Guess the GM

[nick23]

This paragraph is in Jason Starks new article on ESPN.com. It's a blurb about the Brad Lidge-Michael Bourn trade. There's little doubt in my mind what GM made this comment.

 

Virtually everyone we've surveyed on that deal thinks the Phillies got the better of it. But one NL executive disagrees. "I think Houston has got something there in Michael Bourn. I think that guy has great ability. I know I'm out there on an island about that, but that's OK. I'll be out there. I think Michael Bourn will be a real good player."

[SouthSideRyan]

Probably Jim Bowden.

[bukie]

Ed Wade?

[CubColtPacer]

Ed Wade?

 

I'm sure Wade thinks that, but I don't know if Stark would go to him for the quote :D.

 

Bowden's a good choice. It sounds like something an experienced G.M. would say (at least in the phrasing and especially the island comment and how comfortable this G.M. is in his job). That throws out most of the G.M.s in the National League. It also has to be somebody who keeps his wishlist from ever leaking out. It also sounds like somebody who the Phillies wouldn't really want to deal with, and that's in the division. So that leaves Minaya and Bowden, and the quote sounds much more like Bowden than Minaya.

[JeffH]

I'll say Towers.