Blue Jays Are Melking It, Baby!

Don't take my word for this, but trending right now on Twitter is a rumor the Toronto Blue Jays are working to bring Babe Ruth back from the dead to hit clean up, maybe pitch a little, for the 2013 season.

It's not enough, is it, you greedier-than-Trump Blue Jays, that you took advantage of Jeffrey Loria's bat-$#!t crazy ways of running a baseball franchise to secure a trade for nearly all of the Miami Marlins' good players?

Sorry about that. I must have been channeling my inner Brian Cashman.

Ok, where was I?

Who knows at this point if this is a good move or not, but Canada's only team today has reportedly signed Melky Cabrera to a two-year deal with $16 million.

This past season in San Francisco, Cabrera was tearing it up – he was hitting .346 – and was well on his way to securing a lucrative free agent contract. But then, as you know, Cabrera, the All-Star Game's MVP who helped secure home-field advantage for the Giants, was suspended for 50 games after testing positive in August for performance enhancing drugs.

Now, Cabrera is back, but will he have the same motivation to light it up with his bat the way he did in his contract walk year?

We'll see.

In the meantime, ESPN's Buster Olney, after the news of Cabrera's signing broke, Tweeted the Blue Jays' possible lineup for 2013.

Possible Jays' lineup: SS Reyes LF Cabrera RF Bautista DH Encarnacion 3B Lawrie 1B Lind C Arencibia CF Rasmus 2B Izturis/Bonifacio. Speed.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) November 16, 2012

Olney's lineup does not account for the possibility of the Blue Jays resurrecting Ruth.

Dodgers Gone Wild

I do believe the new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers have lost their collective minds.

The story out today is the Dodgers, after already completing a mega-deal with the Boston Red Sox last week, called the New York Yankees about possibly trading for pitcher CC Sabathia and first baseman Mark Teixiera. (Did they call the Yanks or send a Tex message?)

Do the Dodgers owners think they can just buy any player they want? Maybe they can when they strike a new local TV deal that could be worth as much as $8.5 billion over 20 years. So that $2 billion the new owners paid for the team was just a virtual drop in the ol' bucket, eh?

Hey, do you think the Dodgers would be willing to take Tim Tebow? And maybe the Jets could get back A.J. Ellis in the trade. I bet he'd be the second best receiver on the team.

Anyway, I'm guessing that when the Dodgers called Yankees' General Manager Brian Cashman, the conversation could have ended something like this:

Cashman: “Hey, we can’t give you CC or Tex, but we have this A-Rod fella we’re going to be paying for the next five years…”

Dodgers: Click

Cashman: “Hello? Anyone there?”