Will this Trade Ever Happen?

Associated Press

Hey, you know what's fun on this Friday night?

It's following the is-he-or-isn't-he story of whether Dan Haren is being traded from the Angels to Chicago for Cubs' closer Carlos Marmol.

I first read reports of the trade about 9 p.m. Eastern time. A little later, FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal tweeted a not-so-fast comment regarding the deal. Tweet after tweet after retweet followed Rosenthal's lead.

Now, at about 10:25 p.m. Eastern, reports are coming out, via Twitter of course, that, though Marmol has ok'd the trade, the deal is dead for now and the Angels are talking with other clubs about the 30-year-old Haren. Marmol, who had 20 saves in 2012, had reported told a Spanish language media outlet the deal was done and he was headed to Los Angeles.

Oh, the confusion!

So who knows what happens next? My guess is – and this is an extremely uneducated, un-sourced guess – I'll wake up Saturday morning and read that Haren is now a Cub and Marmol is now with the Angels and I will have wasted valuable time on Twitter on Friday night when I could have been watching Phineas and Ferb with my adorable kids.

UPDATE: If the Cubs really want Haren, they can have him and keep Marmol. The Angles decline the option on Haren, making the righty a free agent. Haren gets a $3.5 million buyout from the Angels.