I'd be curious as well, but I don't want to toss out insults and throw around guesses.
My buddy who is a diehard Braves fan was so happy when they traded him. He had always said he is so bad in the clubhouse... I always thought he was crazy to just want to basically give him away, but he couldn't have been more right. IIRC, that whole team clicked the second he was gone as well and really improved their play.
Yeah, I always wondered why they gave him up like that. He had done well there. Now we know. I think anyone is mildly curious who it was, but in Boston, they will be following around and terrorizing "suspects" 24/7. It couldn't have happened to a worse team. Maybe it won't be like that but somehow I doubt it.
Oh I won't lie, I'm very curious to who he is taking shots at. Then again, he's so ****ed in the head, he might have done it just for the sake of doing it. He is like the anti Ronny Cedeno.
Going to the Cubs game tonight. My sister got a bunch of tickets for cheap, it's Firefighter Appreciation Night. I'm cool with going even in a season like this because I like to see the kids play. I don't like the thought of it in 40 degree weather, however. Gonna be a cold one. Might require the consumption of a few cold ones to have a false sense of warmth. Cheers.
Going to the Cubs game tonight. My sister got a bunch of tickets for cheap, it's Firefighter Appreciation Night. I'm cool with going even in a season like this because I like to see the kids play. I don't like the thought of it in 40 degree weather, however. Gonna be a cold one. Might require the consumption of a few cold ones to have a false sense of warmth. Cheers.
I actually love games like that. I went to a game in May last year during the week, rained off an on but never enough for a delay. Wind chill was in the 20s. We bought tickets on StubHub for $2/each with no transaction fees. Ended up sitting about 5 rows up from the Cubs dugout, and we had like 10 of us. Place was a ghost town, no more than 500 people in the stadium by the 7th inning (Cubs were blowing out the Stros), literally.
If you think it doesn’t matter all that much whether the Cubs pick 2nd or 5th….
Twins (2nd pick) ’12 budget: $6.2M for first pick and $12.3M for the first ten rounds (they had 3 extra picks, including a supplemental first, which boosts that total… the Astros had $11.2M for their 11 picks.) So you could roughly guess that picking 2nd without any extra picks is a budget a touch north of $10M.
Royals (5th pick) ’12 budget: $3.5M for their first selection and $6.1M for the first 10 rounds (no extra selections).
So the 10 round budget for the team picking 6th is less than the budget for the 2nd pick of the draft.
The 10 round budget for the team picking 2nd in each round is ~$60% more than the team picking 5th in each round.
So yes, having the 2nd pick instead of the 5th pick is a REALLY big difference. And certainly of more value than a couple extra September split-squad wins.
