I’ve been busy at a conference the last few days, but I was shocked tonight when I saw on the ESPN bottom line that Jeremy Giambi had been traded for John Mabry. Clearly, this is salary dumping, and unlike last year, the A’s look like they are giving up. That’s real sad. I still think they have one of the best organizations in baseball. We’ll see what happens, but I think there is going to be tension between Beane and ownership over this. Does Beane want to rebuild from scratch again? How fast can he do it? Or will he move on to greener pastures? Stay tuned.