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Friday, December 10, 2004

When I was growing up, we had an old gas stove. Sometimes you would turn it on, and the burner wouldn't catch for a few seconds. All of a sudden, the gas fumes would mosey past the pilot light and... poof. A ball of exploding gas.

I give you the 2004 hot (gas) stove.

Following the Garciaparra signing, Todd Walker and ex-twin backup catcher Henry Blanco were brought on board for the Cubs Tuesday night. Also, the Cubs offered arbitration to Matt Clement and Todd Hollandsworth.

With the arbitration deadline out of the way, teams started signing free-agents willy-nilly:

• The Yanks signed Tony Womack and Jaret Wright
• the Phillies inked Jon Lieber
• Jeff Kent is a Dodger
• Troy Glaus got a whopper from the D-Backs, who also signed Russ Ortiz
• The Marlins signed Antonio Alfonseca and Todd Jones.
• The Rangers picked up Richard Hidalgo
• ... and most importantly, the Angels signed Steve Finley, most likely withdrawing themselves from the Carlos Beltran sweepstakes.

Now that the winter meetings are starting in Anaheim, Jim Hendry went out of his way to tell the media that he won't be shopping Sosa.

This may just be Hendry's normal method of lowering expectations, or he may have come to the same conclusion I reached a while ago.

You aren't going to get even close to fair value in a trade for Sosa, so unless you are simply unloading him for a bag of sunflower seeds, keeping Sammy around for the final year of his contract is the right move.

So, when you are getting impatient, Just Remember:

Larry Himes made moves to make moves.
Ed Lynch made moves to make moves.
Jim Hendry makes moves to reach a goal.

Posted by Byron at December 10, 2004 9:47 PM | |

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