Rosenthal reported that the Cubs were likely to pick up Trachsel's option. Obviously, a few days later that turned out not to be true when the Cubs declined it, but there was a lot of hand wringing here during that time. :D Ah. I missed the sarcasm. Could have sworn I remember Tracshel getting his walking papers. same here, I almost crapped myself And that's different from normal how? Do you ever sleep? It's 7 am, got to go in for work! It's awake time even on the Left Coast. NSBB before work? That's impressive. I usually spend the first 30 minutes of work looking at NSBB and perusing the cub-related articles for the day.