Nobody is a more biased writer than he is. And unfortunately, he’s the daily guy, whose clearly in auto-pilot with his position, so he constantly defaults onto the easy stuff, like the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, and hot prospect of the moment. Often, is he bashing smaller-market teams, and shows a lot of bias against the southern region in general. The only times he ever praises the Braves is usually after John Donovan or Tom Verducci gives a rub to Smoltz or Chipper.

Would I like to see Teixeira next year? Absolutely, who wouldn’t? But is he worth $200M? No. At least, not to the Braves. That’s just not the Atlanta Braves way.

With whatever money freed up from what ever free agents / ballasts / dead weight we drop over the off-season, I would rather, pull what Kansas City last off season did and buy every decent reliable bullpen arm known to man, because this decade of Braves baseball, minus the John Smoltz tenure(s) has been plagued by nothing worse than incompetent bullpens. “Rather” being italicized to emphasize that this isn’t the best way either, but I’d prefer it to spending $20M/annually on Teixiera.

...about the muffled cries some people have made about moving Chipper to 1B? What kind of 3B options would there be?

First of all – Liberty Media has said that they are going to do whatever they can to resign Tex. That was said at the time when Tex was supposed to be a HUGE producer. Granted, its early, he might break late, but come ON!! The Braves have consistently avoided playing that game, where they throw a ridiculous amount of money at someone. Tex would be great, but at least at this point, I would assume, it wouldnt even seem like an option – let the mets and yankees take a 200 million dollar gamble. I’m also thinking Hampton’s residue might lead to ugly tastes in the Braves higherups’ mouths, at least when it comes to mammoth contracts.

And, above all, evidenced by only about a MILLION things and especially the 4 player dump we did for Tex, our minor league system is unparalleled, seemingly never ending, and damn damn good. We can continue to dump off players left and right, and still have a solid core, provided we keep Mac, Jair, Huddy, Gonzo, Yunel, KJ, etc… our prospects are the bomb. Our trade potential is great. I just think we’ll be fine. THen again, i said that the past few years.

One scenario I can sometiems believe, if we win it all, convincingly, and both the Mets and Yanks are slated (at least on paper) to not have amazing years in 09, then POSSIBLY Tex would consider signing with us. Maybe. And possibly it would be one more make-good year. But not likely.