It was just announced that Doug Davis signed with the Brewers. $4.25M with a 2011 option $1M buyout. But here is what I wish would be his next move.
Doug: <beep beep beep> <beep beep beep> – <beep beep beep beep>
<ring ring>
Suppan: Hello.
Doug: Hey Jeff. It’s Doug Melvin calling, how’s Soups kitchen going?
Suppan: We had our best Wednesday yet! We made..
Doug: Sorry Jeff, I don’t care. The reason I’m calling is that we recently signed Doug Davis… and we’ve got a lot of starting pitchers..
Suppan: did I mention our new Mango salsa?
Doug: Soup.. I’m trying to say.. we are letting you go.
Suppan: But why don’t you cut Bush/Parra form the rotation?
Doug: They are all out of options and have better raw talent and upside then you….
Suppan: But who’s going to do the Soups Troops promotion?
Doug: Taken care of.. Gomez Generals.
Suppan: You know how much I love ‘Merica.
Doug: Yeah well, can we get our $44 million back?
Suppan: No sorry.. I used it to bling out my anti-stem cell research protest signs.
Doug: Good luck doing.. <click>
Here it is Doug. Your chance to atone for the sin of signing Suppan by cutting him loose. If we want to “go for it” and win now. Then lets do it, and get rid of the worst pitcher with zero upside in our staff. It’s great that you made some moves to improve the staff, but lets cut the fat and dump the biggest boat anchor to the club… the $12 million is already spent… lets make some good use of it by making Suppan pitch for someone else. It’s only $2M more then you paid Gagne to pitch.. so what’s the big deal?
In fact, I will challenge you with this. You dump Suppan like a bad habit. I will shutdown FDM.com, apologize to you, grow a mustache, and register extenddougmelvin.com.
Doug Melvin, spending big money to build the most ordinary, uninspired rotation possible. Bring the kids out to the ballpark to watch Wolf and Davis be completely humdrum! They’ll both probably put up solid numbers, but I have zero interest in paying money to watch either of these Joe Blows pitch. Sucks.
Although true, perhaps Doug is starting to learn his lesson. Big escallating contracts with out having big upside is horrible. Making the hard decisions to actually bench/waive bad players needs to be done.
Now if only we could get more draft picks and improve our farm system.. I’ll actually be fairly happy.
The question is whether there’s a time limit on the promise to dump the site upon dumping Suppan. End of Spring Training? End of May? This seems like an important stipulation in the promise.
You’ll have to make sure to update extenddougmelvin.com to show the progress of your mustache over the weeks following the Suppan dumping. Great post.
While funny I think it best we shank and prison rape you for no other reason than pure fun of destroying the cornhole of a dbag. But seriously great site
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