Pick a player. Pick a team. Link them together via an anonymous source and you've got a sports headline.
In this case, Michael Morrissey's fantabulous "Mets Mull Tejada," which totally makes sense since the Mets already have a 22-year-old shortstop and Tejada doesn't want to be traded from the Orioles:
"The Mets have been linked to disgruntled Baltimore shortstop Miguel Tejada in numerous reports — a development that one team official refused to comment on last night."
After a lengthy discourse which explains why the bullpen is the priority for the Mets, Morrissey contradicts his own attention-grabbing headline:
"Minaya has shown a roster restlessness vaguely reminiscent of Knicks president Isiah Thomas, so you can't discount him trading for the 29-year-old Tejada. Still, it seems unlikely simply because other teams are more desperate for a shortstop.
Additionally, Jose Reyes would almost certainly need to be the centerpiece of any deal, and that's one rare spot where the Mets struck gold from the farm system."
You know what? Let's go ahead and discount Minaya trading for the 29-year-old Tejada.
It has about as much chance of happening as Clemens returning to Boston.
Good headlines, though.
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