It's like they don't even pay attention... they've been overspending like this for a long time now, and how has it worked out for them? They won one World Series in ten years, but they've probably spent enough money to buy a small country.
Ellsbury could buy the entire town of Madras at this point. I like watching him play. He's fun to watch, but he'll be 31 next season, misses a bunch of games, and is a lead-off hitter. Grossly overpaid, but you can't begrudge him for taking it. There is no way he was going to get close to the contract from the Red Sox.
Super disappointed in this Oregon boy, signing with the 'Baseball L*kers'. Now he'll endure the 'Jinx of Pay-Rod' with mediocre play and Bronx cheers.
As a White Buffalo myself (yes!), a Beaver believer and a devoted Yankee hater, I'm still thrilled for the guy. I really do hate the Yankees, but who can blame him for taking that deal? Besides, the Red Sox are the new Yankees anyway.
Ellsbury would have actually made sense in Seattle. Big park and he has speed. It would be like Ichiro all over again. Instead, the Mariners are apparently going after Cano, which makes no sense at all. In SafeCo, you need to build a team like the old St. Louis Cardinals had, which is based on speed, contact hitting, defense, and pitchingpitchingpitching.
Exactly. The Mariners organization is borderline retarded though. Still maybe Cano on the M's could help the young guys gain consistency.
Congrats to Beautiful Central Oregon's most famous diamond rat since Kurt Russell played for his Dad on the Bend Rainbows (now the Bend Elks).
Played against Ellsbury several times in HS baseball, as we were in the same league. Fastest SOB I ever saw in HS. A dribbler to second was still 50/50 he'd get on base.
Can't fault a guy for accepting a crazy contract offer, we all like to think that we would turn down a 50 million dollar difference bit that's just silly
