Oh, the smell of pants burning

“When we were presented with that, we thought long and hard and obviously we value Rios more than we valued the other guy and that’s why he’s still here.”

J.P. lies cause he thinks we're dumb. The Rios for Timmy deal sat on Sabean's desk for a week or so, and then Sabean, cause he is mildly retarded, he signed Aaron Rowand and nixed the Rios deal. This was published. In the press. It was commented on, by all. And in the press, it seemed like J.P. was the one dangling Rios for pitching at the Winter meetings, not the other way around. But it's not a lie if he knows it's true. J.P.'s totally testing us.

But J.P. got Lexi to sign on the dotted line, so I guess Lexi likes the smell of bullshit. Maybe they all come up with this shit together.

Vernon feels he could make fun Zaun about being named in the Mitchell Report. "Hey,dude, remember when you were a journeyman backup catcher, and you allegedly used to shoot drugs into your body between shots of Jack Daniels, and then you cleaned up and got a second chance, and ate breakfast, on tv, and provided your own clothes, on tv, and then all of that shit you used to (allegedly) do was published in a government sponsored 'report'? So funny... Just a sec, lemme phone Troy in St. Louis, he loves talking about this shit..."