old boats on the sand. Those two pulled off a caper to end all capers.

Look at it this way. Yeah we’re still paying him, but it didn’t cost us any prospects, the real reason Stoneman paid so much to sign him. He didn’t have to gut the farm system to acquire a player (for better or for worse). As Dad of Vlad says above, “I’m not paying him.” GMJ was the last major acquisition of Stoneman’s regime, the one that notoriously hoarded prospects and was almost impossibly finicky to try and trade with.

Furthermore, up until rather recently, we were hailing Tony Reagins for his well earned moniker of The Ninja. Who here on HH doesn’t remember the shock, surprise, and joy back in ‘08 when they learned that we’d acquired Teixiera? And Kazmir was great for us until the postseason.

At least we won’t be watching S-Rod play next year and know that he was the price we paid for a player like GMJ (Kaz can still rebound!). We the fans pay for Reagin’s trades, for better or for worse through our pain and angst watching our former prospects flourish elsewhere…

Not to mention hitting .320 in that one-hit wonder of a year. GMJ — the Billy Ray Cyrus/Falco/999 of baseball!