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#9,902
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Knew it was coming. The Caps had almost all the chances in the first two OTs but couldn't put one in. That means it usually goes the other way.

At least the games are on semi-normal TV now so I'm already home. Nothing in sports sucks more than driving home from a sports bar at 2 AM after watching your team take six hours to lose one of those.
 
#9,913
#9,913
_vol said:
We have a better chance of signing Mickey Mantle.
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Just for the heck of it: things required for the Braves to have a legitimate shot to sign Michael Bourn to an extension:

1. Fascist military dictator rises to power after a disputed November election, imposes martial law, happens to be a Braves fan, tells Bourn that he will sign an extension with Atlanta or his family will be shot

1. Bourn's performance falls off and he ends up having enough of a statistically disappointing year to depress the market for him

2. Bourn falls in love with playing in Atlanta for some reason and he would really prefer to stay here

3. The Braves have no intention of extending McCann past his current contract

*IF* all those things were to happen, then it's not totally inconceivable that:

A) Wren could go to his Corporate Overlords In Denver and argue that, with Chipper and McCann's salaries coming off the books, the Braves could afford to keep Bourn for a year or two and still parcel out the arbitration raises everybody under contract's going to get, and

B) Boras/Bourn would agree to a short-term contract to rebuild his value.

But realistically: no way.
 
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#9,916
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_vol said:
It's so much easier to say what I said.
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I've gone from thinking it's totally impossible to merely highly improbable. The Braves have Chipper's salary coming off the books and potentially McCann's -- I mean, if they decided not to pick up his option (which will never happen), he'd be gone this offseason. Or they could pick up his option year and then let him walk. Wren is going to be in a hell of a tough spot this offseason, needing to replace CF and either 3B or LF. He has a close to major league option at C; he has a conceivably major league (within a couple years) option at LF (Terdoslavich). He's got shat at CF.

Boras/Bourn will want to land a long-term, high-dollar deal, which obviously he'll never get from Liberty Media. But suppose he has a bad second half and that deal isn't on the table? I could see a one- or two-year deal making sense for both parties.

As I said: highly unlikely. But not inconceivable.
 
#9,917
#9,917
For the record: I expect the Braves to extend McCann, let Bourn walk, move Prado to 3B, hope Terdoslavich can jump to LF next year (and fill in the usual 25th man stiff if he can't), and plug CF with a short-term crappy acquisition off the scrap heap.
 
#9,918
#9,918
Michael Bourn is too old for a one or two year deal then try to get a big contract. This is his only shot at that huge payday and he will get it. It will not be from braves, and I am glad.
 
#9,924
#9,924
Dbake005 said:
Well.
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Being facetious.

Liberty Media is not interested in fielding proven commodities in the free agency market. Therefore, next year's center field will be a smorgasbord of career minor leaguers and has beens from the scrap heap. So may as well have some fun with it.

Bourn is as good as gone. I would have liked to re-sign him but I don't think he will be worth the money is going to get.
 
#9,925
#9,925
Thing is, I'm afraid the Nationals will overpay Bourn. Hopefully not. I dunno what we will do in free agency.
 
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