2011 MLB Season Discussion: Joey Votto MVP Edition

[Bregor]

lololol. Demo if you start posting in the NHL thread next season endorsing the Canucks/Bruins/Lightning then I won't be able to take anything you say seriously.

Dude he's liked Luongo since his days in Florida and just followed him to Vancouver. Get off his case.

[Demosthenes11]

rofl people getting trolled by rhino.

apparently wanting the heat to troll the nba fans and win makes me a big heat fan or something. ya'll niggas just mayad my 2 teams win ships and your dont

[Bregor]

ya'll niggas just mayad my 2 teams win ships and your dont

Did my sig give it away?

[Demosthenes11]

Did my sig give it away?

nah, you have peyton MOTHERFUCKING hillis. you know winners

[Bregor]

nah, you have peyton MOTHERFUCKING hillis. you know winners

Madden curse inc

[*Shinzon*]

So you'll take over the Dodgers and let Wilpon do whatever the fuck he wants? Anytime now bud, any fucking time now.

Not only is Jose Reyes probably outta here, the Mets won't be reinvesting the money. Fred Wilpon acknowledged to Sports Illustrated that the payroll could go down about 30 percent next offseason.

If the Mets' payroll is roughly $140 million this year, that means $98 million next year. And if $65 million comes off with Reyes' departure and because Francisco Rodriguez doesn't vest, only about $23 million gets put back in next offseason -- with the need for a shortstop and a closer. And that's not even taking into account raises to other players.

"That's fair," Wilpon told the magazine. "If you invest your $100 million properly, as most clubs that are competitive are in that range . . . I think that we have to see what Sandy [Alderson, the general manager] wants to do, and Sandy wants flexibility. And I'm trying to give him the ultimate amount of flexibility. He's going to have to make those decisions . . . The answer to your question is yeah, that could happen."

Also in the SI article, regarding a sale of a minority share ...

Wilpon says the $200 million cash infusion already has been earmarked: $25 million to pay off an emergency loan that Major League Baseball extended last November, $75 million to pay down $427 million in debt the Mets are carrying ($375 million to banks and another $52 million to MLB, which extends low-interest loans of that size as a matter of course to all clubs) and $100 million toward operating costs. Wilpon says the Mets “are bleeding cash” and acknowledges that they stand to lose as much as $70 million this year.

[archibaldcrane]

As long as his checks aren't on the verge of bouncing, yep.

[archibaldcrane]

Corey Hart with another multi-run homer, 4 in his last 6 at-bats.

[Headspace]

Reds got their win of the series.

Now time to get absolutely worked the next two nights.

[Melena]

sweet. so the 7/23 and 7/24 games. 7/24 is fedora hat day too :OOO

Archi, when do you think you'd know if you can make it. 7-24 would probably be the better day as my wife would only need to get the day off from one job, not both. If we go on a saturday, just be tough luck for her

[Demosthenes11]

fuck. so uh, my company 1 year anni party is that saturday. I'm not allowed to miss it since I have to talk to users.

I can make the 7/24 game for sure though.

[Melena]

Well that's 3 votes out of 4 for 7-24 (counting my wife) so by california super majority rules, looks like were settled

[Demosthenes11]

its the most important day anyways. fuck ya fedoras

[archibaldcrane]

I probably wont know for sure til like a week before. Ill let both of you know.

Ill be going to at least the sat-sun games if i go, up to ya'll which you wanna go to.

Brewers have won 11 of 13 btw

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[Demosthenes11]

giants have lost 1 of 1

got killed last night and I had to sit amongst 50 3rd grade girls to watch it. in the cold. fuck.

[Akiyama]

In other news, the Braves offense still sucks cock.

[Melena]

If we want to go drinking after the game, I'll need to hit up my future brother in law as he lives in those fucking expensive ass condos right across the street from the park. Dude is a huge bar hopper (got me torn up something fierce my bachelor party) and knows a lot of the good spots to hit and seems pretty good on getting drink deals.

[archibaldcrane]

After the Sunday game I'm either going to be heading directly to the airport or jumping in my car for a long drive.

Saturday night is another story.

[Melena]

Well saturday if we want to make it a real late night we can definently do something. Only issue is picking the wife up from work at like 11pm. Damn our joy of one car only in the household.

[Demosthenes11]

ya'll can come to my company party and get shitfaced. We need to sell $x of booze that night to get the venue free