Marlins to Pujols: Come Now, Stay FOREVER
Yahoo's Tim Brown suggested and now FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal is confirming that the Florida Miami Marlins have offered a nine year deal to Albert Pujols. Nine. Years. Say it in the Ed Rooney voice: NINE. YEARS. While contracts that length aren't unheard of, they're usually seen with young franchise players having their primes bought out. Pujols will be 32 on Opening Day 2012, meaning a nine-year deal would take him through age 40, not exactly prime playing time.
Papelbon Continues Red Sox Exodus
This offseason promised to be a major one for the Boston Red Sox, and it is becoming more and more evident that the Sox of 2012 are going to look a *lot* different than the Sox of 2011. Their manager is unemployed, their general manager is now in Chicago, and now their closer works for the Philadelphia Phillies.
More Bunker, More Walking Dead
Yet another Walking Dead recap over at Pop Bunker - read it at your leisure.
The hot stove is starting to warm up over in MLB, with free agency having started over a week ago and awards starting to be dished out. May have a post up today if I feel up to it, but considering that Walking Dead recap was over 3000 words, it'll probably wait until tomorrow.
So, carry on and stuff.
Another Walking Dead Recap
I did my weekly Walking Dead recap again for Pop Bunker this week, and it's posted here.
My quick thoughts on this week's episode (and where the show is going) are after the break (since there's spoilers):
Walking Dead & The Bunker
I do write other stuff, you know. Over at Pop Bunker, I started doing weekly recaps again - this time for the AMC show The Walking Dead, based on the comic series. A few months back, my wife and I started reading the graphic novels and got hooked. They are excellent and I highly recommend them. They're done in black & white, so if you're turned off by gore, that helps a bit, but keep in mind that they're still not kid-friendly. There's still a buttload of zombies in various states of decomposition, and that's not the worst part for kids. There is a lot of disturbing subjects that are addressed - subjects that I doubt will see the light of day in the AMC TV version.
Anyway, if you like the TV show, check out my latest recap here. It's in my usual recap style, so there are spoilers-a-plenty, and lots of random nicknames for characters.
UNRELATED NOTE: I know I haven't been updating frequently but work has taken over a decent amount of free time and I've been battling a cold for the last week or so. I'll try to update more frequently though in the future, especially with the baseball offseason coming up.
Pujols’ Boner(s)
Yes, I've been dying to use that. Sometimes I have the mentality of a ten-year-old boy.
Anyway, Albert Pujols hasn't been having the best World Series. Sure, it looks fine because he had one of the single greatest World Series performances in Game 3, going 5-6 with three home runs, becoming only the third person in World Series history to hit three home runs in a single game, joining Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson. However, take that game away, and Pujols is 0-12. Sure, there are the intentional walks, but even after walking three times in Game 5, it was the strikeout in the top of the ninth (which created two outs, and Allen Craig was thrown out stealing on an attempted hit-and-run) that leaves the lasting memory and perhaps is more reflective on Pujols' World Series than his "Mr. October" impression in Game 3.
Joe Mauer: Selfish Prick?
You know I have a soft spot in my heart for catchers. I also love ridiculous journalism. So when Aaron Gleeman directed his followers to "[e]asily the worst column you'll read today", I was all over it.
Yeah - he wasn't kidding.
In the article, St. Cloud Times sports editor Dave DeLand proclaimed this years Rangers/Cardinals World Series a "World Series for the everyman", noting that "big money teams" like the Yankees and Phillies did not make the World Series despite massive spending, and better yet, the teams with the third through ninth largest payrolls didn't even make the playoffs! Spending money is BAD, people!
それが日本で起こった (And That Happened In Japan)
So Craig Calcaterra thinks that since the World Series doesn't start until Wednesday and MLB doesn't want bloggers to talk about rumors and potential transactions, that there's nothing to talk about.
Nippon Professional Baseball disagrees.
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