SB Nation User Blog: alon91

Jake Peavy rumored to have been traded to White Sox

alon91 — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:51:29 -0000

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

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

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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.

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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.

Who is up for an LSB Day in Oakland this Sunday?

alon91 — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:23:46 -0000

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!!

way OT: what type of wallet do you use?

alon91 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:57:07 -0000

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).

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

I've always kept my wallet in my back-right pocket, but I saw a chiropractor recently who urged me to not keep it there, as it keeps me off-balance and not good for my (already not great) posture. I'm realized my current wallet is becoming uncomfortable when I sit on it for an extended time, so it's probably time for a change anyways.

The problem is that I have a pretty set system:

-keys in right pocket
-iPhone in left pocket
-wallet in back pocket

So what is do you guys do? What is your system? I've always assumed everyone keeps their wallets in their back pockets, but researching on The Google I'm finding a whole category of wallets called "front pocket wallets", which are generally very slim and could probably fit in the same pocket as my cell phone.

I may order an All-Ett which is supposed to be a super-slim back-pocket wallet (which I found about here and here, and which is getting rave reviews from every user review I'm finding online).

LA Angels sign Torii Hunter!

alon91 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:42:47 -0000

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

Yahoo Breaking Story

Five year contract, at least $80 million. I, for one, am delighted that the Rangers failed to pick him up, although having him in the division won't be great for the next few years.

This also means GMJ, his enormous contract, and his .742 OPS are now moving to a corner OF spot. What a bullet we dodged last year.

Thank God I'm not a White Sox fan

alon91 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:49:11 -0000

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.

Get 1 year of ESPN Insider + ESPN mag for $3

alon91 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:58:10 -0000

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

New banner ads on LSB

alon91 — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:11:10 -0000

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?

A's acquire Jerome Williams

alon91 — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:14:34 -0000

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.

what do you think about the NMLR message board?

alon91 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:21:34 -0000

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 :)

Yanks Mull Sign-and-trade With Sheffield

alon91 — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:03:10 -0000

Adam brought up this very idea last week and according to this NY Post article, the Yanks might be looking to exercise Gary Sheffield's $13-million option for 2007 and then trade him:

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YANKS MULL SIGN-AND-TRADE WITH SHEFFIELD

By JOEL SHERMAN

August 6, 2006 -- DOWN THE LINE

Once the Yanks obtained Bobby Abreu, the natural inclination was to assume they would not pick up Gary Sheffield's $13-million option for 2007. But they are seriously contemplating doing just that. Not for him to play first base or DH. But to trade him.

The free-agent market is going to be thin again with the main outfield sluggers likely to be Jermaine Dye, Carlos Lee and Alfonso Soriano. There will be more than three teams who need an outfield bat and there will be more than three teams who simply cannot afford to get into the five-year, $75-million range it is likely to take to land Lee or Soriano. Sheffield (who even has $4.5 million deferred next year) can be an alluring alternative on a one-year deal. If they simply do not pick up the option, the Yanks would lose Sheffield for nothing. Here, even if they accepted, a second-tier prospect or two, it would be more than they would get otherwise and help deepen their hurting system.

But one AL executive cautioned, "My guess is that is a dangerous game to play, especially since they have Abreu's salary on books. If Sheffield goes off in the last two weeks of September or the postseason, then I might do it. But if they get stuck with that salary or paying a big chunk to trade him, that would be a bad move, and you are talking about a player who is in his late 30s, who is coming off a major injury and has had his power production decline in recent years." However, another AL executive said, "I believe someone would take him for a year, but the deal would have to be worked out ahead of time" and cited the Angels, White Sox and Giants as possible landing places.
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I'd agree that signing Lee to a long-term contract would be a huge mistake. I'd be much more excited about making a deal with the Yanks for second-tir prospects and getting a couple of 1st round draft picks for Lee.