Moose Milligan

Happy for him and I hope he pitches well for us. Really interested to see what he brings to the rotation.

@wildcard is ready to anoint him as a Hall of Famer.

Have you watched the Orioles? It's a chore sometimes.

I don't get all the Dave Johnson hate. He's a grumpy old man, so what?

He's no fool. That guy knows Pittsburgh can't build a winner, he's outta there ASAP.

They need to make sure all 10 listeners in the DC area are aware of this change. Good news though, 980 sucks.

I hope there's no need to panic here, either. Dammit.

SIX figures means that the number in question has SIX digits in it, which means anywhere from $100,000 to $999,999. If we spent $1,000,000+ on each guy that would be a SEVEN figure spend. Even if we spent SEVEN figures on each of them -we did-, the $1,500,000 million spent on Galvis and the $1,000,000 spent on Sanchez is still bargain basement shopping. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Lord willin'.

Bro, those guys aren't anywhere near the top 10 at their position in terms of compensation. A quick look at Spotrac has Galvis as the 31st highest paid SS in the game. Yolmer Sanchez is 29th highest paid 2nd baseman.

Yeah, he would be the one exception.

I think your statement about many championship teams having journeyman catchers and then cherrypicking the O's catchers as an example is a bit odd. Rick Dempsey was, by all accounts, a fine defensive catcher. Elrod Hendricks was supposedly a very good defender, too, as was Etchebarren. Those guys might not have been Johnny Bench but they were good defenders from what I've read over the years (I'm sure some of our elder statesmen here will correct me if I'm wrong). You can win with a poor defensive catcher...you can also win with a poor defensive shortstop, I mean look at the Yankees and Jeter. But it's an important defensive position, and Tony is correct..they're involved on every pitch and they're more or less the field general for the defense.

True, but I was figuring this meant for the ML club only.

Pump the brakes there, Phil. What considerable amount of money did we spend at SS and 2nd base?

You gonna start crowing about service time in a few posts?

Frobby with the reverse lock!

They actually looked competent today. Good game to watch.

Two strikeouts today, I dunno. Not seeing it with this guy.

They both don't sound as old as they are, I guess. But that was a pretty weird OP. Someone needs to put the bottle down.

What a rollercoaster. I can't deal with him.

Who's he talking about? I'm listening to Garceau and Dave Johnson, there's no "younger" announcer on the mic today.

Woof, strike 3 looking. What a bum.

That double was ripped. Nice shot.

Whenever I see webbrick posting, I rush to see what his latest take is. And then I feel better that I'm suddenly not the most negative, bitter guy around, even if that moment is fleeting.

Is it better than what the Yankees and Sox have?