Phightins

My favorite part of this trade is that a local Blues writer had the scoop before Dreger/McKenzie. Love when that happens.

Getting sick of Briere. Tries to compensate for his lack of defense by taking horrendous stick penalties at horrendous times. Well, he's a hell of a player, have to take the good with the bad, but it's excruciating to watch him play in his own end.

Might as well add Tuukka Rask and Andrew Raycroft in there while we're at it.

Bob McKenzie says Ian White is going to be traded to San Jose.

The Bruins would be stupid to trade the Toronto pick unless they get a ridiculous deal.

So much for that Jim Edmonds debate.

Haha yeah. I posted this on another forum, and somebody showed me this. http://www.landoverbaptist.org/tos.html Scroll to the bottom.

FYI this "church" is satirical. Just one big joke.

All I said was Doug should be top 3. Honestly haven't done enough homework on other candidates, since I admittedly don't watch much NBA (besides Sixers games), I was just saying I find it hard to believe that there are three better coaching jobs out there this season. If I am wrong, feel free to correct me. Why not?

This website is incredible. Thanks for posting.

Jarkko Ruutu to Anaheim for a 6th round pick. Good riddance, glad he is out of the East.

Haha, I did read your entire post. I was just surprised to see that he wasn't mentioned anywhere else.

No love for Doug Collins? If we are legitimately looking for the best coaching job, not the guy who happens to coach the most talented team, I think he HAS to be top 3. And I don't think saying this makes me a big homer or anything, I just think you'd struggle to find more than 2 other coaches who have gotten more out of the group they are given than Collins has. Of course, I'll admit a lot of the Sixers success is probably an indictment of how bad Eddie Jordan was, but Doug has done a spectacular job. And most importantly, he registered on OTR just so he could write me a nice letter.

I think he's talking about the Bautista deal. The Weeks deal is solid assuming he can stay healthy (which is a pretty big assumption, but yeah).

Wonder how much of those 4 seasons will be spent on the DL.

Looks like Jose Bautista is about to sign a 5 year extension with the Blue Jays. $65 million.

Chris Kelly to the Bruins for a 2nd round pick. I love deadline time, yay.

You can't really compare the situations. Pujols is a different animal. I have a hard time believing the Cardinals wouldn't jump at the opportunity to pay Pujols $28-30 million per year if it was only for 6 or 7 years.

I think they would gladly pay Pujols $20 million a year. The issue is the length of the contract.

Here is Ken Rosenthal's take on the Albert Pujols situation. Pure speculation, but very interesting, like everything else he writes. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Albert-Pujols-St-Louis-Cardinals-Mark-Teixeira-Ryan-Howard-speculation-021511 Uh...the mere idea of this (from a Phillies perspective) makes me hard. And I guess it does make sense from the Cardinals perspective if they don't think they will be able to keep Albert. But I am not going to get my hopes up.

It is pretty top heavy, IMO. From everything I am reading, there isn't going to be much value in the second half of the 1st round/2nd round.

CC is welcome to come to the Phillies. We could use an upgrade at the 5th starter spot. :glasses:

Haha I totally forgot he used to be in the Phillies organization. He was the player to be named later in the Scott Eyre trade 3 years ago.

Also keep in mind that the 1st round pick will be in the late 20s (hopefully 30) in a pretty weak draft. I dig this trade more and more the more I think about it.

Today the Phillies claimed Brian Schlitter and DFA'd Andrew Carpenter. Scouting report on Schlitter, Yankee fans? I suspect he is just another arm to stow away in AAA, but the Phillies are supposedly giving literally every arm a look for the bullpen this spring.