This oughta make Billy Wagner happy.The Mets went out and acquired a pitcher! Just not the one you want. They got Brian Stokes...most well known for playing Cam Winston on Frasier (at least to me).
Oh...sorry, that's Brian Stokes Mitchell.
The Brian Stokes the Mets got was from the
I think I'd rather have the actor.
The Rays could afford to give up this phenom as they are finalizing a trade for Matt Garza, which strikes one player off of Omar Minaya's wish list going into next week's winter meetings. The Mets envision Stokes as a perfect complement to pitchers like Jon Adkins, Jason Vargas, and Steve Schmoll, who need a fourth for their weekly poker game.
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lol, metstra, bravo. Your post had me in stitches...maybe because of your writing or maybe just because of the sad irony of it all. Brian Stokes? really? do deals like this really need to be done?
"The Mets envision Stokes as a perfect complement to pitchers like Jon Adkins, Jason Vargas, and Steve Schmoll, who need a fourth for their weekly poker game."
- that's about as perfect a sentence as you've strung together in some time. (short)
Except Jon Adkins signed with somebody--the Reds, I think.
I thought Adkins was gone...but this is more like a metaphorical poker game between pitchers in the great nebulus (sic?) that is quadruple A. In fact heard that Brian Bohanon, Mark Clark, Masato Yoshii, and Pete Schourek are at the head table that Adkins, Vargas, Schmoll, and Cam Winston aspire to be at.
milledge for schneider and church?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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