[Fox Sports] Orioles reject offer from Houston for Tejada

They say the Astros thought they had a deal done but Baltimore's Owner rejected the deal. The astros were offering major league pieces (Burke?)


Not looking good for Timmy

 

I hope you're not bashing Timmy in all of this...

Baltimore is a HORRIBLY run franchise... which has now routinely leaked every single trade offer they've ever gotten from Tejada, along with being in complete dissaray in the front office (as well as financially, and as well as on the field).

If you want to blame Timmy for even attempting to deal with that excuse of a franchise, go ahead... but then you'd get the usual response of how Timmy is doing nothing but sitting on his "fat ass, eating bon bons". (kinda like how everybody ridiculed the franchise for falling for Boras/Beltran's fake interest... whereas they would have been villified forever had they not attempted to sign him).

Baltimore deserves better... that's such a historic franchise that severely lacks direction.

 

Tejada update:

orioles lose to sox, but Tejada another hit:

4 for 6 3 runs 3 rbi

now batting: .331 19 hr 75 rbi

make it happen timmy

 

figures they'd turn our offer down

it always seems houston though they had a deal in place but then it doesn't work at the last minute (ie. d. stoudamire, m.james, and now tejada)

im sure the astros will counter their offer with different players, i know timmy will do whatever it takes for the most part to grab either tejada or soriano...
which will probably be on monday now.

good luck tim p

this team needs another bat!

 

Does anybody think that the Astros are trying to get Baltimore to take Lidge off their hands?

 

Yeah, like with Randy Johnson, Carlos Beltran, and Tracy McGrady.

 

Add Steve Francis, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Aubrey Huff.

 

boy... we better hope that Ensberg can bounce back...

 

So are we out of the Tejada Lottery ? What do you guys think...This is driving me crazy My Tummy has been hurting...C'mon Timmy P Please make it happen...

 

Word is that the offer was Ensberg, Lidge and Lane. We want to keep Everett at SS and play Tejada at third.

 

I don't know why we'd want to do that. Tejada would be a huge upgrade over Everett for us, not so much over Ensberg if he can stay healthy. I guess the Astros don't think he can.

 

Jayson Stark on ESPN just stated that there was never an offer from the Astros last night for Angelos to squash. He states that the Rangers and the Astros are the remaining two teams in the hunt. Angels offered Ervin Santana and a top prospect which was turned down. Tigers madde an offer and were turned down. The Rangers apparently offered four players.

 

i believe rosenthal more than stark

 

All these guys have their own sources... that are sometimes right, and sometimes wrong. The bottom line is that none of these tv reporters are getting their information first-hand (ie - from the team's GM's).

Thus, you can't really trust anybody... it doesn't really matter how they say the trade didn't go down... as long as it fell through, they're free to run with whatever they feel like makes sense.

The next time they're accurate on one of their "rumored trades" will be the first time... they didn't speculate onHuff before it happened, they were completely off on Soriano last week, and nobody speculated that Lee would end up with the Rangers.... they've been making the same mistakes for years.

The best was back in 98 where the Astros almost gave Peter Gammons a heart attack by snagging Randy Johnson... completely screwed up weeks of "exclusive reporting" by that baseball tonight crew that never once mentioned Houston as a possible destination for the big unit.

 

Or the time we traded Craig Biggio for Denny Neagle.

 

I remember that one. How everyone could have missed such a big fish was unbelievable. It took me a while to even believe we got it done because I never expected it as well.

I hope for a suprise tomorrow or Monday.

My guess is that had Roger not come back this time around, we would not be in the buying mode now. I sense we are pushing for a player in large to show a faith attempt to give him another opportunity to win with the Stros.

I have mixed feelings about all of this - tanking in baseball is not as fun as tanking in the other ML sports. I would like to see a major upgrade at a reasonable prize. Texas Rangers did it - we can do it even twice. Win now!.

 

Maybe they are thinking that Stros will sweeten the deal even more I could see why Orioles would wait it until tomm to deal Tejada. He is the face of the franchise. My friend who is a die hard O's fan said he would do it for pitching....bp and starting pitchiing