I do like the thought of this news coming on top of the team bringing Jed Lowrie back, seeing as they're the only team where he has enough goodwill to bounce the embarrassment of the last two years into a subhead. "Gosh, the A's are really digging in the trash. They just re-signed Lowrie." "Well, he gave us some good years. I realize there's only the slimmest hope that he has more than 25 cents worth of baseball left in him, but I like him and if he's gotta bow out, it's cool that he'll bow out here." "They just announced that they've traded Carpenter and I think Lowrie's the new thirdbaseman." "Ummm ... ." It's like the Mets bringing in Curtis Granderson on a non-roster free-agent contract. It's more or less cool to have him working out with the team again in St. Lucie, signing some autographs with his glove on his head, and then hanging it up in two weeks. But then, you hear news of Michael Conforto being on the trading block ... .