Comments on: Josh Hamilton hints at moving on after loss to Orioles

By: denny65

denny65 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:06:33 +0000

Wanna hear something funny? Some Mariners fans think Seattle will go after Hamilton.

No, really, they think that.

By: American of African Descent

American of African Descent — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:31:17 +0000

You think baseball has a competitive balance problem, so you blame spending on player salaries? If that's true, how do you explain the the New York Mets? Or, on the other hand, the Tampa Bay Rays, who are competitive without a large payroll? Or the Minnesota Twins who put together a rather impressive run of division titles in the '00s? No, if baseball has a competitive imbalance problem, it is due to failed ownership. How else do you explain an organization like the Pirates, who haven't had a winning season in twenty years? Or the Royals? Personally, if I ran baseball, I force ownership to sell (at a market price) if they can't put a competitive team (above 0.500) on the field every five years, with a three year grace period (so a total of eight years) for any new ownership group. That's how the free market works people -- if a publicly traded company's management failed to perform, a corporate raider would launch a proxy fight and replace management. Why shouldn't baseball do the same thing?

By: honkerdawg

honkerdawg — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:30:37 +0000

God and the number of zeros in the offer

By: sophiethegreatdane

sophiethegreatdane — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:27:41 +0000

Come on, don’t jinx us.

By: andrewproughcfe

andrewproughcfe — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:09:27 +0000

God helps those who help themselves…

By: nflfollower

nflfollower — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:55:56 +0000

Well he’s kind of like a rasheed wallace, if anybody follows baseball and basketball. He’s a tremendous talent, but not mentally equipped to carry the weight of a franchise on his shoulders. He needs to go to a team that has veteran presence and leadership in the clubhouse, as well as an established superstar so people aren’t looking at josh Hamilton to be “THE man”. Detroit? Ha, but seriously, I think that kind of situation is what he needs.

By: jrd8523

jrd8523 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:23:47 +0000

Its not the 70′s anymore. Huge openly gay communities in every major city coast to coast.

By: sictransitchris

sictransitchris — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:20:13 +0000

I love when people spout the most insanely incorrect trash about the Yankees and then call their fans dumb. Look in the mirror please.

By: legacybroken

legacybroken — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:13:39 +0000

Yankees are trying to avoid the luxury tax, so I don’t think , they will sign him. Boston has the cash but Hamilton in that nest of vipers would be a recipe for disaster.

By: clevername1

clevername1 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:10:28 +0000

I’m not so sure San Fran. is a good fit. Somewhere in the Bible it states dude should not bang another dude.

By: onbucky96

onbucky96 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:55:22 +0000

Like Reggie White, he’ll go where God tells him to go. In other words, he’ll go where the money is best. After all, stamped on every USA dollar bill is “IN GOD WE TRUST”.

By: muskyhunter2542

muskyhunter2542 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:35:22 +0000

I could see him in Milwaukee. The Haron’s where his neighbors growing up.

By: trollintrollintrollin

trollintrollintrollin — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:31:35 +0000

By: bigmeechy74

bigmeechy74 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:15:18 +0000

I was raised as a christian. I went to church for 25 years. Boy am I glad I got out of that craziness.

By: bigmeechy74

bigmeechy74 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:13:45 +0000

There is no salary cap in baseball. How did this get 24 thumbs up?

By: fhuizar

fhuizar — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:13:01 +0000

He’ll just be another cancer in the Red Sox clubhouse alongside the queen bee DP

By: cur68

cur68 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:33:29 +0000

OR they don’t know WTF they are talking about. Could be that too.

By: pisano

pisano — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:30:13 +0000

aces… I couldn’t agree with you more, I think they learned with Arod not to be giving out those long term mega contracts. They still have five more years with Arod, and what in Gods name are they going to do with him? at the rate of his falloff in production,it could get pretty ugly for the Yankees.

By: pisano

pisano — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:22:33 +0000

Thank God an idiot like you has no say so in anything related to MLB.

By: thatyankeedude

thatyankeedude — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:51:36 +0000

Ya im thinking god is gonna make him a Yankee

By: kkolchak

kkolchak — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:49:04 +0000

Yeah, wonder what would happen if God were to tell him to take the MLB minimum salary from Houston and live in poverty and help the poor like Jesus did. Something tells me he would have the Devil on line 2.

By: marzalmighty

marzalmighty — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:48:03 +0000

He’s going to return to the Rangers after 3 days? No thanks. Maybe we can get Nap resigned a little cheaper after his down year. Pipe dream… What would it take to pry Stanton from Miami?

By: xmatt0926x

xmatt0926x — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:45:03 +0000

I think when most people talk salary cap in baseball they are referring to the luxury tax threshold.

By: theawesomersfranchise

theawesomersfranchise — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:42:14 +0000

Yup either NY team would be stupid enough to invest in this guy.

PLEASE Yankees sign this guy long term so I can enjoy the laugh

By: xmatt0926x

xmatt0926x — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:41:58 +0000

If I could “thumbs up” your post a million times, I would. I hate to be so cynical when people get into the whole reborn christian/god rules my world spin, but I just know too many people who are into this phase in their lives now where they do what they want, act like ass-clowns at the drop of a hat, then when they are done partying and having their sinful fun they preach God and lecture everyone else on their lives. I’m sure there are sincere people out there who really have “found god”, but the one’s I see are just the typical hypocrite.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:35:32 +0000

Maybe God will tell him he needs to return, just like the biblical prodigal son.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:59:22 +0000

That would require a very deep discount. The Rays probably won’t be able to match BJ Upton’s best offer, let alone Hamilton’s.

By: thenoblefacehumper

thenoblefacehumper — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:54:04 +0000

Salary cap? Dude, serious question, are you actually a baseball fan?

By: bla bla bla

bla bla bla — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:46:52 +0000

Amen.

By: ndrocks2

ndrocks2 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:43:18 +0000

ditto – Hamilton will be 32 next season and is injury prone to begin with and years of abuse on his body may or may not be the reason but if didn’t help. Five years from know when he’s 38 I can’t imagine he’ll be much. Three years maximum anything longer and you better have all sort of buyout options.