Things I heard watching a little of baseball tonight

Some "expert" I didn't know, an older guy said that Wainwright, Holliday, Molina and Chris Carpenter have all called Scherzer to recruit him to the Cardinals. He does consider the Cardinals at the top of the list and has family pressure to come home. Boras has worked out deals with the Cardinals, thats not an issue.

The LA Dodgers have an $18 BILLION cable TV contract.:eek: $18 BILLION will cover up a lot of mistakes and let you take a boatload of gambles on players.

If that were to happen we could start printing 2015 NL champion shirts as soon as the ink drys.

Dodgers are geting rid of alot of money, they free'd themselves of 70 million in Kemps contract. Grienke's is up soon. Carls is up in a year or 2. Same goes with Adrian. Either has a few years left as well. The only really long term contract they have left is Kershaw's, and im sure they are ok with that one.

Dodgers shook up that line up they needed too. Team was so bad with RISP, killed us all season long and in the play offs.

Why? When you have $18 billion cable TV $'s to spend?

Still gotta be smart about it. Plus the cap as well no sense in paying all that tax. Just because they have Money don't mean they should spend it stupidly.

Plus they have kids in the minors that need to come up. Someone had to go. They just can't stay in the minors forever.

He turned down $144 million from Detroit. He ain't walking through that door, my friend.

Apparently, John Heyman reported the cards are second behind the Yankees in talks with scherzer.

I'd be shocked

Cubs ended up signing Jason Motte to a 1/$4.5M deal... not sure how I feel about that. Seems like a lot for a guy that had TJ and back problems and a near 5 ERA last season with the 2nd worst HR/9 ratio in the league.

When a one pitch pitcher's only pitch turns into straight and 93 he's going to get murdered. Motte should be a non-roster invitee only at this point.

Classic Theo: just throws money at everything.

200 mil for a free agent doesn't seem like something our gm would do.

One can hope tho

He's 30 years old and his FB velocity was down to 92.8 last year from 94.2 to 93.3 in 2012 and 2013. His K rate was just as good, though, which indicates that he's becoming a pitcher and not just a thrower.

I could go either way on it.