maybe they won't trade us Willis.

Or maybe they'll think we're exceedingly dumb and we can get away with a bargain of a deal.

Or maybe they'll ask for Jones.

...

Or maybe I'm just pulling this all out of my ass.

when AROD signs for 30,000,000 a year? Is that going to bring down baseball?
I can't believe this guy actual runs a pro ball club. Man, what a clueless fuck, both on Ichiro, and the market value.

Look at all the people who don't have the value of Ichiro and make over 20m/per.

Seriously dude, get another vocation.

http://www.sportech.info/

"This coming from our idiot President says this to me. Cabrera, be prepared to move your family out of South Florida because your not staying here. Look, it's pretty obvious by now that the Marlins management is preparing the fans for the inevitable with these comments. There is no way Cabrera, who is likely to command upwards of 20 million a year, is going to resign with the Marlins while A) Jeffrey Loria still owns this team or B) We do not land a new stadium deal. The Marlins will continue to reap the benefits of revenue sharing and laugh in the faces of teams like the Mariners who lock up key players and superstars to longterm contracts.

The funny thing is I can picture Presidents and owners across the land sitting back and laughing at the audio below."

his days in the outfield are so 100 pounds ago

steroids before this, curt flood/free agency before that, and including players of all races before that.

Seems like baseball owners/commish/gms claim that baseball is teetering over the edge all the time, and yet, opening day is still one of the greatest days in this country.

Maybe this guy (florida gm) should think, or at least look at historical trends, and then speak. Just an idea.

All he needs is a "Won't somebody please think of the children" to finish up that hysterical rant.

cease to exist in the major leagues.  It just doesn't work over there, if you look at the attendance figures.  Tampa Bay and Florida combined would barely be over Seattle's attendance numbers.  Even when the Marlins won the whole thing, they were 5th to last in attendance.  Florida is a football state first and a basketball state second.

And, I'm glad that Ichiro has a good chance of staying in Seattle for the rest of his career.  You don't get too many of those.  Props to Bavasi for pulling off this deal.

it's hard for me to say this, but it is great for baseball that the m's resigned ichiro.  One of the greatest pure hitters since ted williams deserves that extension, plus he is an icon who deserves the privelege to play his entire career in one market.  If it hasn't happened already, at the end of his career there will be streets named after him.  A-Rod can't say that.  I say good for the mariners, (but I still think he'd look better in red).