the Dice man!!!

is coming!!!!!

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Originally posted by le sonick:
is coming!!!!!

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He looks different without the leather jacket and the cigarette.

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That pic makes it look like he throws like a girl.

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can someone please explain to me the $50 million the sox paid to his japanese team just to negotiate with him (provided they signed him to a deal) … is this like buying the rights to a player in soccer?

another question: why can an MLB superstar publically demand a trade and have his team not really care about it if they can't get decent value for him (manny), while an NBA player who demands a trade (iverson, artest) is immediately put on the inactive list and sent away, even if the team can't get equal value for the superstar

shouldn't an NBA team not be beholden to the demands of one of their players in making the monumental team decision to trade a superstar for younger players? i would think it would be even more important to have control over your team's destiny in the NBA because so much of a team's makeup rests on one or two key players

same kind of thing happens in the NFL to a lesser extent (being keyshawn-ed)

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
can someone please explain to me the $50 million the sox paid to his japanese team just to negotiate with him (provided they signed him to a deal) … is this like buying the rights to a player in soccer?

i dont know about soccer, but the 50mil was paid to Daisuke's team for the rights to negotiate.
Japan and the MLB made this posting system deal so that all the good Japanese players wouldnt just defect to America and their Japanese teams not getting anything in return. This would make Japan like the minor leagues basically.

Since Daisuke isnt a "free agent" he cant just go and find a deal wherever he wants. And since you cant really just trade with a Japanese team (though it would be funny if they were like, "ok manny we are trading you to Japan for a pitcher")

so this thing posting comes about so that the Japanese team can receive SOME compensation for MLB plucking contracted players out of their league. the Seibu Lions are building like a whole new stadium with Daisuke's money!!!!!

anyway, someone may be able to expand , but thats what i get out of it.

Evil Satan would know. He's use to negotiating for souls.

Sixers don't have to trade Iverson. They're just tired of him and he wants to go so they're letting him go. They just really fucked up by going public about how desperate they are to dish him off. Had they been a little more subtle they probably could have gotten more value for him, but now teams know they're desperate to offload him so they're just buying time waiting while philly get's less and less picky about compensation. He's the reigning scoring champ, makes 20 million a year and he's not playing. Brilliant.

That's why so many nba teams (knicks??) are so screwed, these contracts are all guaranteed money. So you get all your dollars wrapped up in one or two guys and one get's hurt, one's a bust, and your stuck up against the cap for the next 5 or 6 years. And nobody wants to take the guys off your hands at the $$ your're paying them.

Iverson will get his money of course, but he'll wind up someplace terrible, the sixers won't get fair value in return and basically everyone loses in the end, except the owner of whatever shitty team he goes to…at least he'll sell a bunch of tickets for the next two years or so, until fans realize that even with iverson on the team they're still losers.

get's?

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
get's?

That's what happens when a piss poor typist like me rips off three fast paragraphs late in the afternoon without error checking.

What's your excuse for being insufferable?

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
get's?

you know rhett has nothing worthy to comment on the topic when he starts editing others' posts!

Team Sports are gay. There's a lot of showering together. You don't see Fernando Alonso showering with his mechanics, do you?

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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
another question: why can an MLB superstar publically demand a trade and have his team not really care about it if they can't get decent value for him (manny), while an NBA player who demands a trade (iverson, artest) is immediately put on the inactive list and sent away, even if the team can't get equal value for the superstar

An NBA player is far more likely to shoot you (or have his posse shoot you) if you don't trade him than an MLB player.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
an NBA player is far more likely to shoot you (or have his posse shoot you) if you don't trade him than an MLB player.

well, i did compare the biggest fucking soft-body doofus in professional sports with two of the most intimidating athletes alive (can you imagine the physical beating you would get if you played artest 1-on-1?), so you may have a point there