An Erik Bedard Poll

by Matthew on Nov 2, 2010 1:00 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Polling

Thanks to the expedited off season, teams only have five days to negotiate with their outgoing free agents and more importantly for the Mariners, options must be decided on this week as well. The Mariners have four such options to decide on.

Erik Bedard has a team option for $8 million. Erik Bedard did not pitch for the Mariners this year due to shoulder problems.

Poll

Erik Bedard will:

have his option picked up and I will agree

184 votes

have his option picked up and I will disagree

64 votes

not have his option picked up and I will agree

1391 votes

not have his option picked up and I will disagree

97 votes

1736 votes | Poll has closed

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I think that they won't pick it up and try to sign him to a cheap contract afterwards.

by Coach Owens on Nov 2, 2010 1:02 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah, pretty much spot on, Coach. This is what I think will be the case as well.

by BrettJMiller on Nov 2, 2010 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions

I just hope Erik pitches again at all.

Dawg! He put da team on his back!

by JAH on Nov 2, 2010 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Me too.

by Ballard Erik on Nov 2, 2010 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions

My thinking as well.

by Ike Clanton on Nov 2, 2010 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions

Yep.

I hope so anyway.

by Eyeball Kid on Nov 2, 2010 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions

I can't see any possible way they pick up his option when he threw a total of zero pitches in the major leagues this year

by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2010 1:08 PM PDT reply actions

Is the option incentives based?

Its finally happened.

by Scruffy Lefty on Nov 2, 2010 1:25 PM PDT reply actions

I believe it's an $8M mutual option, entirely salary

by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2010 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Club option, but Bedard has option to void option if team exercsises it's option

$8M salary plus incentives

by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2010 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions

It seems highly unlikely he would do that though.

No way he gets $8 million on the open market.

by Mariner John on Nov 2, 2010 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions

I hope Bedard doesn't exercise his part of the option.

I don’t want Bedard to injure himself doing any kind of exercising this offseason.

by ThomasG on Nov 2, 2010 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

How is this only 82% "not picked up, and agree"?

Seriously, Mariner fans? Seriously?

by ManifestDestiny on Nov 2, 2010 1:38 PM PDT reply actions

Please do not insult other people's poll choices.

Seriously.

by Matthew on Nov 2, 2010 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

But Matthew,

I really, really, really want to insult the 50 people who want to pay $8 million to read stories about Erik Bedard’s heroic rehab and re-dedication to his craft. What if I just insult those 50 people by posting in this way that I’m posting right now? Like, I would just mention the 50 people and their point of view indirectly. In a roundabout way.

by Pete_ on Nov 2, 2010 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions

The poll question is not whether or not you would like the team to pick up Bedard's option

but instead, whether or not they will. It seems quite unlikely that they will pick it up in light of Bedard not pitching this season.

In unrelated news, if you want to insult other people’s opinions, go comment on YouTube or something

by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2010 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions

220 people now, if you add options 1. and 4.

Just picture Randichiro.

by fiftyone on Nov 2, 2010 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions

This reminds me of the time where people thought Erik Bedard would pitch 200+ innings!

Milton Bradley is my hero.

by SeaKoala on Nov 2, 2010 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

We dont want them to pay him $8 million.

I think most of us would like to see him play again, but we know that spending $8M for a player who hasnt even pitched in over a year and has no guarantee of ever pitching again is crazy.

by ARock on Nov 2, 2010 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

$8 million is a lot for a guy who is never healthy, especially given how restrictive out finances are this year.

If it were less, then awesome, but it’s not.

by Mariner John on Nov 2, 2010 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Is his left arm still attached?

by Sec 108 on Nov 2, 2010 1:39 PM PDT reply actions

To his right arm!

by Jeff Sullivan on Nov 2, 2010 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs

It seems like it would be really hard to pitch like this

though you could also argue that since his new right + left arm is like two feet longer than a regular arm, it’s like he’s pitching from a closer distance and his fastball will seem faster

by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2010 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions

He'd have to pitch on stilts or something otherwise he'd keep smashing his arm on the ground.

It might even fly into the stands like when someone’s bat slips out of their hands.

by Eyeball Kid on Nov 2, 2010 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions

So when a guy loses his bat, I think they ask for it back and give the guy a signed one or something

but the fan has the option to keep the game bat. What about a game arm? Can you keep that too or you have to give it back to Bedard and get like a signed hand instead?

by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Is there a way to rec the last five comments in a row all at one time?

Applying a “batch rec”, as it were, to simplify things.

by nathaniel dawson on Nov 2, 2010 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions

It will also greatly increase the force his right shoulder must withstand.

by abender20 on Nov 2, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions

The leg bone's connected to the knee bone.

The knee bone’s connected to the…something. The something’s connected to red thing. The red thing’s connected to my wrist watch…

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Nov 3, 2010 7:37 AM PDT up reply actions

Sigh.

by royalcurve on Nov 2, 2010 1:49 PM PDT reply actions

I just want Erik Bedard on this team and to pitch

Other things I want:

A pony
The USS Flagg Playset
A Mariners World Series

by ungoreatstefan on Nov 2, 2010 2:38 PM PDT reply actions

Okay, I voted before I was thinking this through.

Decline the option, and I agree. But then try to re-sign him to a smaller incentive based contract. My brain just said “yeah, give him another shot”, but didn’t think all the way through the question.

"There! I just sold you for a cigarette! And I don't smoke!"

by Thingray on Nov 2, 2010 3:42 PM PDT reply actions

This is funnier than the puns.

You’ve had a run of good posts, Jeff.

by yuniform on Nov 2, 2010 5:45 PM PDT reply actions

10% voted to pick up the option????

10% of 8 million is 800,000. Does that mean that if the option was for $800,000, then we’d be in unanimous agreement that we should pick up the option?

There’s some people out there messin’ with y’all.

by nathaniel dawson on Nov 2, 2010 6:59 PM PDT reply actions

What is so hard about this?

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2010/11/2/1789741/an-erik-bedard-poll#51006068

Stop questioning people’s votes. I’m getting tired of asking.

by Matthew on Nov 2, 2010 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I don't understand this math/logic at all.

If 10% of people like some hypothetical bad idea, does that mean everyone would like 10% of said idea.
Let’s rip off one finger of every newborn baby!

by yuniform on Nov 3, 2010 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions