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badaltitude.baseballtoaster.com - 11/12/2008
Bad Altitude: Quite a Haul
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So we have a better idea now of the players the Rockies will receive from Oakland in the Matt Holliday trade, although not a complete one. There are physicals still to come and there is also a chance that Dan O'Dowd may flip the only guy with abig-league profile, reliever Huston Street, for ...
sports.espn.go.com - 11/5/2008
Keith Law Blog
— sports.espn.go.com — What the A's are actually getting in Matt Holliday is a subject for a lot of debate.... He's leaving one of the best hitting environments in the game for one of the worst, and he's leaving the weak league for the strong league. How much these changes ... (more) Keith Law Blog

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Matt Holliday trade is first sign the Hot Stove is heating up - Jon Heyman - SI.com
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/11/2008
Matt Holliday trade is first sign the Hot Stove is heating up - Jon Heyman - SI.com
— sportsillustrated.cnn.com — It isn't true that the most exciting thing to happen last week at the General Manager Meetings... at the St. Regis Resort Monarch Bay in Dana Point, Calif. was an overzealous security guard hassling Yankees GM Brian Cashman about whether he belonged in ... (more) Matt Holliday trade is first sign the Hot Stove is ...

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Sense Has Stopped Being Made
rumorsandrants.com - 11/11/2008
Sense Has Stopped Being Made
— rumorsandrants.com — The sporting world appears to have taken David Byrne’s words to heart, because this week things have... officially stopped making sense. We can only hope general managers in oversized suits aren’t far behind. A few noticeable items: - ... (more) Sense Has Stopped Being Made

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6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog:  Bad Altitude On Yesterday's Holliday Trade

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Bad Altitude On Yesterday's Holliday Trade
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog — And it's not happy happy, joy joy: I held off on this yesterday because I wanted to find out what the haul was, but now I know. The Rockies are a pathetic, disgusting joke and I'm annoyed that by proximity I'm going to be forced to follow them for another dreary season. This ownership group has ground the hopes and spirits of baseball fans desperate for a quality squad into the ground, Albert Haynesworth-style. The Nuggets, Avalanche, and Broncos are spending all of their resources to bring star players, successful coaches, and hopefully championships to the city of ...

Links for 18 Nov 08
Ducksnorts — ... Quite a Haul (Bad Altitude) Mark Donohue isn’t impressed with what the Rockies got in return for Matt Holliday, and who can blame him? Here’s hoping the Padres do better in any potential Jake Peavy deal. [h/t Didi] ...

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