The World Series - St Louis & Boston

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


More like Philly wanted to short shaft Rolen and not pay him like the best 3B in the game (which he is).

Wrong! He had turned down a multiyear deal that would have guaranteed him $90 million at over $10 million per year.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by bfg9000
Wrong! He had turned down a multiyear deal that would have guaranteed him $90 million at over $10 million per year.

And he's kinda making more with the Cards. After the Phils dealt Rolen, the Cards were willing to pay him a greater amount (I believe it is $11.5 Mil a year) than the Phils offered.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


And he's kinda making more with the Cards. After the Phils dealt Rolen, the Cards were willing to pay him a greater amount (I believe it is $11.5 Mil a year) than the Phils offered.

They offered him a 7-year contract for $90 million. The also offered him 3 options years...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by bfg9000
They offered him a 7-year contract for $90 million. The also offered him 3 options years...

Actually they didn't. Wade said he would offer that much money if Rolen sat down to negotiate. Doesn't mean he actually would have done so once they all sat down (he did recind promises to that effect in the past with players).

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/3003493.htm

Technically, Rolen was not offered and did not turn down that contract. The Phillies would have been willing to pay him that much had he accepted their offer to negotiate. He declined.

Still, some people see that amount of money and think Rolen was stupid, irresponsible or unappreciative for not jumping at it. Some critics, amazingly enough, have called him greedy. That shoe doesn't fit. Had Rolen been greedy, he would have taken the money and run.

All this guy wants is a good chance to win year in and year out. Over his five years in a Phillies uniform, he has seen other teams spend nearly twice as much as his team to accomplish that. He'd like to have that same chance.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Kalius
Sox win, 6-2.

Ahhhh, thank you. I had out of town company show up last night and missed the end of the game.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

i never said sox would sweep.

[monolith94]

Of course the sox won't sweep. Indeed, we're probably going to have trouble adjusting to the NL pitcher as hitter situation. If we come out of St. Louis with one win, I'll be happy.

[Arrian]

Nope, the last series scared you into some semblance of sanity.

You predicted a sweep in the ALCS, but were wise enough not to predict one here. I don't recall any prediction whatsoever, actually.

I did my best to root for the Red Sox this weekend (as stated earlier, for my friends & finacee who are Sox fans), but the best I could muster was detached neutrality.

-Arrian

[pchang]

Schilling probably OK

One of the sutures was inadvertantly put through a nerve. Once it was removed, he started feeling much better. If he has to go in a game 6, he will probably be able to.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
i never said sox would sweep.

It was the Yankees, same difference .

[dudemanjack]

Originally posted by GePap
I don't dispute the Yankees choked badly- I do think Sox's fans are too cocky already by far-lets all remmeber that the Sox have also been 3 outs from a victory to blow it (game 6, 1986 anyone?)

I think they were actually only one out away with the bases empty. At least that's the way my father remembers it, as he likes to tell that story and I was only 5 years old at the time.

I'd say this game was a bigger single-game choke then any of the 2004 ALCS.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

pedro v suppan, i cant see how you cant give pedro the edge here. suppan was the one time #5 starter for the sox (lost his job to kim for crying out loud) but his era is under 3 over the course of this postseason, and he beat clemens. i say sox use and abuse suppan over the first couple of innings.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1909344

kerry says that he was at game 6 in 86, and ran the boston marathon. does any sox fan not think that he is making all this stuff up? i mean the guy couldnt even throw it to the plate

[Imran Siddiqui]

But it's Pedro... he sucks in the postseason.

[asleepathewheel]

Ask Apoc about Suppan.

Oh wait, the Cards cheated to beat Clemens. Riiight