Trade Deadline, Deals, Rumors...

A deal that has happened, Yankees trade two minor leaguers for Colorado's Shawn Chacon.
Who the hell is Shawn Chacon, you ask?

That is a great question...

Chacon has been pitching in hitter friendly Coors Field, he showed some promise in '03 with an 11-3 record. It's typical of pitchers in the altitude of Coors, to have a high ERA, the ball seems to fly out that park with ease. Chacon turned in a 4.59 ERA in '03, not bad for calling Coors home.

Then last year he was moved to the bullpen as the closer.

Why?

I have no idea!

He picked up a respectable 35 saves, but his ERA ballooned to 7.13, and he put almost two men on base per inning! That's not very good.

Back to this year

Chacon is back in the starting rotation, but he is having trouble winning games, in 12 starts he's 1-7.

I know some people get bored reading stats, but this is a great one, check it out...

Chacon's ERA is a decent, 4.09, however, it is 4.97 at Coors field, and a very solid 3.12 everywhere else. And with The Yankee's, he'll not pitch at Coors field again this year!

Not a bad deal, but National League pitchers in the American League tend to have trouble, ask Randy Johnson.



Other done deals.

San Diego's Phil Nevin goes to Texas. SD has been trying to deal him to get a good number 4-5 starter. They acquire Chan Ho Park in the deal. SD is holding 1st place in the NL West over the Dodgers, Parks old team. Parks may get to make his old team look bad, how fun for him.

After 15 days with Colorado, former Oakland A Erik Byrnes, is on his way to Baltimore. The exchange? Larry Bigbie. This is an outfielder for outfielder deal, and their numbers are too similar to figure out who really got the better deal.


A really fun rumor...

Manny Ramirez, Red Sox nut-job has asked for a trade for about the 4th year in a row. Manny is rumored to be involved in a three team deal between his Sox, the Tampa D-Rays, and the NY Mets.

Essentially the Mets end up with Manny and the D-Rays closer Danys Baez

The Sox end up with the Met's Mike Cameron, and the D-Rays Aubrey Huff.

And as usual, the last place D-Rays get 2 prospects from each team.

Let's evaluate.

I don't get it.

The Mets have Braden Looper as their closer. Why do they need Baez?

The Sox really need to get Baez, on top of Cameron and Huff, in this deal. Huff since Trot Nixon is hurt in right-field, and Cameron if he is to fill Manny's spot in left-field, and Baez since they have Curt Schilling as their closer.

Well never mind, now I heard the deal is just about dead.

The Sox want more from the Met's, the Met's don't want to give more, so they all agreed to give themselves a 12:00 noon tomorrow deadline, to make or kill the deal.


The Red Sox David Ortiz, was ripping the press for cheapening what Manny has done for the Sox and the city of Boston, (Tonight Boston booed Manny to a 0-3 night at the plate).

Hey David, do you think Manny asking to leave the crappy city of Boston for the last 4 years, even after winning a World Series there last year had anything to do with it?

Just checking.

I don't see this trade happening, however, as a Yankee fan, I'd love to see Manny sent out of the division. He and Ortiz combine for more RBI's than any tandem in baseball right now. Break that up, and hello Sox fighting for the Wild-Card.

This Is Not A Sports Post, But...

And you thought you had heard the last of Fu2rman Speaks!

This is too good not to post.

I found this really interesting.

I had a conversation with one of my employees, she has very Liberal views.

We discussed her claiming all her tips so she could pay all the taxes that she owed. She explained that she shorted the government, in that she didn't claim all of her income. Even after voting for every social program she could.

I was not surprised, Liberals have a tendancy to overlook their beliefs when it doesn't benifit them.

See, the hipocracy has trickled down to even grass-roots Liberals.

Check this out....

Things that make you think a little:

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.
In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the
month of January. That's just one American city,
about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.

When some claim that President Bush shouldn't
have started this war, state the following:

a. FDR led us into World War II.

b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did.
>From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ...
an average of 112,500 per year.

c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.
North Korea never attacked us.
>From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ...
an average of 18,334 per year.

d John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.

e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
>From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ...
an average of 5,800 per year.

f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three
times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on
multiple occasions.

g. In the years since terrorists attacked us , President Bush
has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled
al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North
Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who
slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining
about how long the war is taking.
But ..
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno
to take the Branch Davidian compound.
That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons
in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find
the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the
Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard
than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his
Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick

It took less time to take Iraq than it took
to count the votes in Florida!!!!

