Mil­wau­kee receives: RHP Scott Line­brink Padres receives: RHP Will Inman LHP Steve Gar­ri­son LHP Joe Thatcher Thoughts: Line­brink was a nobody until the Padres got him off waivers from the Astros

I’m a big fan of the guys at firejoemorgan.com , espe­cially since I’ve been known to dis­ect arti­cles like they do while read­ing them. So I took a shot at tak­ing apart one of the New York-based news­rags (sadly, prob­a­bly the best of the three tabloids) arti­cles focus­ing on one of my new Yan­kee man-crushes, […]

I’m nor­mally a fan of the XM Base­ball morn­ing show with Buck Mar­tinez (who will be for­ever ruined to me thanks to Triple Play ’99) and the other guy, but they were pulling some things out of their ass this morn­ing. They were doing some seem­ingly “on the fly” dis­cus­sion of last year’s dead­line trades […]

Alex Rodriguez is sched­uled to make $27 mil­lion a year for the next three years after this sea­son is com­plete. He can elect to ter­mi­nate this con­tract in order to receive more money, upwards of $32 mil­lion a year, and tack­ing on addi­tional years to his con­tract that would likely be his last huge money […]

Ready for some fun, kids?� Let’s play “You’re The Man­ager.” � Base­ball man­agers make very impor­tant deci­sions that their years of expe­ri­ence in base­ball can give them insight that an out­sider like you or me can only dream to have.� But let’s pre­tend, shall we?