James Posey Gets Paid

The only problem is he will be cashing his checks in Louisiana, and they will be signed by George Shinn. The New Orleans Hornets gave Posey 4 years and 25 million dollars to do exactly what he did in Boston and Miami. Look, Posey was great and he did exactly was asked, but for 25 million bucks? Nope, glad the Celtics held the line here. Not worth 4 years for a defender and 3 point specialist, especially on the Celtics. These are the type of contracts teams look to unload in 2 years. Thank you James Posey, you will be missed, but the Celtics were not going to pay that much for that long. You earned your contract, enjoy it.

Monday Morning Quick Hitters

James Posey decision near?

BIG PAPI IS COMING…BIG PAPI IS COMING…Restaurants better stock up….BIG PAPI IS
COMING

Gilbert Arenas takes comfort over cash. Lets face it, Arenas can still feed his family on $111 Million and leave his team room to sign a role player….we’ll see how that works out!?!

Apparently, ESPN is now covering charity games.

2 MLB Teams going in VERY different directions….the New York Mets and the Tampa Bay Rays

Red Sox Fans may need to learn how to pronounce Che-Hsuan Lin

Saturday Quick Hitters

James Posey is still a member of the 2008 NBA Free Agent Class. I assume that “a day or two”, which is when agent Mark Bartelstein stated P0sey would have a decision by on Wednesday, means “a week or two”.

I am not going to mention the Brett Favre saga until it comes to a conclusion. Period.

Carlos Carrasco, the Phillies top-pitching prospect, came out of the game after 42 pitches last night (BTW Matt LaPorta, late of the CC Sabathia deal, hit the game winning homer last night for Akron). According to Reading’s Director of Communications Rob Hackash, Carlos “was on a pitch count”, no more, no less. He is working his way back from a shoulder strain and there are rumors that Carrasco may be called up a la Kyle Kendrick to give the Phils some ammo in the stretch run. He has also been rumored to start the Futures Game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, but I don’t think that will happen where he pitched on Friday night.

The Red Sox got to feel a little “Orioles Magic” last night.

The Rays are on a slide.

Not much else today that I want to hit on. Remember tomorrow afternoon, “The Sports Vortex”, 4pm est. You can listen right here using the Talkshoe player in the upper left hand corner or you can go to WJZF and stream from their site. If you miss it, don’t stress, it will be posted as a podcast as well.

One more Phillies note, the exiled Brett Myers will be starting for Reading tonight. I guess he told Lehigh Valley “Boom, outta here!”

What will I be watching tonight?
The Phils are stuck in Fox regional hell, Rich Harden is pitching right now for the Cubs, so I think tonight’s game of choice will be White Sox at Rangers. John Danks goes for the pale hose, while Kevin Millwood gets the call for the Rangers. I will be watching it on HD channel 732-1 on Directv.