This guy must be on the payroll.

Here are some recent comments from the Dodgers' GM:

"I know everybody else wants it done and they are leaning on us," Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta told the LA Times. "There is a lot of uncertainty here. We can't venture into something this significant with all that uncertainty remaining." The deal involves the Dodgers sending right fielder Shawn Green and pitchers Brad Penny, Yhency Brazoban, Kazuhisa Ishii and Brandon Weeden to the Diamondbacks. Johnson and Ishii would go to the Yankees, who would send to the Dodgers pitcher Javier Vazquez and prospects Dioner Navarro and Eric Duncan

Now, am I missing something, or is this the dumbest deal in the history of all deals for the Dodgers? This guy has GOT to be on Steinbrenner's payroll. Why in hell would you give up two good pitchers (OK, so Ishii had an off year, only 6 WS; but Penny had only two fewer than Vazquez and he was injured for a crucial span of the season) for a serious underachiever? Am I being snowed under here? Is there something I'm missing? Are these prospects red-hot or something? Last I heard the Yankees farm was completely depleted. Uncertainty....like your sanity?