Salary Cap

Ok, Lets look at the moves the Phillies made this past week.

1. Acquired RHP Julio Mateo from the Mariners in exchange for Minor League SS Jesus Merchan.  Salary cap response to this is now the bullpen can use the same lawyer to cover all of their domestic battery charges.

2.  Acquired 2B Tadahito Iguchi from the White Sox in exchange for nonroster RHP Michael Dubee.  Hmmm, Where does this guy play when Chase comes back?  Maybe right field since that spot seems cursed.  Speaking of cursed, who the heck gets injured playing tag with kids?  Are you serious?

3. Acquired RHP Kyle Lohse from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for LHP Matt Maloney.  Salary Cap was thinkng about this trade…what does it mean to be the ninth(9) best prospect in the Phillies organization.  Is that higher or lower than a bucket of used balls?

4.  Purchased the contract of INF/OF Joe Thurston from Triple-A Ottawa.  Who?  This is the type of trade that goes unnoticed…and produces the desired Phillies results…nothing.  At least Gillick didn’t sign a has been to 6 years 100 million dollars ala Ed Wade.

There you have it, not much was on the market and the Phillies came through with their share of nothing.  Salary cap does want to mention that mom works at the SPCA.  She makes a good point about Vick, how many knew dog fighting was still going on in this country?  For all the NAACP people saying it is unfair to suspend Vick and the NFL is hurting an innocent man, I say when the dog owners of America start complaining, you better seperate yourself as much as possible.  Vick would have been better off dating a 16 year old girl than killing dogs.  Hope for his sake he is innocent because that judge is going to throw the book at him if convicted.

The Philadelphia Phillies are pursuing Octavio Dotel from the Kansas City Royals.  Salary cap has learned that a trade is close for the Phillies to pick up some much needed bullpen help.  The other team in the running is the Boston Red Sox.  Let’s see if the Red Sox outbid the Phillies for Dotel.  My money is saying the Red Sox, but my heart is hoping for the Phillies.  Mets fans, go to hell and die.

Salary cap wants to start the campaign of saying Chase Utley should be the next NL MVP.  I am willing to hear any arguments contrary to this belief, but Chase has to be the leader for this honor. 

Not much to say about this awful affair.  I was out running trying to get into better shape the correct way.(minus the clear and the cream) I was unfortunate enough to come back around 8:30 to see that about half of the contestants had 3 or 4 homeruns.  It really didn’t get any better than this.  San Fransisco is not a hitters ballpark, so most of the all-stars(Ryan Howard defended and is not an all-star this year) had to suffer through hitting the warning track.  I now know why Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey declined participation.  Left-handers were eliminated in the first round.  Once again, good job Bud Selig for providing boring entertainment during the all-star festivities.  You are the worst MLB Commissioner of all-time.  Salary cap hopes Arena football is on tonight so I can actually watch something untainted like the MLB allstar game.

Let’s talk about the Philadelphia Phillies and this “historical” event that people in the media(and my Mets coworker) keep bringing up.  Salary cap is sick and tired of hearing about 10,000 losses as a franchise.  Yes, eventually, if your team is around long enough, they too will have 10,000 losses.  I for one, am happy and proud that my team has been around long enough that no one remembers the first loss.  It means that my team has a history that dates back before baseball became tainted by steroids, scandals(aka Alex rodriguez) and second tier teams in the same city(aka the New York Mets).

The game last night had the Phillies stuck on 9,999 loses.  But, the Phillies showed that teamwork and the blue collar approach is the right way to live, let alone the right way to play the game.  With a hurricane force wind storm, the Phillies bailed out the Colorado Rockies ground crew by helping secure the tarp on the field.  Shane Victorino used his entire 180 lbs to help hold it down.  Later, when the game resumed, Shane was rewarded by the baseball gods by hitting his 11th homerun and leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a win.  Good karma is what one gets when you do the noble thing.  I am proud of this team.  After starting 4-11, the phillies are now 44-44 at the all-star game.  No matter how the rest of the season turns out, this is one of salary caps favorite teams of all time.  Go Phillies!

