silliness on orioles radio
by j.q. higgins
on Aug 15, 2008 4:39 PM EDT
so, i missed the game last night (but i DID get to see the hold steady), but caught the tail end of the post game show. dave johnson and the other guy started complaining about cabrera and how it was time to maybe cut bait on him b/c he's too expensive. $2.5 million was the number they cited and the said it was more expensive than the other starters combined.
1) who cares?
2) looking at baseballreference.com, they list jeff suppan and jason schmidt most similar to danny cabrera at his age. when those two were his age in 1999 and 2000, they were both making around $2 million.
will, cabrera ever be more than a back of the rotation guy that can eat innings and is prone to fits of wildness? i don't know, but i DO know that to go out on the open market and sign a free agent of danny's calibre (yes, a crummy/mediocre at worst, frustrating at best) may cost a team quite a bit more than 2.5 million. i guess i'd say, it's his job to lose and if there's no one in the system that can wrest the job from him, let's play out the string until he hits free agency.
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…I can’t take that show seriously. When I’m driving around in MD I turn it on if I miss the game and sit there waiting to hear about the score, but that dude with the hardcore Dundalk accent (is that Johnson) freaks me out. Plus there’s too much of this sportscaster bullshit where they sit around reading motivations and all sorts of shit they have no way in hell of knowing about into what happened on the field. It’s like listening to stoners talk about politics.
by Jonny Pops on Aug 15, 2008 7:53 PM EDT 0 recs
I want to know
When is that dude’s voice going to change?
Bring Tex Home.
by dtuck81 on
Aug 17, 2008 2:42 PM EDT
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Fer cryin' out loud
Yeah, I know. He’s my boyfriend and all that. Whatev.
Danny Cabrera is a .500 pitcher this year. The Orioles are 14-12 in games he’s started. He’s 8-7 in games he’s started. He has made 13 quality starts and 13 non-quality starts.
He had a phenomenal April, a terrible June, and has pitched .500 ball in every other month.
He is, by definition, an innings-eating mediocre pitcher. He’s probably going to win 10 or 11 games this year (like Amber predicted!).
Someone please tell me, in this day and age, who is out there that does that for you for $2.5 million.
Okay, there’s Fat Sid at whatever the Yankees are paying him, but let’s not go there.
by zknower on Aug 16, 2008 1:15 AM EDT 0 recs
yes. we must keep big bird.
we must take the good with the bad in hopes of one day it being all good.
Yes, I should say that, which, I should say that.
by thewaywardO on Aug 17, 2008 10:36 AM EDT 0 recs
glutton for punishment that i am...
i watched a bit of the tom davis show simulcast yesterday and it was w/ dave johnson and phil wood in addition to tom davis and they dug in on this mater again. while they walked it back to, “maybe he shouldn’t be starting,” i still take the position that until there’s an adequate/better replacvement of comparable/cheaper price, the conversation is sort of silly.
it will be interesting if patton, albers, ray, baez and hoey come back.
foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08
by j.q. higgins on
Aug 17, 2008 4:25 PM EDT
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