Thursday, July 29, 2004
SQUASH'D
To those hoping the Meche/Sweeney trade rumors were hogwash, you've gotten your wish, as have I. Such is documented in John Hickey's notebook article.
About an hour or two after I posted about the original rumors, Softy got a guy from the Kansas City Star onto the show to basically say that the Royals' brass has basically laughed at the same rumor all week.
Yes, it's total crap.
We've seen the Mariners take on stupid money before (McCracken), but $37.5M over three years is a hell of a lot of money, so I doubted the deal was coming to fruition, and I didn't really want it to happen anyway.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here.
[Edit ~10:45a -- Softy Mahler is railing on John Hickey's article today, basically saying that it was worded to say that some random hack called in cancelling Gil Meche's interview. Softy says it was a representative with the Rainiers that called to say Meche couldn't make the interview, and not some Joe Schmo that called bringing that message.]
About an hour or two after I posted about the original rumors, Softy got a guy from the Kansas City Star onto the show to basically say that the Royals' brass has basically laughed at the same rumor all week.
Yes, it's total crap.
We've seen the Mariners take on stupid money before (McCracken), but $37.5M over three years is a hell of a lot of money, so I doubted the deal was coming to fruition, and I didn't really want it to happen anyway.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here.
[Edit ~10:45a -- Softy Mahler is railing on John Hickey's article today, basically saying that it was worded to say that some random hack called in cancelling Gil Meche's interview. Softy says it was a representative with the Rainiers that called to say Meche couldn't make the interview, and not some Joe Schmo that called bringing that message.]
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