some decisions are easy

as a former yankees ticket package holder, i remain on their mailing list. just yesterday i had thought it might be time to sever ties, when i immediately realized that a window into the thinkings of a rival team might provide interesting information. today it provided an email titled "yankees make deadline deal." for some reason, i assumed they had acquired halladay, and i was excited to open the email and find out that it was jerry hairston jr! the peals of laughter in my head began immediately. i still love the fact that toronto absolutely refuses to trade their most valuable chip in order to allegedly compete in 2010 in a division that has the defending al champs and two franchises that seemingly print their own money and have managed to amass their own young talent while outbidding each other for every free agent worth having.

derisive laughter for the day goes to:

the new york yankees

jp ricciardi

my favorite team isn't perfect today either, but i don't think i can derisively laugh at them

mark, sox, perfect

i received an important tip via telephone today: mark buehrle had completed 8 innings of a perfect game and i could watch the rest online. my laptop wasn't going to work - i tried a dozen or more times to get the stream to load - but a nearby computer did the trick, and i caught the tense first out of the ninth inning as wise saved the perfect game and a home run with a feat of defense in center field. the strikeout for out two was a perfect moment of exhilaration, and the groundout to end the game provided the sigh of relief and final realization that the dream of something amazing had come true. just a few days removed from tom watson's playoff loss at the british open, sports history continues to come at us.

fantasy baseball update: i'm in first place, and if halladay actually did get traded to the national league that would wreck the pitching staff of my chief antagonist. what's with ricciardi basically saying 'i'm asking too much to get a deal done?' please just take the prospects and run; you have no chance next year and halladay's value now is immense; a year and a half of this guy in his prime? wouldn't the yankees be going for this deal if they could? would you trade their young guys for a title? or possibly two? i thought so.