First!

I think someone got a bit too excited about the Grady Sizemore pictures.

The verb “nake,” in early Hittite, translates as “moved from the bullpen into the starting rotation.”

as “to be moved…”

/throws up in mouth.

It could be cyber terrorism by some deranged RS fan.

It could be that we created some horrible keyword hybrid with our attempts to game the ad algorithm while discussing baseball.

Also, it could be worse: someone looking for baseball/baby fetish pics could have found the site because of “Phil Huggies.”

I’m sure that somewhere along the line, while Phil was pitching poorly, Don posted something about how “Hughes must have naked pictures of Hank Stenbrenner with one of his race horses.”

Now let’s see what that does to the google ads.

I didn’t do it.

So there’s no such pictures here?

[10] Are you asking if there are NAKED PICTURES OF PHIL HUGHES here? I doubt there are NAKED PICTURES OF PHIL HUGHES here. There could be NAKED PICTURES OF PHIL HUGHES here, but no one knows for sure. While most signs point to there bing no NAKED PICTURES OF PHIL HUGHES here, there is still a slight chance that there are NAKED PICTURES OF PHIL HUGHES here.

NAKED PICTURES OF PHIL HUGHES. Here.

Take that Google search!

I burst out laughing so hard that all the people around me had to see and in their RS fandom, just gave me a look that said I’m a pervert.

Not related to PHIL HUGHES NUDE ON THIS SITE (CHECK IT OUT!),
In your situation, where can we stick Beltre?  For it to be the best case scenario, that is.

Beltre on the Red Sox, because there is no way he is returning to that 48 HR form they will wishcast for him unless the league stops PED testing immediately. Wait, Ortiz might give him some “eyedrops”. I take that back. We can’t let Beltre get anywhere near Ortiz, or the NAKED PICTURES OF PHIL HUGHES for that matter.

Shaughnessey or however you spell his name says that the Red Sox are going through a SHIRTLESS MELKY youth based rebuilding phase and may not compete next year, similar to pre-2007.

[14] Is it because of topic-sensitive ad placement that the link on the right offers a FREE limited edition 22kt gold naked Phil Hughes card for only $1.90 S/H?

“unless the league stops PED testing immediately”

I saw that over 100 players are allowed to take ADHD stimulants.

IF they actually have ADHD, it won’t affect them the way it affects non ADHD people.

[17] Ortiz must have ADHD, he would feel NAKED without his “eyedrops”.

And I refuse to believe those eyedrops are BARELY LEGAL.

Wow… I almost want supply of eyedrops to continue.  NAKED DAVID ORTIZ - that is a PICTURE I just don’t need to see!

Some commenters have occasionally and briefly tried (made a joke of trying) this with the string “Morgan Fox” or the like here, haven’t they?

Good job y’all!

SG wrote of worse, given our funnies, good thing the search query was the PG term “naked”, not something more ... well, explicit.

Newsday:

The Yankees have notified Johnny Damon that they will begin moving forward without him if they can’t find common ground on financial terms, an industry source said.

Because the Yankees still would like Damon back, even after acquiring Curtis Granderson from the Tigers, they have informed him through his agent, Scott Boras, that “the train is leaving the station,” as the source put it.

Although there is no hard timeline, the Yankees clearly want to try to determine shortly whether there’s a chance to bring back Damon. They see him as a player worth, at most, the contract Bobby Abreu signed with the Angels - two years and $19 million - but Damon still wants a three- or four-year deal for the $13-million annual average value he just earned with the Yankees.

If Damon stands his ground - and there’s little indication that he’ll bend - the Yankees will look more seriously into other free-agent options such as utilityman Mark DeRosa, centerfielder Mike Cameron and designated hitter Hideki Matsui.

There’s an increasing expectation throughout the baseball industry that Matsui and the Yankees eventually will get back together, especially if Damon indeed goes elsewhere. Reports of Matsui’s other suitors appear to have been overstated.

The Yankees have notified Johnny Damon that they will begin moving forward without him if they can’t find common ground on financial terms

And I hope those financial terms are $8M or less for one year.

Now that they have 5 OF on their roster, with Pena available to play there as well, I see no need for a DH who can play the OF. The DH they sign only needs to be able to hit and be willing (or needing) to take 30 to 40 games off so they can rest Posada/ARod/Jeter.

Johnny can keep drinking that kool-aid that Boras is giving him about 3 to 4 years at $13M, but it’s not happening with the Yankees (or likely anywhere since I get the feeling the rep on Damon throughout the league now is that he is done defensively and he can only hit HR in DNYS). I really want to know what leverage Boras thinks he has that is going to get Damon anything near the contract demands he is making.

So, you’re saying that Newsday doesn’t have any NAKED PHIL HUGHES either?

‘the string “Morgan Fox”’

Wow, rilke, seriously?  I know you live in an ivory tower, but it’s MEGAN Fox.  However as this is (just barely) a family site, I certainly hope there are no TOPLESS PICTURES of her HERE.

