Smoltz hatred for me is mitigated somewhat by the fact that he used to give Barry Bonds the finger in the dugout while both were in their primes. He’s also ripped CBP iirc.

The whining about CBP is a specialty of the Braves, former Braves, and their vile manager. They’re seriously the biggest babies on earth. It’s never their fault, it’s environmental conditions, etc. When the Mets lose, at least they own up to it.

Wow, hadn’t even read the homophobia thing. What a pleasant, pleasant man.

That being said, I’d much prefer Smoltz to Rodney, especially if he’s willing to take some sort of incentive-laden deal. Seriously, anything but Francisco Rodney, Ruben.

And while I agree that Bastardo should head north from spring training to Philly (and not merely as a pit stop to Allentown), I’d send Mathieson to Triple-A to start; I’d like to see how he responds to pitching on back-to-back days before I call him back up. That being said, I think he could be a big help to the bullpen this year.

so is this homophobia of the ‘religion justifies my bigotry" variety or just plain old repressed homosexual in homophobia clothing?
It’d be surreal to see him in red pinstripes. But even more weird is imagine Lawerence Jones in red pinstripes.
Man Chan Ho and the vote for Victorino sandwich board, you’da thunk he really found a home with us and I think it showed in his performance. Someone call his wife and get him to stop sniffing glue. One thing though he’d help expand some team’s market in Korea if he did start; he’d just not expand the w’s in the column of the team’s record.

Heard NYY might go after Sheets or Myers Anyone hear anything about this as well?

Of course it’s his right to do whatever he wants, but that’s pretty damn frustrating. He’s going to be a reliever sooner or later, because he’s simply not a good starter anymore. Presumably he’d rather be a reliever in Philadelphia than Houston or whatever loser team signs him with a chance to start; what’s so difficult to grasp about this? It’s the same situation as Aaron Heilman (though he’s not really a good reliever at this point either) or Ryan Madson.

I’ll be here all offseason!

chance=sense

I’m alright with overpaying Rollins by a little bit, as long as we balance it out by not giving out any more Geoff Jenkins type contracts.