I Hate the Trade Deadline

[Guest Edgy DC]

Thanks Rotty for saying it. Now scream it. I've had butterflies for two weeks.

Needs an acronymn. Metfans Against Deadline Deals.

Great Mets of the sevenites, we have a better success rate bunting than dealing at the deadline.

Shotgun Trades Are Rash Transactions. Some dumb crap like that. Maybe I'll start a website.

[metirish]

Not sure if I've recovered from last years trade deadline yet.

MADD START

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

] Not sure if I've recovered from last years trade deadline yet.

I still haven't gotten over 2001's deadline trades.

[metirish]

Yes, the Wendell/Cook for Chen trade, and the previous week Pratt was traded....a bad week indeed.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

It's not the trades I hate, it's how speculation about them turns everyone into the World's Worst Journalist and/or America's Most Outrageous Talk-Show Caller-Inner.

[Elster88]

I think the Mets should trade Heilman, Ishii and Glavine for Guerrero and Colon.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Rick Reed for Matt Lawton wasn't a stellar deal either.

[Guest Rotblatt]

I'm fond of STAY PUT but I don't know how to make it work.

Summer Trades Are Your Pointless & Unbelievable Trash

Stay True--Avoid Year-end Proposals that Unnerve True-fans

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[seawolf17]

I heard a moron last night with Richard Neer suggest the Mets -- in a deal that would "really fill holes on both rosters" -- deal Beltran for Cano. I had to shut off the radio before my ears exploded.

[Elster88]

STAY PUT

Stop
Trading
Away
Young
Players
U
Turd

[Guest Edgy DC]

STAYPUT!

Stop Trashing All Your Plans Under Pressure!

[metirish]

Seawolf in all fairness Neer is the pitts, he all but said last night that the Soriano deal was done then caught himself and said this.."but hey maybe the Texas brass are listening to this show going no way are we trading Sori for Zambrano"...yeah Dick, like the Rangers are tuning in .

[Elster88]

="Edgy DC"]STAYPUT! Stop Trashing All Your Plans Under Pressure!

STAY PUP?

[Guest Rotblatt]

Ooh, those are good . . .

[Guest Edgy DC]

You're right. STAYPUP sucks.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Sexy Transaction Anxiety Yellows People’s Underwear Today!

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: You're right. STAYPUP sucks.

No it doesn't. Change pressure to tension?

[Guest Edgy DC]

OK!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm only opposed to a deal if it involves guys like Milledge or Petit.

I'd be happy with a deal that sends a starting pitcher for an infielder who can hit.

I doubt that the Dodgers would do it, but if Glavine for Kent was on the table I'd give it a green light.

[G-Fafif]

Like minds are thinking great on the subject of the trade deadline...

http://www.gothambaseball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=807

Keep it in your pocket, Omar.

[Guest silverdsl]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: It's not the trades I hate, it's how speculation about them turns everyone into the World's Worst Journalist and/or America's Most Outrageous Talk-Show Caller-Inner.

There's my problem with the time just before the trade deadline as well. Every random rumor, no matter how outrageous or unlikely gets dissected and discussed like it's the key to solving world peace. I just want to hear about trades that actually might happen or even better are really happening.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Toaster Oven Society --- tell us about it when it actually pops up.

I like Prince's use of "ragingly useless."

Reading Prince's angle, it strikes me that the trade deadline could be likened to Super Bowl Sunday for chronic gamblers. It's Go All Out to Get Even and Save Your Ass Day.

[seawolf17]

G-Fafif wrote: Keep it in your pocket, Omar.

I read that as "Keep it in your pants, Omar." I did a double-take.

[Theoldmole]

It doesn't actually pop up in a toaster oven, does it? You need a regular old-fashioned toaster for that.

But not too old-fashioned. Then you get to the kind where you have to open the sides.

[Guest Edgy DC]

My toaster-oven had a pop-up mechanism.

I'm thinking Sammy Sosa-type thoughts. Sammy is living proof that this regime has some experience in the art of the non-deal. I'm putting my hope in that.

[Willets Point]

<--- Symbol of the toaster oven society.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I Trade the Hate Deadline.

I Tread the Date Headline

[metsmarathon]

STAND PAT

stop trading away new, dashing prospects, and teambuild!

[MFS62]

OH JOE SCHULTZ!

Just read that neither Mike Cameron nor Lastings Millege are in the starting lineups for their teams tonight.

Both of them for somebody?

I hate trading deadline speculation, too.

Make a freakin' trade for a power hitting lefty first baseman or get off the pot already.

Later

[smg58]

Well, today would be a good day to give Cameron off, so I'm not sure I'd read anything into that.