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lowcountry wrote:J.P.,

My enormous balls. Let me show you them.

--R.A.

FTN wrote:what is going to suck is that Boston will get Halladay for a deal would could have trumped, and we'll get Lee but pay more than any of us are thinking about right now.

Lee is a stud, so it doesn't matter too much, but the Halladay dream is dead

This is exactly right. Unless the info coming from the Phils is misinformation, this is not playing out well. We're going to get Plan B (which is still great, but not as great) and we're going to end up trading a package similar to what Halladay would have cost because the Dodgers (and others) are going to bid up the price on Lee. Remember: Lee does not have a NTC, so the potential pool of buyers is much bigger than for Halladay.

Ace Rothstein wrote:

VFB wrote:friend of mine works at a bank, and saw carrasco changing all his monies to canadian

my friend says carrasco was signing the canadian national anthem in the spanish version

The Most Interesting Pitcher in the World?

JFLNYC wrote:

FTN wrote:what is going to suck is that Boston will get Halladay for a deal would could have trumped, and we'll get Lee but pay more than any of us are thinking about right now.

Lee is a stud, so it doesn't matter too much, but the Halladay dream is dead

This is exactly right. Unless the info coming from the Phils is misinformation, this is not playing out well. We're going to get Plan B (which is still great, but not as great) and we're going to end up trading a package similar to what Halladay would have cost because the Dodgers (and others) are going to bid up the price on Lee. Remember: Lee does not have a NTC, so the potential pool of buyers is much bigger than for Halladay.

What? If it's Knapp, Carrasco, Donald, Marson, it's not even close to what we have to pay for Halladay.

Plus the whole "Boston deal is imminent" thing is based on a report that didn't exist

Trent Steele wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:

FTN wrote:what is going to suck is that Boston will get Halladay for a deal would could have trumped, and we'll get Lee but pay more than any of us are thinking about right now.

Lee is a stud, so it doesn't matter too much, but the Halladay dream is dead

This is exactly right. Unless the info coming from the Phils is misinformation, this is not playing out well. We're going to get Plan B (which is still great, but not as great) and we're going to end up trading a package similar to what Halladay would have cost because the Dodgers (and others) are going to bid up the price on Lee. Remember: Lee does not have a NTC, so the potential pool of buyers is much bigger than for Halladay.

What? If it's Knapp, Carrasco, Donald, Marson, it's not even close to what we have to pay for Halladay.

But the Dodgers (and perhaps others) are going to make a heavy push and bid up the price.

JFLNYC wrote:

FTN wrote:what is going to suck is that Boston will get Halladay for a deal would could have trumped, and we'll get Lee but pay more than any of us are thinking about right now.

Lee is a stud, so it doesn't matter too much, but the Halladay dream is dead

This is exactly right. Unless the info coming from the Phils is misinformation, this is not playing out well. We're going to get Plan B (which is still great, but not as great) and we're going to end up trading a package similar to what Halladay would have cost because the Dodgers (and others) are going to bid up the price on Lee. Remember: Lee does not have a NTC, so the potential pool of buyers is much bigger than for Halladay.

How do we know it's a similar package? The "biggest" name we're hearing is Knapp. If we're keeping Drabek, Happ, Brown and Taylor, and getting Cliff Lee, how can that be bad? If we give up any of those guys, it's a different story.

Gargano is also reporting that Boston is changing their offer to Toronto.

The Dude wrote:Plus the whole "Boston deal is imminent" thing is based on a report that didn't exist

Gargano doesn't know anything about Boston. He reads the Gordon Edes story, and is fed the info from the Phils that they're looking at Lee, so he immediately assumes Boston is about to get Halladay. Nothing concrete.

cshort wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:

FTN wrote:what is going to suck is that Boston will get Halladay for a deal would could have trumped, and we'll get Lee but pay more than any of us are thinking about right now.

Lee is a stud, so it doesn't matter too much, but the Halladay dream is dead

This is exactly right. Unless the info coming from the Phils is misinformation, this is not playing out well. We're going to get Plan B (which is still great, but not as great) and we're going to end up trading a package similar to what Halladay would have cost because the Dodgers (and others) are going to bid up the price on Lee. Remember: Lee does not have a NTC, so the potential pool of buyers is much bigger than for Halladay.

How do we know it's a similar package? The "biggest" name we're hearing is Knapp. If we're keeping Drabek, Happ, Brown and Taylor, and getting Cliff Lee, how can that be bad? If we give up any of those guys, it's a different story.

Gargano is also reporting that Boston is changing their offer to Toronto.

See my previous post.

S2D wrote:

The Dude wrote:Plus the whole "Boston deal is imminent" thing is based on a report that didn't exist

Gargano doesn't know anything about Boston. He reads the Gordon Edes story, and is fed the info from the Phils that they're looking at Lee, so he immediately assumes Boston is about to get Halladay. Nothing concrete.

Not that, it's that they reported that ESPN said it was done based on a yahoo article that didn't exist

JFLNYC wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:

FTN wrote:what is going to suck is that Boston will get Halladay for a deal would could have trumped, and we'll get Lee but pay more than any of us are thinking about right now.

Lee is a stud, so it doesn't matter too much, but the Halladay dream is dead

This is exactly right. Unless the info coming from the Phils is misinformation, this is not playing out well. We're going to get Plan B (which is still great, but not as great) and we're going to end up trading a package similar to what Halladay would have cost because the Dodgers (and others) are going to bid up the price on Lee. Remember: Lee does not have a NTC, so the potential pool of buyers is much bigger than for Halladay.

What? If it's Knapp, Carrasco, Donald, Marson, it's not even close to what we have to pay for Halladay.

But the Dodgers (and perhaps others) are going to make a heavy push and bid up the price.

If it pushes up too far, you can go back to JP.

J, Dodgers have been involved the whole time. It seems hard to believe the trade would go up a ton in value right now

S2D wrote:

The Dude wrote:Plus the whole "Boston deal is imminent" thing is based on a report that didn't exist

Gargano doesn't know anything about Boston. He reads the Gordon Edes story, and is fed the info from the Phils that they're looking at Lee, so he immediately assumes Boston is about to get Halladay. Nothing concrete.

Gargano is getting his Boston info from ESPN

this is enough to make your penis tingle.

I'm going to go pee to see if things can get better

bob nightengale is now FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER

ant just said his source told them that the phils are awaiting a phone call from the jays to take one more shot at this

kenrosenthal wrote:ant just said his source told them that the phils are awaiting a phone call from the jays to take one more shot at this

take one more little piece of my heart

kenrosenthal wrote:ant just said his source told them that the phils are awaiting a phone call from the jays to take one more shot at this

stupid question: who/what's "ant"?