Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

It takes two to tango. Can’t shoot without bullets. The chicken is involved but the pig is commited. Ok, that one not so much, but the others are all age old sayings depicting mutual interest or lack their of.

So why do some baseball GM’s, who shall remain nameless, seem to think they can simply run and gun from thier ballpark offices and make things happen when clearly there are no other interested parties. If a player, any player, is on the trading block, common sense tells us another team must do two things. Have the desire to make an offer on the player, and the means to make an offer. If those two things are present then the team that is dangling the player may have some action. Its only at that point second guessing cases of trades can make their way through our panel of judges: Ernie Broglio, Ray Sadecki and Delino DeShields.

However, no matter how good a player may be, how pressing a need the dangling club may think another club has for that player, if the aforementioned aspects are not present in the minds of the potential buyer, nothing will happen. Seems simple, and yet some men, responsible for running some of the largest businesses in the country seem to overlook that fact.

Maybe a discussion on involvement v. commitment is warranted after all.