Your Thoughts Exactly

The P-I today reports that the Tigers turned down a Meche for Inge swap, saving Bavasi much like Vizquel's "failed" physical. It seems Bavasi is trying to win a game or two more this year instead of retooling for next year. Yesssss - the fans will be supremely pleased if we finish 18 games under .500 instead of 20, Bill, so keep up the good work and we will start praising you like we're M's ownership themselves. Seriously - Brandon Inge. Thanks to a monster hitting streak lately, he's hitting .303/.374/.491, but his career line remains .215/.275/.343. Yes, he's entering his prime at 27 years old, so the front office could see this as correcting the Carlos Guillen fiasco, but with Guillen you could look at his numbers over his career and see steady improvement heading into his prime years. Inge's best OPS came last year at a whopping .604. He also had his best batting average last year - .203!!! This is not a guy we can expect to help turn us around over the next few years. At best, he's another Spiezio (at least he'd be much cheaper), but we probably wouldn't be so lucky.

Speaking of utter stupidity, the P-I also runs a headline about a young chap from Pasco who is good with ball and foot, saying "Hottest prospect in years," with the subtitle "Pasco's Zimmerman hailed as best young American since Adu." Wha? Adu is 15, is 5 starts into his professional career, and really hit the scene last fall. How does an editor let this title make it to the printer?

(Marmar - you shouldn't have changed your predictions. You had Greece over France in the Quarters way back before the tourney began, and then you change that, and look what Greece does. I hope you still have a shot at the 5 grand.)