Dorks And Losers

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Octo­ber 8, 2007, the Cleve­land Indi­ans swept the light-hitting New York Yan­kees in the Amer­i­can League Divi­sional Series. What was sup­posed to be a pretty good matchup ended up lopsided.

Cleve­land had all the pitch­ing. Yan­kees didn’t have any of the hit­ting. A-Rod hit only one home run after hit­ting 50+ dur­ing the reg­u­lar sea­son. Only one reg­u­lar .300 hit­ter hit that way dur­ing the series. It wasn’t A-Rod, Derek Jeter or Jorge Posada, but Robin­son Cano.

Even Roger Clemens pitched his way off the ros­ter, and prob­a­bly out of base­ball. He should have retired last year, and now his great career ends on a very sour note.

The Indi­ans don’t play again until Fri­day where they face the bet­ter Boston Red Sox team, who also swept their ALDS oppo­nents Los Ange­les Angels. it’ll be a very good pitch­ing duel between C.C. Sabathia and Josh Beck­ett.
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Here’s a cool illus­trated look at Friedrich A. Hayek’s famous “The Road to Serf­dom.“
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Oh yeah. Thank God. Yahoo! Mail is finally out of beta. I was hav­ing supreme issues with it for the past week that I had to switch to clas­sic every time.

It’s a whole lot sta­ble now.
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Here’s the very cool movie poster for Amer­i­can Gang­ster star­ring Rus­sell Crowe and Den­zel Wash­ing­ton. Here’s the trailer in 720p.
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A-Rod Wants To Be Baseball’s $300 Mil­lion Man.

“Since Scott Boras feels that Alex Rodriguez’s loom­ing free agency is more valu­able than any other player’s, he will undoubt­edly rec­om­mend that Rodriguez, 32, forgo the poten­tial $91 mil­lion left on his deal. Boras would not esti­mate what Rodriguez could make on the open mar­ket, but it is believed that Boras could seek a 10-year con­tract for $300 mil­lion for his client. Boras was aware of what Rodriguez said about New York, but noted that he had other options. The Angels, the Cubs, the Red Sox, the White Sox, the Dodgers and the Mets are teams that could pur­sue Rodriguez.” — NY Times

There is a lot mroe money in base­ball than there was seven years ago when A-Rod first signed that land­mark $252 mil­lion con­tract with the Texas Rangers. But $100 mil­lion con­tracts were made more eas­ily back then as well.

The Angels don’t want to be ham­stringed with such a large con­tract given how high their pay­roll is, and given the fact the orga­ni­za­tion has always had one of the top farm sys­tems in base­ball. The Cubs just signed Alfonso Sori­ano and Car­los Zam­brano to those large con­tracts. The team would need to trade either of them plus Aramis Ramirez too if they wanted to sign A-Rod. The Red Sox would need to trade Manny Ramirez to make the num­bers work, and/or get rid of J.D. Drew and not resign Curt Schilling (which would be stu­pid). The White Sox suck (and prob­a­bly will con­tinue to for a few years), and I know A-Rod doesn’t want to be on a los­ing team any­more unless he’s just look at the $$$. The Dodgers might sign, but I’m not sure they would ever devote 1/4 of its pay­roll to one player. The Mets already have David Wright as its 3B for years to come.

I’d say the Dodgers, but only for less than $30 million/year. $25 at best, and not for ten years.

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