Next week, the Winter Meetings hysteria should firmly absorb Yankees fans' collective brain tissue. Now, imagine if you didn't have 24/7 access to every insider's thought, whim and burp. Imagine if you were trying to follow the transaction wire with a total lack of transparency. What would it be like to try to track a trade entirely via daily updates in the morning paper. And what if a trade you first heard about in early November wasn't done until December 1st?!
Yankee fans of a certain age experienced this agonizing reality back in 1954, when it took three weeks to finish off a 17-player trade with the Baltimore Orioles.