The Out of Town Scoreboard

Group think -- not a good thing. It's as true in baseball as it is in anything else. One minute somebody's suggesting a crazy trade idea, the next someone else is seconding, around and around it goes and before you know it, you've just traded Scott Kazmir for Victor Zambrano. (Whether this process accurately recounts the discussion leading to the Kazmir-Zambrano swap is beyond me, but really, how far off could it be?).In sports as in life, it's always important to break out of your bubble and understand how a given situation looks from outside the prism of your own perspective.As regular readers are aware, I've been pretty down on the Mets all offseason. It's not because of the moves they have or haven't made, it's because I don't think there's any combination of moves that makes them a viable contender next season.But as I read Jeff Schultz's column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (which originally appeared on December 11), it dawned ...