<![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> My softball team is about at peak as i get these days

Glenn Beck's Taint

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @muggsybogues: Um, the Mets don't play in Detroit. So, you might want to take a look at that theory.

cromartie

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Dead Wrestlers Society:

How about seven former Birds: Sosa, Hairston, Wells, Patterson, Mesa, Benitez, and Lopez.

Cripes.

Maximum_Orsulak

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Oh Jays, take another chance on Fat-Ass Wells, won't you please?

cardboardbelt

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Clare:

It could be worse. Some of us are old enough to have peaked before the invention of color.

THEGINOCIMOLICONSPIRACY

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> • Barry Bonds.
• Tony Graffanino.
• Ryan Klesko.
• Mike Piazza.
• Kyle Lohse.
• Jeff Weaver.
• David Wells.
(+ three Dominican players of your choosing)
...Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2010 New York Knicks!

/Isiah-fied

Bubarubu

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Clare: Haven't you heard? Twenties are the new teens.

DamnSkippy

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Clare: That just means next year will be awesome.

J-No

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Sid_Luckman: Them or the Orioles, I'll take Unsigned Free Agents.

HugsFromHarold

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> "We spent our vacation reading Baseball Prospectus 2008"

I don't know what is more sad. That Will spent his entire time in a tropical paradise getting ready for his fantasy draft OR that Shanoff did too! Check out Shanoff's wake up call on The Sporting Blog.

CuseDog

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Graffanino probably hasn't been signed yet because he's coming off a torn ACL and won't be available until after the All-Star break.

As a Brewers fan, I would welcome him back though. Solid stick off the bench.

Its The Beer Talking

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Dead Wrestlers Society:

There's also at least six ex-Braves on there too.

Lofton, Graffanino, Klesko, Franco, Alfonseca, Wickman

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Dead Wrestlers Society: He says he was in T&C, but he probably was holed up in a mexican whorehouse doing blow off Shanoff's ass.

Mr. Bigglesworth

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Clare: Aw hell, you've got one more year.

I have three months.

(Fuck.)

buttons

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Dany Heatley Speedwagon: Happy Hurling Day.

/Dinosaurs junkie.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Today is my birthday (seriously) and I just turned 29. So reading Baseball Prospectus I can only assume now my life is over.

/loads shotgun

Dany Heatley Speedwagon

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Yes! Still have 8 years until I peak.
Satisfactory.

Christ Sabo

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Kim_Jong_Illin: All these bloggers are going to the Caribbean, and I am broke. I should have gone into blogging, not law school.

EditorOfTheDailyFaberian

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> I'm six weeks from my 27th birthday. I have a shitty job, no money, no boyfriend, and I'm being thrown out of my house 'cause the owner is selling it.

If this is my peak, could somebody shoot me please?

Clare

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Yostal: this just means they'll return to the Series this year for me!

pr0FF3ss0r_j3rkwh3at

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Sid_Luckman: Slumpbusters.

Phony Gwynn

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Sid_Luckman: My beer league softball title?

Fuck Lion

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Sid_Luckman: NL Central title?

Packy

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Hmm...The year I turned 28, the Tigers went to the World Series. Oh great...just great. The prophecy is coming home to roost.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> according to Peyton Manning, everyone peaks at 23. After that you can't even wear suits to work, just baggy t-shirts.

asliceofbacon

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Sid_Luckman: Most ex-Orioles? (I counted six)

Dead Wrestlers Society

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Sid_Luckman:

The Guinness record for fastest buffet spread eaten?

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Sid_Luckman:

You would compete if you were playing Strat-O-Matic Baseball 2001.

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Seriously, take one glance at the list of remaining free agents and you would be silly not to think you could compete with all these players on one team.

LF: Barry Bonds CF: Kenny Lofton RF:Sammy Sosa 3B: Tony Graffanino* SS:Royce Clayton 2B: Jerry Hairston Jr. 1B:Ryan Klesko C: Mike Piazza

Bench: Corey Patterson, Neifi Perez, Julio Franco, Preston Wilson

Rotation: Roger Clemens, Kyle Lohse, Jeff Weaver, David Wells, Freddy Garcia*

Bullpen: Armando Benitez, Rodrigo Lopez*, Antonio Alfonseca, Jose Mesa, Bob Wickman, Eric Milton, Akinori Otsuka*

Good Christ, what would this team compete for?

