This trade deadline rocked!

Terrible Headline "OH MY.........Gagne!" As in OH MY....GOD! I hate those headlines. This years trading deadline was flat out awesome with most teams making moves. The big moves will turn out to be the Red Sox getting Gagne and the Braves getting Tex. I've already spoken about the Braves so know I'll look at The Red Sox move. This was great for them. wWhat I keep telling people is that this is like when they put Schilling in the same rotation as Pedro. Any one disagrees with me on this is an idiot. You can never have enough pitching. Adding a strikeout pitcher with an ERA of 2.06 for just Kason Gabbard, Engell Beltre and David Murphy sis amazing. Gagne isn't the pitcher he was for the Dodgers but he was the best pitcher on the market. Theo took a strength (the Red Sox already had the best bullpen ERA) and turned it into a super power. The Yankees I guarntee are not happy. This is huge with Delcarmen, Hideki and Gagne leading up to Papelbon their bullpen is unstopable. It's also going to shorten the game for Red Sox starters and keep them fresher. Great move Theo.

The Braves along with Tex added Octavio Dotel from KC. It's Gagne but it's still a good move. This has to prove to Brave players that their team is in and they should play better.

Other moves the Yankees traded relief pitcher Scott Proctor to the Dodgers for Wilson Betemit. Why? Betemit was hitting .231 with 10 homers and 26 RBIs for the Dodgers this year. ESPN is reporting that the Yankees are considering as you utility guy for this season and possibly as A-Rod's replacement for next season. I can't believe that's true unless the Yankees are planning on sucking next year. Proctor seemed to be one of the few relievers that Torre had at his disposal that didn't cause Torre to have a cardic arrest to hand the ball to. I can't imagine Betemit htting enough this year or next year to justify a place in the Yankees lineup.

The Red Sox also got a bag of balls for Joel Pinerio. Good Job!It's better then watching him pitch.




Watching Jonah Keri's excellent chat on ESPN.com I got angry at the number of people who were talking about Adam Dunn and Grady Sizemore's strikeouts. When are people going to come into the 20th century and realize strikeouts don't matter that much. It will be interesting when Dunn leaves the Reds because they'll replace him with a league average player and then maybe we can figure out just how much his offense helped his team.



Going to see a sneak preview of Hot Rod tonight and I'm betting it will be a comedic master peice just like Anchorman. On the flyer advertising the movie it says "Rated PG-13 for crude humor, language some comic drug-related and violent content." Awesome! It doesn't hurt that the very hot Isla Fisher from Wedding Crashers is in as well. I predict it will blow the socks off of the awful Simpson's Movie.


In DVD news the excellent Hot Fuzz was released today. I wasn't a fan of Shaun of the Dead because I felt it was too "British" but I absolutely loved this movie. The special feature where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost do a scene as Sean Connery and Michael Caine is awesome. Still my favorite Connery though was Ben Affleck from the Chasing Amy commentary track. Still the greatest DVD commentary track ever. I must have listened to it at least twenty times.

Trade Deadline and the Simpsons

Been reading alot about the trade dealine in the past few days and it looks pretty dead out there. ESPN reports that Rangers traded Mark Teixeira for Jarrod Saltalamacchia and shortstop Elvis Andrus. This is a good trade for both parties. The Braves add a solid bat to their core team and get insurance in case Andruw Jones jets via free agency after this season. And the Rangers get the Braves two best prospects who both play vital positions and will be under their control for years as well as releave themselves of Scott Boris sized headache.

The Braves had to do something to get their team going again and this was a good move. Already having 23 year old ALL-Star Brian McCann behind the dish and signed to long term deal made Salt expendable. Tex is a huge upgrade on Julio Franco. I just don't think it will be enough for them to take the division. The Braves that went the postseason every year were built on pitching and I just see them coming up short this year. But in a dry pitching market there was no upgrade available so they did the best they could.

For the Rangers it was obivous that Tex wasn't going to be coming back to them after next season so they got what they could. Their only problem was that they it made it so public they couldn't make a market for themselves. Everyone knew they had to get rid of Tex.

The Red Sox seem to be trying to land Jermaine Dye which seems like a good fit on paper. But the Red Sox are one of the teams on his no trade list and if they have to give up anything of value they shouldn't do it. My only question is playing time. They have Drew for five years, Manny for two, and Coco for two more in the oufield. The only answer I can find is if David Ortiz' injury is much worse then the Red Sox are admitting. As long as you don't have to give up anything of real value Dye is a good addition.

The thought of Eric Gagne in pinstripes terrifies me............

OK the Simpsons.................................walking out of the movie I said "Wow, that South Park movie from a couple of years ago was great." I had a lot of problems with "The Simpsons Movie". It was, quite frankly, garbage. I haven't watched the show regulary for a couple of years and the movie reminded of why I hadn't. It lacked focus and it just appeared to be the Simpsons writers saying "We know this is going to make a lot of money so it really doesn't have to be that good". It seemed like there too many voices. The fact that there were I believe 14 writers on it shows. Unlike the South Park movie I don't think this movie added anything to the series. Wow Bart's animatede penis........who cares? Wow, The put a bubble around Springfield.....who cares? The South Park Movie was hysterical and it added stuff that they couldn't get onto the TV show, so I feel it should of been made. The Simpsons Movie adds nothing and shouldn't even exist. They made it because they could not because they had something they wanted to say. I'm disappointed that it did so well raking in 71.2 million dollars this weekend because people will veiw it as a success when really it's just a mess. I'm stunned to find all the critics loving it so much. didn't they really watch it or were they just in love with because of their favorite episodes of the series. Seriously Ralph Wiggum in the beginning of the movie was the best part. Superbad will be much better and not get anywhere near as good reveiws. I'm seeing Andy Samberg's Hot Rod in a special sneek preview tomorrow and I imagine that will be far funnier as well.

Is it me or is this season of Entourage just really boring ?

Words that just go together

Two things that make me very happy. Democrats in the United States Senate have issued a subpoena against the White House deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove. The Simpsons Movie was released today. I'd probably have to go with Rove thing because there is simply no way The Simpsons Movie can be better then South Park the Movie was.





Not much of a choice here.

Piazza possibility

When I see the rumors of Mike Piazza possibily going to the Angels it makes so much sense that I'll actually get angry at the Angels for not making this move. He's cheap, signed only for one year and he has the track record that getting him should be a no brainer. I think it's a much better idea then going after Tex or Paul Kornerko. The problem is when deals make this much sense they rarely happen. Also saw the Indians reacquired Kenny Lofton. My question is do they make him bat second and leave Sizemore in the leadoff spot or lead Lofton and hope Sizemore's power can drive him in.

Teixeira Possible

Saw today where some executives around baseball were predicting that the Red Sox were going to go hard after Mark Teixeira in an effort to transform their team into a kind of "super" team. I don't know if I think this actually a good idea. First off Teixeirahas a very bad history with the Red Sox already, the Red Sox drafted him out of high school and the negotations turned bitter. He's also a Borris client and most likely want to try out free agency after next year. Unless the Rangers asking price falls through the floor they're going to have give up some prospects and most likely Youkilis. I love Youk but I'd give him up here. Alot of this begs the question just how hurt is David Ortiz. If he's hurt go for it off not I say no.