Astros have deal in place to trade Roy Oswalt

I look through their contracts and I only further cement my opinion that they are a stupid organization. Ibanez contract, Polanco at $5 million instead of Lee, Howard contract...

 

My sources tell me that FSHouston all be having a special entitled "The Future"
And during the special...Roy will decide wether to take his talents to west Philly. Or to **** up the Astros future...

 

disregard my previous comment

 

the image of Roy sitting on a tractor saying: "i've decided to take my talents to philly" is just too much.

 

Except he wouldn't say Philly, he'd say "The Fresh Prince's old playground"

 

beautiful.

please do this, roy. please. have some straw in your mouth when you do it, too.

 

... Drayton will want that tractor back.

 

Roy could've said he wouldn't waive his NTC under any circumstance a la Carlos Lee and Derek Lee.

The fact that he's willing to do so, no matter what his demands are, is better than the alternative.

He's not f***ing up our future if he decides at the last second not to waive it. That's his right.

If you want to direct blame for the state of this organization, don't look at Oswalt.

 

Here was one guy's ranking of the Top 20 Philly prospects as of the end of 2009: http://www.minorleagueball.com/2009/12/18/1207506/philadelphia-phillies-top-20

I don't know John Sickels but here's his Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sickels

 

Does anyone really think Oswalt will say no to Halladay? That's a nasty 1-2 in the playoffs, and don't forget Hamels

 

lol... I wonder how Roy will feel about Philly after a few months there.

 

LOL. They have no idea about Roy. He definitely isn't a Philly guy. In the end, money talks and he will be traded.

 

Is he getting more money by being traded? If anything he will lose money as doesn't PA have a state income tax+higher costs of living?

 

Hope this gets done. This would be great to get a decent yield back for Roy

 

Lots of coffee + many cigarettes + this = blood pressure shooting up.

I hope there's a resolution soon.

Damn, I just realized I never saw Roy O pitch, live.

 

I'm not sure I ever have either. In the 10 years since I moved from Houston, I've only been to maybe 10 games. 1 was Jose Lima in 2000 when he broke his 13 game losing streak. 1 was Clemens in the 2004 NLCS. I know I saw Shane Reynolds. Backe once or twice. Can't remember if I ever got to see Roy.