Waiver Traids

[Edgy MD]

Rodney to the A's. Fernando Rodney.

I get the idea he gets dealt to somebody for the stretch run every year.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Rodney to the A's. Fernando Rodney. I get the idea he gets dealt to somebody for the stretch run every year.

Means he'll never play for the Mets.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Rodney to the A's. Fernando Rodney. I get the idea he gets dealt to somebody for the stretch run every year. Means he'll never play for the Mets.

Ouch! Sad, but likely more accurate than we Mets fans would like to admit.

[Edgy MD]

Well, he's 41, so he's unlikely to have too many more seasons in him.

But I had come to understand that insulting the Mets meant arguing that blowing good money on fat, old, macho, flame-throwing, loose-cannon, mercurial Dominican closers was exactly the sort of thing they would do.