Thursday, July 31, 2008

Bye Bye Birdie

In another stunning move, Brian "the dealer" Cashman raped another team in a late night trade yesterday. Somehow he convinced the Houston Astros to take Latroy "The Hawk whose really more like a pigeon" Hawkins off our back s and even got a minor leaguer in return!

Even if Matt Cusik never reaches High-A ball this trade will be considered a fleecing. The fact that the Cashmoney was able to to get a living, breathing, moving person should put him in the running for some sort of Nobel Prize. Hell I woulda traded him for 10 bats if someone offered them...

There are about 5 more hours until the trade deadline, I'm looking forward to seeing what else we could put together.


-The Ghost of SAMIAM

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Another Great Trade

The reason there was no post from the ghost over the recent trade of tabata+throw-ins for damaso marté and xavier nady was 2 fold. 1: I was busy haunting the dreams of Met fans for not being able to get Manny. 2: the biggest idiot of all time (Steve Phillips) who singly handed crushed the mets franchise proclaimed "the yankees need bulpen help and can not be contenders without added arms". The fact that the Yankees then got Marté really upset me because any normal person with common sense knew the bullpen was fine, and because nothing good will ever come from listening to a belligerent fool such as Phillips.

I was hoping deep inside of my ghost body that Ca$hman added to a point of strength (the bullpen) in order to help spin off a relief arm while their stocks were high for another piece (catcher or SP) to fill out our club. TODAY IS THE DAY CA$HMAN MADE THAT KEY ADDITIONAL MOVE. Cashman has just taken advantage of 2 hot months of Kyle Freakin Farnsworth and traded him back to the Tigers for Ivan Pudge Rodriguez.

While obviously he is not the same pudge from 10 yrs ago, this acquisition takes Molina's bat (which is worse than McLovin's ;) ;) ) out of the lineup and gives us another legit righthanded hitter to balance out the lineup. While only 2 weeks ago the bottom half of the order read Cano, Melky, Molina, Gardner/Christian (all basically automatic outs at the time), it now looks like Cano, Nady, Pudge, Melky (only 1 automatic out).

Is this tade a direct result of being held to practically 4 runs over almost 3 full games (the past 3 losses with exception to last night loss to the O's where we finally scored a few runs late in the game)? I would assume so... Am I happy? Hell yes! This organization is looking to do everything in its power to make a serious and deep run into and through the playoffs. The only place of concern left on this team is the 4th & 5th starters positions, and if cash doesn't make a move to shore it up, that only means he has faith in IPK/Aceves/Hughes/Wang to come back and take over their roster spots. Lemme tell ya, after the past week of trades, I trust this guy.

Everyone, please feel free to post your opinions. One more thought: is cash making these moves to save his job???-The Ghost of samiam