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Deadline abstinence a smart decision?

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Here at International Rumblings and Grumblings headquarters, we took a bold, nearly unprecedented stand this year, in honor of the most overrated trade-deadline swapfest of all time. We just couldn't bring ourselves to partake in a tradition that is normally one of those annual late-July rituals, right up there with Hall of Fame induction weekend: The good-old standard trade deadline winners and losers column. Sorry. Couldn't do it. Not this year. We couldn't do it because this was a deadli ...

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