A one track mind

The LaRoche thing will just not go away. Today Dejan chronicles the attempt of Littlefield to trade Gonzalez straight up for players he's not worth that play on teams with GMs that could think circles around Littlefield. Charlie has an amusing and likely only somewhat fictional account of what the phone conversations between DL and Schuerholz must go like.

I don't really know what to add to this conversation anymore. It seems entirely plausible that the Pirates will steadfastly refuse to give Duffy up to complete the LaRoche deal, then turn around in March and deal him to Chicago for Jacque Jones (link via Buccowire). Maybe I'm reading too much into an after-thought item in the Chicago Tribune on this one, but that sort of thing just has "Dave Littlefield" written allllll over it.