If any of you NYC types see my wife today, tell her I said hey.

Lakin wants us to all get on gchat to discuss HBD with him.

I believe I have actually discussed HBD with two people via gchat before.  I felt unclean each time.

Yeah, me too.

Stupid bragging rights.

Lakin has been busy.

So bored.  FA should be real-time.  I need to chat with a few of these targets.

Kickers: David Buehler, the Cowboys kicker who played at USC, recently beat Dallas defensive back DeAngelo Smith in a race. “He was talking a bunch of trash, so I just shut him up. I knew I had the speed. It made me a little bit of capital, as well. So, there was a little bit on the line,” Buehler told a KESN radio station in Dallas. Empowered, Buehler now wants to take on receiver Patrick Crayton, perhaps some linebackers, and maybe even a running back (not Felix Jones, obviously). Buehler is also a weight-lifting machine (put up 225 pounds 23 times)

Oh, patrickm accepted my offer.  Now I think I screwed up.

Yeah.  I am not real sure why you wanted that pitcher though.

I kind of like him as a 4/5, and he's young and should stay relatively cheap.

Rollins was never going to be more than a 4th or 5th OF for me.  Sasaki will be good, but I felt he was expendable.  Fairly low-risk acquisition of pitching depth, hopefully, since if things go right Rowand will slot in as a spot starter and injury insurance.

A very TM deal.

Damn.

It is funny that now I'm trying to talk myself out of that pair of guys being valuable so soon after trying to talk them up in the Roosevelt context.

Maybe it's kind of stupid/misdirected, but I doubt Sasaki's going to be good enough to make it truly awful in any meaningful way.

KK to AAA.