As soon as I read “thinking out-loud” I immediately thought about the Jerod Morris situation and how condescending Rosenthal was toward Morris. I don’t think throwing out a bad trade idea is half as bad as suggesting someone is using steroids, but the "reallying thinking out what you’re putting to paper (or blog) is synonymous, thus hypocritical of Rosenthal in nature.

Regardless of that correlation, I would agree the trade idea is asinine.

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I wonder if gammons called rosenthal and asked him to revive this crap from early in the year, offering their scraps and over the hill players for a stud. cherry picking from redsox nation always looking down at other teams in the pecking order “mantle” they wear in their own minds.
gammons and rosenthal, “we’ll trade you a whole ham bone and an eggshell for your stud first baseman”.
such a deal.
call the smithsonian it’s talking to me.

It makes no sense short-term or long-term from either a strategic or financial standpoint. Strategically, you’d end up with a guy who would only be there for one year who couldn’t possibly dream of matching Cabrera’s offensive production, a closer who probably won’t be here more than two years, and a prospect (question mark in and of itself). That doesn’t exactly smell like long-term success either. Financially, Lowell and Papelbon combined would cost about as much as Cabrera, and the proposed long-term salary relief (which is Rosenthal’s entire justification for this trade) is not needed because of all the money that gets freed up at the end of next year.

The national talking heads conveniently forget the fact the Tigers will have payroll “issues” for only one season, 2010. Then SEVERAL contracts fall by the wayside. Willis, Robertson, Ordonez (If they watch his ABs), Bonderman and Inge all leave the payroll.

That’s a good $60 million cleaved off, while still keeping Miggy. The only so-called “bad” deal left would be Guillen at $13M, and he’s off the payroll after 2011.

Long-term, the Tigers aren’t in as bad of shape as some would have you believe.

Ken Rosenthal pisses me off more than anyone else in the media. I’d rather listen to Peter Gammons stutter out absurd trades or Buster Olney be flat wrong then ever have to listen to this condescending a-hole ridicule a blogger and then do essentially what he paints all bloggers as doing — speculating without actual information. He’s a conceited, pompous ass that thinks because he works at Fox Sports and is a media member, he’s exempt to the exact things he depreciates bloggers for doing. He’s one of the more reliable media members and the fact that I have to take his opinion on actual rumors seriously because he’s not as 100% absurd as Olney or Gammons or Heyman makes me sick.

I hate this dude so much.

And I’ve laid out cases why Granderson could be dealt and it makes sense but Rosenthals proposal is absurd. That package for Miguel Cabrera is asinine and completely low-balls the talents of Cabrera. Might as well say we pay for his move, flight out there, all his medical expenses and his pension out of Mike I’s pocket. In fact, Boston should just keep their players. That’d probably just help them out the most. Just throw us a Mo Vaughn rookie card and a number from the Green Monster scoreboard and we’ll be happy.

What a worthless piece of trash he wrote. I hate him.

Why don’t they just sell and/or dismantle off the entire team, including prospects and we’ll forget there was ever an MLB team in Detroit. MSM makes me ill. They need to just leave our boys alone.

Some people just need to shut up and leave baseball talk to the people who actually know what they’re talking about.

Are bad for the Tigers. Cabby was about the only consistent player on this team, he was the only Tiger that hit over .300 this year, ya let’s get rid of him. And giy like Grandy who makes plays like the one early this year wher he caught the ball over the fence & single handedly won the game with that play for Verlander, he’ll return to form even if he had a mean slump last year, & EJ was I’d say our #2, even though Porci had a good rookie season, but if he had anykind of run support EJ wins about 5-10 more games than he did, he was great the 1st 1/2, but I’m sure goin out there & pitching yourself out & nobody wants to put up some point for U has gotta get discouraging. Get rid of the rest of these bums that can’t pitch Bondo, Robertson & Willis, trade them for SS that can hit & maybe unload Mags massive contract, he’s about the only guy it that caliber of player, cuz he’s turnin into a Shef-type player, that was another bad move, but he is gettin up there, & clearly didn’t have the power he used 2, even tho he had a huge 2nd 1/2 of the season.

We give up crap and you give us gold.

We’ve had Jackson, Granderson, Laird, and Inge actually rumored in trade talks, Cabrera “suggested,” and Verlander and Seay speculated upon. Is there anyone desirable we’re actually allowed to keep?