Comments on: Marlins sign Placido Polanco to one-year contract http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 26 May 2013 05:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mrbiz8505 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416830 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:32:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416830 Polanco is trying to cover up his alien head in that picture

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416769 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:16:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416769 ackcherley, the Feesh have a “Latino only” hiring policy – they think that Latin Americans are so gullible that they’ll gut their wallets and swarm the stadium if Scrooge McLoria fills it with hermanos, no matter how badly they perform.

Whereas in Macondo this trick once worked for a while where pilots were concerned, it ended up pretty badly, and then you saw what happened last season – and now it won’t work for beisbol anymore.

]]> By: scratchnsniffnblog http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416747 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:01:47 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416747 Agreed. Only the Marlins would sign one of the Three Tenors to play a bass.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416706 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:42:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416706 Placido Polanco.

It’d work better for a tango singer than a ballplayer, I think.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416704 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:41:30 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416704 I get it. Mark Cuban. South Florida. Cuban. Hahahahah….

If only, if only. But I doubt he’d make it to the beach before the Coast Guard spotted him.

]]> By: fanofevilempire http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416641 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:55:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416641 always liked his name.

]]> By: FrustratedDolFan http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416623 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:01:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416623 Posted similar comment yesterday. I can’t believe they can’t trade for an up and coming prospect. They know they can’t attract any free agents W.A.S. because of their tract record. Please Mark Cuban rescue this franchise!

]]> By: historiophiliac http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416591 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:53:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416591 Noooooooo!!!!!!!

]]> By: timpaz http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416582 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:25:39 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416582 I can’t believe how many washed up third basemen keep getting jobs, aren’t there any young third basemen in. the minors better than this?

]]> By: deathmonkey41 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416562 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:46:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416562

]]> By: deathmonkey41 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416561 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:36:24 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416561 It certainly would have put them HEAD and shoulders over where they were a few weeks ago, but just being aHEAD of the curve at this point in the offseason isn’t going to give you a GIGANTIC advantage over any of the other teams.

]]> By: thejotapee http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416560 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:34:22 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416560 Championship!

]]> By: ryanrockzzz http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416547 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:05:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416547 LOL….I want to make 2 million dollars for not being able to hit a ball past the infield, along with missing over half my games. I could so do that…..or maybe they just signed him because on his off days they just want his huge head for that bobblehead collection in the stadium….who knows.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416533 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:29:20 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416533 I guess Polanco can give the Iron Giant some protection in the lineup. He can get hit by the pitches that might have hit Giancarlo instead.

]]> By: darthicarus http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416524 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:07:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416524 This is a really BIG move for the Marlins. I like how they SIZED up the available options & decided that Polanco would be a HEAD smart move over Inge or Tejada. ENORMOUS deal for a player of with such a solid HEAD on his shoulders.

]]> By: historiophiliac http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416522 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:05:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416522 Exactly.

(But it also gives me another season to pick on him. :) )

]]> By: proudlycanadian http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416520 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:02:05 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416520 That is like saying saying “Take my ex please”! Noooooobody wants Inge.

]]> By: historiophiliac http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416515 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:48:54 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416515 Noooooo! Take Inge! Take Inge!

]]> By: albertmn http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416514 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:46:56 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416514 I know it is just the business of professional sports, and we often become somewhat immune to what the prices mean. Many of us (including me) can look at that and think $2.75 million isn’t too much for a gamble. At my current salary, with average raises, it would take me about the next 38 years to make that.

]]> By: Francisco (FC) http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416511 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:44:14 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416511 … when Healthy yes.

]]> By: hisgirlgotburrelled http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/marlins-close-to-signing-placido-polanco/comment-page-1/#comment-416509 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:39:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=280726#comment-416509 Great fielding 3B, too.

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