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Moose Milligan Hangout Grand Counsel

Moose Milligan

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We keep Bedard for some 5 year deal....Decide against BRob for Pie and Gallagher.

Go with what we have and wonder why we are the laughing stock of the sport.

What a bunch of morons.

I'm sure wildcard would be tickled pink.

But hey, Tex is all we need, right?

"Hey, how do you erase the federal deficit?"

"Sign Tex!!"

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Seems to me like this is just old news. The Orioles site on mlb.com is not quickest to pick up on info. For now, I'll personally choose to believe the news from Churchill and the hints Belkast keeps giving us, all the while keeping my fingers crossed.

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Seriously?

How does this REMOTELY help us in negotiations?

Seriously.

It doesn't. What it does do is put a nice PR spin on the trade. "We really did all that we could to keep him but he had unreasonable demands...$ 100 million over 7 years..." The backspin to this is Seattle may want to back off if those were Bedard's real terms.
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It doesn't. What it does do is put a nice PR spin on the trade. "We really did all that we could to keep him but he had unreasonable demands...$ 100 million over 7 years..."

Exactly. I'm amazed people here aren't seeing through this. I guess they've all just learned to expect the worst. Can't exactly blame them, but this one is transparent.

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