Its raining...its pouring...the old man is....is...dammit, I know this...nevermind!
Welcome back to the two minute drill. Or if this was a spanish website: Bienvenidos otra vez al ejercisio de dos minutos..so I cant spell in spanish..sorry...yo no nintendo...hehehe...ok, enough with the intro. Lets get started:
-So for the Dodgers and Diamondbacks the third time was the charm! After trying for weeks to unload the popular Shawn Green, the D-back's and Dodgers finally completed a trade sending Green to Arizona for 3 prospects. With the money LA saved on his contract the Dodgers signed Derek Lowe to a 4 year deal. My thoughts on the deal? What can I say...On the one hand I know why the Dodgers made the deal. They were tapped out for cash and the only way they were going to get more was to get Shawn Green's contract off the books. But at the same time I have to wonder if Derek Lowe is that great a pickup. I mean he was awesome in the playoffs (3-0, 1.86 ERA) but was HORRIBLE in the regular season (ERA of almost 6!!!) If they were so impressed by his playoff pitching, why then did they not re-sign Jose Lima who was just as brilliant in his one start? Not to mention the positive impact he had on the team. Add to that the fact that he led the team in victories and you would think his resigning would be a no-brainer. They say its because they didnt want to get saddled with a long term deal with him. BS.. According to Lima's agent, he WANTED to stay in LA and wouldve been willing to sign for less money and a one year deal had they made a serious offer to him...as it is, the Dodgers didnt contact Lima til 1 hr before the deadline to re-sign him. There was no time for Lima and his agent to come back with a counter offer. Something tells me they only made that offer to make it seem like they "tried" to resign him...If money was such an issue, why not make it back by selling Dodger Blue "LIMA TIME" shirts...those things wouldve sold like crazy. Oh well. Dodger Nation mourns the loss of the most charasmatic and fan friendly player the team has had in years. And the loss of Shawn Green. Quite possibly, the best teammate anyone could have. This guy did everything the Dodgers asked of him (move to first, bat in different parts of the lineup, etc), and yet they couldnt WAIT to get rid of him, this offseason. The thing that gets me, is that he actually CALLED Adrian Beltre right before Beltre signed with Seattle and tried to convince him to stay with LA. By this time Green knew they were trying to trade him. Yet he still called Beltre and tried to get him to stay. Anyone else couldve been like "Screw the Dodgers, why should I help them if they are trying to trade me away." Yet there was Green, trying to sell Beltre on the idea of staying in LA....sigh....Lets hope this is the last of what has been a crazy and disappointing offseason.
-Just a quick note about my fantasy trailer I posted last night. I realize that I may not be saying the reincarnation spell correctly. It was more of a paraphrasing of it. I just wanted everyone to get the idea of what it would sound like.
-Isnt it ironic that the Lakers have gone back to the triangle offense? The same offense that Kobe Bryant shunned when Phil Jackson was there? But now that the Lakers are barely two games better than the Clippers, they feel they have to take "desperate" measures. All I'm going to say, is that the Lakers, as they stand now, are no better than a Number 6 seed in the West. Unless they get it together, they will make the playoffs and then get whompped by whatever top seed they end up facing in Round 1. Prove me wrong, guys. Prove me wrong!
And we'll end on that note. Til next time....
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