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And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handy. Just kidding, but I d0 want to touch on a lot of different topics today. The baseball season is now two months old. This is the time for major league team and fantasy owners to take stock of his/her team and plan accordingly for the rest of the season. If you're the Red Sox, you need to get another bat to replace David Ortiz. If you're my last place fantasy team, then you need to try and trade Hanley Ramirez and pick up a good bat and starting pitcher in return. I have 4 fantasy baseball teams this year. I am in 1st, 2nd & 3rd in my other three leagues, but dead last (15th in a 15 team league) in the league that I care the most about.
I would love to see Jake Peavy in a Dodgers uniform, but the odds of that happening are zero. First, the Padres would need to be willing to trade him within the division. Second, Peavy would actually have to agree to the trade. I think the 2nd obstacle would be easier to bypass. Why wouldn't Peavy like to stay in Southern California and play in a pennant race? Could they Dodgers look into Roy Oswalt like the White Sox did? Sure, but from what I've heard on the radio and read in a few articles the Astros want a truck load of prospects. That seems like too steep of a price for me.
Here's one for you Chad. Won't it be nice to see Jonathon Papelbon closing for the Yankees in a few years? Papelbon has pretty much stated he wants to set the new benchmark for highest paid closer when he reaches free agency in a few years. There is now way the Red Sox will pay him that much money to keep him in Fenway. In my opinion, the closer position is the easiest to replace, and Daniel Bard sure looks good already. He's the closer in waiting for the Sox, so you shouldn't fret too much over the imminent departure of Jonathon Papelbon.
Thank god Manny Ramirez has dropped to 5th in voting for the All Star Game in the outfield. If, for some reason, the fans vote him to start in the All Star game it would be the perfect time to remove that right from baseball fans. I have always been against fan voting, even though I vote myself, and think the MLB should adopt a process similar to the NFL. I'd rather see coaches, GM's and players deciding 100% of the players to the game, but I know that would never happen. It would be PR suicide for the MLB. At least if that happened the right players would be voted into the game.
My boss, Barry, brought up an interesting question yesterday. Why does the College Baseball World Series have to be in Omaha every year? Good question. The Final Four, Frozen Four and NCAA College Football Championship change sites each year. I think it would help grow the sport of College Baseball to move it around each year. I know people will let me know about the tradition, but who REALLY cares? Congrats to Boston College for a great baseball season. Winning 34 games and making it to the tournament is an amazing achievement. They've done far better in the ACC than I ever thought they would. Congrats to Texas for most likely ending the career of Austin Woods. No pitcher should throw 169 pitches in one outing. It was an amazing outing though. 12 1/3 of no hit innings.
Well, that's about it for now. I have a million other things I'd like to touch on, but should keep that for the next time.
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