It's official now. White Sox are the 2005 World Series Champions, the evil Sawx and Yanks choked big time in the Division Series, and a lot of surprises happend. Milwaukee had a .500 season for the first time since 1992, the Washington Nationals were Playoff contenders until the last few weeks of the season, and the Mets keep spending money without any luck.

THANK GOD ITS OVER! Seriously, could baseball last any longer. Well, obviously it could....so, don't answer that.

I'm just glad ESPN NEWS and Sportcenter can go back to a more even mix of highlights. Baseball is a real hogger.

Ahem... if it's saturday, sunday, or monday until 3 pm, College and Pro Football rapes baseball in every hole to the point a baseball game is recaped in 2 seconds.

Well, I'm glad the White Sox won. That's two "curses" in a row ended on an NL Central team....technically, the Cubs should beat the Twins next year to keep the curse trend going. But like that will happen.

The Cubs have as much of a chance at winning the World Series as the Yankees developing their own stars again rather than buying the flavor of the year power hitter and "ace" pitcher.

The Yankees farm system consists of actual farm animals.



Though the pig has a wicked slider.

Orioles got Leo Mazzone as their pitching coach. Now maybe he can do something with the O's staff.

(shakes up Magic-8 Ball)

"Don't Push Your Luck"

And we all know, thr 8-Ball never lies... unless it's Ron Harris.

Let's see, the Twins already ditched Mays, now they just need to get rid of Lohse, and their staff will already be untouchable. Looking forward to Baker and Liriano getting full time spots in the rotation...

Don't worry Scrooge, your Yankees will screw up in the season or post-season again.

Checking in with Fresh Breaking News of Great Significance...

..the Pirates re-signed LHP Dave Williams.

Spring Training is less than 4 months away!

Don't make me remind you of the snot-nosed brat who cost your Orioles a game back in the 1996 ALCS. :D

And yeah, unless some of the looming clouds are cleared up, the Yanks won't win.

2006 Prediction: Cleveland Indians (it's the age of breaking long drouts... they're over due)

Here's to a winter of watching the Reds let every good player slip by, and waiting for the Red Sox to mix up the infield

Big news: Yankess WIN something after September:

From MLB.com

Good news for the Yankees... Red Sox faggoty GM isn't coming back, because apparently he jerked off onto the wrong players ass while they were sleeping. I heard Jeter was pissed off about that...

Someone's drinking the Haterade.

Lee Mazzilli is back as the Yankees Bench Coach, A-Rod is being yelled at for playing poker in illegal clubs, and Matt Lawton suspended for positive steroid testing.

Fun news. :P

Lets see.... The Reds decline their option on Rich Aurilia, who was one of the few steady bats last year. Good job, guys. Way to let those consistent hitters go.

And Johnny Damon, Kevin Millar, Bill Mueller, and several pitchers file for free agency. AAAAHHHH!!!!!

At least Lindner is selling the Reds. Maybe you'll get an owner who can open his pockets a bit.




The Red Sox are doomed next year. Hopefully they just bring up prospects and let 'em grow. They'll be dominant again in a couple years.

Yeah, there is again hope for Reds fans...

And the Red Sox fans let out a great moan and prepare for a return to mediocrity

Millar and Mueller aren't that big of a deal. Your whole team is based around Big Sloppy and Manny. They could put the 4 remaining munchkins from the Wizard of Oz in the starting lineup and it wouldn't matter.

I think Cashman having total control is a good thing for the Yankees. He might get some, you know, players in your farm system, as opposed to getting a bunch of high priced guys who choke every year in the playoffs.

Yankees and farm system can't be used in the same sentence... ever. I read that Johnny Damon might get signed by the Yankees in the offseason.

It's easy to forget now, but the Yankees used to be dominant because of their farm. Look at Jeter, Posada, Pettite, etc. That's how they won.

1996 World Series team had it's share of home grown talent, but you gotta remember most of the team was average players or past their prime (like Wade Boggs and Cecil Fielder).

Ever since Steinbrenner kept buying big names, they keep choking, and even worse than the previous season. (obviously the last few years)

The Yankees have a farm system...it's called Major League Baseball.

Matt Lawton testing postive... guess this means that yellow teeth are another side-effect of steroids.

Padres make a trade for another useless, aging third baseman. It always amazes me how poorly most teams draft and trade.

Brian Lawrence for VINNY CASTILLA... B-Law wasn't doing too great (run-support fucked him up), but come on, Castilla? This guy must be going for the record for bouncing around to more teams than Todd Zeile and Reggie Sanders.

Hmm... now that the Sox have proven they can win the World Series, they no longer need the big slug taking up room on the bench every time he's on the DL (which seems to be every season).

To quote Darth Vader... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!!!!

I agree that Millar and Mueller weren't the meat and potatoes of the lineup, but they have been fairly consistent producers. It's more that I like them as people as well as players. We're in deep doody without Damon, though. He's been the face of the team since Nomar left.

And it looks like they might trade Manny.

Back to the bottom of the division for us, it seems

Nah... remember, my Devil Rays are still in the East, and no matter what they do (build new stars, sign old players, or a mix of both), they can't get out of the funk of winning no more than 66-70 games a year.

Very True

A magical thing called "a payroll" would take care of that. If they even double it the next couple years, I expect to see them win 80-85 games.

You don't need big money to be a winning team. Look at the Yankees. They throw money around like nuts, and lose.

Oh, and might I add how much of a hypocrite the Yankees GM is. The "Not picking up Tino's option was to cut back on payroll" comment is pure bullshit, yet Posada is making like 8 million this year, and let's not forget Giambi's 209593 billion dollar contract.

Sorry, I'm bitter that a team leader and the most popular Yankee since Don Mattingly retired is being treated like shit because he's past his prime.

It's very true. I don't get the Yankees logic sometimes. Hire guys like Sheffield, Giambi the Steroid Giant, and others, but drop Martinez? That's Reds level logic there

Sheffield and Giambi are "great" players, but Sheffield has an attitude problem (bitching about A-Rod/Jeter and about the rumored trade), and Giambi is selfish (refusing to go to the minors when he was batting .0000005 through May).

Having guys like Tino and Bernie (who'll know doubt be let go too, because the Yanks are, ha, concerned about the payroll being too high) on the bench serve as leaders and mentors for the young players coming up (those 40-something guys being signed in the off-season), and also can be used as defensive replacements for sack of shit gloves or clutch/pinch-hit situations.

It's true. They're letting there classiest players go to pay for Giambi

Next move no doubt coming... pass on Tanyon Sturtze's incredibly high contract of $2 million in 2006 for Jose Mesa (no doubt $9 million with a option of $17 million for 2007, knowing how retarded Cashman is).

Yes, the Twilight Zone has begun. I'm openly bashing my favorite team because it's being run by fucking idiots more worried about throwing money around for oper-priced talent that have never proven to be any help to any other teams than having a respectacle team that plays like a team, and not 9 guysa swinging for the fences.

Let's look at some other guys...
Robinson Cano - No doubt trade bait for Vinny Castilla
Chien-Ming Wang - Back to the minors for you
Shawn Chacon - May get a relief spot, if he's lucky
Aaron Small - For basically getting us in the playoffs and proving to be more help than our retirement home starters Al Leiter, Kevin Brown, Randy Johnson, and Mike Mussina, you'll be back in Double AA for the rest of your life.

I've heard that Chien Ming-Wang was being shopped around, and that Cano was a definite keeper