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
The Military morale is high!

The biased media hopes we are too ignorant
to realize the facts

But Wait there's more!

WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID

JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13

Some people still don't understand why military personnel
do what they do for a living. This exchange between
Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum
is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive
impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one
man's explanation of why men and women in the armed
services do what they do for a living.

This IS a typical, though sad, example of what
some who have never served think of the military.

Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
"How can you run for Senate
when you've never held a real job?"

Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):
"I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps.
I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions.
My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different
occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my
checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was
not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the
daily cash receipts to the bank."

"I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day...
to a veteran's hospital and look those men
with their mangled bodies .. in the eye, and tell THEM
they didn't hold a job!

You go with me to the Space Program at NASA
and go, as I have gone, to the widows and Orphans
of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee...
and you look those kids in the eye and tell them
that their DADS didn't hold a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in
Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends
buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch

You stand there, and you think about this nation,
and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?

What about you?"

For those who don't remember ..
During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney
representing the Communist Party in the USA.

Now he's a Senator!

11 Days Until The Trade Deadline

Well what can we expect from the Yanks and Sox?

Yankees

I am a little a surprised they didn't swoop on Preston Wilson considering they are so weak in Center Field. The Nationals grabbed him. But expect the Yanks to make a big play for Randy Winn of Seattle. He's hitting about .270, with 5 HR's, and even steals a few bases. But it's Winn's defense that would give the Yanks a piece they are missing.

I had high hopes of seeing Roger Clemens in pin-stripes again, but I don't think it's going to happen. I hope I'm wrong, but The Astros have been surging lately, and still have a real shot at the Wild Card. They still have to take over the Cubs in their division, and the Braves in the East. I wouldn't bet on that, but it is more than possible, so expect the Astros to hold on to him.

What has become painfully apparent is that you need left handed pitchers to beat the Sox. Well The Yanks have added Al Leiter. That's a good start, especially since who else is out there?

Who you ask?

Mark Redmond of the Pirates or Odalis Perez of the Dodgers. Both have pretty inflated ERA's but they would add a Lefty to the rotation. Caution, pitchers going from the National League to the American League don't always do so well, to say the least.

Let's get to the Sox

Red Sox

Don't expect them to do much.

However, they have Curt Schilling as their closer right now. I don't know what to think about that. He should really be in the starting rotation, so they would be wise to go after either Eddie Guardado of Seattle, or Brian Fuentes of Colorado. Fuentes has been hot lately, and he pitches in Denver where balls fly out of the park like, well I don't know what, but I could probably hit one out there. Guardado has 21 saves on the year and he is pitching for about the worst team out there. To put that in perspective, Joe Nathan of the possible Wild Card Twins, leads the AL with 26.

Either way, the race is heating up. Both teams will want to win the division, otherwise there is a very good chance that they will be edged out of the Wild Card spot by the Twins or even the Indians.

What I hate to say is that unless the Yankees can keep playing as well as they have lately, it's going to be all about The Angels.

Solid pitching, great bullpen, and no problem scoring runs.

That's what championships are made of.

Speaking Of The Hall-Of-Fame

Pete Rose

He should be put in The Hall.

However, his legacy should read,

...Accomplishments, blah blah blah, and end like this...

These accomplishments speak to a brilliant career, but Rose's gambling kept him out of The Hall-Of-Fame for many years, and he is still banned from ever participating in Baseball again.

Or something like that.

The Worst PR People Ever

Raphael Palmeiro just picked up his 3,000th, and 3,001st Hits tonight.

That puts Raphael in 25th place on the all-time hits list.

Now let's add the 566 Homeruns he's racked up.

Only three other players can boast the stat, 3,000 Hits and 500 Homeruns.

That is Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Eddie Murray. And now Raphael freakin' Palmeiro.

Now I ask you, how is it even possible that anyone is debating his Hall-Of-Fame entrance?

