This week on the podcast:

• Cubs signing Kosuke Fukudome and Cubs non-tendering Mark Prior. Both sort of hard to quibble with.
• Houston trading for closer Jose Valverde from the Diamondbacks for 2B Chris Burke and pitchers Juan
• Gutierrez and Chad Qualls.
• Houston trading for Miguel Tejada and Tejada appearing in the Mitchell Report.
• Even more talk about the Mitchell Report.
• Cardinals trading away Edmonds, and the tears that flowed thereafter. But don’t worry; he’ll be OK.
• Brewers tendering one-year contracts to: SS J.J. Hardy, RHPs Dave Bush, Claudio Vargas, and Seth McClung, and LHPs Brian Shouse and Chris Capuano.
• Reds tendering one-year contracts to 2B Brandon Phillips and RHP Matt Belisle, coincidentally two guys likely to show up in the Hottest NLC Player bracket later this week (if I get all my Christmas presents wrapped in time).
• Pirates continuing to do not much of anything. Imagine.

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