Sid_Luckman

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Let me solve the "mystery" of Jeff Weaver not being signed: he's fucking terrible.

Doyle McPoyle

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @ArkansasFred: Jarrod Saltalamacchia isn't impressed.

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Fortunately for me, Lawyer Prospectus 2008 says I won't freaking peak for several more years. Thank god I chose the law over a career in professional sports.

Kim_Jong_Illin

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> It's okay, the Birds are saving Weaver for a stretch run. Or until after the last marijuana test of the season.

KittyLitterKing

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Weed Against Speed: For me, it was when the guitar riffs tasted like the color green.

David Hume

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> That lineup would look pretty good as a rotation on Baseball Tonight, actually.

Civil Negligence

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo:

You might want to rephrase that using a different four letter word.

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Odds on Wells putting snot on the ball if he gets a shot somewhere? Anyone?

I'm Hafner the man I used to be

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> And yet, Corey Patterson has gainful employment.

heyzeus

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> c'mon guys...Kyle Lohse needs to eat. I've heard he's lowered his salary demands to 1 year for the amount of "not the last player through the buffet line, pre- and post-game".

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> I always knew I was about to peak when the walls started breathing.

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @Matt_T: 14 letters is pretty long.

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @tater: Yeah, but you're crafty.

BubbaCJ24

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Wells? Weaver? Bonds? Bwa-ha-ha! Hope the Mets sign the lot of 'em.

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> probable felon
low end reserve
china doll
light in the loafers
overpaid spare
Frank Stallone of baseball
fatass

Yessir, it's a complete mystery...







Doc Medich

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @UkraineNotWeak: What, you want him to go out in the sun ? Or swim in the ocean ? What're you, insane?

Phony Gwynn

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Tony Graffanino is a big name?

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> I have a good 6 years left. Anyone want to sign me?

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Jason Allison thinks these guys should just bide their time until the right offer comes along.

MattinglysSideburns

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Will, are you trying to tell me I should've thrown in the towel during Bush the Senior's Administration?

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @muggsybogues: Well, I'm 26 and at the same place (don't go into journalism). So maybe we can renegotiate together and pool our talent. I'll call your HR, you call mine.

Carlton_Whitfield

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> I'm definetly in the wrong profession...I'm still under 28 and can throw left handed.*

*although according to a radar gun my fastball is in the 50s

tater

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> And yet Kip Wells has signed with someone. It's funny how the world works, sometimes.

WillieMcGeeForever

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @muggsybogues: Riiiiight.

ithacabaron

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> If you're trying to reach David Wells, please direct all your calls to Mons Venus.

the earl of weaver

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> I'm sure Mike Piazza will find employment soon. Who else could possibly fill Heath Ledger's shoes for Brokeback Mountain II: Rough Riders ?

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @ithacabaron: Unnecessary white space like whoa!

My apologies, folks.

ithacabaron

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @UkraineNotWeak: Yes. Being on a tropical island and all. Not good Will.

Dead Wrestlers Society

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Why would you read into anything Baseball Prospectus says. They just throw off the cuff opinions out there with no statistical backing or reasoning behind them.

Al Czerviks Ride

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> @ithacabaron: They'll probably field a better team than that to hoist the second of back-to-back world series banners.

muggsybogues

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> "We spent our vacation reading Baseball Prospectus 2008"

That might be the saddest sentence I ever read on Deadspin.

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Kiss of death agent quote:

"He still thinks he can contribute somewhere"

Babcocksure

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> as a gambling junkie, I really hope that someone picks up Weaver...those OVER bets hit everytime.

Ronnie Woo Woo

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> At 23, I haven't even reached my prime yet! Now, can i renegotiate my $30,000 a year contract for something in the range of, oh, let's say, $7.5 mil? Call my agent. And by agent, I mean HR.

muggsybogues

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> • Barry Bonds.
• Tony Graffanino.
• Ryan Klesko.
• Mike Piazza.
• Kyle Lohse.
• Jeff Weaver.
• David Wells.
(+ three Dominican players of your choosing)
...Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2010 New York Mets!









ithacabaron

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> So what's the word on the Cards and the U.S.S. Ponson.

Dead Wrestlers Society

]]> <![CDATA[A Lot Of Old, Unemployed Ballplayers]]> Goddammit - I knew I was due to peak soon

pr0FF3ss0r_j3rkwh3at

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