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Friday, August 01, 2008

What is worse?  Old ladies yapping gossip about neighbors, or grown men yapping rumors about trades?

By Tangotiger, 01:25 PM

I mean, really, look at all these expected trades, and tracking of gossip.  This is as bad as Jim Cramer making his forecasts, or the weatherman telling you what’s going to happen next week.  It’s like talking about your dreams: it’s not real, and two days later, who the heck remembers their dream?

Manny was right: trading him for Favre would have ended two soap operas. 

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