absolutely agreed. When organizations start to do this kind of of personnel thrashing - the Jimenez, Graves and Kearns fiascos and guys like Dunn and Kearns who have been such milquetoast good company men previously are bitching publicly it measn the organization is in disarray both publicly and behind closed doors.

From a baseball sense, even fans like me looked at the Milton and Randa signing and nearly threw up. Milton moving to GAB was an awful move and while Randa has been just fine, they had Kearns...and Freel...and Encarnacion in the pipeline. Why pay money a what? 36 year old "professional' (i.e. no ceiling) to clog things up? A team that was counting on Ramon Ortiz would have been better signing a Witasick and or some other speculative starrting arm.

All besides the point, the team is now making desperation moves and that's a low percentage play. O'Brien better not only be renting, not owning...but not signing that renewal lease.