I follow the Brewers and the Mets – my two teams – and today I found this Metsblog.com round-up of tweets which I post here as a discussion point.
It's no secret that the Mets have chatted about Corey Hart and that the Brewers are interested in Ike Davis. Nor is it a secret that the Mets might be interested in dealing, too, and are eying Norichika Aoki.
But look at this chatter about Braun... (The names in parenthesis are the names of Mets beat writers responsible for the statement preceding it.)
"3:10 pm: The Mets have had internal discussions about Brewers OF Ryan Braun, according to people connected to the team (Cerrone).
"3:00 pm: Braun could become an interesting trade candidate at some point, but the Brewers are not looking to trade him right now, according to good authority (Martino).
"12:05 pm: There is a better chance the Brewers trade Braun than deal OF Norichika Aoki, according to people familiar with the team’s thinking (Cerrone)."
Certainly, none of this is anything concrete, but I'm especially intrigued by SNY's Matthew Cerrone's comment that it's more likely the Brewers would deal Braun than Aoki.
Seems unlikely to me; after all, is Milwaukee really done with Braun?
Surely, the Brewers would want a whole lot more than the woefully slump-y Davis for Braun and the Mets are already experiencing sticker shock, in the words of one tweeter, on the free agent market. They have money to spend, but they don't want to hand it all to one guy. There are too many holes to fill to do that.
Consider, too, a tweet by New York Daily News MLB writer Andy Martino not included in the Metsblog roundup:
"Look up Braun's contract. Does that look like an Alderson type situation to you?"
No, it sure doesn't. But stranger things have happened.
Only time will tell.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
