If “If”s and “But”s were Candy and Nuts…
Headline from a Seattle Times article Sunday by Bob Finnegan, who is covering spring training:
Mariners might have pursued A-Rod
The Mariners say they would have jumped in, spikes up, if they had known the Texas Rangers would be so generous in getting rid of the former Seattle shortstop.
Asked if Seattle would have gone after Rodriguez, Mariners president Chuck Armstrong called it “a no-brainer.”
Right. And I’d be bonking Nicole Kidman if only I’d known Tom Cruise was willing to give her up so easily. This would ignore serious deficiencies on my part. I shouldn’t have to point out the same problem with the Mariners, whose penuriousness has pissed away the better part of an all-star team, as well as a hall of fame manager (Lou Piniella).
Sounds like Armstrong is blaming bad intelligence, doesn’t it? Wonder where he picked up that tactic.
