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3 balls.

Sure wish Richards would get those calls.

Didn't take Fox sports 1 to Suck Yankee junk.

Still injured. But for some reason, the players make the decision about coming off, or going on the DL. Ask Pujols.

NIce inning by Richards. Let's get it going bats.

Sigh. Richards could have used that out Jimenez.

Back then, he was a pothead. Today, he would be a medical entrepeneur following in the medical field of his father.

Guy had some huge brass balls.

The talent is there. We just need to harness it a bit better. When he's good, he's real good. When he's bad, Yosemite looks like a campfire.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ys-maurybrownarbitration011910 In general. You give Trout $25-30 million in arbitration, and it will be an enourmous tsunami sized ripple through all future arbitration cases. Guys who are only half as good as Trout, may then say they are worth $15 million in arbitration. Howard set the bar, and every arbitration case uses that bar. If the Angels gave Trout what he wanted, it could make arbitration years unaffordable for teams.

yes, give Trout $25 - $30 million in his arbitration years, and see how Boras will use it.

Good thing Trout's never had 50 SB's a season. And this year, he will be lucky to get 35.

Through the first two years of significant action, offensively who was the better player? Trout or Howard? This is the problem the Angels will face. Players are not superstars forever. It's a question of when their declines begins. And as I posted a while ago, when you look at superstar players, their shelflife is usually no more than 8 years, sometimes 10. Unless you are chemically enhanced. Look at the stats of any superstar, count up their prime years, and not their decline years. Trout is in year 2, and I'd rather pay him one year short, than 2+ long. Baseball is an unpredictable sport.

I predict a 6 year contract, buying out 2 years of FA'cy. With a possibility of extending him after a few years into the contract.

This would screw up arbitration for the next 50 years.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/9623277/los-angeles-dodgers-acquire-michael-young-philadelphia-phillies Rob Rasmussen is who the Phills get.

I'm surprised someone doesn't have a snowblower that's like a riding lawnmower.

LTBU!!!!

KING CONGER!!!!

Watching strike 3. 1 down in the ninth.

Decent minor league number on Welker. But a pure reliever. Couldn't cut it as a starter. http://thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?P=Duke-Welker

Need some killer instinct in this pen.

I'd rather have a GM that will disagree and keep Scioscia in check, than a GM that will be Scioscia's buddy, and do whatever he wants.

I'd take apart the computer and check the connections. Might be a loose cable somewhere. Depending on what's wrong, you can buy cheap parts on ebay.

What's wrong with Hamilton? Or I should rephrase and say why isn't Hamilton in the lineup?