Phillies-Mets.  Friday June 29th.  Salary cap has had to listen to outfield talk about how his precious little Mets have been in first all year.  Well, it is payback time.  Mr. Fumbles, owner of a college football recruiting blog, and I are going to slam beers and make fun of the mets fans at the game, in the parking lot, along the way, etc.  I hate you New York.  I am tired of listening to how lucky you guys were in winning the 1986 world series.  You suck and you know it.  I also hate the Atlanta Braves, but that is for another day.

Salary cap has noticed an upstart New York Mets blog has taken a keen interest into the going ons here at Salary Cap.  The outfield blog talks about how much he hates me and Philadelphia phillies fans.  Who is this idiot?  Could it be a co-worker that is going to the double header Mets-Phillies on Friday, June 29th, Citizens Bank Park?  Well, the answer to this question will be for salary cap fans to figure out.  Also, good job on beating  up on the A’s and cardinals.  I love how mets fans think their team is good again after they kick the crap out of bad teams. 

Salary cap is fresh from a great weekend with the parents.  The complete goal for this week is to get ready for the New York Mets.  The Philadelphia Phillies are poised to sweep this bums for a second straight time this month.  Lets face it, New York is on the verge of collasping.  All anyone has to do is look at Paul Lo Duca’s meltdown on strike number two to see the state of insanity on display in the New York Mets’ clubhouse.

So Salary cap caught a boat load of fish on the Delaware Bay this weekend.  I also caught a nice sunburn on my back.  Thats the last time I let a girlfriend of my brother rub lotion on my back.  She did me wrong.  Salary cap also got to see the new vehicle the parents bought.  The Dad seemed to be happy with no longer shifting.  You are getting old.  I guess my favorite quote from the awesome weekend was from the Dad. “It takes a lot of work to get a little bit of enjoyment”.  My response, “no truer words have ever been spoken”.  Thanks for the memories and Salary cap says Lets go Phillies!

Welcome back to the show the never ends.  Salary cap is coming to you live from Pottsville,PA.  Home town of the famous Yeungling beer, Two hospitals for 10,000 people, and the largest percentage of alcholism per county in pennsylvania.  But, I digress.  Let’s talk about Philadelphia sports teams(actually the phillies and donovan McNabb).

The philadelphia phillies.  First, I might have been wrong about Adam Eaton.  He just won his 7th game in the first two and one half months of the season.  An earlier post broke down his contract(horrific that it still is).  However, salary cap has been wrong on him.  The rest of the phillies(minus cole hamels, of course) are just good enough to break my heart for the 28th consecutive season.  These clowns of pitching look great one day, then, unbeknowst to me, the gambler, take a dive.  My advice, do not bet on Jamie Moyer or Freddy Garcia.

Now, the hitting for the phillies has been slowly picking up as the days have gotten hotter.  Since coming off the DL, Ryan Howard has lead the charge by hitting .316 with seven homeruns.  Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins have 22 homers between them, which is tops for middle infielders in the major league.  While Wes Helms has been a terrible letdown/upgrade, G Dobbs has done a good job at filling up the holes offensively.(side note, the Phillies are 17-5 when G dobbs starts)

The last little something is from salary cap to The Dad.  Donavan McNabb is ahead of schedule.  He looks good.  I am going to have to say that other than the Phillies catching the Mets, McNabb coming back as my quarterback is the best news of the summer.

Salary cap welcomes another user…The Dad.  Funny, this user has the same email as my parents…hmmm.  Editor note: From now on, salary cap will have to write posts knowing his mother is looking at them. 

Did anyone see that grand slam by Ryan Howard last night?  Phillies outscored Arizona by 4 runs for the series but lost two out of three games.  Good job, Charlie Manual.  You make me want to throw things at my tv.