to be fake on the war was in fact real.

However this one is bull

And CNN which put it out there had to pull it. But didn’t acknowledge its falsehood and left the article that went up with it. No Correction.

Confederate Yankee points out significant:

It has also been determined that the videographer who filmed his brother’s “death” is the general manager of a company that hosts web sites for Hamas.

Dr. Gilbert was allowed into Gaza by the Israelis just 2 days ago to provide medical care. He was involved in faking war crimes less than 48 hours later.

Remember this next time you hear a reporter whining about access to Gaza.

Older Entries
Newer Entries