also look at Boras' other high profile clinents and the troubles their massive contracts are presenting for the teams that employ his players.

 

 

 

the days of contracts like those are done....at least for the time being, except in very rare cases.

 

 

At some point Mr. Rodriguez will wake up and get a dose of reality. The day may be coming sooner rather than later.

methinks he'll leave it in miami rather than ship it.

Me thinks Pudge is compensating for something else. Height! :shifty The height of what?

 

:whistle

methinks he'll leave it in miami rather than ship it.

Me thinks Pudge is compensating for something else. Height! :shifty The height of what?

 

:whistle the statue

methinks he'll leave it in miami rather than ship it.

Me thinks Pudge is compensating for something else. Height! :shifty The height of what?

 

:whistle the statue :banghead

here's a picture of pudge's bronze statue i found the other day.

 

from http://members.tripod.com/arizainc/sculputures.htm :

 

 

 

 

 

it's 6 feet 6 inches tall and it weighs 1 ton. :wow

methinks he'll leave it in miami rather than ship it.

Pudge is such a self-centered a**hole

 

funny though

methinks he'll leave it in miami rather than ship it.

Me thinks Pudge is compensating for something else. Height! :shifty The height of what?

 

:whistle the statue :banghead Wow he is slow eh Josh?

 

 

Think about it heckeroo the height of what.... :shifty

Give Pudge a break... You mean you guys don't have a 7 foot bronze likeness in your backyard? The gardner is polishing mine as we speak...

I hope pudge goes to la and then we do a trade for la duca!

I know that pudge is a trader guys but c'mon he still is very good.

I still think he is the man.

If it wasen't for him than we would not be champs right? :mischief2

I hope pudge goes to la and then we do a trade for la duca!

I know that pudge is a trader guys but c'mon he still is very good.

I still think he is the man.

If it wasen't for him than we would not be champs right? :mischief2

no...we could have won the WS without Pudge...Pudge didnt have such a good year...and we won because we played like a team and everyday someone else stepped up...billy the goat helped us out more vs the cubs...and the media thinking that we were for sure gonna lose to the yanks helped us a little...but Pudge didnt help us out THAT MUCH...we could have done it without him...

Things keep getting better...first we finally get rid of Almanza and Fruit Loops, and then Pudge loses out on a catching job. Happy holidays, greedy A-hole!

I hope pudge goes to la and then we do a trade for la duca!

I know that pudge is a trader guys but c'mon he still is very good.

I still think he is the man.

If it wasen't for him than we would not be champs right? :mischief2

no...we could have won the WS without Pudge...Pudge didnt have such a good year...and we won because we played like a team and everyday someone else stepped up...billy the goat helped us out more vs the cubs...and the media thinking that we were for sure gonna lose to the yanks helped us a little...but Pudge didnt help us out THAT MUCH...we could have done it without him... Did you forget what Pudge did for us in the playoffs?

if you took 1 player off our team in 03 we wouldnt have made the playoffs/win the WS

 

its as simple as that

I hope pudge goes to la and then we do a trade for la duca!

I know that pudge is a trader guys but c'mon he still is very good.

I still think he is the man.

If it wasen't for him than we would not be champs right? :mischief2

no...we could have won the WS without Pudge...Pudge didnt have such a good year...and we won because we played like a team and everyday someone else stepped up...billy the goat helped us out more vs the cubs...and the media thinking that we were for sure gonna lose to the yanks helped us a little...but Pudge didnt help us out THAT MUCH...we could have done it without him... That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Pudge's greed represents what has gone wrong in professional sports over the past decade. Salaries have soared beyond what is reasonable, and ticket prices have followed as a result.

 

This year we are seeing a reversal. Not only is Pudge getting a taste of it, but so are the organizations that have condoned it over the past years...Red Sox, Rangers, etc. The Angels and Marlins have shown that team chemistry and play can win out over greed and over inflated contracts.

