Littlefield's ego

After seeing Perrotto's article today, after detailing Nate McLouth's food poisoning and Ryan Doumit's sore shoulder, which cut their winter seasons' short, about how Littlefield had "interest" in Josh Beckett I have to wonder just how big DL's ego has gotten. First, shortly after the team denies they will be selling to Mark Cuban, resulting in a mostly insulted public, a rumor about him as a candidate for the Red Sox GM position magically appears. Now today, after several huge deals go down in a week and all the Pirates can muster is signing Scott Strickland and hiring a career .220 hitter as a hitting coach, Littlefield casually mentions that he was interested in Beckett, but didn't want to take on Lowell's salary. WHAT? The Red Sox gave up Hanley Ramirez, their top prospect period, and one of their top pitching prospects. What do we possibly have that could equal their package? Unless Littlefield was offering Duke, Maholm, and probably someone like Walker he wasn't in the conversation for Beckett, end of story. Has Littlefield's ego really gotten so big that everytime something negative happens to the Pirates, he thinks he can just make a story up and smooth everything over? Because it seems to me that it's much more likely that the "rumor" about Littlefield being considered in Boston originated from Littlefield himself saying to someone "Well, I'm smart, I'm from New England, and I've done a fantastic job here in Pittsburgh" than the Red Sox *actually* considering hiring the moron. And there's no way his "involvement" in the Beckett deal was anything more than him saying to Florida "Hey, I'd like Beckett" and getting told to shove his head where the sun don't shine unless he was actually considering trading away a considerable amount of what is thought to be the future of this franchise. I mean these aren't even credible rumors that are surfacing. He was clearly feeling very full of himself after the Bay deal (did anyone else see his shit-eating grin on TV or hear him on the radio?). I wonder if it's possible to even get one extra person into his office with that enormous head of his right now.