A large haul

Well folks, if all Anthopolus needed was my previous caustic rant on the where the Jays were then mission accomplished.

I would have turned the heat up sooner, and we aould all be enjoying this fish fry.

Now 2 weeks before the next round of winter meetings, every other GM has to answer to his owner why he wasn't in on this deal.


Once again, the worst owner in baseball does it again, this is the 3rd such sell off in Marlins history. The current body count of 12 would make Tony Montana blush, say hello Tony to your new little friends in South Florida. 

I am sure Jeff Loria is still dodging reporters, spnsors, angry fans by ducking down alley ways, or wearing fake moustaches and trench coats. His secretary must be getting danger pay and also sick and tired of saying he is out.  If Bud Selig had his way, or the state of Florida, he would be too.

From the Marlins perspective, yes they crashed and burned in their new Atllantic playground last season, that tells me that God does not like multi coloured adorned houses of worship, or maybe God is a Braves fan.

On the opposite side of this ledger comes Josh Johnson, Mark Buerhle, John Buck, Emilio Bonafacio and Jose Reyes. To say we have street cred in the baseball community is not overstating the obvious, Vegas posted odds dropped from 100 to 1  to 15 to 1.  Gamblers see what they see, and smell possibilities.

Do I like this deal, what's not to like ? What did they give up I will miss. Nothing, I advocated a propspect package for ready talent 2 years ago.  Alex is now getting heaps of praise for this Miami heist, cue the Miami Vice music ( flamingos, jai alai, etc ) but if you folks out there think this is part of a well calculated plan, you are mistaken.

We are in year 4 of the re tool, after Halladay and Marcum were dispensed with. We are well behind the battle plans AA hatched out.  The time to strike was last off season, but we settled for a Sergio Santos deal, and recycled veteran relievers and thought we were set.  We were wrong and I said so.

A year of injuries, suspensions, bad press, but great ratings, butts in the seats, and a mangled clubhouse spelled to Rogers a full bore panic attack.  Time to spend, or at best take on payroll, so we sent out the boats, and made a huge haul.

Now let's see what else we can achieve, we have too many catchers that want to catch 100 games, and a left field and second base vacancy signs, and a bullpen not quite whole.

7 days before US Thanksgiving, and Black Friday, but the shopping wars have already started.

Will have another blog around the winter meetings, so perhaps I actually will need to buy a program to see who is still on this team.