Rumorville: John Halama?

by roguejim on Nov 20, 2009 4:23 PM CST

The Brewers are seeking starting pitching depth this winter and Halama, 37, wants to reunite with pitching coach Rick Peterson and manager Ken Macha. The trio was together in Oakland in 2003, Macha's first year as A's manager and Peterson's final year as that team's pitching coach.

Sure, why not.

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"The trio was together in Oakland in 2003 ...

which, if memory serves, was six $%#*ing years ago."

Seriously — does anyone else want an invite to spring training? Jimmy Key, maybe? Bob Welch?

by Rubie Q on Nov 20, 2009 4:33 PM CST reply actions

Why not?

I know you’re joking, but nonroster invites are exactly that, and iirc the team doesn’t have to pay minor leaguers anything but the per diem during spring training.

by morineko on Nov 20, 2009 4:52 PM CST up reply actions

No, I understand.

I guess that was more of an exasperated comment on the state of major league pitching.

by Rubie Q on Nov 20, 2009 4:55 PM CST up reply actions

I wish we COULD sign Bob Welch

That would be grape.

"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"

by roguejim on Nov 20, 2009 5:01 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

It would be a fantastic graping.

Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".

by tcyoung on Nov 20, 2009 6:09 PM CST up reply actions

agreed

Didn’t Scott Erickson get an NRI to Dodgers camp last year?

by morineko on Nov 20, 2009 5:32 PM CST up reply actions

You were sooooo close

All you had to do was:

I guess that was more of an exasperated comment on the state of major league pitching for anyone but a huge market jerkoff!

and I’d have known you were actually Doug Melvin. But, obviously, you’re not.

I don’t have a category for "washed-up guys who may or may not be dominant big-league closers sometime soon."

~Jeff Sackmann

by Charlie Marlow on Nov 20, 2009 7:32 PM CST up reply actions

I'm wily.

Throwing you off the scent, Charlie.

Wait — I’ve said too much.

by Rubie Q on Nov 20, 2009 7:55 PM CST up reply actions

Its pure genius

Create pseudo-personality and blog, sometimes angrily, about idiot moves you make.

Gauge public interest.

???

Make millions.

I don’t have a category for "washed-up guys who may or may not be dominant big-league closers sometime soon."

~Jeff Sackmann

by Charlie Marlow on Nov 20, 2009 8:29 PM CST up reply actions

I like it

Everybody loves a good variant of the underpants gnome scheme! It can’t fail.

Fuck tOSU

by ajs1122 on Nov 21, 2009 11:06 AM CST up reply actions

Still....

There are only so many innings of ST you can allot to pitchers.

Thankfully we don’t have any young arms to give the innings to.

Taking shallowness to new depths -- FtJ's blog

by Fatter than Joey on Nov 21, 2009 6:46 AM CST up reply actions

Old Hoss?

"A D+ Grade? That must have been a Wittardo grade"- @73_MC

by BrewHaHeather on Nov 20, 2009 8:10 PM CST up reply actions

Does ex-Ranger John Burkett want to make a comeback, too?

by TheJay on Nov 20, 2009 5:45 PM CST reply actions

Braun may be pissed at the demotion

but why not shoot for Nolan Ryan?

by Getting Yosted on Nov 20, 2009 8:42 PM CST up reply actions

Or better yet, former Ranger

Charlie Hough. Knuckleballers never get old.

by oconnobe on Nov 21, 2009 7:54 AM CST up reply actions

never even heard of the guy

that’s a first

by Donald Driver on Nov 21, 2009 3:14 AM CST reply actions

I wish I had never heard of him

then it would be easier to pretend he was a rookie.

"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"

by roguejim on Nov 21, 2009 7:21 AM CST up reply actions

How come we haven't heard of any pitcher wanting to reunite from Peterson's Mets days?

"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."

by Hyatt on Nov 21, 2009 8:39 AM CST reply actions

I like the concept of "sign everyone on the 2003 A's"

because, they were all a trio with Macha and Petersen that year.

E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).

by Jordan M on Nov 21, 2009 8:45 AM CST reply actions

by baumann on Nov 21, 2009 12:14 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

My first thought was "Oh, hey, he used to be pretty decent."

Then I looked up his Baseball Reference page and found out that, no, he was never really decent.

by Cheeseandcorn on Nov 21, 2009 2:19 PM CST reply actions

I wonder how his name is pronounced

if it’s anything like “Hey, Llama!” then I think he gets an invite on name alone.

"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"

by roguejim on Nov 21, 2009 2:24 PM CST up reply actions

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