Trade Talks with the Padres

[Centerfield]

They also signed an infielder from Korea. All of which suggests that they are going for it.

Whatever the Padres are offering in a trade will be players that they don’t think will help them win now.

[ashie62]

The Padres are not behaving like a team that is going to sell assets willy nilly anytime soon

Steve Cohen got cranky with Puma online today regarding team payroll.

You can see the stress from within the organization right now

And on cue former Mets manager and dick pick specialist Mickey Callaway says that whatever the Mets are doing "it better work"

[Edgy MD]

Having not seen the pics, I cannot comment on whether he qualifies as a specialist, or merely an amateur enthusaist.

The number of former employees acting as ****-talking sages commenting on the team is kind of fun, though.

[ashie62]

Conversations about talks with the Padres have ground to a halt

The Padres sign Michael King, the Mets make a few moves and it's almost as if there was never anything to any of this if there ever was in a life during wartime

[smg58]

I work under the assumption that at the start of the offseason, everybody talks to everybody about everybody. The reporters sift through lots of info, and probably base their focus (at least initially) on what will get their team's fans talking more than on what has traction. And that's OK. We talked, mission accomplished.

[Edgy MD]

Walking away is a committed decision too.