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Deal with Cards in the works? (Ambiguous Tweet from STL Beat Writer 2012)

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By the way, this tweet deserves no credence. If I wanted to start a fake Twitter account, I'd create half a dozen, then wait for a hint of a rumor to emerge and "break" a possible but not the most likely scenario as fact. Keep it vague. If you hit, you'll "break" it first and could probably ride that for months ("I got some bad info on that last rumor but I've got real connections. I broke the Jones trade and nobody else was close!"). If you miss, move on to the next Twitter account and the next rumor until you get lucky. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy and the two guys calling Fielder to different teams were the same person.

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By the way, this tweet deserves no credence. If I wanted to start a fake Twitter account, I'd create half a dozen, then wait for a hint of a rumor to emerge and "break" a possible but not the most likely scenario as fact. Keep it vague. If you hit, you'll "break" it first and could probably ride that for months ("I got some bad info on that last rumor but I've got real connections. I broke the Jones trade and nobody else was close!"). If you miss, move on to the next Twitter account and the next rumor until you get lucky. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy and the two guys calling Fielder to different teams were the same person.

That occurred to me as well.

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By the way, this tweet deserves no credence. If I wanted to start a fake Twitter account, I'd create half a dozen, then wait for a hint of a rumor to emerge and "break" a possible but not the most likely scenario as fact. Keep it vague. If you hit, you'll "break" it first and could probably ride that for months ("I got some bad info on that last rumor but I've got real connections. I broke the Jones trade and nobody else was close!"). If you miss, move on to the next Twitter account and the next rumor until you get lucky. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy and the two guys calling Fielder to different teams were the same person.

I agree with you, but what is the motivation for the people that do this sort of stuff. I don't twitter or facebook or anything, so my question is: Is there a way to make this pay off someway? To me it seems like a lot of work unless some how I get a check, lol.

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This is ridiculous. All the Cards want to do is free up some money and make some room for Oswalt. It wouldn't require a megatrade. Besides with the TEX meeting scheduled for Mon., nothing will happen until after that. Oswalt would love to play for TEX if the money is right. Contender, Maddux PC, closer to MS than STL.

It doesn't seem like it, but Arlington and St. Louis are pretty much equidistant from Mississippi.

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523 from TEX. 666 from STL. But Nolan Ryan and Maddux are the clinchers, IMO. Plus $$$ of course.

I just used Google maps to get the times, and they were both around 8 hours.

Personally...I think he stays in the NL, but I don't disagree that Texas has plenty to offer. Could go either way.

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I think a deal including Guthrie only happens if the Cards don't get Oswalt. If they get him, a deal for Jones could happen with some of the Cards surplus pitching coming back to us.

Why would the cards want Guthrie?They have better and cheaper options.

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Why would the cards want Guthrie?They have better and cheaper options.

Frankly, I'm not sure why they would want him. I'm just responding to the"tweats" speculation. For that matter, I'm not sure why they would want Jones. Maybe for his power but Jay had a very good year last year.

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