Destruction Over Distraction

The real reason why the Minnesota Twins traded superstar Johan Santana to the Mets for a bag full of diamond dust finally comes out. From today's St. Paul Pioneer Press, Twins general manager Bill Smith sets the record straight:

"It would have been a distraction. ... Every day the home media, the visiting media, every day, wants to know where you're going to be next year," the Twins' general manager said. "It would have been a little bit of a distraction, I think, for everybody on the team."

Tell me something, Billy, what's the bigger distraction...the media hounding a multi-Cy Young award winning pitcher with 12 wins in July about where he's going to play next year or the media hounding every member of a team with 12 wins in July asking them why their pitching staff sucks rocks and their GM has his head so far up his ass he could wear it as a hat? I'm picking the latter.