Kevin (Towers) gets kinky as pursuit of Peavy heats up

Here are a pair of mini-stories in the non-story that 2007 NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy is still a member of the San Diego Padres.

According to Yahoo! Sports baseball writer Tim Brown, Padres GM Kevin Towers might have done something that usually takes a few drinks and whispers of sweet nothings: found a third member to fulfill his dreams.

And "intending to speak" to Jim Hendry after the Thanksgiving holiday is begging for a reference in which Towers will be willing to talk to Hendry as soon as he steps away from the dinner table. I can neither confirm nor deny whether or not Hendry has indeed been able to step away from a plate of deep fried turkey, mashed potatos and gravy.

As for the third team that will help "facillitate" the trade. Could it be the Baltimore Orioles? Well, maybe.

I'm back in Carbondale, but I can only imaging Chicago sports talk radio lighting up with the idea that the Cubs could somehow land Peavy and O's second sacker Brian Roberts while somehow being able to trade whipping boys Jason Marquis and Kosuke Fukudome.

Could the man who helped hold the Cubs back for the better part of a decade (Andrew B. MacFailure) help the Cubs more as the head of another franchise. That sounds about right.

More news (hopefully) when news actually happens.