Thursday, December 04, 2003
SCRAPING FOR MATERIAL...
Well, it's midnight, Jeremy picked up on the Shig article and the Times article, and the Tribune (hope restored with the reappearance of Larry LaRue) has not refreshed yet for the night.
So what I have to give you right now is something I heard while listening to KJR's David Locke fill in the other day for Dave "Softy" Mahler.
He was talking about the big free-agent game and whatnot and what it would take for the Mariners to land a big name, namely Miguel Tejada.
Basically he likened it, like many have, to a domino effect. However, it'd be a sort of process-of-elimination domino effect, per se. He brought up some examples, i.e., Vlad Guerrero, Bartolo Colon, etc. He basically said that (if the Yankees don't come in and mess everything up) that anyone that spends money on a big free agent is more than likely to pull out of the market for other big free agents. Locke specifically brought up the scenario of the Angels getting Bartolo Colon. He said if that happened, then the pool of teams trying to sign the next biggest free agent out there would thin out by one team (and Tejada wouldn't go to the Angels...always good). The school of thought that I got out of all of this is that the longer Tejada is looking for a team, the better the Mariners' chances are as the number of teams trying to sign him whittles down.
It's really reaching, and it'd be ten times better if you heard Locke talk about it himself, but hey, I felt I had to bring y'all something. Knowing Locke, he'll probably have a column up in a few days about it anyway. Well, maybe not. I think he used his column space last time to ask who the hell the Sonics were as a basketball team, because they sure as hell aren't run-and-gun anymore.
So what I have to give you right now is something I heard while listening to KJR's David Locke fill in the other day for Dave "Softy" Mahler.
He was talking about the big free-agent game and whatnot and what it would take for the Mariners to land a big name, namely Miguel Tejada.
Basically he likened it, like many have, to a domino effect. However, it'd be a sort of process-of-elimination domino effect, per se. He brought up some examples, i.e., Vlad Guerrero, Bartolo Colon, etc. He basically said that (if the Yankees don't come in and mess everything up) that anyone that spends money on a big free agent is more than likely to pull out of the market for other big free agents. Locke specifically brought up the scenario of the Angels getting Bartolo Colon. He said if that happened, then the pool of teams trying to sign the next biggest free agent out there would thin out by one team (and Tejada wouldn't go to the Angels...always good). The school of thought that I got out of all of this is that the longer Tejada is looking for a team, the better the Mariners' chances are as the number of teams trying to sign him whittles down.
It's really reaching, and it'd be ten times better if you heard Locke talk about it himself, but hey, I felt I had to bring y'all something. Knowing Locke, he'll probably have a column up in a few days about it anyway. Well, maybe not. I think he used his column space last time to ask who the hell the Sonics were as a basketball team, because they sure as hell aren't run-and-gun anymore.
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