Remember how Griffey used to jab managment’s inability to sign a decent left fielder by always calling the scrubs by their number in the litany? Like Glenn Allen Hill was always “Number 23″ when Kenny would shout at him from his leather laz-e-boy?

Ah, sweet irony.

Isn’t there room for Swisher in LF?

Perhaps, but there’s no room in the budget (Swisher’s in line to get $5.3M this year). Plus there may not be room in the OF if Griffey pulls a Raul and says he can’t hit if he’s not also playing the field. There’s no space for another starting OF (even if you assume Wlad is traded).

Kinda messed up that you literally have ruined the work days of a few sportswriters. now they have to think that much harder.

Having to do X “much harder” assumes they were doing X in the first place.

“Griffey to be featured in every Mariner commercial this year…A New Day, A New Way.”

Yeah, the cognitive dissonance between the optimistic revival the slogan embodies and the unrepentant pandering to nostalgia that Griffey represents… just makes my head hurt.

But I think we’re going to end up seeing much more of Griffey playing the field than we should, and that will almost certainly more than eliminate any value his bat adds; combine that with the fact that we’re likely to end up overpaying for him (if the 1 year $5 million number I’m seeing thrown around is accurate) and it’s not going to be a good situation.

Plus, if as rumored the contract will have incentives for PAs, will Griffey start pouting when he doesn’t feel like he’s getting enough at-bats to get to his incentive triggers?

“If Griffey exclusively DHs against righties, he will make this team better.”

This would constitute a misuse of the word ‘prodigal’ which means wasteful, or, after the biblical story, repentant.

My implication was intended to be that Griffey, having gone out into the world, regretted his decision to demand a trade and returned.