there was a comment at the bottom of Ringolsby’s piece about how everyone else thinks Coors still seriously overinflates our hitters stats. Obviously Matt’s very skewed home/road splits kind of back that up. If that’s the case, and we aren’t going to be happy with the prospects or players that we can get in return because other teams don’t think Holliday is quite a superstar, then why should be worried that someone is going to be willing to meet Boras’s ridiculous asking price in free agency?

“We are aware of where we are, where we stand and why we are here. There’s no doubt the (players) have recognized it. Now it’s up to us to do something about it.”

There, that should make you feel better already.

I’m still confused (Extremely) on why Dan O’Dowd has a flippin job. Its been a pretty awful few years except for 21 games last year (at the perfect time).

Can anyone explain why we hold onto many many major league ready minor leaguers and then go and sign minor league ready major leaguers?

Examples: Seth Smtih, Ian Stewart, Joe K, Quintinilla, Herrera, EY Junior are all either ready to play pro ball (in some cases have) or could be HUGE (or decent) trading chips for some pitching!!

Then we have 15 outfielders on our Roster some who do the exact same thing and put up the exact same numbers. Weird that we have 2 of the exact same CF’s (pods and Willy) and 2 of the exact Same RF’s (Hawpe, Spilly). I guess They aren’t EXACTLY the same. I mean Hawpe will hit 30 bombs a year and K a ton while walking a ton, where as Spilly will hit 25 bombs a year but K much less and walk much less. Overall though RBI production is probably very similar. Also, Pods/Willy is a pretty even matchup. Personally I like PODS ability to get on base over Willy’s.

Can we trade some of our excess players here? We don’t needs Pods, Willy, Spilly, and Hawpe.

Hawpe is a nice piece of trade bait (Or would be if he started hitting).

I think a Pods/Spilly OF is nice enough and affords the rox’s chances to bring up Ian/Seth in the near future if Either of them get injured.

lets not also forget about Sullivan. What is O’Dowds problem. He has the deepest bench in the universe and a super deep minor league system yet no pitching.

Oh and what does he do he trades Ramon Ramirez who is putting up outstanding numbers in KC. He doesn’t resign Affeldt who is putting up very good numbers and he doesn’t resign Fogg (who actually stinks but is a nice clubhouse prescence and actually proved he could eat innings better then redman/wells)

Our answer this offseason was not to rebuild, it was not to get better, it was consciously decided that we should GET FRICKIN WORSE!

Vizcaino we end up paying the same amount as if we kept Hawkins (They both stink but at least Hawkins isn’t on the DL)

Redmand is career awful, Wells is career Awful. Grilli is career awful and Rusch is career borderline awful.

Really this is why you raised ticket prices? What a joke of a franchise we are proving ourselves to be. Its sad that the World Series has made it even more apparent how much of a joke Monfarts/O’Dowd are.

Anyways as for Holliday we’ll probably trade him to the yankees for Jason Giambi or something completely moronic like that.

And to think we could have had Livan/Bedard/Haren if our owners weren’t retards

Ugh makes me sick.