Writing the Pine

Grow a Pair and Grab Your Wang

I’m sorry Omar Minaya, but you’re willing to spend $66M on a 31 year old outfielder who plays sub-par defense in the black hole known as the Citi Field outfield but you’re seriously not interested my man Chien-Ming Wang?

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E-Mail Thread of the Day: Jason Bay to the Mets

We're all friends here at Writing the Pine. We e-mail each other constantly about everything whether it be about sports, work, going to Vegas, girls, whatever. There's always a thread going on. From time to time we'll post some of the threads because if we were as active on our blog as we were on our e-mail threads, then there wouldn't be days (weeks) that go by without a post. (Sorry, that'll be improved on in 2010. A WtP resolution if you will.) The big news of the day was Jason Bay signing with the New York Mets so here's an unedited reproduction of what was said on that...

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I Hate You Castillo, I Love You Aubrey Huff

Ever since Luis Castillo’s unforgivable error that resulted in two runs for the New York Yankees in the New York Mets‘ 9-8 loss in the Bronx, Francisco Rodriguez has not been the same.  Since that unfortunate event, which gave K-Rod his first blown save in 17 opportunities, the following events have transpired: 1) K-Rod got into [...]

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