Story here.  Giants give up Class-A left-hander Scott Barnes (12-3, 2.85 ERA, 99 strikeouts in 18 starts and 98.0 innings), rated 8th in the Giants system by Baseball America.

 

Garko has been linked to Texas for the last few week and the first question that comes to mind is what is the equivalent Rangers prospect.

 

words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words

Not much info here yet, but you can read more at:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/05/peavy-to-white-sox.html

-------------------

9:19am: Jon Heyman says the White Sox and Padres have agreed to a Peavy trade, and await Peavy's approval.  MLB.com's Corey Brock agrees.  Ken Williams, always operating under the radar.  Now we get to see just how much Peavy hates the AL.

...It is apparently a four-player offer, which would presumably gut Chicago's farm system.

...The Padres need pitching and a shortstop. The White Sox's top pitching prospect is Aaron Poreda and top overall prospect is shortstop Gordon Beckham.

-------------------

So Peavy now needs to give his a-okay on this trade.  Wonder who would be going the other way and what the Ranger equivalent would be (and yes -- he'd probably be even less likely to agree to a trade here than to Chicago).  I shudder to think of trading Feliz, Holland, etc (I assume Elvis is off the table at this point) but Peavy is obviously very legit.

Continue reading this post »

I'm taking the GMAT later today.  I've been studying for weeks and I'm going crazy.  I haven't gone to a baseball game this season(!)  This needs to be resolved ASAP.

SO, I'm going to this Sunday's A's/Rangers game in Oakland.  And I've just decided to make an event of it.  This is where YOU, the Bay Area Ranger fan, comes in.

I'm not aware of any previous LSB days in any city, so lets start a new tradition.  We'll take pictures, maybe drink a beer, sit in the sun, and of course rock our Rangers gear.

I plan on buying a couple of extra tickets anyways, so reply and we can meet up outside The Net then watch the game together!  ($24 tickets are just $4 this Sunday because the A's got 20 hits tonight vs. LAA).

Lets do this!!

UPDATE: thanks for the great response -- looks like this is a topic that's important to a lot of us. Many people keep their phone and keys in the same pocket, which I've never wanted to do because of the scratching risk (especially now that I own an iPhone!).

Also, wow -- I'm shocked by how many people carry pocket knives.

I've ordered the Executive Leather All-Ett last night and will see how it works in my back pocket.

After reading all the responses, I'm intrigued by the idea of a front-pocket wallet. If the All-Ett doesn't work out I'll return it and go shopping at a Fossil store (this one looks cool).

-------------------------------------

I know it's really random, but there's no baseball to talk about, so...

Continue reading this post »

Wow.  I don't think I heard the LAA in connection with Hunter very often.

Yahoo Breaking Story

Continue reading this post »

This is just about the most horrifying baseball article I've ever read.  It puts anything ever written during the dark Buck n' Hart years to shame:

Ozzie Guillen loves to bunt, hires fantastically bad former hitter as hitting coach.

Seriously.  If this was the state of my baseball franchise, I'd have to boycott the team until they cleaned house.

I thought I'd share a good deal I came across:

You can get one year of ESPN The Magazine (lame) for $3, which gets you a free ESPN Insider subscription for ESPN.com.  This gives you access to columns from people like Keith Law, Gammons, Rob Neyer, etc.  Also rumor mill type features and more.

You can sign up for the magazine here.  And by the way, I found this deal at this Slickdeals.net thread.  Slickdeals is a great website for awesome online sales of all sorts of good stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving

Did I miss a post or diary about the huge new ads on LSB and the rest of the network?

I went to the Dodgers blog to see reactions to the JD Drew situation and found this story on what's happening.  For you lazies:

we're putting up ads to try and fund a complete redesign of the sites (and therefore make the ads much more natural in the design).  These ads are just rotating placement ads to show big companies what the placement is like.

We're trying to make them as unobtrusive as possible, but we can't move the top banner ad.  That's the one advertisers are paying the most for right now.  We're going to try and make it more seamless in the coming weeks and less obtrusive, but for now, it's going to stay the way it is.  As for the ads in the middle of the post, well, I thought those were pretty obscure and advertisers also love those for some strange reason.

I don't see any ads because I have Firefox and the AdBlock extension, so I'm pretty much 100% banner free.  I had to go to Internet Explorer to see just how big they are!

Did I ever mention that I love Firefox and will find any excuse to tell people about it?

Apparently the Cubs had waived him, and the A's picked him up for nothing.

Adam and many others (myself included) wanted to see the Rangers acquire this guy over the last few years.

I'm not sure what happened to his career.  He had some dominant performances with the Giants when he was first called up, and hasn't been the same since.  Maybe Dusty Baker destroyed his arm at age 21.

A's have a project pitcher now, although they had to place him on their 40 man roster according to the article.

I'm curious to get the perspective of others LSB'ers.

For years I visited the NMLR board on a daily basis.  At some point a couple of years ago it jumped the shark, becoming full of trolls and flamewars.  I think it was a victim of its own success -- it became very popular and was very poorly moderated.

I periodically check the board to see how things are going there.  I thought the last couple of times had a reasonable level of civility, so maybe they're turning things around over there.

How many of you visit the board?  And Adam -- I've noticed that I'm not seeing any posts from you there.  Have you left that community?

The only thing that I truly miss from NMLR is reading Brian Hayes posts.  He and Adam were always my favorite contributers on that board.  They really should team up in running LSB -- the blog would then become truly unstoppable :)