Yeah, it looks like the Sox have ditched pretty much the whole salary obligation.
Good trade for them.

That WAS pretty Mad Dog-esque. Except more annoying. Thanks for posting; I don't normally listen anymore, at least around football season. As a Jets fan it's ... Well, it's probably similar to how it is for Mets fans.

I would love if the Yanks could do the same with ARod's and Tex's contract. Not because I don't want ARod or Tex here, just that I don't see either being worth anywhere near that amount after this season.

And Tex is definitely worth the amount he's being paid.
http://baseballplayersalaries.com/players/36_Mark_Teixeira

ARod, however, is certainly way overpaid.
http://baseballplayersalaries.com/players/34_Alex_Rodriguez

I also love how this site has the amount of federal income tax each would have paid under different U.S. presidents. Pretty fucking cool!

"Your comment is awaiting moderation." - Interesting.

[3] I'm dying to know now.
I couldn't figure out (a few days ago) what the filter was upset about, and it turned out to be the word "rouxlette" only without the x.

Loney is a FA after this year, so do the Sawx make a play for Swisher as a 1B?

[5] I did drop an f-bomb in there, so I'm sure that's why it's being "moderated". Since when has the banter prohibited language used to emphasize?

7) You know, I think it was probably "income tax" that tripped it up. LOL.

Oh, yeah, Yanks would LOVE to get rid of A Rod. But they'd have to give up something, you know, that people would want, like Cano. And the truth of it is, if the Sox were 10 games better, if they were in a playoff hunt, if the Dodgers weren't desperate, this never happens. But nice move for Boston, getting some decent young talent AND ridding themselves of Crawford and Beckett.

Don't get me started about Arod...lol. My biggest gripe is that he was out of options and management still paid him this ridiculous amount and didn't have to. Austerity will be a bitter pill in two years.

[3] Looking at the tax amounts, no wonder the rich are digging their heels in and pushing their collective weight around. The tax obligation for the rich is the least it has been in over 75 years. Wonder why this country can't balance a federal budget?

[9] Agreed. If anything, the French Revolution should teach us something. I love this part from the French Revolution wiki page:

Necker realized that the country's extremely regressive tax system subjected the lower classes to a heavy burden,[11] while numerous exemptions existed for the nobility and clergy.[12] He argued that the country could not be taxed higher; that tax exemptions for the nobility and clergy must be reduced; and proposed that borrowing more money would solve the country's fiscal shortages. Necker published a report to support this claim that underestimated the deficit by roughly 36 million livres, and proposed restricting the power of the parlements.

History repeating itself? Perhaps. OWS. The rich paying less in taxes than the middle class, it's like we are coming full circle.

And this is ALL ARod's fault!!!

Let's keep it off politics and on sports and dumb shit like that.

The Deal, she is done:

http://bit.ly/NsQ0Xd

[8] Yep, I'm pretty sure the filter doesn't mind 'fuck'.

Fucking A.

[11] " Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com hears that Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto are already on a plane to Los Angeles. No word on if fried chicken is on the in-flight menu."

Heh.

Wow, only $12 million to help cover the salaries?

Just sounds like good shit all around for the BoSox. Funny how the Dodgers and Angels have become the Yanks and the Red Sox.

Midges, why did it have to be midges???

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2012/08/25/welcome-to-cleveland/

Also, if anyone else has the morbid curiosity (I do! I do!) ... ESPN3 is broadcasting the Bridgeport Bluefish VS the Sugarland Skeeters WITH ROGER CLEMENS (as the schedule puts it) at 8pm EST tonight ...

I feel like the Red Sox climbed out from under a gigantic rock they would have been stuck under for years. I don't like it.
Fuck!
Just checking. : )

Most of the sharp Red Sox fans over on BBTF have had a reaction to this deal that falls between "don't like" and "REALLY don't like".

Saving money is nice, but you've got to have something to spend it on, and it's not exactly clear who the Red Sox are going to get to replace the 3 players they sent away ...

Oh man, Neil Armstrong has died:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dead/story?id=12325140#.UDknRUQ1fq0

Well, at least Buzz Aldrin is happy that "second comes right after first" ...

Wow, Neil Armstrong. Damn.
I remember watching, up late with mom and dad.

Now there's a hero, he dwarfs our baseball heroes.

You know what's sad? Inevitably, each year I wind up asking my students if any of them are interested in going to space and being an astronaut. They look at me like I am nuts. None of them have ever given it one second of thought. The moon landing was before my time but other than wanting to play for the Yankees when I was a kid I also wanted to go to Space Camp in a bad way. And that was before the 1986 movie. RIP Mr. Armstrong.

From Cracked, of all places:

In 1969, Neil Armstrong beat every Lunar Lander player and everyone else who has ever held the controls to anything ever. Apollo 11 was on its way to becoming history when that almost became an action movie line instead of a dramatic one. First the lunar module computer started flashing up "executive overflow" errors, saying that it had too much to do and would get back to some of these calculations later. Since these were the "NOT crashing into the moon" calculations, it was a bit of a concern. Ground controllers saved the mission by heroically working out that this was literally a non-fatal error, while Aldrin and Armstrong saved the mission by stoically soaring toward the moon's surface anyway until they did that.

That's when Armstrong noticed that the jittery computer was about to pull a younger-sister Mario by relentlessly steering them to death. The programmed landing site had looked fine under telescope observation, but was full of lander-destroying boulders under "inside that lander" observation. With a few hundred thousand miles on the clock and less than a minute of fuel remaining, Neil was damned if he was turning the car around and going home. So as well as being the first person on the moon, he got to be the first person to save space by pulling manual override and steering the ship himself. With a life expectancy measured in seconds, he and Buzz calmly surveyed the surface of the moon and found the most important parking space in history.

[24] Yeah, that, for instance.
Puts 2,632 consecutive games in perspective. (No offense, Cal.)

[22] Same here. Had to call everyone over to the tv. And I was only 4.

Okay, back to baseball: Look at this! (Punto, A-Gon, Beckett flying to LA aboard the private jet the Dodgers sent to get them.)

My read on what the intelligent Sox fans are thinking:
The trade makes our team worse, but if management handles things right we'll be better sooner than we had any chance of being.

[27] If management handled things right ... well, they wouldn't have had to trade a quarter of a billion dollars in contracts ...

Intelligent Sox fans are not sanguine about future decisions ...

[28] Yes! Everyone in the media is on their knees for Cherrington on this one..well done by him, yes but it's still just clearing up awful mistakes by the organization. Why does everyone assume they will replace these guys with productive players who help the team contend?

Why didn't the Sox get Lackey into the deal too? I hope the Sox keep their hands off of Cano, Grandy and Swish.

I can't believe the Dodgers couldn't make them pony up more cash.