Saturday, December 06, 2003
PAT CHILLS WITH DOMINICAN LOU
Had to throw in that SNL reference because the cameo watch is on later tonight for Tracy Morgan (who once played Dominican Lou) to do a Brian Fellow's Safari Planet sketch. It's all promotion for his new NBC sitcom.
NOW TO THE MARINERS...
John Hickey in the P-I tonight says that yes indeed, the Mariners focus for the first time in three years isn't going to Japan. It is going to proven Major League talent in the form of Miguel Tejada and Ed Guardado. This instead of overpaying for an unproven Kazuo Matsui. Just two years ago, the Mariners overpaid just for the right to negotiate with Ichiro. But make no mistake about it -- Ichiro was the Japanese Michael Jordan. Kazuo Matsui is not. And Miguel Tejada, as we know, is proven Major League talent -- proven enough for Pat Gillick to go to the Dominican Republic and visit La Casa de Tejada and let him know the Mariners want him.
And to luckily debunk Peter's (of Mariners Musings) skeptical (but astute, worthy, and inferentially correct) comments about the semantics of Bob Finnigan's material in the Times, Hickey's article says that Bavasi confirmed the offer to Tejada.
In the article we have a Bavasi quote...
"I don't know that that kind of market (for a seven-year deal) exists anymore," Seattle general manager Bill Bavasi said in confirming the offer to Tejada. "I know it doesn't in Seattle."
As much as I hate how the Mariners have been screwed a couple times with the no-deals-over-three-years philosophy of Gillick, if there is any way they can get Tejada to essentially play by Gillick's rule, then this is an absolute coup.
On to Guardado...the article quotes the St. Paul Pioneer-Press as saying Guardado finds Seattle "exciting." And yes, I've hunted that article down for you. Also, it is said that Rhodes will get arb if Guardado doesn't sign and that Shig will get it if Guardado does sign. What was interesting to me, though, is that in all the Guardado talk in the article, there was not one mention of Kazu Sasaki possibly going to Japan and moving his contract off the Mariners' books, and that...is mildly upsetting.
Arb deadline is at 9pm tomorrow...let's see what happens. I'm hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst, and that's the only way I know as a Seattle sports fan.
NOW TO THE MARINERS...
John Hickey in the P-I tonight says that yes indeed, the Mariners focus for the first time in three years isn't going to Japan. It is going to proven Major League talent in the form of Miguel Tejada and Ed Guardado. This instead of overpaying for an unproven Kazuo Matsui. Just two years ago, the Mariners overpaid just for the right to negotiate with Ichiro. But make no mistake about it -- Ichiro was the Japanese Michael Jordan. Kazuo Matsui is not. And Miguel Tejada, as we know, is proven Major League talent -- proven enough for Pat Gillick to go to the Dominican Republic and visit La Casa de Tejada and let him know the Mariners want him.
And to luckily debunk Peter's (of Mariners Musings) skeptical (but astute, worthy, and inferentially correct) comments about the semantics of Bob Finnigan's material in the Times, Hickey's article says that Bavasi confirmed the offer to Tejada.
In the article we have a Bavasi quote...
"I don't know that that kind of market (for a seven-year deal) exists anymore," Seattle general manager Bill Bavasi said in confirming the offer to Tejada. "I know it doesn't in Seattle."
As much as I hate how the Mariners have been screwed a couple times with the no-deals-over-three-years philosophy of Gillick, if there is any way they can get Tejada to essentially play by Gillick's rule, then this is an absolute coup.
On to Guardado...the article quotes the St. Paul Pioneer-Press as saying Guardado finds Seattle "exciting." And yes, I've hunted that article down for you. Also, it is said that Rhodes will get arb if Guardado doesn't sign and that Shig will get it if Guardado does sign. What was interesting to me, though, is that in all the Guardado talk in the article, there was not one mention of Kazu Sasaki possibly going to Japan and moving his contract off the Mariners' books, and that...is mildly upsetting.
Arb deadline is at 9pm tomorrow...let's see what happens. I'm hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst, and that's the only way I know as a Seattle sports fan.
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