I don't know why anybody is surprised by this. He did the same stupid thing in 2006. At the trade deadline we were 9 games out in the division, 5.5 back in the wildcard with five teams to pass, tied with another team and three more teams within a game of us. The chances of us winning that year were slim to none. What did he do? He went out and traded JDLR for Tony Graffanino, traded Lee and Cruz for Cordero and crap and picked up David Bell. The only trade that didn't suck was the David Bell trade. It's like Melvin thought those moves, plus getting Sheets and Ohka back would be enough to push us into the playoffs.