Bloggy’s point (and he can correct me if I’m wrong) is that the plan is to get the pitcher at a lower price but the plan is to get the pitcher. If Roy signs with Boston at a lower price than he wanted two months ago, the plan of waiting out the market is a success.

If they don’t end up signing him because another team jumped in only when the price dropped, then it was not a success because again, the goal here is to get the pitcher. Since dropping the price likely increases competition, waiting out the market to get a lower price on the pitcher still is only viewed as a success if we sign the pitcher. You can split it into two pieces if you would like, but Bloggy is looking at it from the end point which is really what matters.

As any analogies this isn’t a perfect one…but I bought a laptop over the holiday season. I waited out the market and saw one at a good price, but I wanted to wait it out to see if it would drop. End of story is that they went out of stock, but i needed to get one for my wife for Christmas and I ended up having to settle for something else because I waited too long. My plan failed.

Again, this is all just nit-picking from different viewpoints. Waiting out the market to get a better price only works if you act on the better price.

chances are that Bard is in the rotation.

“Oonta g-BLAM!”