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I look forward to it, hopefully you will be able to update posts quickly from those not able to login to typekey from work :)

Predictions for today:
- Lots of middle reliever types move around
- Martinez to Sox for Buchholz (primarily)
- Halladay to Yankees last minute deal ; Hughes/Jackson et al included
- Gonzalez stays in SD

Hi Peter. I am reading that Hal is keeping a very tight rein on the budget right now - to the point of refusing to pick up incoming salaries for the next five months.

Hal seems to be the anti-George, or maybe it's a ploy, or maybe the family has finally reached a limit in its finances. We'll see.

a question ,looks like the yanks are not going to get a quality pitcher, do we try to get a fifth hitter? or let it all play out and wait for seasons end and just negotiate contracts.?

And there goes Washburn to Detroit. Oh well ...

according to the Boston Globe, The Sox would trade Justin Masterson and Nick Hagadone for the catcher (Martinez)

This leaves Buchholz and others still available for Gonzalez...

keep your ears open could be a fun hour coming up

just heard shelly is coming up? so thats shelly, matsui, hinske damon melky , swisher, hairston? any of these guys pitch oh i got swisher has an scoreless inn. this year.. well Peter I rather have swisher, than shelly and hairston. now if gardner comes back? hope of hopes at 4 pm a deal is announced and the question will be answered as to why 7 postion players for the dh and outfield

Mitchell

I think you are right about Hal and it sounds like he didn't want to expand the payroll at all. We will get a much better idea in the offseason when the money for Damon, Matsui, Molina, Pettitte and Nady comes off the payroll. That's around $40 million, will they really avoid spending it?

does anyone have an idea what our pitching staff will look like come sept? CC AJ Petitte...looks like will be ok in the first round of the playoffs but the following series, is very questionable.. does joba work only from the pen? I can't see shuting him down as a starter then playoffs sloting him in. that could really hurt his arm.

Hal is a business man, he knows you have to protect your investment, to spend what they did and not plug the holes, in this is the season we go all the way, seems like a bad business decision, when i read hal was not going to open the purse strings, i felt he was posturing and sitting back, then would make a move 11 hour.. he would only be picking up two months salary for any player.. and in a few months he frees up 40mil plus.. he is too smart not to spend at this time, but will read about the none moves in the hours and days coming..

At this point, I would also add in Wang's money. With the economy finally bottoming out - and staying on the botom for a while - my guess is that Hal spends about $25MM of it.

They'll also drop the prices on the "club seats" to get more top-line revenues. It's not like those seats are inherently more expenive to build/run - so any extra $ from the fans he can put in those seats go to the bottom line with very few deductions (like waitstaff).