Well, there goes next season. If anybody thought we'd get a different Sabean after the contract extension, they were wrong.

Sigh.

Rob, I gotta ask, since you don't ever answer the question... Does it signal a shift in what? You never get beyond talking about win totals.

My question to the McCoven:
Would you trade for Swisher and if so, what kind of trade?

I think this moves the idea of us signing Jason Bay from "probably a bad idea" to "almost certainly a bad idea".

Fangraphs article looking at players who are over and undervalued based on RBI's. This is what I thought particularly funny and interesting:

"2007-2009 Leaders and Trailers (qualifed, 250 RBI minimum):

1. Jeff Francoeur, 1.30 RBI/24RC. .313 wOBA, 252 RBI, -17.62 Sitch
2. Bengie Molina, 1.28 RBI/24RC. .317 wOBA, 256 RBI, 23.29 Sitch
3. Robinson Cano, 1.28 RBI/24RC. .346 wOBA, 254 RBI, -53.47 Sitch
4. Garrett Atkins, 1.19 RBI/24RC. .339 wOBA, 258 RBI, -6.31 Sitch
5. Mike Lowell, 1.18 RBI/24RC. .359 wOBA, 268 RBI, -4.79 Sitch
6. Ryan Howard, 1.16 RBI/24RC. .385 wOBA, 423 RBI, 22.80 Sitch
…
43. Lance Berkman, 0.80 RBI/24RC. .397 wOBA, 288 RBI, 25.32 Sitch
44. Albert Pujols, 0.80 RBI/24RC. .440 wOBA, 354 RBI, 15.22 Sitch
45. Hanley Ramirez, 0.72 RBI/24RC. .409 wOBA, 254 RBI, -27.34 Sitch

Note how much the Sitch scores fluctuate on both ends of the rankings and draw your own conclusions. Any list with Frenchy and Bengie on one end and Pujols and Han-Ram on the other speaks for itself."

Bengie was #1 on the context-neutral version of these rankings, found:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-2009-carter-batista-award

The above is a link to the schedule for Tuesday, November 24th MLB Network where Juan Maricial will be interviewed by Bob Costas' Studio 42 show.

Idiot.

Bud making sense? It seems impossible, yet there it is..
talk - action = 0 though, so we'll see how many more November classics there are.