Raphael has more hits than Barry Bonds (2,730) and Babe Ruth (2,873), all with about 20 year careers.

It doesn't look like Raphael is slowing down very much, and even at 40, he could come back for another year or two. He is only 34 Homeruns away from 600 (that would place him 5th all-time). He has 15 in the first half of this year, add another 15 for the 2nd half, and he would only need 19 all of next year to hit 600.

This is pretty freakin' impressive if you asked me.

So why is there a debate about him getting in the Hall?

He's only been an All-Star like, 3 times, I didn't check my facts there, but that's not the point. The point is he is not a regular All-Star.

Yeah, OK, maybe that's a good argument. The talking heads on all the sports channels make that point over and over and over again.

BUT, let the Fu2rman point something out...

These are the same wankers that complain that fans should not vote, because they don't pick the best players, they pick the most popular players.

So WTF?

These ESPN/FOX/What freakin' ever network people make my argument for me, then argue against it in Raphael's case.

Here's the real problem, Raphael has no PR!

Unless of course you recall the Viagra ads.

Ridiculous.

He needed a great PR guy like, 5 or 10 years ago. This would have put him on at least an All-Star team or two, (being a popularity contest and all).

Then, nobody could say that a guy that has put up Ruth/Bonds numbers is not worthy of the Hall-Of-Fame.



Here are some fun stats,

Barry Bonds leads Raphael by less than 20 RBI's.

Bonds is 12th all-time in RBI's. Raph should pass him by years end, he's on pace to get 50 more this year.

Raph is 8th all-time in Homeruns, and you wouldn't believe the names he is ahead of.

This is a first ballot Hall-Of-Famer, period!

Welcome Back, Curt.

The Sox finally fixed their closer problem.

Kolbe, Timlin, and then there was Schilling.

Curt Schilling was back tonight, and thank god, for Red Sox Fans!

Or, at least for Yankee fans.

A-Rod gave Curt a very warm welcome with a 2-Run Homer following Gary Sheffields leadoff double, to break the tie in the top of the 9th. You can ask my little Baby Doll of the night if I called that shot.

Then to close the 9th inning, comes Mariano Rivera.

I have to admit, I was afraid, very afraid.

He blew his first 2 saves (well, only 2 saves) on that very mound early this year.

But that was just after recovering from a bit of the bursitis in his elbow.

And what freakin' happened tonight!?

Rivera struck out all three batters he faced, all swinging.

Did he face the weak part of the line-up?

No, he fanned Johnny Damon, Edgar Renteria, and David Ortiz.

And that puts the Yankees only 1 1/2 games out of 1st place!

Who's Running The Lakers?

Is it Phil Jackson or Mitch Kupchak?

Lakers are about to deal either Caron Butler or Chucky Atkins to get Kwame Brown.

Kwame F***ing Brown, you ask?

I know, you could see if you could somehow shed yourself of some salary, Divac, Grant, and any of their anchors on the salary cap.

But we are looking at giving up, in one case, Chucky Atkins, 31 y/o Point Guards $4.5 million salary. The other option is Caron Butler, 25 y/o Small Forwards $2.5 million salary.

Well, I was skeptical too.

As a matter of fact, I was ready to bash the Laker GM on this move. I couldn't believe what I was reading when I was drinking all day with this little hottie, and saw the headline scroll across the Yankee game I was watching. I even commented about that to this chick.

But check this out....

The smart move is to deal Butler, and his $2.5 million. Kwame should play for that salary.

Why is that smart?

The Lakers lacked an inside presence, and 23 y/o, 6' 11", Power Forward/Center would allow LaMar Odom to play Small Forward where he is more comfortable.

That would allow Kwame to bounce back and forth, with Chris Mihm at Center, and Brian Grant at Power Forward.

Here's the risk.

Kwame is a bigger headache than Kobe.

This is either going to be the most brilliant move ever, or the biggest catastrophe.

I bet my money like this...

If it works, Phil gets the credit.

If it fails, Kupchak gets blamed.

Either way, I would hate to be named Kupchak right now.

Why Do We Keep The French Around?

Last week London was awarded the 2012 Olympics over Paris, among other cities including New York.

