[USML Announce] An Open Letter to Jeffrey Winick: Please Compete

[Brad Jansen]

My dear Lord Jeffrey:

    Your refusal to respond to my urgent cries to trade with me has hurt me.
But at the same time it provided me an opportunity to reflect on our
friendship and, more important, your roster.

   Jeffrey, if you never listened to me before, I urge you to do so now.
With the Ascension of Gordon Beckham, you now have one of the AL's finest
third sackers, to go along with the AL's* best* third sacker A-Rod,  Your
roster features one of the league's best outfielders (Adam Lind), catchers
(Wieters), and pitchers (Porcello). Oh, and did I mention: Alexi Casilla,
Vlad The Impaler, Alex Gordon, Niemann...Hughes...Cahill....the list goes on
and on.

   My point is simple and it is this: Go for it. Now. Your team has a solid
foundation and a boatload of cheap keepers. The Time has come. It came one
year earlier than you planned,  but sometimes Life throws a curve ball--and
when it does, you have got to take a swing.  Jeffrey, the pitch is heading
toward home plate. Take the bat off your shoulders and smack that ball.
Smack it, Jeffrey.

   Look, I gave it a shot, did the best I could. But you and I both know
that DeRosa and Sherrill are likely headed to the NL, that King Carlos
Quentin is done for the year and Josh Hamilton is, well, he's Josh
Hamilton.  In the meantime, the Bombers continue to steamroll through the
standings.....

   So that leaves you, Jeffrey. You--the only team between the Bombers and
The Damon.  Does the thought of the Bombers winning that prize not gall you
enough to take action, Jeffrey?  You sat on the sidelines all season,
Jeffrey, a bystander offering the occasional quip and snide remark.  Well,
Jeffrey, it's your turn at bat.  Will you step to the plate?  Will you?

I await your response. My players are at your service.
Warmest regards,
Brad Lee
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