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At MLB.com, Marty Noble does a great job of recapping Omar Minaya’s first day at the MLB Winter Meetings in Nashville.
In the report, Noble quotes a National League GM as saying…
“There’s so much out there. There’s no way to know where other teams stand. I’m not even sure where we are. I know how Omar feels. I think he wanted to make the big splash, and then he pulled back on that. And now, he might have pulled back again. But he plays it very close to the vest. S o you can’t say for sure…The way things are here, he could pull Santana and I can’t say I’d be shocked.”
…thanks to Peter Wade, MetsBlog’s eyes and ears, for the info…
Meanwhile, in USA Today, Bob Nightingale quotes White Sox GM Ken Williams as saying…
“We’re seeing trades again, good old-fashioned trades. I think we’re going to see more trades at these meetings than we’ve seen in recent memory.”
Lastly, Nightingale quotes A’s GM Billy Beane as saying…
“If somebody offers you everything west of the Mississippi, you have to listen. If Thomas Jefferson didn’t listen to offers, half of the U.S. would be French. Some people thought it was a bad deal at the time, but I think he proved to be right.”
…first of all, after reading this quote, i can’t only imagine how conversations between beane and Rick Peterson went while both were in oakland a few years back…at any rate, if the A’s need a package of prospects who equal the Louisiana Purchase, then i’m betting Dan Haren remains in oakland…i mean, beane actually used that value in a sentence…unreal…don’t ever change, billy…
Lots of trades? Any involving the Mets?
I think everyone is just trading rumors right now.
Well, to continue the Louisiana Purchase analogy, Jefferson would have sold the land to Mexico once it became valuable.
What a character.
Brooklyn Bridge, anyone?
Marty Noble, what a corporate lackey b1tch
FIRE OMAR. FIRE WILLIE. PURGE THE ENTIRE ROSTER. LET’S JUST BLOW THE WHOLE THING UP AND START OVER. I REALLY CAN’T TAKE THESE GUYS.
just when you thought it was safe to look at the comment section….. ;)
Hey…Where have you been?
Sorry, replied in wrong area.
Been lurking – winter meetings and billy beane’s insanity drove me to post….
Besides, the new batch of posters are kinda funny, no?
I’m hoping we can settle most of this by Thursday. I’d prefer not to have to deal with Beane (high blood pressure) or a national league team (can bite you in the butt) or the Twins (feeling fleeced?) Baltimore or Toronto would be good trading partners
scared to enter the new forums..
But its the winter meetings, i gotta post..
Esp after Billy Beane’s crazy quote…
On second though, If Jefferson was Beane, after buying Louisiana, he would have traded the entire East Coast to England for Canada or something…
Omar will settle for the swamplands in Florida….
Freddy will be pleased…
Yikes…count on Marty Noble to kill any optimism.