The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe said that Tony Blair and the London bid leader Sebastian Coe, 'crossed the line' by criticizing other cities.

First you frickin' idiot, if you are trying to sell your product, wouldn't it be natural to show how it is better than your competitor's product?

I think New York would have been a terrible place for them, and I love New York!

Second, you insensitive f#@%, don't you think Tony Blair and the people of London have enough to think about right now after the cowardice attacks on their city?

I have no use for these people, F#@% Delanoe, F#@% Paris, and F#@% the French in general.

What have they done lately anyway?

Tribute

I'm not here to talk any crap.

Not this time.

Today I am going to talk about a good friend that was taken way before his time.

My friend, affectionately known as 'I'm Rick James, Bitch!', that was his fantasy team's name.

RJ was just killed in a car accident.

RJ and I set up a few fantasy leagues together.

The best thing about RJ was that he would actually inspire me to talk trash, I usually talk plenty of trash, but he inspired me to another level.

RJ, I miss you already, and I went ahead and drank your part as well as mine tonight.

RJ and I are not at the top of our league, but we are both close to the top, I'm going to keep his team going, because I know if I let his team go down in his absense, he'd be pissed at me. And if I make it to Heaven with him, I know I'd hear about it!

RJ, your already missed.

I Told You So, Again

I had a great offer, again, being such a perfect being, it happens.

A commenter said he would rather lick my ass than BOW to my greatness.

Maybe he said KICK, not LICK, but whatever.

First, I've explained to ya'll, I don't go that way. Otherwise I would have had Bahb's brother long ago.

Anyway, I pissed off a little chucklehead by saying that David Eckstein is better than Angel Shortstop, Orlando Cabrera.

Seriously, who is in the All-Star game, and who is on vacation?

With Cabrera on the DL, the Angels are still 7 games ahead in 1st place.

How is that possible?

Well it's not hard to replace an adequate defensive Shortstop, and add Cabrera's weak .234 Batting average, 22 RBI's, 4 Homeruns, and only 5 Staolen bases.

Enter Maicer Izturis.

In less than half the games he has a .325 Batting Average, 10 RBI's, and 0 Homeruns, (but with Vlad, Anderson and McPherson, you get 34 HR's), are you gonna miss 4 measly HR's?

No, and Izturis has 4 Stolen bases already.

This is why the Angels could spend way too much money on a Shortstop that is not only worse than the one you let go, but is also on the DL, and a minor leaguer is filling his little shoes.

Hey Artie, if you want to run a winning team, go ahead and call The Fu2rman...

I Told You So

Angels get what they deserve.

On December 22 I said that Angel fans are going to miss David Eckstein and not like his replacement.

Well, as Eck's replacement Orlando Cabrera sits on the DL, Eck is on the way to start in this years All-Star Game.

You may ask, but if Cabrera was healthy would he be an All-Star?

Hell no, he is a streaky hitter at best, he is very solid as a defensive guy, but that is obviously only half the game.

I'm glad Eckstein got out. I just wish St. Louis would have played in Anaheim, or Los Angeles of Anaheim, whatever the F#@%, during the inter-league games so Angel fans could see what a bad decision the Angels made.

And once again, I show why I am The Fu2rman, The King, I called this in December!



This is where you all bow.

WTF Is Wrong With Women, Another Example

Yeah, here we go again.

This one was really unbelievable, and even another woman was annoyed with this broad.

(That alone makes me think that we're doing fantastic work here, smart women are starting to turn on stupid women, I just wish there was more than a small handful of smart women).

I'm at Smart & Final picking up some things for my business. I shopped like you're supposed to, walk in pick up what you need, pay and go. Should be about a 3 minute trip.

But then there is the line, the line of one frickin' woman!

She was buying a box of individually wrapped carrot cakes. Of course my thought was 'hmm, too lazy to bake a carrot cake, she'd rather sacrifice and eat some awful preservatives than actually make something that...' nevermind, you get the idea.

So she is fumbling around for her membership card, and says, "Oh, my husband must have the card, can I just put in my phone number?" So she fumbles around with the ATM/Membership device on the counter. The cashier waits, and looks at the growing line she is going to have to deal with, and says, "Sorry, it didn't take, what is it, let me punch it in."

