Talkin' Baseball

About once a summer the need to talk baseball just overwhelms me and I have to throw out a few thoughts on how to fix the Seattle Mariners.There's been a lot of scuttlebutt lately about how the M's might actually be buying in this year's trading deadline derby. If you ask me, that would be a missed opportunity of a lifetime. Yes, the M's are in the AL West race but the only way they win this race is by significant upgrades to the starting pitching and run production. The only way to do that at the trading deadline is by trading away young talent. I say, let the Mariners take advantage of another ballclub for a change.The time is right - not to build this team to compete in the post-season in 2009 - but to compete for world championships for the next decade. It's time to SIGNIFICANTLY reload the M's farm system. Why now? You have the perfect storm right now, that's why. You have a handful of guys in their contract year; you have veterans like Sween...