Tuesday, December 29, 2009

NO NEWS, JUST OPINIONS

***THE FREE AGENT MARKET***
The money has really been flowing this year, and most players, and more specifically, their agents, were expecting this. So some agents have moved quickly to sign their 2nd & 3rd level clients to contracts before the well dried up. Thus, Chone Figgins, Randy Wolf and Mike Cameronand the like, are set for 2010 and even Scott Boras, whose technique is to wait and wait and wait, until teams panic, has completed deals for Andruw Jones, Mike Gonzales and Alex Cora. BUT...and this is a big but...Matt Holliday, Johnny Damon and Andrian Beltre, Boras' clients all, are still swinging in the breeze. Boras has messed up big time in the past and seems to get away with it, but perhaps no more. One GM has said that the day may come, and soon, when some player sues Boras for improper representation. That would be interesting.

***WERE WE WATCHING THE SAME PEOPLE?***
ESPN Ran a poll asking about the quality of the work of umpires this season: Excellent, Good, Acceptable, or Unacceptable. The results were amazing: 6% Excellent, 34% Good and 40% Acceptable. The Umps must have had relatives stuffing the ballot boxes. That's a total of 80%. 80%! Only 20% voted Unacceptable. I don't think the Umps rating reached the Acceptable level in any one game that I saw. MLB and the Umps just agreed to a 5 year deal, but we won't know the details until the Umpires vote on it on Jan. 14th. Please don't tell me they got a raise.

A reader has asked why I haven't commented on my 'other' favorite NY team, the Football Giants. Easy, you're not allowed to curse on this website.

We've had another comment on our blog, another line of Japanese symbols. I found out that the last comment led you to a soft-porn site, so this one is gone.

Picasner will have some comments on this years' Hall of Fame candidates, either later today or tomorrow.

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