Erik Bedard Rumors: Tuesday

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I've seen Seattle offer junk or half-ass an attempt at getting a player...

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Say Friday you accept or you find someone else to deal with permenantly.

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Mickolio or Butler is better than the forth prospect going from NYM to MIN...

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If you can't get your player to keep his mouth shut, it's because of poor leadership... If Jones is talking than Bavasi isn't leading and that goes in the Mariner's scorecard under deficiences that Bill Bavasi has shown to possess.

NOW!! (DRUM ROLL)

Here's the 1 MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION!!!

You own a team valued at 359 million dollars, you are a successful lawyer who has made his money on being right more times than you're wrong, you have learned to trust nobody you've put in play as management over the last 15 years, and you see attendance and profits disappearing simultaneously, being that you've never really known defeat you figure your ability to deal with situations and to make good choices can be the beacon of hope for your franchise...

What way do you run your team?!

A) Being a self-righteous ass who thinks himself mightier than all and who arrogantly exerts his athority upon others, you find out that a punk 22 year old AAA player has the nerve to talk about your team's trade before you have even okayed it. Feeling undermined, you inform the press that Sherrill, Jones, and Bavasi were getting ahead of themselves and that there is not a pending trade between Seattle and Baltimore. You immediately feed the press a story about how you knew nothing of the deal and have AM call all the other GMs to place feelers out on a Bedard to xxxxxxx trade! Finally, you act surprised that AM would go behind your back and you tell the reporters that all you want is to resign Bedard and that two months worth of intense negotiations was a misunderstanding within the system and that if we knew he wanted more years we would've given that to him and not tried to trade him to every team this side of the Pacific Ocean. It's not like we didn't sit down face-to-face and talk about it, he could have told me then!

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B)You find out after two months of negotiating that the key player your GM has been trying to trade for is damaged goods because the local free newspaper knew something your panel of experts and million dollar executives didn't. In a fit of rage you call up MacPhail and tell him to order another player be included to keep this deal alive or discussions are through. You immediately feed the press a story about how you knew nothing of the deal and how MacPhail has not alerted you to anything being close to done yet. To build back up Erik's value, you contact other GMs to place feelers out on a Bedard to xxxxxxx trade! Finally, you act surprised that AM would go behind your back and you tell the reporters that all you want is to resign Bedard and that two months worth of intense negotiations was a misunderstanding within the system and that if we knew he wanted more years we would've given that to him and not tried to trade him to every team this side of the Pacific Ocean. It's not like we didn't sit down face-to-face and talk about it, he could have told me then! With everything going wong around you, it is not your fault though because an organization should be able to operate without the owner... Even the way in which I own my franchise has no overall effect on the results that are gained by the players and my baseball operations staff.

Good point, number two is far more believeable! (dripping with sarcasm)

What are you freaking talking about? You are just running all over the place waiving your hands in the air completely missing the actual conversation at hand… I can make up fantastic fables based of my theories too; it doesn’t mean it’s the only possibilities of the fables are built on any strong evidence. And what did the first post & recap in the first half have to do with the fables you present? And what did it have to do with the things I said? You sure do have a knack of saying tons of stuff in the most outlandish way possible to hide the fact that you actually aren’t coming anywhere near an actual point…

“By the way Bedard it looks like, will be a Mariner by the weekend!”

…So what happened to all the “this is Angelos shooting it down with all his meddling” theories then?