Fukudome to decide today

But he's already admitted that someone fed him false information in Nashville (He reported that the Cabrera/Willis trade to Detroit was "dead.")  So I'd be looking for more confirmation that just this.

My wife is going to have our first baby in three to seven weeks.  All I can say is that waiting for Fukudome is like waiting for our daughter--he's going to sign when he's ready to sign, and all we can do is wait.

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• Most of the time, these teams don't even know what's going on. They're still weighing their options; they change their minds.
  
• Close deals can fall apart, talks can go nowhere. Not every trade that's negotiated goes through. Teams can put together contracts and players at the last minute can pull out.
  
• Thanks to the Internet and ESPN and a change in the way fan bases view these things, we're drinking from the fire hose here, kids. Instead of playing "wait and see," news outlets are just letting every slip of information they get their hands on out.
  

So everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Now, personally, I find this a lot more fun and exciting than responsible, file-one-dispatch-per-day journalism (although the daily papers are still the best sources of Cubs news and rumors I've yet found, and all of our beat writers are fine folks). But we're supposed to understand -- in exchange for unprecidented access to these sorts of events -- that the news outlets aren't sourcing and verifying these things.

I hear 4 / 52 has been offered.

Unless this is another arrangement like Josh Hamilton last year -- where we selected for another team -- this is absurdly intriguing to me. And our draft position is likely to suck this year, comparably to last year, so I don't know that any other team would use us for that purpose.