Which ever team gets Ron Washington next will have a heck of a manager. Hopefully it will be a place he can contend.

I have to admire a whole column strung one one thin quote from Washington.

Apprarently, one of the Olsen Twins is starving again. Not only was the quote thin, but it didn't tell us who the actual prospects in the Texas system were which Minnesota wanted to acquire for Santana.

He's too raw, too unpolished, to know yet how to play the secret-squirrel game

He's 55 years old, for crying out loud. At this point, calling Wash raw and unpolished "yet" amounts to calling him a bozo who will never learn.

And in any case, what's all this about managers never discussing specifics of deals? Ozzie Guillen seems to do it all the time, and while he is not the poster child for "refined" or "smooth," he is dumb like a fox. LaRussa, Piniella, Herzog, Anderson, Weaver -- none of these guys took vows of silence, exactly.

Edit: interestingly, Jeff Wilson's story, also in the Startlegram and linked in this Ranger thread, has Wash discussing all sorts of specifics about the Ranger roster, and doesn't remark on its being unusual at all.

Rave on Ron Washington, rave on thy Holy fool...

He's 55 years old, for crying out loud. At this point, calling Wash raw and unpolished "yet" amounts to calling him a bozo who will never learn.

I think the quote was a backhanded (and slightly tongue in cheek) compliment to Washington.