“Baseball opinions are like assholes, everyone’s got one and most of ’em stink.” –Harry Caray
With the trade deadline approaching there were rumors that the pitching-hungry A’s were interested in Noah Syndergaard aka Thor. The Mets asking price was a bit too steep and I’d pass–although Thor is a solid, arguably top-tier starter, I just wouldn’t give up the farm for another shot at a Wild Card game that he possibly wouldn’t even start. The ‘Fro has been (rarely) wrong before but I’m hoping that the ball-club acquires a less sexy, and ultimately more human than god, Mike Leake. (Yes, I like to start my own rumors.) Leake would come at a much lower trade price because of pedigree and with the Athletics bullpen imploding from overwork, an innings-eater such as Leake might be undervalued. The Mariners, as always, aren’t opposed to being fleeced on the “minimal interest” trade market and sometimes even welcome it.
I, in a blushing moment of boredom, was checking my WordPress statistics the other day when I noticed that someone had stumbled upon this very blog by googling the search term, “Bob Geren smelling his own ass.” Curiosity got the best of me and when I googled the same sentence the blog before you was the first thing to pop up. Geren, of course, was the Oakland manager that everyone (including his players) loved to hate and he and his forever constipated looking face is now in Los Angeles as bench coach of the Dodgers. Good luck this year, Bob. Once a Yankee always a Yankee.
