Cohen on radio

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Originally Posted by bully99

Swearagen...you sure do get wooly a lot or am I getting you confused with somebody else.

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You definitely have me confused with someone else. Like I said, I am starting to get wooly about baseball and this is a first in many years. Football? I am beyond apathetic at this point. So, yeah you have me confused.

Getting rid of Zito, Lincecum and Vogelsong frees up about $50 mill per year to spend on pitching. I expect the Giants to be very busy in the market especially with the Dodgers signing EVERYBODY. Dodgers just spent another 30 mill on a 2nd baseman today. It's absurd the money they've spent since Magic & Co. took over.

I'm wondering where Moreland and Maholm end up. A day or two ago, there was a great article in the new york post about all of the massive bad contracts to first basemen. Lots of teams holding huge contracts with declining players. Also hinted at pujhols and steroids.

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Originally Posted by bully99

I'm wondering where Moreland and Maholm end up. A day or two ago, there was a great article in the new york post about all of the massive bad contracts to first basemen. Lots of teams holding huge contracts with declining players. Also hinted at pujhols and steroids.

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Maholm will land somewhere- he's a left handed starting pitcher with a lot of experience and he's only 31. I'm pretty sure that Moreland will be with the Rangers next year.

They better be careful about accusing Pujols of steroids- he got Jack Clark fired off of a radio show in St. Louis for accusing him of using PEDS and he is suing Clark for slander.

Ain't no way in hell that pujols Cabrera and many others haven't done drugs, but Palmeiro is blackballed out of the game and these guys are praised by the media. Yeah I know Palmeiro tested positive but people know what's going on. During the summer the rangers put pudge Rodriguez in their hall of fame one of the biggest dopers around but they won't have anything to do with Palmeiro.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

I agree with what you are saying. Detz is certainly not a natural third baseman- but I just see him as a college player rather than as a pro player. And in the college game you don't necessarily have to have pro ability and talent to be adequate. I think it's conceivable that he could improve enough to be adequate at the collegiate level.

Detz is like a lot of college players- he can hit, but he doesn't have a defensive position.

But part of it to is as talented as Humphries is, he's still a freshman and we really won't know what we have with him until Feb against actual competition. We need to have someone ready just in case. Although I think it's unlikely that Reid will struggle- it would be foolish not to have someone ready. There's no way to know how a player will adjust- and even then they are going to have freshman peaks and valleys in most cases.

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Hey, if Cohen was willing to play Sam "weak arm, wild throw" Frost at 3B for 2 years why would Detz not continue to play there even if not full time. I will say, and will continue to say, that I thank heavens that it was Detz making the throw for the final out in the SR against Virginia and not Frost, otherwise we might never have seen Omaha last year.

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Originally Posted by bully99

Ain't no way in hell that pujols Cabrera and many others haven't done drugs, but Palmeiro is blackballed out of the game and these guys are praised by the media. Yeah I know Palmeiro tested positive but people know what's going on. During the summer the rangers put pudge Rodriguez in their hall of fame one of the biggest dopers around but they won't have anything to do with Palmeiro.

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I think it goes back to Raffy lying and shaking his finger at Congress. That was just such a strong image.

I do agree that it's all about public perception. Andy Pettitte used steroids, but that's long since been forgotten by most people. If you come clean about it without lying, then people will tend to look past it for some reason. It's always the cover-up of a scandal that hurts you more than the actual scandal.