I'd say you have me there, but Marquis only pitched the first half of April. While Jackson has a no hitter... He's also #1 on the list of ER given up by a pitcher this season, #1 on WP (13 in July!?!) AND making $9 MILLION NEXT YEAR! Really, Jackson just literally blows my mind about how smart some of these people in the FOs really are when it comes to baseball. That other teams then show interest in a guy like that with a contract like that? Boggling.

And Cabrera wasn't this decade. I made sure I safeguarded myself by limiting it to this year, yet making it sound big. So there!

They made it hard as hell to get him and rightfully so I understand completely why they want to keep him

He said, she said.

Rizzo only has to say Kenny had the wrong idea and that will take care of things.

Here is a more recent link about Thomas and Williams:

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/deluca/2541276,CST-SPT-deluca28.article

I say this as a lifelong Sox fan.  Your posts are coming very close to trolling, if not having already crossed into that realm.  Why the hell would you expect Nats fans to be sympathetic to the ideal that their FO would willingly trade one of its best players when the team is closer to contending than you obviously think?

Here's one about him and his buddy Frank Thomas.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2345972

Fun game to attend tonight with two exceptions:

- the grandmother in section 319 who complained to me and my wife that my son was asking too many questions about the game and was being too loud.  He's 9 and he is passionate about trying to learn the sport.  Meanwhile, her daughter sneaks in a bottle of wine and her grandkids look bored out of their minds except when they started punch fighting each other

- the leak behind my seat that oozed mucky drain water out all over the concrete where I was sitting and left a small puddle at my feet. (I'm reporting it tomorrow, maybe they'll comp me free Lexus Diamond Club seats in exchange for the puddle.)

the fireworks show was really fun too.

Whoa, all this heated back-and-forth about who did what to whom, all based on speculation from guys like... Keith Law?

As a fan of both teams, I call BS on the Rizzo-back-out-of-a-deal slant.  If Rizzo wanted Jackson, he could have traded for him straight up or acquired him in a three-way-deal with any team interested in Dunn, not just the Sox.  This all seems like a bunch of writers tripping over themselves to tweet something meaningful in terms of "updates."  Until Williams or Rizzo makes a statement confirming a possible such deal, I'll put it in the same category as "the Nats don't have what it takes to sign a big-time FA," or "Peavy would never waive his NT clause to pitch in the AL."  In other words, idle rumor.

Daniel Cabrera

u forgot mike hampton for last decade