Trade Rumors - Oswalt to Phillies

[Centreville]

The Cards take the cheap route again. surprise, surprise. Now watch Philly go on another run..

[Bo Hart]

Yep. Just like when we traded for Holliday, but then refused to pony up the money to keep him around.

Nice going, DeWallet.

[go birds]

So it's back to the drawing board.

Mo needs to get creative and find us a MIer and a pitcher that is > Suppan/Hawksworth.

Any ideas GRB?


I will ponder for a little while longer.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

The Cards take the cheap route again. surprise, surprise. Now watch Philly go on another run..

While frustrating, I find it rather absurd to call the Cardinals 'cheap' a year after they went out and got a top 10 player at the deadline and then paid to extend his contract 7 years.

I do wish that we had enough money to buy every player that's teh awesome. but we don't and most cards fans accept that. Perhaps if you want ownership that you truly can't accuse of being cheap you should become a yankees fan.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

So it's back to the drawing board.

Mo needs to get creative and find us a MIer and a pitcher that is > Suppan/Hawksworth.

Any ideas GRB?


I will ponder for a little while longer.

Yes, any other starting pitcher in the NL.

[cards2468]

The Cards take the cheap route again. surprise, surprise. Now watch Philly go on another run..

While frustrating, I find it rather absurd to call the Cardinals 'cheap' a year after they went out and got a top 10 player at the deadline and then paid to extend his contract 7 years.

I do wish that we had enough money to buy every player that's teh awesome. but we don't and most cards fans accept that. Perhaps if you want ownership that you truly can't accuse of being cheap you should become a yankees fan.

Not even the Yankees could land Haren, Lee or Oswalt despite trying. Might be a hard concept to believe when there's a top pitcher available that we're not the only ones competing for them.

[heyzeus]

I'm a little speechless by the Astros' "haul."

J.A. Happ is like a younger, broke Joe Saunders.

[clevername]

it's probably just bait, but anyway...

I don't see how we can blame the Cards here, especially for "going cheap". We didn't go cheap. Houston's paying a large portion for Philly in this deal and aren't even getting a real prospect back. Mo can only offer or accept, he can't make the moron on the other end of the line do the same.

[Bo Hart]

While frustrating, I find it rather absurd to call the Cardinals 'cheap' a year after they went out and got a top 10 player at the deadline and then paid to extend his contract 7 years.

To me it's absurd to call them cheap because there were so many other factors. Maybe it's just because we didn't have the neccessary prospect ammunition to pull off a deal. Maybe the Astros were demanding a bigger package from us (compared to say, the Phillies) because we were within the division. Blaming it on ownership being cheap is just flat-out ignoring the myriad of factors that likely contributed to no deal being made.

[Bo Hart]

it's probably just bait, but anyway...

It'd be pretty sad if we had a 1300+ post troll. But then again, it wouldn't exactly surprise me.