Jack Moore FanGraphs Chat – 8/2/11
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Damn you Giants fans.
Burrell’s nickname The Machine didn’t come from S&M gear or anything to do with San Francisco.
It was a thing joking around during the 2008 run of the phillies.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillies_zone/Man_or_Machine.html
http://www.doubledumbassonyou.com/images/manormachine.jpg
The announcers in Washington have started calling Michael Morse “Captain America”, if that’s worth anything.
Also, Timmay and Kung Fu Panda are pop culture references, and thus not creative in the slightest. Also ‘the beard’ is just referencing the guy’s beard, how is that creative?
I don’t know about anyone else but we always called Miguel Cabrera “The Baconator”
I’ve been thinking about this scenario a bit and I feel like the only way it gets done is as follows:
– Red Sox trade Rick Porcello to the Rays for Hak Ju Lee.
– Rays trade Rick Porcello and Desmond Jennings to Padres for Matt Kemp + cash.
– Padres trade Desmond Jennings to twins for Torri Hunter + cash.
– Twins sign Willy Mo Pena and Jeff Francouer, then trade them as PTBNL along with Desmond Jennings, Brian Duensing and Miguel Sano to Nationals for Bryce Harper and Steven Strasburg.
– Twins trade Bryce Harper to Orioles for Dan Duquette.
– Blue Jays trade R.A. Dickey, Josh Thole and Jose Reyes + Cash to Twins for Strasburg and Dan Duquette.
– Cubs trade Wellington Castillo for to Twins for Josh Thole + Cash.
– Cubs trade Josh Thole + Cash to rooftop owners for rooftop seats.
– Cubs trade rooftop seats to Mets for Bobby Bonilla and Bartolo Colon.
– Athletics trades whole 40 man roster to Mets for rooftop seats.
– Blue Jays trade Paul Beeston and Strasburg to Boston for Mookie Betts.
I’ve been thinking about this scenario a bit and I feel like the only way it gets done is as follows:
– Red Sox trade Rick Porcello to the Rays for Hak Ju Lee.
– Rays trade Rick Porcello and Desmond Jennings to Padres for Matt Kemp + cash.
– Padres trade Desmond Jennings to twins for Torri Hunter + cash.
– Twins sign Willy Mo Pena and Jeff Francouer, then trade them as PTBNL along with Desmond Jennings, Brian Duensing and Miguel Sano to Nationals for Bryce Harper, and Steven Strasburg
– Twins trade Bryce Harper to Orioles for Dan Duquette.
– Blue Jays trade R.A. Dickey, Josh Thole and Jose Reyes + Cash to Twins for Steven Strasburg and Dan Duquette.
– Cubs trade Wellington Castillo to Twins for Josh Thole + Cash.
– Cubs trade Josh Thole + Cash to rooftop owners for rooftop seats.
– Cubs trade rooftop seats to Mets for Bobby Bonilla and Bartolo Colon.
– Athletics trades whole 40 man roster to Mets for rooftop seats.
– Blue Jays trade Paul Beeston and Steven Strasburg to Philles for Cole Hamels , Chase Utley and Ryan Howard +cash.
– Phillies sign Ryan Lavarnway, and then trade him as PTBNL along with Ruben Amaro Jr, Paul Beeston and Steven Strasburg to Boston for Mookie Betts.
– Phillies trade Mookie Betts to Blue Jays for Kevin Pillar and Kelly Johnson game worn batting glove.