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He is going to score 20 per game. #TeamMagicGiraffe

Know that you recently turned 102 but would you be interested in taking the job?

I just acquired a sacred and holy relic on eBay for $3.25:

Unfortunately he has an abysmal track record when it comes to evaluating talent (seriously, go look at all his acquisitions. It's pretty much a disaster). Even worse is that he's been just as bad at cap management.

Happy Red Bull Wedding Day!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WAS THERE!!!!

I don't understand how ANYONE can be a Yankees fan.

Expect to see a more physical and hard hitting game from Tage this season:

At this point I'd settle for Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley being brought in to run things.

Given this organization's (and the current GM's) lengthy and disastrous track record of mishandling prospects everyone would be wise to greet this news with a very healthy dose of skepticism.

That was years ago before he was completely exposed and his value fell off a cliff.

If Risto had any value he would've been long gone by now. Teams know what he is: a bad negative value player. Nobody is touching him unless you practically give him away. When a guy like Brian Burke (who is just about the least progressive/most old school hockey mind out there) says he'd never touch the guy that's all you need to know.

Creating a scenario that pointlessly screws over 2 teams for no good or logical reason whatsoever is so Peak NHL.

Here is the problem: Teams that have really good #2 centers (even teams with depth to where the player is playing on the 3rd or even 4th line) don't give them away. The only way you can acquire one via trade is to find a GM who you can take advantage of because they are so inept and in over their head (like Botts). So we need the guy who is the mark other teams go to when they want to sucker someone to find someone who is an even bigger sucker than he is. Those aren't good odds.

2 12 packs (24 cans total).

Oh yes...

If you made a list of the bottom 5 GMs in the league Botts and Bergevin are both on it. And why Poille wasn't stupid: Nashville is a perennial contender, the Panthers: not so much. Therefore the odds were in fact good that Florida would not be good the following season and they would end up with a pick higher than the one they gave up. So they stood to gain value whereas the Botts pick had no chance of doing so.

If you can't see how the trade was like a Monty Python skit I can't help you. It's like something Karl Pilklington would do if you made him an NHL GM. And we've already gone over why those trades were nowhere near as dumb as the one Botts made.

And the fact that his draft batting average makes Mario Mendoza look like Ty Cobb speaks for itself.

They gave up 3 scratch off lottery tickets (which is what late round picks are) and ended up with 2. Think of it this way: anything after round 4 in any draft you can put every available name on a dartboard and whomever you hit you take and that has roughly the same exact odds of panning out. Probability says having more darts to throw increases your odds of winning

Kinda funny that Botts is always the one doing favors for other teams in most of the moves he makes but oddly nobody ever seem to do favors for us. Almost as if doing favors for other organizations and expecting them to be repaid is really really dumb.

Yes, and doing so is not completely stupid because in those cases there is actually a chance the pick next year ends up higher. There is zero chance of that if the pick you give up is the first in the round.

He traded THE FIRST PICK OF THE 2018 6TH ROUND straight up for another team's 6th rounder next year that had ZERO CHANCE OF BEING BETTER THAN THE PICK HE GAVE UP. And on top of that another team that very draft swapped 6th rounders and got an additional pick for doing so, SOMETHING BOTTS WITH THE BEST PICK IN THE ENTIRE ROUND FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH. Seriously if you can't see that this was basically like a comedy sketch than I don't know what to say.

You missed the point: in the grand scheme of thing it wasn't giving away ROR but it's a very good example of the poor decision making that is a Botts trademark (just like the infamous straight swap of 6th rounders in 2018 that defied all logic and common sense).