| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | Crawford's option and Hafner's option picked up and Bonderman signed to a 2 year deal. |
| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | I am signing the self procalimed ULB MVP and Steal of Auction Jermaine Dye for 1 year. Negotiations are still in the works with Grady Sizemore, Chris Young, and a few other unspeified free agents for the third contract spot. |
| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | morneau 2 , bedard 1 |
| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | Rob sign's Santana's option. I sign Cain for 3 years and Utley for 1 year. My idea for a fine was making it the GM's option: no new contracts or sign your contracts and pay each GM $1. Regardless, come 6 PM, no trading contractable players. I'm not going to be around at the deadline tonight, so I'll need somebody to police it. |
| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | Jose Reyes, 2 year deal. Eagerly awaiting the next hamstring injury. |
| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | I agree, Noel should have dealt with this earlier, but maybe he will surprise us all and make an announcement during his travels home. If he misses the deadline though, we will have to come to a decision. I side with Pat. In the last year I have been in some very remote locations in south america and even there it was not difficult at all to get on-line and follow the demise of my hockey pool team. I'm sure a cruise ship would have such amenities. |
| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | I will only pick up Perez's option if someone pays me to do so....otherwise hes free to go back into the pool and not get drafted. And Jeff interesting move, just one contract...see where this takes you. As far as Noel is concerned I don't think you can continue to allow his blatant disregard for the contracts deadline three years in a row....he's known who he wanted to sign since the end of last year. That being said it will be nice to have the likes of Cabrera and Howard to bid him up on now that they should be back in the mix and he should have no contacts signed....but I am sure we will all bow to Noel's whining and let him have his guys. I am now eagerly awaiting Harold's response to this. |
| Date | 2007-03-24 |
| Message | Don, I don't even know where to begin.. I have so many reasons why I did this deal, and even after I explain them in a ULB article shortly, you'll still be right, it was an insane amount of dough.. It's interesting (for Pat) how the offer started at $4, then $10, then $10 + 2 conditional add ons and then $23 with a pick swap and finally $25. I didn't buy Cain for his WHIP though, and those magazines and donkey roto leagues are based on a 70/30 split with closers getting paid more than starters not named Santana. I'm not saying Cain will be worth $32 this year. What I'm betting on is that in 2008 I've got one of the Top 5 contracts in Cain. If he's Ankiel/Perez/Prior, then it's onto the next project, baby! I have a sickness, an uncontrollable love affair to obtain the next filthy starting pitcher contract.. It's been my demise the past 6 years, but eventually it will pay off!!! ...... It has come to my attention that GM Sharman may not be back from his cruise until after the deadline passes? I would be extremely dissapointed if this were the case. This deadline has been missed twice before by Noel and it has been no secret now for a month. Without getting carried away, I think it may be necessary to issue a fine if any team misses the deadline and would still like to sign their contracts. |
| Date | 2007-03-23 |
| Message | I'm starting this contract signing deadline out early and announcing that I will only be maintaining the contract of Beltran into this season. No other signings to announce. |
| Date | 2007-03-23 |
| Message | He will if I throw him out at that, Dan has told me we will pay whatever it takes to get him. ![]() |