Astros should have waited

Ken Rosenthal has an article out today about the Astros acquisition of Miguel Tejada, who was named in the Mitchell Report less than 24 hours after the Astros sent 5 young minor leaguers to Baltimore for Tejada.

Rosenthal brings up a great point, if the Astros waited even just 1 more day, would they have made the deal? If they did, I think they would have been able to part with much less to make the deal, although Orioles' owner Peter Angelos isn't always the easiest guy to deal with.

Here's what could hit the Astros the hardest. The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation into whether Tejada lied in front of a Congressional Committee in 2005 when asked if he used performance enhancing drugs.

When Tejada was asked, he said it was "B-12", the same B-12 that Roger Clemens says he was injected with by former trainer Brian McNamee....see a pattern here?

Tejada's former teammate in Oakland, Adam Piatt, told the Mitchell's investigators that he had bought steroids for Tejada, and produced canceled checks from Tejada for $3,100 and $3,200 respectively.

Speaking of canceled checks, remember when Fernando Vina, an ESPN Baseball Analyst was asked about checks he had given to former Mets' clubhouse guy Kirk Ridomski, said when asked about those supposed "checks" and what they were for? "I don't know what they were for, maybe for picking up dry cleaning."

So now we have 2 separate, but almost matching, items if you will (B-12, canceled checks) that were produced by Kirk Ridomski and Adam Piatt.

Coincidence? Maybe, but I doubt it....Rosenthal is right, the Astros should have waited and they may pay dearly for it.