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Originally Posted by RedHot25
WEIRD rumour making its way around right now in the world of baseball...
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/s...r_espn_4994845
It's the sort of thing that is much more likely to happen in fantasy baseball than in real life, but according to sources, an idea has been kicked around the Phillies' organization internally, with discussions about proposing a swap of slugger Ryan Howard for St. Louis superstar Albert Pujols.
It's not fully clear whether the Phillies actually have approached the Cardinals with the idea, and even if St. Louis were to seriously consider such an offer, executives with the Cardinals would have to swallow very hard before dealing Pujols, a player widely regarded as the best in the sport.
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The talk may well echo, in the end, another blockbuster deal that was discussed but never consummated many years ago: Executives of the Red Sox and Yankees once famously discussed a trade of Ted Williams for Joe DiMaggio.
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Seems like a pretty useless rumour.
Of course the Phillies want to trade Howard for Pujols. Every team would want to make a trade for a much better player. Why would the Cardinals even think of making this move at all.
I don't need "experts" to tell me that teams want to make deals in which they make out like bandits.