Maybe Morgan Fox is hot too.

I see no need for a DH who can play the OF.

The plus side also is, if a LFer ain’t signed, that maybe Melky or Gardner gets PT to be better trade chips.

If you have autocomplete (or whatever the thing is that makes suggestions when you are typing something into google) it’s funny to start with something like “what is” or “how do i” and see what some of the popular things that come up are.

You know, I have to apologize to rilke.  Morgan Fox IS hot, too.

The DH they sign only needs to be able to hit and be willing (or needing) to take 30 to 40 games off so they can rest Posada/ARod/Jeter.

Honestly, does the DH need to take those games off?  I mean, obviously anyone who DH’s will get some games off, but if the DH hits well enough, isn’t it better just to give Posada/ARod/Jeter a full-game rest?  I’d be willing to bet that you could sign a DH who could put up comparable numbers at the plate to Posada/Jeter, so you wouldn’t really lose anything by having them take a break on the bench as opposed to DH.

I’ve got to say, reading those things about Damon, I can’t understand why the didn’t offer him arbitration. Did they really think that he would have gauged the market for himself and determined that 1 year/$15M was the best he could do by early December? Yes, it’s a risk if he accepts, but if he’s saying he wants 4 years/$52M (or more!), then he obviously would have turned down the arbitration offer. Oh well, what’ done is done.

Morgan Fox, according to Wikipedia:

In 1988 she became Miss World Canada. In 1989, she played the role of “Robunda Hooters” in the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders.

To repeat, “ROBUNDA HOOTERS.”

[32] Boras did talk <strike>Varitek</strike> BIG C into turning down arbitration last offseason, then had to literally beg the Sox to offer him a contract (Bill Simmons was saying he heard from someone inside the team that Boras basically called in a favor with the Sox to get Varitek another contract, they agreed because they didn’t have any other options outside of signing a career BUC to play the position)

[33] Doesn’t Matsuzaka have those, too?

“I know you live in an ivory tower, but it’s MEGAN Fox.”

Ah right.  I’m from the Nastassja Kinski wearing a python generation, can’t keep up with the flavor of the month.

Somebody accused Rilke of being stuck up his ivory tower, and in the meanwhile he’s been watching that film - egg on your face, eh, fgas?

Was Francesa’s ‘flavor of the month’ Coke or Robinson?  I think it was Robinson.  Wait - is that Robertson? ))

Ehh, so he probably wouldn’t have accepted.  But if there’s not much of a market for him without costing a first rounder, then there’s even less of one if he does cost a first rounder.  So maybe the picks aren’t so likely.

Morgan Fairchild “had a recurring role on the sitcom Mork & Mindy”.  Good times , good times.

Here’s what’s disturbing - Rilkekind beat me at Concentration the other day.  I think my memory filled up a few years ago and new information just pours on to the floor.

Every time I hear the name Morgan Fairchild, it reminds me of Jon Lovitz’s Tommy Flanagan character on SNL in the ‘80s.

Just pop in a bigger hard drive, rilke.

Apparently, the White Sox have inquired on TSBG.  Do they have anything worth taking?  Please do not say Bobby Jenks.

[37] Egg, or…

[43] I was just looking at a list of their prospects. It seems underwhelming.

[43]  What Podsednik’s status?

(Do I have to throw in a “j/k” or do you people know me enough by now?)

But if there’s not much of a market for him without costing a first rounder, then there’s even less of one if he does cost a first rounder.  So maybe the picks aren’t so likely.

Not sure what you mean here.. the pick’s aren’t so likely? He would have had to make the decision based on his (Boras’s) judgement of the market. Are you suggesting that if he had declined arbitration, that potentially no team would have signed him?

[43] I’ll reluctantly take Gordon Beckham.

[47] - Well, offering arbitration lowers what a player can get in the open market.  So even if he thinks he can get $X/Y years now, he would have to know he’d be getting less than that if it came with the scarlet letter of pick compensation attached.  That might lower their actual estimate of the market below what he could get in arbitration.  I definitely don’t believe Boras/Damon truly think that he’s getting what Boras has thrown around in the press in terms of contracts.  But you’ve got to start high, then “compromise”.

Oh man.. I totally forgot the White Sox have Alex Rios.

[49] Oh, I agree.. I guess I’m just trying to figure out that if he’s saying he wants 4 year/$52 million (which is insane), if that it’s any way indicative of the fact the he would have said “No way I’m taking 1 year/$15M, I can get more than that (in years or dollars or both) even if a team has to give up a pick.”  4/$52M is beyond posturing.. it’s crazy talk.

[43]  Jordan Danks would be an interesting pickup at probably the right prospect status.  He’s kinda like AJax part deux.

I dunno, remember what Boras was throwing out there after ARod opted-out?  I seem to recall it was in the “crazy talk” regime.  I think that’s just Boras SOP.

Where’s that news, MC?

