Wednesday, January 28, 2004
EXIT STAGE REFT
Steve Kelley has this here article on the trials of Rob Ramsay, who was a second lefty in the Mariner pen back in 2000, mostly as a long man, if I remember right. Jeremy and I also got to see him throw in Portland against the Beavers, and I think that game ended with Portland's game-tying run getting hung up between third and home in a rundown. Still, though the news of Ramsay's tumor came after he'd left Seattle, I hoped like hell he'd pull through. The fact that he's still in baseball is quite a testament to his determination, willpower, etc. Good luck to him.
Finnigan and Hickey do the beat-writer articles on the Kazu Sasaki exit. Both articles mention that the first call went to Boras to discuss Ivan Rodriguez. Finnigan didn't take long in his article to unearth the name of Ron Villone, who would be the latest on the train of former Mariners to come back and hopefully not suck. I do think Villone would come back and blow. Both articles seem to emit a feeling of gunshyness toward signing Ivan Rodriguez, quickly pointing out that $500k is going to Ed Guardado for that saves clause that will more than likely be met. Hickey also mentioned Travis Lee and Raul Mondesi as possible acquisitions, which made me throw up all over my apartment. If they actually went with Mondesi, there's no way in hell anyone could rationalize Ichiro staying in rightfield at that point. If Mondesi is in, Winn is SOL (unless they find someone even dumber than Bavasi to take Ibanez' contract) because I'm moving Ichiro to CF. Mondesi has a cannon arm, lest you all forget. Of course, he's also a headcase and attention-getter, so we should probably just scratch these last couple lines of narrative by me because there's no way in hell Howard Lincoln would even think about this.
A guy named Brad Wong has the International District take on Sasaki leaving. They liked him, of course. He liked the niku jaga, "a potato, beef and onion dish cooked with soy sauce and sugar." That ain't no california roll, bro.
In comes Art Thiel with his send-off piece. Thiel notices that Sasaki is the first of the five-Mariner peak player exodus to actually say goodbye on his way out. There is some stuff in the middle of the article about Kazu's divorce speculation, which is somewhat intriguing. There's some stuff about culture shock, and there's also a use of the word "wrath" in the same sentence with the name Hiroshi Yamauchi. Lastly, Thiel advises that the Mariners not break the bank with the newfound moolah on the table unless something weird happens.
Allrighty, that was the first post-midnight-article-reading post I've had in a few weeks or so, at least on a weeknight. Hope I didn't let y'all down. About the subject line...I just had to. It was too easy.
Finnigan and Hickey do the beat-writer articles on the Kazu Sasaki exit. Both articles mention that the first call went to Boras to discuss Ivan Rodriguez. Finnigan didn't take long in his article to unearth the name of Ron Villone, who would be the latest on the train of former Mariners to come back and hopefully not suck. I do think Villone would come back and blow. Both articles seem to emit a feeling of gunshyness toward signing Ivan Rodriguez, quickly pointing out that $500k is going to Ed Guardado for that saves clause that will more than likely be met. Hickey also mentioned Travis Lee and Raul Mondesi as possible acquisitions, which made me throw up all over my apartment. If they actually went with Mondesi, there's no way in hell anyone could rationalize Ichiro staying in rightfield at that point. If Mondesi is in, Winn is SOL (unless they find someone even dumber than Bavasi to take Ibanez' contract) because I'm moving Ichiro to CF. Mondesi has a cannon arm, lest you all forget. Of course, he's also a headcase and attention-getter, so we should probably just scratch these last couple lines of narrative by me because there's no way in hell Howard Lincoln would even think about this.
A guy named Brad Wong has the International District take on Sasaki leaving. They liked him, of course. He liked the niku jaga, "a potato, beef and onion dish cooked with soy sauce and sugar." That ain't no california roll, bro.
In comes Art Thiel with his send-off piece. Thiel notices that Sasaki is the first of the five-Mariner peak player exodus to actually say goodbye on his way out. There is some stuff in the middle of the article about Kazu's divorce speculation, which is somewhat intriguing. There's some stuff about culture shock, and there's also a use of the word "wrath" in the same sentence with the name Hiroshi Yamauchi. Lastly, Thiel advises that the Mariners not break the bank with the newfound moolah on the table unless something weird happens.
Allrighty, that was the first post-midnight-article-reading post I've had in a few weeks or so, at least on a weeknight. Hope I didn't let y'all down. About the subject line...I just had to. It was too easy.
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