You know, I tend to not get myself all worked up over trade rumors and shit, because most of them are just that — shit. But there are a few reporters out there in baseball land that I give more credence to than others, and if they print something, I assume that said rumor has a shred of validity.

One of those fellas is FOX Sports own Kenny Rosenthal. Now, no matter what you think of Rosenthal the slow-talking sideline guy that annoys you during FOX broadcasts, he is normally a damn good reporter. But this morning he wrote some insane column about this “hunch” he had.

Take a look at this beaut:

You want a blockbuster? How about one that includes not one, but two former Cy Young Award winners?

I have no proof that the Phillies are trying to move left-hander Cliff Lee as part of a three- or four-team trade for Blue Jays right-hander Roy Halladay.

But I’ve got a hunch.

You want a dumb trade rumor that has as much chance of happening as that Pat Burrell to the Mets trade from last week?

Come on, Ken. If baseball reporting was about hunches, every knucklehead with a press pass would just run possible trades through their dumb head and send them to their editor. It’d be fucking reporting anarchy, man. You might as well have just told us that the Astros are on the verge of signing Brett Myers and called it a day.

But nooooooo, you had to go and infuriate people by coming up with a trade that doesn’t make a lick of sense.

And of course, Ken wasn’t done there. Here’s his proposed “deal”:

So, here’s the deal: Lee goes somewhere for prospects. The Phillies include the prospects in their package for Halladay, maybe keep one or two for themselves. Halladay gets his extension, the Jays get a bounty of young players and some lucky team gets Lee for one year at his bargain salary of $9 million.

And then Halladay and Lee go a combined 57-0 with a 0.00 ERA and the Jays take their bounty of young prospects and form a dynasty — the likes of which the AL has never seen! The end.

Methinks Ken Rosenthal lives in fantasy land sometimes.

Aces Lee, Halladay in same deal? It could work | FOX Sports
Rosensquirrel screengrab provided by The Sports Hernia, of course.

UPDATE: Go read Bill Baer’s take, it makes much more sense than mine.

If you were watching the Phillies game on FOX with the sound on yesterday, besides being very brave, you got to hear a story as told by pint-sized reporter Ken Rosenthal explaining how Pedro Martinez had the gall to carry around a bag with the Mets logo on it for road trips. Obviously, a couple guys in the locker room took exception to Pedro’s choice of accessory, and made him get rid of it.

Kenny Albert then asked Rosenthal to retell the semi-amusing anecdote during the broadcast, so he did.

V e r y s l o w l y:

A little black bag, kind of for his personal effects. It had a Mets logo on it, the Phillies took notice of this and basically ordered him to dump it. Which he did. And he said to Jimmy Rollins — actually shouted — “You’re my witness.”

Rollins replied, “Cut the umbilical cord.”

So you thought — well, the scene might be over, but Shane Victorino took the bag out of the garbage, mounted it on top of the television set, the big screen TV in the Phillies clubhouse, and he told Pedro to burn it.

I don’t think anyone is giving Ken the ‘Storyteller of the Year’ award anytime soon, so we never found out if he actually burned it or not. Or why Shane put the bag on top of a big screen TV before telling him to set it on fire, but hey — it was informative nonetheless.

After the jump, check out a couple screenshots of eccentric Pedro’s bullpen antics from this weekend, as well as the brand-spanking-new Birdland x The Fightins t-shirt honoring the 3-time Cy Young Award winner.

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Most of the time that I write about the lovable colorman Chris Wheeler on this here blog, I completely understand that only the people who watch Phillies games will understand what I’m talking about.  Well, if his world-famous Twitter page and mentions on FOX’s national TV game of the week are any indication, all that is about to change.

While posing a “trivia question” to the audience about where pint-sized Ken Rosenthal was going after the conclusion of Saturday’s Phillies/Yankees game, the first option was “Going to dinner with Tim, Wheels & LC.” Tim, of course, is Joe Buck’s slightly less-annoying partner during the FOX games Tim McCarver, LC is former Phillies pitcher Larry Christenson, and the “Wheels” they were referring to is the man himself — Chris Wheeler.

Not like anybody watching the game gave a fuck, but the correct answer was B.) Going to see Bruce Springsteen & the powerful E Street Band. But the question itself allowed FOX cameras to focus on the Twitter addicted former PR man and he definitely didn’t disappoint.

Video of the FOX appearance and the aftermath of his new-found fame – after the jump.

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