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Stuff is found below that relates to actual life.  For some readers, that's their favorite part of SSI shtick.  For others, this blog should be about baseball, light and breezy.  

You been warned :- )

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HOT NEWS ITEM:  M's had a 1/$8M deal with Cruz, and ownership backed away.

TOMORROW'S NEWS TODAY:  You've gotten it all year.  ;- )

We've insisted, long past even SSI's usual infuriating repetition level, that the M's had essentially decided against Cruz-at-a-big-bargain.  

OH WELL:  "We got Rodney instead of Cruz."

GIMME A BREAK:  Was it truly either/or?  If Clayton Kershaw will join your team for $5M, you find $5M.  And, anyway, the M's paid Corey Hart.

OH WELL:  If you're determined to believe that anything here is on the M's, be my guest.  Maybe you're right.  But I doubt it :- )

And, anyway, this is not about bashing the M's.  It's about a life lesson.

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PREMISE:  It's not possible for any baseball analyst to believe that Nelson Cruz wasn't worth 1 year, $7.5M.  This one goes way, way beyond "no-brainer."

CONCLUSION:  Something other than "stupidity" HAD to be the root cause of this fiasco.  

OK, let's think for two minutes.  Breathe.  Let's process that, even if we dislike the implication.  The M's didn't back away from Cruz --- > because their IQ's were low.

All righty then?