I love schadenfreude more than most and would love to see this have a lasting impact on the Nats, but in the end it probably won't. Assuming the deal doesn't happen the Sox are debately no better than they were this morning on the field, significantly more restricted financially for 2011, lost their (cost controlled for 6 more season) top prospect, and might have a bit of a black cloud story hanging over the locker room the rest of the year.

Just sucks.

I read Olney's tweets. Rizzo is a complete hack if it's true. It's not like he even gets anything out of his backpedaling. He just gets to keep Dunn for 2.5 months of .400 baseball.

Christ, is anything in DC worth a shit?

pretty nice rail system

Is that directed at KW? Every MLB GM?

Oh, I thought it was from the buying side. Misread the "last minute scramble to band aid yet another cheap product" phrase. I thought the "cheap" phrase was referencing GM's going cheap at certain positions then scrambling to find a worthy replacement when those cheap solutions suck, yada yada yada.

Originally Posted by y2chae

While it is shitty for Rizzo to back out of a deal, I think KW has to take the blame for jumping the gun and not engineering a 3 team deal. How many times does someone get flipped in a MLB trade anyway? Not often from what I remember, Piazza that one year he was on the Marlins for like a week. Usually the 3 team trade is the route these things go.

I'll give you that. I don't know why they didn't just do a 3 team deal.

Kenny has had some curious moments in his tenure, but if this is all true, egg is most definitely on his face. Sure, Rizzo is a cockhold, but what TS said, THIS IS EXACTLY why there are 3-team deals. I have a feeling we'll still see Dunn on the Sox by this afternoon, but I also think we're stuck with Jackson. Who knows? Perhaps now that he's in a real baseball city he'll turn it around.

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SI_JonHeyman

chisox are acting like edwin jackson is likely staying now. but #nats may love him more.

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SI_JonHeyman

easy prediction, chisox will get a hitter, 1 way or other, whether its dunn or someone else.

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Of course...

Ken_Rosenthal

Expect the unexpected today. Source says #Nationals getting late interest from new teams on Dunn - "longshots" being explored. #MLB

I agree with Heyman. Sox are going to have a new bat in 5 hours one way or the other.

Dunn to the DBacks for Hudson?

http://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/19998751258

cst_sox

So for those VPs of Misinformation that think I just throw things out there, do what you do best - spy on coworkers and false hustle.

DERRRRRRRRRR

http://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/20000408410

Probably not the way to seal the deal.

Originally Posted by sox1970

http://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/20000408410

Probably not the way to seal the deal.

Kenny kills me.

Wow, so we lost like an entire day of posts with the meltdown.

I wish that this entire day could be erased from reality.

I still think the jackson deal is better for us having not gotten dunn

Originally Posted by Fuller

I tend to agree. While it would be nice to have a BigBoy™ DH, that extra arm will pay dividends. And clearly the coaches see enough upside to risk taking Jackson solo. So I am down with it.

For whatever reason I'm feeling pretty optimistic about the trade.

Buster Olney:

Heard this: Adam Dunn hit the waiver wire today, giving teams 48 hours to place claims on the slugger -- and the wide expectation is that multiple NL teams will put in a claim on him -- Rockies? Giants? -- and that there is no chance that AL teams like the Rays or White Sox or Yankees ever get a shot at Dunn, who is working on his seventh straight year of 38 or more homers.

That makes no sense. If Rizzo wants guys like Beckham, they'd have to get through waivers too, which they wouldn't. Does he think Jonathan Sanchez or Matt Garza is going to clear?

I cut Buster a little short:

What this means about Dunn is that if he's going to be moved -- and that seems unlikely -- it'll happen in the next 72 hours.

The only thing that makes sense is maybe he had something going with a team who had prospects he wanted that didn't need to clear waivers to be moved, but they couldn't finalize on Saturday. So they decide to see if Dunn gets to that team and try again.

is waiver priority based strictly on record?

Ligue, then record, I believe

then yeah, no chance in hell he'd ever get to the Sox

Someone claimed Dunn. I doubt he actually gets traded though.

who has to go through waivers to be traded? anyone on the 40 man?

Yep, so unless someone has guys not on their 40 man equivalent to Beckham or Matt Garza, probably nothing's going to happen.