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Here we go with the 2010 season! Spring Training is coming up in 5 days!

What's wrong with the other thread that sjax made? You know, the MLB 2010 Season one?
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That's from the aforementioned thread.

I just got tickets to see the Cubs-Angels on June 18th at Wrigley

nice, I've always wanted to visit Wrigley but I likely will never

As for me I won this special thing to get me a ticket pack for games at fenway park

It's amazing: one vs the Rangers, one vs the Rays, one vs the Angels and one on the 3rd to last game of the season against the Yankees(it's a Friday night game too, if a Mid-May game against the Mets on Friday night was fierce for me then an important September game against the Yankees of friday night will be kind of scary)

I just thought it was time to make a NEW thread for it instead of extending the 2009 one to 200 pages, although it may have been a little too early to make it but whatever

i might to a spring trainning game this year.

Can you guys read this and let me know what you think:
http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/2/19/1 ... vid-wright

Well, Bobby, it's an intriguing proposal, but I think for this to work out, the Mets need to be making a run at the playoffs this year. From what I've seen, that doesn't seem to be the case. Even with Pujols (and especially without Wright), the Mets roster is too weak. Heck, the Cardinals couldn't even get to the World Series with Pujols. The Mets wouldn't be able to out-bid the Yankees to keep Pujols, so they couldn't resign him and make a run at the playoffs later. Instead, they would have blown a huge amount of money to have Pujols for a year and and they wouldn't have David Wright to trade for prospects for the future. All in all, I think this would actually be a poor trade for both teams as Wright can't fill the void that Pujols would leave and Pujols wouldn't be worth the money the Mets would have to pay him if they can't make a playoff run.

that can be good if mets have Albert Pujols.

It's radical but impossible. There is absolutely no way the Cardinals will trade Albert Pujols, even if they wanted to. The St. Louis fans would start a riot and it probably wouldn't look very nice. Besides, your arguments don't really work, they are not going to lose him to free agency, and if they can't sign him to an extension, they won't have any problem finding good offers, certainly no "crappy prospects." It's more likely that they trade him for a package of several good young major leaguers. Pujols is on an entirely different level compared to Wright.

However, I think you're missing something here. There is no need to make a radical trade to solve both the Mets and the Cardinals problems. If you say that Dan Murphy is really better than David Freese and that Joe Mather is really better than Dan Murphy (which I think is not necessarily true), then WHY NOT JUST TRADE THEM INSTEAD?! DUH!

Albert Pujols is the face of the franchise of St Louis. There is no way they will trade him, regardless of who its for. Pujols is a proven player with 3 MVPs. Wright is going to be an okay or above average player at best. There is nothing he is excellent at. He hit 34 home runs at maximum and had the best career average at .320. Pujols already topped that when he was 25 or 26. Pujols is at least 2 levels above Wright. In terms of average and power. The only thing Wright is probably better is fielding and speed, but Pujols is a 1st basemen so it doesnt matter about his speed. Pujols brings the crowd the St Louis and is the protection for Holliday. Wright is no where even close to intimidating as Pujols. The fact that St Louis loses the crowd, protection for a 120 million/7 year player, power, average, makes no absolute sense. Furthermore, the Mets do not have the prospects for this deal. This deal will never happen.

The last time a deal for super star and super star was quite a long time ago. I'm not going to include the Lee-Halladay deal as its a 3 team deal and what Lee and Halladay did for pitching is not close to what Pujols did for hitting. I think the A-Rod and Soriano deal is close to that. A-Rod had an MVP and 40-40 and Soriano had a 40-40. However, this was a situation where Texas wanted to get rid of the money A-Rod was owed. The case of Pujols is that they might not extend him but his contact is definitely manageable.

I am not saying Daniel Murphy is better than David Freese, and I am not saying that Joe Mather is better than Daniel Murphy, what I am saying is that Joe Mather is better than David Freese, and Daniel Murphy would benefit if he moved to third base.

Bobby, I really like that you are writing sports articles. What makes it even more intriging is that you are trying to show possible trade ideas too, something that lacks in the sports jounalism world unless the teams are actually talking about it. However, your last two articles I have read show impossible deals that would never be made in ANY video game without s/l a couple thousand times. Although you have appeared to have thought through your idea well, the Cards will never trade Pujols for anybody striaght up, espically David Wright. David Wright is injury prone and basicly just is couple noches down from Pujols, the best player of his generation and maybe in the top 10 of All-Time. Wright may be a plus on defense and speed, but is a huge drop for offense. Also, your plan involves using generally untested prospects that haven't been playing that well to replace two now BIG holes, 1B for the Cards and 3B for the Mets. So essentally, your swaping weaknesses with each team making this deal pointless. A trade, as explained by the girl in Season Mode, is not trading players we don't want for players we want, its a deal that makes since for both sides. This doesn't make since for either side and will never work.

How is David Wright injury prone? He got hit in the head with a fastball for Pete's sake!

... so if what you say is true, then why don't the Mets trade Murphy for Mather? It would make much more sense for both teams and "solves" (assuming the above mentioned) both teams' problems, without the controversy over trading the stars.