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kataylaSo, one of the things in Mariners fandom is that the front office is so good at keeping secrets that you generally don't hear about trades until they happen AND, if you hear about something, there's a good chance it's really going to happen. The Pineda/Montero trade is an awesome example of it as very little time passed from the first hint until all the details were known. (As ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beth_shulman pointed out, it's REALLY amazing that word didn't leak on the New York side.)
Anyway. Timestamps are Pacific Coast time and I'm pretty sure these are all the first tweets. (Baseball news always breaks on twitter!) And my own tweets because . . . why not?
(For the record, Jerry Crasnick, Brandon League was not one of the players I--or likely anyone--was worried about having to give up. I like him and all, but I think he's likely to get traded at midseason anyway. Thanks for the info, though!)
(When I read this, I wrote out--but didn't end up sending--a tweet that said, "So they didn't say no to Pineda?" It's hard to remember, but I think Pineda was the main one I was thinking of in my "pre-worry" tweet. A lot of Mariners fans seemed shocked by it, but IDK. For an "impact bat," it was going to be pitcher and it wasn't going to be Felix. So it was Pineda or one of the prospects.)
(TWENTY-THREE MINTES from "there's a trade!" to "Looks like Pineda-for-Montero." The weeks of silence can be annoying, but OH the speed of breaking news in the Mariners fandom is AWESOME.)
(That'sspyglass_, who's a Yankees fan . . . who I was emailing about ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
belovedbooks, so we freaked out together that way!)
(I . . . was trying to keep the interest of non-baseball fans? Also, it was hilarious.)
AND THERE YOU GO. 39 minutes after the first tweet, you get the confirmation(ish. I suppose technically it has yet to be officially confirmed.)
(Marinermojo55 is my sister. NOT THAT SHE BOTHERED TO RESPOND TO THE TWEET OR ANYTHING. Actually, we have yet to have a conversation about the trade. I think we feel about the same, though.)
FOURTY-NINE MINUTES. That's all it took from first hearing about this until all the details were out. AMAZING.
Also, my sister didn't talk to ME, but her tweets were pretty funny:
Of course, an alternative interpretation is this trade is taking a really long time, as it still isn't official!
beth_shulman pointed out, it's REALLY amazing that word didn't leak on the New York side.)(For the record, Jerry Crasnick, Brandon League was not one of the players I--or likely anyone--was worried about having to give up. I like him and all, but I think he's likely to get traded at midseason anyway. Thanks for the info, though!)
(When I read this, I wrote out--but didn't end up sending--a tweet that said, "So they didn't say no to Pineda?" It's hard to remember, but I think Pineda was the main one I was thinking of in my "pre-worry" tweet. A lot of Mariners fans seemed shocked by it, but IDK. For an "impact bat," it was going to be pitcher and it wasn't going to be Felix. So it was Pineda or one of the prospects.)
(TWENTY-THREE MINTES from "there's a trade!" to "Looks like Pineda-for-Montero." The weeks of silence can be annoying, but OH the speed of breaking news in the Mariners fandom is AWESOME.)
(That's
spyglass_, who's a Yankees fan . . . who I was emailing about belovedbooks, so we freaked out together that way!)(I . . . was trying to keep the interest of non-baseball fans? Also, it was hilarious.)
AND THERE YOU GO. 39 minutes after the first tweet, you get the confirmation(ish. I suppose technically it has yet to be officially confirmed.)
(Marinermojo55 is my sister. NOT THAT SHE BOTHERED TO RESPOND TO THE TWEET OR ANYTHING. Actually, we have yet to have a conversation about the trade. I think we feel about the same, though.)
FOURTY-NINE MINUTES. That's all it took from first hearing about this until all the details were out. AMAZING.
Also, my sister didn't talk to ME, but her tweets were pretty funny:
Of course, an alternative interpretation is this trade is taking a really long time, as it still isn't official!