 

Score one for the fans. And scr*ew Pudge. For baseball's sake, let's hope the trend continues. :thumbup

People on this board who say they are glad Pudge is not a Marlin really are upset that he is not. The reason no one is talking about the others that left ,no one cared. Pudge struck an emotional cord with the Flordia Marlins and the fans. Neither will find it again.Thats why people are pissed. They love the guy and he left for more money. Which he will not get. Very sad to have one of the best catchers ever with no place to play.This is the part of mlb I hate.

i cared about losing Loop and Enc

 

speak for yourself

Whatever people say they will miss Pudge unless Castro decides to put up the same numbers and provide the same defense as him which is unlikely.

 

But greedy fudge isnt the only one I will miss. I wish Looper would come back which is still not out of the question, he might come back to a set up role if there are no other viable options for him to go to.

 

Good Luck to Loop. :thumbup

I cared about losing Redman

People on this board who say they are glad Pudge is not a Marlin really are upset that he is not. The reason no one is talking about the others that left ,no one cared. Pudge struck an emotional cord with the Flordia Marlins and the fans. Neither will find it again.Thats why people are pissed. They love the guy and he left for more money. Which he will not get. Very sad to have one of the best catchers ever with no place to play.This is the part of mlb I hate.

very true. a wise man once said "hate is nothing more than frustrated love". it's tough that Pudge had to leave, and tougher the conditions under which he left. it sucks that at least for now, when we think about Pudge we think about wishing him ill will instead of remembering him holding up that ball at the end of the NLDS. if we were the Yankees, we would sign Pudge to a long-term deal for a large sum of money and then brag to everyone about how "loyal" we are to our players. "Yankee pride" is such BS. They keep their players b/c they can, we lose ours b/c we can't, and then everyone calls us "fire salesmen" and everyone calls them "loyal". but like you said - that's MLB for ya. like Seinfeld said, in so many ways, we're just rooting for laundry. But my laundry happens to be teal, so go Fish baby!

I cared about losing Redman

Go cry then...

I wish Looper would come back which is still not out of the question, he might come back to a set up role if there are no other viable options for him to go to.

 

I agree that I would like to see Looper (the heart attack kid) return in a set up role. I saw where the Rockies were talking to him. I hope the FO has continued to talk to him in an effort to get him back at a more reasonable salary than we would have got in arbitration.

Ive been reading all these negative comments about Pudge for awhile and just thought Id throw my $.02 in. OK, yeah he got a little greedy asking for $10 million a year but when you have an agent like Boras telling you day in and day out how great you are and how you would have to take a pay cut to play for a team that you took to the World Series, what would you do? If Pudge comes back as a Dodger, Cub, or any other team I will still stand up and cheer the man that helped us win a Championship. How come no one is mad at Looper or Urbina for not lowering their price? I like Pudge and will always respect him as a player. And I still hope he will be a Marlin again some how.

Urbina and Looper didnt leave because they were going to get a 4 year $10M dollar deal from another team. Afterall, we are told by Boras and Fudge that teams were lining up with that same deal for Fudge - Urbina and Loop were going to get what they were going to get because of arbitration and not because of the fantasy world in which they and their statues live.

People on this board who say they are glad Pudge is not a Marlin really are upset that he is not. The reason no one is talking about the others that left ,no one cared. Pudge struck an emotional cord with the Flordia Marlins and the fans. Neither will find it again.Thats why people are pissed. They love the guy and he left for more money. Which he will not get. Very sad to have one of the best catchers ever with no place to play.This is the part of mlb I hate.

It isnt that no one cared, it is just that those players (Urbina and Looper) werent waiting for $10M deals per like Fudge is. He will keep on waiting though...I would have loved to keep Urbina and Loop, but we just couldnt with our current fiscal situation. We tried with Fudge, but he overvalued himself because Boras told him he was worth more than he was - but he believed it. Not a difficult thing for a meglamaniac...

Can i ask something? Why do you guys want LoDuca so much? Paul LoDuca is OVERRATED, i rather have Castro behind the plate then LoDuca, Paul hasnt done nothing since his rookie year.. I think Castro will put up better #'s then LoDuca.

Paulie's better than average in all respects; he does turn to wear down as the season goes on and the Dodgers used him every day until the later part of this year when they started Ross

 

I'd say he's better than what we got fer sure, but he may overpriced