Mosty baseball rumors and reactions, Twitter for 2009-12-20

Busy twitter week as there were lots of baseball transactions. Red Sox get John Lackey and MIke Cameron, Hideki Matsui signs with Angels, Ryota Igarashi with Mets, and two former-Cy Young winner moves in a block buster deal between Blue Jays-Mariners-Phillies. Geez I tweet a lot about baseball.

• 66 days til Pitchers & Catchers, 112 days til Opening Day in #RedSox calender RT @TheRopolitans: Is it baseball season yet? #
• Chien-Ming Wang is not leaving the Yanks on good terms & would be motivated to prove them wrong w/ #RedSox via @PeteAbe http://bit.ly/8D86iE #
• @livemusicserver I have a simple PHP code that is on my Japanese blog at http://go-redsox.com/ but perhaps I should make one. in reply to livemusicserver #
• Whoa! RT @drjefflo: BREAKING NEWS: Going for Virtual Waiting Room Record 37 hours 53 minutes and counting…………….#redsox #
• That's awesome, Aki Iwamura takes out a full-page ad in Sunday's St Petersburg Times. Likely first Japanese to do so. http://bit.ly/7ib6Hf #
• RHP Ryota Igarashi says he got interest from team that he wants to play. I wonder out-loud if the team is Yankees. http://bit.ly/4yWXzZ #
• @the_hereford Obviously he won't say, and all speculation so far, but Pirates, Giants, Orioles & Yankees has been linked to Igarashi #
• OK, don't shoot the messenger, just passing along that Sponichi is reporting SEA Mariners interested in Hideki Matsui http://bit.ly/8eJez7 #
• @the_hereford Oh, yes. Rangers was 1 of the 1st teams that was linked. Igarashi said "offer from 4 teams" tho, so I wonder which one is out. in reply to the_hereford #
• Ha! Remember Casey Fossum? Played with Ohka and Nomo in RedSox '01, just singed with Hanshin Tigers. Gotta go to bed. http://bit.ly/92WiXY #
• @npbtracker Haha, I got some people mad at me when I passed along sanspo's report last week that Yankees may offer Matsui 1 year deal. in reply to npbtracker #
• Yeah I'd pay to get it, or work for it :) RT @DougzInBoston: Japan will open its own Mariners channel if that happens SEA interest in Matsui #
• RT @pgammo: Mike Lowell may require thumb surgery because of years of ever playing hard and diving for balls. Doesn't deserve it. #
• On my day off, watching Bucky Dent game (1978) on @MLBNetwork, #RedSox is beating Yankees 1-0 in the 5th. Maybe they'll beat them! ;) #fb #
• Whoa, surprised, Sox rather have Lackey than Beckett, I guess RT @ed_price FanHouse: #RedSox Move On to John Lackey http://bit.ly/6Op1JQ #
• @MisterLucky13 No, Bucky Dent hit a three run homer over the monster. Looks like Red Sox won't make 1978 playoff, watching @MLBNetwork, in reply to MisterLucky13 #
• Maybe last tweet sounded negative, #RedSox rotation of Beckett, Lackey, Lester, Matsuzaka, Buchholz/Wake is awesome. http://bit.ly/4oz1TE #
• RT @jaysonst Angels in serious talks with Hideki Matsui http://bit.ly/6Kl4dr #
• RT @Buster_ESPN Heard this: Hideki Matsui's one-year deal with the Angels is for about $6.5 million. #
• 5-year deal with the #RedSox for $85 million (SI) or $82.5 million (ESPN). RT @PeteAbe: Lackey deal close to being done http://ow.ly/169zF9 #
• RT @SI_JonHeyman: im being told #Halladay will agree on deal with #Phillies, which would finalize trade. But not likely to happen today, #
• Roy Halladay to Phillies, Cliff Lee to Mariners. Halladay would agree to a three-year extension. by @jaysonst http://bit.ly/4tRe0U #
• "Matsui Agrees With the Angels" one-year $6.5 million by @TylerKepner NYTimes http://bit.ly/8jqgp3 #
• RT @Ken_Rosenthal: Cameron money: Two years, $15.5 million range. (via @trenni) – Can't keep up today! #
• RT @TylerKepner How perfect is this? Yanks' 2010 home opener is against Angels on April 13. So Matsui will be there for the ring ceremony. #
• To recap, Matsui and Halladay is no longer in the division, #RedSox got John Lackey for 5yr/$85m and Mike Cameron for 2yr/$15.5m. Good day? #
• RT @PatrickSull: What a day. 51 years after Pumpsie Green, Mike Cameron becomes the #RedSox's 4th African American. (via @outofleftfield) #
• I think he was being sarcastic that it is really rare. I may have given impression that it was a fact. Sorry. RT @firebrandal: @PatrickSull #
• But it sounds like it may be fewer than I even thought… RT @PatrickSull: @DaigoFuji @firebrandal Yes, sarcasm. #
• Interesting. This plus 2 years vs 5 tears. RT @vandweller: Cameron is arguably better than Bay http://su.pr/8EPruE via @gallopingael #redsox #
• @BostonWeddingJP They can afford Bay just like could've Teixeira last year, but they are sticking to their "Value" system, like it or not. in reply to BostonWeddingJP #
• Ha. Yeah, tears of people with 44 t-shirts :) RT @metschick: @DaigoFuji hee, 2 years vs. 5 tears. Was Bay a cry-baby? :) #
• Jason Bay would have been nice, but I like #RedSox rotation of Beckett-Lackey-Lester-Matsuzaka-Buchholz. One more move for 1B/3B, maybe? #