At this point, I'm like how much is this purchase? How much could she possibly be saving?

So I look at the screen, and the frickin' carrot cakes cost all of $3.75!

THREE DOLLARS, and SEVENTY FIVE FRICKIN' CENTS!?!?!?!?!

You've got to be kidding me.

Even if you get 10 % off, you're wasting the time of people out trying to do business, make the world a better place, so you can save 38 frickin' cents!?

The cashier was female, and she was doing everything she could to be nice, you could see the insincerity on her face when she handed the woman her change and said, "Thank You."

As I sarcastically said "How you doin'?" You could see by the grin on her face, that she was equally annoyed with another woman with something Wrong With Her.

Women, I hate to keep bringing up these examples, but you make it so easy.

Surprise Yankee

Jason Giambi is on fire!

Well what do you expect, he admitted to using steriods, he was on the verge of being sent to the minors, and playing in New York. Who could get anything going with all that pressure.

Well as most of you know the Boss has been making 'statements' over the last week, he turned 75 yesterday, he's talked about turning the team over to his son-in-law (which is dumb, he should be turning the team over to The Fu2rman).

Nobody has been talking about Giambi, and low-and-behold, Giambi has started hitting. Today he went 3-4 with homerun and 2 RBI's to raise his average to .268, and left the game to a standing O in the 6th inning. Add yesterdays 2-3 and 3 RBI's, oh, and both hits were homeruns.

Over the last week he's hitting .400 with 3 homeruns, and 5 RBI's, not a bad week for Jason.



One last thing for the day about the Yankees, despite playing badly, and everyone talking about what a bust this team is, the Yanks are only 4 games out of first.

As of right now, the Yankees are up 12-2 in the 7th against 2nd place Baltimore, and the first place Red Sox have to play a pretty solid Texas Ranger team, in Texas, where they were defeated last night.

Yankee fans, you can start coming out of hiding.

What The F#@% Is Wrong With Women?

The Fu2rman has another social question, much like,

"What the hell is wrong with stupid women that still write checks in line at...well...any-frickin'-where!"

and

"Why is it OK for woman to talk about shopping at work, but when the guys talk sports, it's all how stupid, talk about something interesting".

Like purses? Would that be better? you little attention whore...


Here's the new social question for my boys out there, and some of the women that get it...



OK, so I'm trying to get some food before one of the biggest beer drinkin' weekends of the year, I'm at one of those restaurants that are right between fast food and sitting down and being waited on, you know, you gotta go up and order, and they call your name, but you can sit down to cuisine much better than Taco Bell or McDonalds.

Great, right?!

Right!

But then I hear it, the crying baby, and another kid making some screeching sound. The cries are coming from a stroller being pushed by a fairly hefty woman, and her husband, a regular looking guy like myself trailing a couple steps behind.

My first thought was, 'oy, poor guy, noisy kids, fat wife in sweat-pants and a T-shirt, he's gotta be thinking, how in the hell did this happen!'

But then I noticed, by the annoyed look on his face, (it looked a lot like mine), that he was not part of this noisy gaggle of woman, girl and baby.

Well good for him!

However, he took his food to go, but I was stuck-and only 1/4 of the way through my meal.

Guess where biggie fries and her squeaky kid and crying baby decided to sit?

On the other side of the restaurant where nobody was sitting?

No.

The same side of the restaurant, but on the other end where nobody else was sitting?

No.

Any frickin' table other than the one that right frickin' next to mine?

Again, NO!

That's right, 20 tables to choose from, and she picks my little corner.

So I had to check, I was frickin' close enough, and nope, no wedding ring.

Surprised?

Not me, sweat pants don't keep husbands, and that big ass would make me run.

Of course, she has a stroller, she probably hasn't lost her baby weight!

Nope, she handed the kid in the stroller a quesadilla, and he fed himself.


So this is a two part social question...

1) Why do woman think it's ok to get fat and give up on looking anything close to feminine after a couple kids, (she probably did it so she could be fat and lazy and collect alimony).

2) And most importantly!) She is not my frickin' mistake, why does she pass 19 tables to sit next to me!


People, talk to me, WHY?