Thursday, July 12, 2007

Hodge Podge

There were a few things I wanted to write about, but none of them were enough by themselves for a column... so I figured the best choice would be to combine them all into a hodge podge type thing.

- First, a little bit of housecleaning. I had a little interview over at Green Bay Railbird Central, which can be found here. As you may be able to guess from the name of the site, they were mostly looking for a Vikings fan's take on the Packers right now... just served as another reminder that the start of the NFL regular season is only like 2 months away! YES!

- Also had an interview over at The Sports Flow about a week ago, which was nice. I'm just glad I can be an inspiration to someone for something.

- Getting into other news, you probably saw that Rashard Lewis was sent to the Magic as part of a sign-and-trade and will make roughly $126 million over the next 7 years. That's ridiculous. Rashard is a real nice player, but are you kidding me? He's a good scorer, and he's still in his prime, but this is a bit absurd. Let's just say if I had Rashard Lewis' agent I'd probably have a gig writing for the Magic's website for $3 million a year.

- The Lewis deal allowed Darko Milicic to become a free agent, and he signed with the Grizzlies for what is believed to be $21 million over 3 years. Seems sort of moderate risk, high reward deal for the Grizz. Darko certainly has the physical tools to be a very good big man, the question is whether or not he's going to display the work ethic and effort every night in order to do that. If he does, he's a bargain. If not, he'll be a bit overpaid.

- One of the most interesting subplots (to me at least) of the free agency period is seeing where Andray Blatche winds up. He's the 20 year-old forward for the Wizards with lots of upside. There was talk that if he had been in this draft, he might have gone in the Lottery. Interesting to see if some team offers him the full midlevel, and if the Wizards would match it.

- There's also been talk that Ichiro will be re-upping with the Mariners for $100 million over 5 years. From a baseball standpoint, he'll be overpaid. He's a really good hitter, but he doesn't walk a ton and one of his best strengths (his speed) tends to go quickly with age. On the other hand, he generates a ton of revenue for the Mariners, and they basically didn't have any choice but to sign him for big money.

What else has caught your eye?

5 comments:

SAMO said...

5 years, 100 m? Way too much. Almost as bad as the Rashard Lewis contract.

stephen a said...

In baseball terms, there's no way Ichiro is worth that. But he's gonna generate probably triple that in terms of revenue to the Mariners what with endorsement deals and stuff.

Kevin Hayward said...

* I guess you know you've made the big time when you're the subject of a blogger interview. :-) Congrats.

* As for Ichiro, I was surprised at the 5 year, 90 million deal. In my opinion, the Mariners got a bargain. Sure, he may not his .355 with 40 steals and 150 runs each of the next five season, but the fact remains that he puts butts in seats. And that will always be the bottom line.

grittysquirrels said...

Ichiro was way overpayed and right now I'm a little afraid to see what kind of $$ A-rod is going to get considering he is 2 years younger and probably a better player -although as far as CFs are concerned Ichiro is about as good as it gets I think Arod is even a step above him and the Ichiro contract is ominous of the historic amounts of $ Arod is going to recieve in the coming months.

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