{"id":1511,"date":"2006-10-31T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/10\/tepid-stove-league.html"},"modified":"2006-10-31T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T10:32:00","slug":"tepid-stove-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/10\/tepid-stove-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Tepid stove league!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/30\/AR2006103000899.html\"><b>O&#8217;s Find Soriano Is Seeking A Rich Free Agent Payday<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/>I am disappointed to hear that Balmer is overwhelmed by <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Alfonso Soriano<\/span>&#8216;s contract demands. I was hoping an opportunistic would sign Soriano to spite the Nationals and then get stuck with diminishing returns on a monster contract.<\/p>\n<p>In other Nats news, <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20061030&#038;content_id=1728028&#038;vkey=news_was&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=was\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Robert Fick and Jose Guillen filed for free agency<\/span><\/a> (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">nationals.com<\/span>). Both want to come back, but it seems unlikely that Fick will get the opportunity. I expect Guillen to be offered an incentive-laden deal; <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jim Bowden<\/span> probably figures that at the very least, he&#8217;ll have a potential baby-sitter for his kids. I&#8217;ll be interested to see if Guillen signs it, or if he is insulted by the offer and vows vengence against the Nationals and Bowden, should he able to play against them. The latter is much more entertaining than having him stewing on the bench because Austin Kearns is the real rightfielder now. It is much more entertaining than the former &#8212; Guillen playing right field. He blew it for himself (but saved the Nats from more Bowden stupidity) when he rejected a contract in spring training. I don&#8217;t think he adds anything that Kearns does not, other than potential locker room cancer.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-371307~Phil_Wood__1_000_reasons_to_honor_East_Capitol.html\"><b>Phil Wood: 1,000 reasons to honor East Capitol<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Wash. Examiner<\/i><br \/>Wood wants the 1,000th baseball game at RFK Stadium to be turned into a special occasion with players from the first game featuring the Senators and Tigers in attendance. Okay, sounds like fun.<!--hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i><br \/>\n\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i><br \/>\n\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i><br \/>\n\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i><br \/>\n\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"\"><b><\/b><\/a> - <i><\/i--><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;s Find Soriano Is Seeking A Rich Free Agent Payday &#8211; The PostI am disappointed to hear that Balmer is overwhelmed by Alfonso Soriano&#8216;s contract demands. I was hoping an opportunistic would sign Soriano to spite the Nationals and then get stuck with diminishing returns on a monster contract. In other Nats news, Robert Fick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,106],"tags":[1222],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsmlb-2006","category-washington-nationals","tag-nats"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tepid stove league! - William F. 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