Monkeyboy wrote:

The Dude wrote:MB, you never answered the second part of my post: if you don't make a move like this now, when do you ever? Just say all these prospects pan out, and they're in a position to make a run. they're probably going to need some kind of pitcher. So what will you do then?

I guess I hope we keep developing pitchers, like Hamels and Happ and Knapp and Drabek, while adding a piece here or there to fill in as needed (Blanton, Moyer, Lidle, etc). If we were in a battle for our lives to get to the playoffs, I might feel differently about giving more for him, but that's not the case.

Also, given the financial situation around baseball, we might be able to snag a decent pitcher late in August when more teams are eliminated and looking to dump payroll.

Well, Knapp and Drabek aren't developed yet. Happ is nice and all, but we'll see how he does, if his numbers catch up to him. I'm worried about Hamels right now, and would like to go into the playoffs with a guy I have a lot of confidence in. I don't care about making the playoffs, we're past that stage now.

I was up to page 12 last night of this thread, fell asleep, just woke up and now we're up to page 50.

What's the deal with Monty? Did he seriously say something to the effect that there will be no deal?

There are so many good posts in these threads. I'm not even sure which one it was in but Floppy might have made the best post in the history of BSG regarding our prospects and I wanted to reply to it but can't even find it anymore.

Oh and I do want to say Thank You to the one kind soul who hooked a brother up on the Erin Andrews front. My life is now complete. The rest of you are on notice.