So nice to not have a GM hideously over-matched in trade discussions.

Amen to that!

I miss college. I was young, not too many responsibilities, the Mariners had a good DH…

Yeah, Gorman Thomas was pretty good.

This team is fun to watch.

When was the last time we could honestly say that?

October 20, 2001. Yankee Stadium

And it will completely surprise me if Roy Halladay isn’t a Texas Ranger by July 30th.

You have to admit, who can put up a more attractive package for such a talent than what the Rangers can right now?

I think it is an absolute certainty that Halladay won’t be a Ranger this year. Halladay makes 14m, and Texas can’t make it’s current payroll without help from the league. The most expensive everyday players they have on the team are Young (13m) and Blalock(6m). So I’d guess that the only way to make that deal is to trade more salary to Toronto than they are picking up, so it just isn’t going to happen.

It really is. This team has already given me about five times the viewing pleasure that the 2008 model did.

The competence in FO moves has been really striking this year. All of a sudden, we’re making moves that used to be made on us.

If Bavasi had made the Hannahan trade, the cost might have started with Phillippe Aumont.

OK, that may very well be yet another cheap crack, but I don’t think I’m all that wrong.

So nice to not have a GM hideously over-matched in trade discussions.

When was the last time we could honestly say that?