The Seattle Mariners: Sodo Mediocrito
Apparently it’s going to happen: The Seattle Mariners will trade their ENTIRE FARM SYSTEM (not really, but most of the decent players in the minors) for a good but injury prone pitcher.
And with a simple agreement, the Baltimore Orioles will instantly become stocked for a future wild card run, while the Mariners will now be prohibitive favorites to finish third in their division.
What a great deal. It’s like trading your entire box of first edition Klostermans and Couplands for a personally signed second edition of The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Yeah, it looks real good right now, but sometime in 2011 or so, when Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs gets made into an Oscar-winning, Linklater-directed movie starring Daniel Radcliffe and Coupland is sipping Cristal in a 50 Cent video while Michael Chabon is relegated to interviews on Fresh Air when Terri Gross is on vacation… you literary minded folks starting to understand the metaphor?
Seth’s got it pretty well covered. Me, I’m going to go back to banging my head against the wall asking why I renewed my season tickets yet again this year.
I think this will be the deal the undoes Bavasi. Bedard, as everyone has already noted, is a great pitcher. But he’s injury prone and not exactly young.
Bad trade, bad trade, bad trade.
That is the best metaphor I have ever heard.