What am I supposed to say here? Florida State hasn't been shut out at home since the 70's. Wake hasn't beaten FSU since the 50's. Wake actually benched their starters with 7 minutes left in the 4th quarter because we were blowing them out. ABC cut away from the game because we were so much better than them that it became boring. WAKE FOREST WAS BEATING FLORIDA STATE SO BAD IT BECAME A JOKE.
My brain lacks the proper processing power to properly compound this plethora of apparent impossibilities. Kung Pow!
But wait there's more! Wake Forest has never won 9 games in the regular season and there's still 2 games left. We actually have the chance to win THIRTEEN GAMES (VT, at MD, ACC championship, bowl). The Virginia Tech game will be 3rd straight game that is arguably the biggest regular season game in Wake Forest history. If we win that, at Maryland will be the fourth straight "biggest game ever."
This is insanity. Nothing makes sense anymore. Up is down, bad is good... Wake is good. Not just good. Very good. Approaching great.
Hell itself will not stop me from being in Groves Stadium on Saturday. Mark my words. I. Will. Be. There.
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I won't. Stupid 12 hour drive and stupid open memo that's like 2/3 of my legal writing grade...
$42 million just for negotiation rights? That's rediculous! That's almost half of our payroll! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish my team had the money yours did. We'd win every other year. Somebody calculate wins per dollar over the last 10 years, I bet the Cards are in the top 5.
Hahahahahahaha.
Oh boy, this is kinda funny.
"Pulling a Matsuzaka" now enters common lexicon as "going way overboard to get something you want, no matter how valuable it might be."
I guess you can justify the posting price this way:
1. it opens up major marketing opportunities in the East.
2. not only do the Sox get him on their roster, they probably kept him off the Yankee's roster. In theory, that's a total difference of TWO 'Zakas.
3. All the players in Japan want to play for the Yankees. Case in point: when Hideki Irabu was posted, the Padres won the bidding, but Irabu demanded to be traded to the Yankees and only the Yankees. Boston has to chip away and that type of mentality, otherwise every top free agent out of Japan will go to the Yankees (see: H. Matsui).
And finally, look at this rotation:
1. Schilling
2. Beckett
3. Papelbon
4. Matsuzaka
5. Wakefield
:-0
I've read those justifications. They still don't make sense. Let's see, four years of Jim Edmonds or... the rights to... negotiate...
I think for the sake of Josh Beckett's career you ought to deal him to the Cardinals. Think of what Dave Duncan could do with him!
really? i admit point #2 is kinda loopy, but points 1 and 3 are very important to Boston's long-term success, both on the field and off it.
as to point 1, I don't see the Cardinals making a lot of money because we have Taguchi.
as to point 3, I don't see a lot of japanese players wanting to play for the Cardinals.
Ha!
i'm going to pretend you didn't try and compare so taguchi with matsuzaka.
But points number 1 and 3 have nothing to do with how good Matz is. Taguchi is still very popular in Japan, and it hasn't helped us in either of those two areas. You of all people should know to question everything you read...
Why don't they have anything to do with how good he is? I hate to rip on Taguchi, but he was a marginal player at best in Japan. Matsuzaka is practically a national hero. Don't you think they'd have two completely different types of impacts?
It's not like Sox ownership is going to sit on their hands on this.
I was reading something?
so i'm guessing that the fact that the real bid amount was $51.1 million isn't helping things...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
p.s. Most commented post EVER!
I had never actually looked at Taguchi's Japanese stats. Why did we bother getting him anyway?
That aside, he is fairly popular though. My point is we got a decent, popular player and have recieved basically no benefit (outside his actual playing) so I don't think getting a star player will get you as much "intangible" benefit as originally thought.
well, no offense to the cardinals, but have they tried to do anything with taguchi? i didn't mean to imply marketing opportunities would happen automatically.
if the sox are proactive in this, which i'm sure they'd be, they can do things like sell marketing rights to japanese companies. they can sell the rights to show games on NESN (a red sox owned network) to japanese tv stations. this type of revenue goes 100% to the red sox. without zaka, these things would never happen.
i didn't mean just random japanese people buying matsuzaka jerseys and other things that only go into the revenue sharing pool.
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