ESPN Transactions column - Saturday 8/9/14
Yankees - Placed C Brian McCann (in a large padded room). Assigned RHP Matt Daley outright
to (a Starbucks in White Plains). Recalled C Austin Romine from (the Starbucks next to the one that Daley got sent to). Released INF Brian Roberts unconditionally.
Agreed to terms with INF Scott Sizemore on (how much time he can have on the iPad on Sundays).
Brian Roberts -
no longer a Yankee, therefore no longer dead to me, however probably time to call it a career
Orioles are unlikely to sign him since Buck has decided to ride it out with Jonathan Schoop this year as he plays great defense and figures out how to hit over .215 in the bigs.
Item #2 -
O's all the way up to number 2 in some guy's power rankings for this week. And I quote "The Orioles have emerged as one of the most balanced teams in the league."
Item the third
Picked up three T206 St. Louis Browns at the National in Cleveland about 10 days ago. These are not scans of the exact cards that I bought, but they're pretty close quality-wise. Howell, Jones, and McAleese. Almost as famous as Tinker to Evers to Chance.
and finally, Number D
Night Owl has talked me into it. My next set building project - 2011 Topps Lineage 1975 Minis. Especially since I now own two boxes of the new Ultra Pro sheets sized to hold this size mini. I have always loved the original 1975 set, and I kind of like the 2011 Lineage set as well. The combination of the two is just too much to resist. So the quest begins. Hopefully, hundreds of dollars later, it will end up in a spiffy binder with pages that look like this.
A three game set with the Yankees in Camden Yards over the next three days. No Sabathia, no Tanaka, no Kuroda, no McCarthy. Happy dance. Yankees are starting Capuano, Greene and a small green man with a really cool looking helmet.
