Hopefully Cole Chokes Today

[Lou]

sorry, but it still won't be worse than the dodgers 

[m0nkey]

He’s choking!!

 

 

[Docwaukee]

9 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

He’s choking!!

 

 

good grief.  that's ridiculous.  

If we don't get this guy, I think I'm gonna be totally bummed.  

[Lou]

55 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

He’s choking!!

 

 

Bruin 

[Docwaukee]

He didn't choke.  

[failos]

welp

[Vlad27Trout27]

I blame the threat for making Cole pitch like a stud again.

[kevinb]

29 minutes ago, cvdog said:

That's almost how much we've wasted each year on Pujols.....

Hey look we haven't talked about Pujols yet in this thread. Good work. Fresh perspective.

 

[Blarg]

Hopefully he pitches like tonight for the Angels next season.

[tomsred]

44 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Hopefully he pitches like tonight for the Angels next season.

Will that be before or after his Tommy John surgery?

 

I'm beginning to have second thoughts about this guy.  He is going to be so overpaid it will be far worse than Pujols Part 2.

[Lou]

3 minutes ago, tomsred said:

I'm beginning to have second thoughts about this guy.  He is going to be so overpaid it will be far worse than Pujols Part 2.

no.

 

 

No.

 

 

 

 

 

NO.

[tomsred]

11 minutes ago, Lou said:

no.

 

 

No.

 

 

 

 

 

NO.

yes

 

 

Maybe

 

 

There's a real chance.

[Lou]

there really isn't

[TheUPSman]

Here's what scares me, watching MLB network after the game one of the annalists think he'll be the first 40 million dollar a year pitcher. At that point I think I'd be out on signing him. If we have roughly 50 to 70 mil to spend that's a massive chunk gone. 

 

[Stradling]

He’s still not getting $40 million. 

[Angel Dog and Beer]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

He’s still not getting $40 million. 

Think of it this way, that's only about $1.21m per start. 

[Stradling]

6 minutes ago, Angel Dog and Beer said:

Think of it this way, that's only about $1.21m per start. 

Yep.  

[Angel Oracle]

Can't see Cole going over 7 years/$225 million.   As good as he's been the past two years, pitchers are still more of a risk than position players.

[T.G.]

Wait... We haven't been talking about COLE Hamels all this time?

[Mark68]

18 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Can't see Cole going over 7 years/$225 million.   As good as he's been the past two years, pitchers are still more of a risk than position players.

If that is his price, it had better be the Angels paying it. 

[robblin17]

On 10/9/2019 at 11:24 PM, Sean-Regan said:

The opposite is more likely to be the case.  When you lose, you want to win. Angels don’t look as close as other options. OTOH, if he wins the WS, it’ll be slightly less of a consideration for his next team. He won’t have to worry about never winning one. If you want Cole to come to Anaheim, root for a Stros win. 

Call me a liar all you want, but my friend that played with Gerrit at OLu, and is still friends with him today, said exactly this. He mentioned that it is by no means a lock that he comes here, but he would be more inclined to leave the Astros if they win it all. He is a fierce competitor. 

For that reason, I am rooting for the Stros as well. 

[Mark68]

1 minute ago, robblin17 said:

Call me a liar all you want, but my friend that played with Gerrit at OLu and is still friends with him today. He said exactly this. He mentioned that it is by no means a lock that he comes here, but he would be more inclined to leave the Astros if they win it all. He is a fierce competitor. 

For that reason, I am rooting for the Stros as well. 

Thank you, PioDeportes.

[Stradling]

19 minutes ago, robblin17 said:

Call me a liar all you want, but my friend that played with Gerrit at OLu, and is still friends with him today, said exactly this. He mentioned that it is by no means a lock that he comes here, but he would be more inclined to leave the Astros if they win it all. He is a fierce competitor. 

For that reason, I am rooting for the Stros as well. 

I miss your work at Central Maine Sports

[Glen]

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

He’s still not getting $40 million. 

I think he'll get at least $35 million/year though.

[zenmaster]

I may be in the minority here but the whole Cole thing scares me now. His price is increasing daily and while we do need a front of the line starter, I worry that we'd get a couple excellent years then be stuck paying a pitcher $30M+ per year and getting mediocre performance and getting worse.