Hand Me the Kleenex

With Sosa, Prior, Grudz and Wood all out, the time has come for this team to make the Dallas Green type move. In 1984, Green made three franchise altering moves: He acquired Gary Matthews, Dennis Eckersley, and Rick Sutcliffe. And to do so he traded away a future Hall of Famer and bargain basement broadcaster in Joe Carter.

In today's environment, you don't even have to give up that much.

Rozner goes on today about Beltran and how the Sox have the better chance to get him. I don't see that for a minute do to the "same division" issue that Rozner glosses over. What he does see, correctly, is that the Sox GM isn't afraid to make a mistake. Hendry has not shown that he's willing to go "all in" and hope for a good "River" card.

With Sosa out, the offfense struggling, pitchers ailing, and Corey Patterson looking like he needs a stint at Iowa to regain any semblence of the strike zone and bunting technique, now is the time to make the deal.

Beltran will be moved in the next 6 weeks. It better not be to an NL team outside of Chicago or the Cubs will regret it.