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Reporting From ... MLB Winter Meetings (Bathroom Stall Edition!)

By Rick Paulas

Thursday, December 11, 2008

A toilet flushes, another deal goes down, and I'm hunched in a bathroom stall, scribbling furiously into my notebook. This is what it's come to. It's MLB's Winter Meetings and scoop-work was tough. I was serious. It was time to take one last approach I'd always pondered. The bathroom stall GM and agent stakeout. The plan was to hunker down for an hour or so inside one of the bathrooms in the main hallway at the Bellagio. There, I would wait with fisherman-like patience until the executives ...

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