Bottome Line - Gag-Me Gagne

While everyone’s going to spend the next few days talking about the “Mitchell Report” and speculating as to the outcome of baseball’s version of Watergate…I myself will be spending hours upon hours trying to figure out what in the WORLD they’re smoking out there in Milwaukee! Ten Million dollars for Eric Gagne, are you kidding me? I mean – this IS the same Gagne who the Red Sox were putting behind skipper Terry Francona on the pitching depth chart down the stretch, isn’t it? This IS the same Gagne who proved after leaving Texas last year that he is still as inconsistent and a risk as ever, is it not? To me, the Brewers had a chance to show they were in this thing, to WIN this thing…would you have had to overpay Francisco Cordero to keep him? The answer is yes. But when a guy is as comfortable as he was in that organization and as successful, leading the league in saves, you simply get it done. End of story. Now a nightmare with Gagne awaits….Game Over! That’s the Bottom Line!