CLIFF LEE TWITTER TRADE RUMOR CHRONOLOGY:
6:45 a.m.: Cliff Lee for Wilson Ramos and Kevin Slowey "all but done"
7:43 a.m.: Cliff Lee for Justin Smoak "just waiting for the ink"
8:53 a.m.: Cliff Lee for Jesus Montero, David Adams "just waiting for parties to agree on third prospect"
10:40 a.m.: Cliff Lee for Jesus Montero, David Adams, Zach McAllister "a done deal"
11:33 a.m.: Cliff Lee and Jose Lopez for Jason Heyward, Julio Teheran, Mike Minor, Christian Bethancourt, Adam Milligan "would be done already except the parties misunderstood which Peachtree was the street where they were meeting to sign"
12:00 p.m.: Pujols and Hafner, Kearns, Peralta, LaPorta, Santana, Redmond, Wood to Seattle; left arm and torso of Cliff Lee to St. Louis; remainder of Cliff Lee returns to Cleveland, trade "only needs union approval"
12:58 p.m.: Cliff Lee for Stephen Strasburg, John Wall, Alex Ovechkin, 13% royalty on all McNabb jerseys retroactive to February 2010, Naval Observatory "a complete irreversible lock"
1:12 p.m.: Cliff Lee for eternal souls of baseball fans under age of 60 plus permanent drilling rights in all US coastal waters and ANWR rights through 2510 "just waiting for formality of agency, devil approval; already greenlit by heaven"
I hear Michael Beasley's available now.
ReplyDeleteWhat's sad is that once a deal is done, there is virtually nothing left for mariner's fans to get excited about this season. Somehow ichiro reaching 200 hits again isn't enough after the disappointment of this season thus far. But it sure has been fun to watch cliff lee pitch....
ReplyDeleteSo he's been traded... to the RNC?
ReplyDeleteHe's been SMOAK'd, it's being reported.
ReplyDeleteNO MORE SMOAK PUNS. Really, oh my god, NO MORE SMOAK PUNS. God, that guy must have developed plate discipline just by not taking a swing every time he heard a Smoak pun for the hundredth time that day.
ReplyDeleteSo I take it you find Justin credible.
ReplyDeleteI do not understand why there was not an hour long tv event on this signing. So confused.
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