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Sounds like a Mariotti article....or maybe Woody Page.

Who cares?! They probably wouldn't have been able to get the deal done anyway.

Not sure I'm buying this. How would the Twins benefit by keeping the Cubs out of the bidding war??

im sure we could have gotten him for marshall, pie, and maybe anotherprospect since they just threw him away anyway, byt then we wouldnt have been able to get fukudome, and he helps us more

Not sure I'm buying this. How would the Twins benefit by keeping the Cubs out of the bidding war?? METS4LIFE

If T&R were to respond to this question I think their answer would be: Thats an excellent question. Next question??

Keeping the Cubs out does not make sense, I dont think anyone can answer that, not even the Twins.

ah, miscommunication, their loss will be the mets gain.I think.

This is total bs, he was going to a coastal city and that was that. Typical cubs article where they just rip on themselves. I'm sure Bartman was offered in the trade as well. Besides, so far so good on the Gomez kid.

Not sure I'm buying this. How would the Twins benefit by keeping the Cubs out of the bidding war??

METS4LIFE | 04/22/08, 08:15 AM
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Thats actually an excellent point. The Twins gain nothing by excluding a major market club willing to make a deal for Santana. The only thing better than having the Yankees, Sox, and Mets involved is having the Yankees, Sox, Mets and [insert major market club here]. Its a no brainer. Plus its the NL. Its not like they're the White Sox.

Maybe they can trade him for Brian Giles or Coco Crisp- ohh wait, those trades never happened either!!!

"Confusion" has cost the Cubs organization a lot more than Johan Santana.

And "confusion" has cost Cubs fans the ability to recognize that billy goats and Steve Bartman don't have anything to do with the Cubs' century-long futility.

I love this story.

"Hey...I called you yesterday to see if you wanted to go to the mall."

"Really? My dad never gave me the message."

good one Yankee

Yeah, "confusion" cost the Cubs Johan Santana. Perhaps "idiocy" will cost them Brian Roberts.

Thx, Tuna.

I don't think Woody Paige had anything to do with this article Ironfinch. He is Denver Post. Nothing that Woody writes is serious anyway. Mariotti probably did write this one. He likes to think that he knows everything when he actually doesn't know his mouth from his ****hole. He probably takes the **** both of them.

Can you imaging Fukudome playing in the dome? The irony

Johan wanted to go to the Red Sox, Yankees or Mets and why would anyone want to piss off their current team and say yeah I would have considered being traded to the Cubs! I think the Twins would have gotten some better prospects from the Cubs though.

Riddy: I think your referring to Brian Roberts, not Giles.

As for the trade, we can never get the deal done, what's happened has happened, nothing we can do now...