You’re probably right. Cashman just needs to get Matsui and Damon for $12M, trade Melky for something worth talking about for a month, and pass the eggnog.

On YES’ Yankees Hot Stove:

Bob Lorenz (paraphrasing): Montero, Joba, Melky, and a mLer for Halladay

Jack Curry (paraphrasing): I think the Yankees would jump at that, but I don’t think the Jays would accept it.

Do people understand that Halladay is only under contract for 1 year?  Does that get factored in anywhere?  That trade would be so horribly, horribly stupid that it’s just ludicrous.

They aren’t called mediots for nothing.

[3] is borderline incredible.

On a serious note, why do I bother visiting this site if it can’t deliver naked pictures of a virile, young, Yankees pitcher?

Sheesh.

[56]  Honestly, I’d post naked pictures of myself if it were to prevent the Yankees doing that.

[3] is borderline incredible.
Is that good or bad?

[60] Do you really have to have a reason to post naked pictures online?

FREE limited edition 22kt gold naked Phil Hughes card for only $1.90 S/H

I am NOT ordering this.

Unless doing so guarantees a playoff win, in which case I might be obligated.

[19] was hilarious

First of all, I want to say Pete and Clay made me laugh out loud in this thread, , multiple times. Literally, in the David Cross correct use of them term sense. +10000000 to each of you.

Thanks to yup for [64].

Pin, I swear whenever we get together for a celebratory WS champions of the world beer I am bringing a naked Phil Hughes 22k gold card and you have to bring the Derek Jeter half dollar.

Oh man.. I totally forgot the White Sox have Alex Rios.

So, you are saying the Jays should just put Wells on waivers next August and the White Sox will be stupid enough to claim him?

Do people understand that Halladay is only under contract for 1 year?  Does that get factored in anywhere?  That trade would be so horribly, horribly stupid that it’s just ludicrous.

People ignore that because they think signing him to an extension erases that, even though he will likely only sign an extension at market value, or he only should.

MC gets a lot of credit for [8], without which much that came later would not have been probable.

Are you suggesting that if he had declined arbitration, that potentially no team would have signed him?

I’m suggesting that with the added cost of draft picks, the offers he received possibly would have been less appealing, making a return to the Yankees perhaps more likely anyway.

[57, 66] There’s also the issue of whether the Jays would want to extract an AL East premium, thus requiring a really stupid package from NYY or BOS as opposed to expecting other teams to merely overpay.

[65] Pick time, place. I’m there. With Jeets. And the Bonus Mark Teixeira Commemorative Quarter. Beers for four, bartender.

[68] Yes, I think Damon and Boras could have logically assumed they wouldn’t be getting more than 2/24 if Yanks offered arb, and quite possibly much less than that.  Which would have made it more likely he would have accepted arb, since then he could get in the neighborhood of 1/15 and go back on the market next year.  Which the Yankees weren’t willing to risk; think of this, if $200M is really their limit, Pettitte at ~12M and Damon at about ~15M, means no Granderson.  Or even if they stretch a little, nothing else.

Does anyone think MLB should use a system more like the NFL’s for draft-pick compensation?  Not the franchise-player idea, but other picks.  I’m not 100% familiar with the details, but I’m pretty sure compensatory picks are awarded based on the salary signed by the departing FA.  So a FA that gets a contract for X$ returns a lower pick than one signing for Y$.  All the picks are supplementary; usually they are in the 6th and 7th round but I think as high as the 4th.

The idea is, instead of teams losing picks, still award picks.  Better for the players, probably better for the teams as well - teams signing players don’t lose picks, teams losing players don’t have to risk awarding arb to get picks.  Also let the market determine what picks a player is worth instead of some outdated formula.

[72] The NHL’s system for restricted free agents signing with other teams makes MLB’s system look logical. Compensation is based on salary signed, but let’s say you want to sign a really skilled player to a big contract (AAV > $5M, which is big in the NHL) it will cost you your 1st/2nd/3rd/following year’s 1st, and your team HAS to have it’s pick in all those rounds or you are not allowed to sign the player to the offer sheet. If you don’t still have your picks in those rounds, you have to reacquire them via trade, and they have to be YOUR original pick, it can’t be another team’s pick in that same round.

Anyways, I do like the idea of draft pick compensation being based on salary of the departing FA, and all compensation being supplementary picks.

Which would have made it more likely he would have accepted arb, since then he could get in the neighborhood of 1/15 and go back on the market next year.

Or put Boras in a position to hold them up for 2/$24M as the price for not going to arbitration.

I agree that FA compensation should be all sandwich picks.  I also think that teams should be compensated only for net losses.  So if you lose a Wagner and a Bay while signing a Holliday and a Scutaro, you get nothing.

That, MC, would make sense only if you were presuming that the goal of the compensation system in MLB is to compensate the team losing the free agent and not to punish the team making the acquisition Yankees.

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At least we know where the naked pictures of Joe Torre are… in Scott Proctor’s desk.