The GM Meetings Begin Today

I had thought of something to write about these meetings and then realized I didn’t really care. Nothing will happen that wouldn’t have happened without the meetings. We’ll hear a few rumors over the next few days and read about how the GM Meetings lay the groundwork for trades that take place weeks later or don’t even take place at all. I’m pretty sure the GMs can lay the groundwork for trades without being in the same location. I’m not really sure why this is even a big deal. Free agents aren’t yet able to negotiate with any team other than their own, the economy sucks, and the Cubs have little to no money to spend. To make things worse, they appear intent on making the 2010 team suck as much as possible. Bradley will be traded for garbage unless you happen to believe that Bruce Miles is on to something when he brings up the possibility of trading Bradley and prospects for Halladay. Nonsense. Maybe Bradley, prospects (Castro, Vitters, Cashner) for Halladay AND Vernon Wells. I’m not even sure why this was written since there is literally no way on earth that the Jays would trade Halladay for Bradley and prospects. In the end, the Cubs will trade Bradley for someone like Aaron Rowand who the fans will offer to give free blow jobs to at the Cubs Conference in January. They might end up signing Mike Cameron who will be called racist names the first time he strikes out 4 times. The fans will say it did not happen and that they haven’t heard anything like that. The media will say the same thing. Cameron will be further disliked and then some douchebag will throw **** at him after his next 4 strikeout game. The media and the fans will blame Cameron for all of this. We’ve seen Cubs fans and the beat writers do this far too many times, but it will happen with the very next black player that the Cubs sign who gets off to a bad start. It will happen. You’re either blind, crazy or stupid if you think otherwise. The Cubs might get a middle infielder, but probably won’t. They might look for a leadoff hitter, but probably won’t get one. They should re-sign Rich Harden, but won’t even offer him arbitration, which is just plain stupid. Since they won’t re-sign Harden, they should sign another top of the rotation pitcher, but won’t. They’ll wait for Lilly who will undoubtedly have a setback and won’t return for longer than expected. Then he’ll be worse than expected because of the surgery. Zambrano will be criticized this offseason for things that don’t sense by people who shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce. The Cubs will probably even try to trade Zambrano, but won’t get as much as they’d demand in a trade. It appears the Cubs won’t re-sign Reed Johnson, which is bad because he was apparently the team leader in 2008. I thought that guy was DeRosa, but it’s somehow become Reed Johnson over the last few weeks. Anyway, that’s your preview for these meaningless meetings. If you have a problem with this big and mostly unreadable paragraph then go **** yourself.