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Yesterday ended up being a pretty crappy day to be a Sox Fan. The day started off great, with rumors that the White Sox and Padres has consummated a trade that would bring Cy Young-caliber pitcher Jake Peavy to the South Side in return for a few prospects. By lunchtime, however, clubhouse gossip emerged, saying that Peavy hadn't had any change of heart regarding his desire to remain in the National League -- not good news for the South Side. A 20-1 thumping at the hands of the Minnesota Twins clearly wouldn't help the situation -- it just showed how desperate the Pale Hose are for pitching. Word came from San Diego not long after the final pitch that, in fact, Peavy had vetoed the trade and will remain with the Padres. "San Diego is the place for us," Peavy told reporters at Petco Park yesterday. "We've made that decision for the time being." Meanwhile, Sox GM Kenny Williams needs to formulate his next plan to address the Sox's pitching woes.
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Blue Fairlane is extremely quiet right now...
http://chicagoist.com/2009/05/21/jake_peavy_about_to_land_in_chicago.php#comment-1749042
Lord, dude, give a man time to get his coffee.
Oh, I'm not shocked ... I figured there was a good chance Peavy would veto the deal, and I said so. I was just surprised, though, that Kenny Williams was able to get so much closer to making this deal than Jim Hendry ever got in his months of buildup. Thus, I feel the HAHAHA is in order.
Why is laughing in order? I'm glad the Cubs didn't land Peavy. The last thing the Cubs need is another guy who chokes in big games.
Laughing was in order due to all the hype Cubs fans have been giving a Peavy deal for months upon months upon months. Not you, perhaps, but many others have been sure Peavy would eventually go to the Cubs, and have been calling this the golden deal to fix all the Cubs' woes. And they've been citing a possible Peavy deal as motivation for a lot of the bad moves Hendry been made in the off season.
Plus, I just thought it'd be funny if Kenny Williams, a guy who just can't seem to put together the big deal if his life depended on it, were able to snatch Peavy out from under the nose of Hendry, who seems to have a gift for getting the big deal even if it ultimately disappoints.
But it's all irrelevant now. Stupid Peavy and his .220 batting average.
Even considering his 6ER outing against COL, I don't think there's any team that wouldn't love to have Peavy in their rotation. He throws like 19 pitches from 43 different arm slots (g)... That's the kind of stuff that allows a pitcher to dominate throughout an entire season and into October; the fact that he went out and was throwing nothing but gopher balls in one game -- which any pitcher might do on any day -- doesn't mean he wouldn't be a good fit. I mean, seriously, a rotation of...
-Z
-Lilly
-Peavy
-Harden
-Dempster
... not even necessarily in that order is just sick. That would have to be among some of the top rotations of all time.
His big downside, in my mind, is that he's a health-risk. That's a lotta dough to commit to an injury-prone kind of guy.
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason Peavy is holding out is because he's waiting for the Cubs... The scuttlebutt was that the deal was virtually done but was ix-nayed by TribCo people and Ricketts people being unwilling to agree to commit to that kind of cash before the sale was closed. If the sale happens, don't be surprised if Tom Ricketts decides to make an introductory splash by giving Hendry the go-ahead.
And it's clear Peavy's interested. In addition to the fact that he's indicated a bunch of times that the Cubs are one of the few teams he'd consider a trade to, there's this bit of gossip:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/fullcourtpress/2008/12/jake_peavy_wants_to_be_a_cub.html
(Earlier reports had him singing the song karaoke-style at the bar.)
So, once again, I'd say the the laughing may be a bit... premature, at best.
"San Diego is the place for us," Peavy told reporters
That's funny because they've been trying to trade you for some time now.
He's so excited, I hear, that at one point he said "Go Cubs Go" at the bar after a "Brooks and Dunn" concert he attended with Roy Oswalt.
Sounds like he's a real douche's douche.
I don't care if he pops his collar, uses smarmy pickup lines, and listens to Conway Twitty: The guy can pitch and he'd turn take the Cubs rotation from "really, really good" to "great".