Viewing Thread:
"GP and Kawada love inn"

Or as it is otherwise known - The MLB Thread

So Yankees, as always busy around deadline day and were quite successful. Abreu and Lidle for a bunch of minor league prospects of which only Smith looks half decent. Don't know too much about Lidle to be honest but Abreu will give another strong bat and some experienced coverage for Sheffield while he's out injured (and more than likely replace him for next season) Also picked up Craig Wilson for Chacon to give us another strong bat. Had him in my MVP Baseball 2005 team as well actually. Might mean Andy Phillips doesn't get as much time as he should though which is a shame.

Red Sox and Jays did nothing and we kept hold of Cano, Melky and Phillips so a good trade deadline time all around for the Yanks

Congrats to Glavine on 300. Is pretty crazy the difference in complete games to the early days and now.

Had to laugh at the "Welcome to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field" sign after watching some Steve Bartman videos on youtube. I think he might disagree with that :-D

hehe yea i love the goat story.

Heh, the goat. I think the story about the goat is quite funny. You would think that the Cubs would win the division from here but you never can tell.

The Cubs were a long way back before the All Star break. 2nd best record (behind the Yankees) since then.

and the goat strikes down Soriano

Cubs = teh cursed!!!!!!

Shouldn't even be recognised in the record books. Doesn't matter anyway, A-God will smash whatever dirty record Bonds sets

He ended up going 3 for 4. The youngest player to 500 homers and now that the pressure is off, the numbers should improve for the rest of the season.

Bonds hit 755 yesterday too but you probably don't care about that one. :)

One way to break a batting slump, welcome to the 500 club Alex

because the Sox are allowed to throw money at anyone and everyone but if the Yanks do the same thing we're the evil empire lead by Darth George. Kind of stocks their bullpen, not really a space for him unless they do finally go with the long talked about move of Papelbon to starter.

Far as our trade goes that's kind of crappy for both teams, Proctor because he's utterly useless and Betermit because he doesn't add anything to the team other than being a slightly better younger version of Cairo with the ability to switch hit. I guess Cash is putting his faith into Chamberlain for the bullpen

The Yankees trade Proctor for Betemit. I must say, Proctor never really inspired me with any confidence when he was up on the mound. That does leave a spot in the bullpen that needs filling though.

The Red Sox get Gagne. I don't understand that one. They've got Okajima and Papelbon and I'm sure the rest of the bullpen can handle the load, so why sign Gagne to be the setup guy and close every so often?

Seems Atlanta are going for the here and now rather than the future if they're trading Salty and prospects away. Salty has quite a good bat for a catcher and should be a good catcher in the future and if they're giving up a top prospect then that's pretty stupid as Tex isn't the player he used to be and Mahay isn't exactly worth it