• RT @davidwadeWBZ: Mike Cameron .859 career OPS against lefties .220 avg at Fenway. Postseason: .174 in 92 AB Love baseball-reference #redsox #
• Peter Gammons @pgammo just on NESN said Daisuke Matsuzka is in "unbelievable shape" very motivated by embarrassment from last year #redsox #
• RT @TangandZo Our Thurs guy @SI_JonHeyman wondering if Buchholz is trading chip after Lackey signing, Adrian Gonzalez still a #RedSox target #
• Just wondering out loud if that big, orange "????" advertising sign on the left field wall on Yankee Stadium will disappear come April. #fb #
• Japanese paper Sponichi is reporting that #RedSox is preparing 2 year $2 or 3 million contract to RHP Ryota Igarashi http://bit.ly/626LVa #
• Ryota Igrashi's Japan stats http://bit.ly/7YvYL2 Mets and Phillies are also possible suitor for Igarashi. This is first I heard of #RedSox. #
• RT @npbtracker: here's everything you would want to know about Igarashi: http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/05/player-profile-ryota-igarashi/ #
• @cjtyrrell I like John Lackey deal a lot. He wants the ball against good teams. It'll be fun to watch him pitch against Yankees. in reply to cjtyrrell #
• But then again, all the other Japanese media cites NYTimes report: Mets Near a Deal With RHP Ryota Igarashi http://bit.ly/4zD2H6 #
• RT @npbtracker: Igarashi to the Mets has been in the news for a few days now http://bit.ly/7x5TAh Mets & #RedSox both seem plausible to me. #
• RT @PeteAbe: #RedSox had International Scouting Director Craig Shipley watch Chapman today. They're apparently serious about him. #
• Here is a photo of #RedSox 4th or 5th starter Daisuke Matsuzaka working out with soon-to-be-Mets Ryota Igarashi in AZ http://bit.ly/53VdCd #
• Whoa, Japan's "Knuckle Princess" Eri Yoshida will play in Arizona Winter League in January? Sponichi is reporting. http://bit.ly/6SN7JC #
• @mikeplugh Wow, thank you, I am humbled. I was a huge fan of your Matsuzaka watch blog, even after I found out that you are Yankees fan ;) #
• Is it too soon to start collecting Adrian Gonzalez baseball cards? #redsox #
• RT @weeisports: Listen to both interviews of the newest #RedSox: Mike Cameron http://bit.ly/5WT3P7 & John Lackey http://bit.ly/7HAMvx #
• RT @NYPost_Mets: A team source confirms the Mets have an agreement with Japanese reliever Ryota Igarashi. #
• AWESOME! RT @jenny8lee: David Henry Hwang expects his musical about life of Bruce Lee to hit Broadway in 2011. via @thejoenguyen #
• Now what do you do? RT @ESPNBoston: Source: Adrian Beltre's price is too high for #RedSox http://bit.ly/7UG6Sa #
• @PatrickSull Nothing is wrong with that. I guess I am being a bit greedy. I like Lackey and Scutaro sign so far. #
• After reading a piece by @PatrickSull, I feel little better even if #RedSox don't get big bat. http://bit.ly/7TWT88 I still want Ad Gonzalez #
• @fairminder Have you tried ping.fm? Combination of twitterfeed and ping.fm may do what you want to do. in reply to fairminder #
• Sight of Hideki Matsui in Angels uniform (Sanspo) is as strange sight as when I first saw Nomah in Cubbie blue. http://bit.ly/87IYX2 #
• 1st year: $1.25m, 2nd year: $1.75m. RT @npbtracker: Ryota Igarashi's #Mets deal: 2 years, $3m. http://bit.ly/7Be9EV #
• #FolowFriday awesome #RedSox friends @RDSoxProspectus @xP3AC3MAK3Rx @erniechiara @MisterLucky13 @PatrickSull @redsoxnation80 @RobyMB @mootek #
• #FolowFriday Awesome #RedSox friends: @TheJayJMan @Rob_Ish @richardcmcguire @TheRealBlythe @firebrandal @jschwanz @fengypants @CMSBMatty #
• Happy #FolowFriday to ya all, #JapaneseBaseball: @mikeplugh @npbtracker @gwynar @JBPlayers #BostonSports: @TangandZo @HackswithHaggs #
• Just realized I misspelled "Follow" in #FollowFriday. Sigh. I want to put everyone on my #RedSox list on #FF @DaigoFuji/redsox #
• @diamond83 Congrats on your new job! I enjoy reading your Dodgers and Taiwanese baseball updates. Awesome. in reply to diamond83 #
• So Mariners gets Milton Bradley, and out of what was left of Jason Bay race. Bay a Met now a virtual lock? or will Yankees sweep in? #
• Haha @ussmariner: In press conference, Bradley to express gratitude for being given new new new new new new new new start. #Mariners #
• Mike Lowell is expected to have his physical this weekend. RT @PeteAbe: Lowell to Texas inching forward. http://ow.ly/16bcyW #redsox #
• Holy crap, Hideki Matsui's agent Arn Telem reveals "…beyond the Yanks, his preferences were the Angels and #RedSox" http://bit.ly/7tJezq #
• RT @PeteAbe: Source: Lowell has torn ligament in his right thumb, needs surgery and the trade to Texas is off. #
• @npbtracker Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I was dismissing those reports from Red Sox needs (have $12.5 LH DH already), but it was Matsui. in reply to npbtracker #
• Awesome piece by @NYBD: All 9 Japan-born Mets have been busts. Will Ryota Igarashi get it right on the 10th try? http://bit.ly/5xfcZv #