Frayed Knot wrote: I'm sure Cardinal fans were crushed at the time by his departure but, at age 33 with still eight and one half years to go on his deal, it looks like they didn't just dodge a bullet but a freaking cannonball. And really, from Reggie Jackson to Mo Vaughn, from Garry Matthews, Jr. to Torii Hunter to Vernon Wells, from Josh Hamilton to... to... Collin Cowgill (yeah, I said it!), how many of those cannonballs have the Angels been willing to absorb for somebody else. It's glorious, in it's own way. Their franchise raises their own Statue of Liberty: Give me your aging, your fat, Your former All-Stars yearning to be paid, The wretched injured of your youth-filled rosters. Send these, the speedless, fastball-lost to me, I lift my purse beside the golden door!"