Democratic or not, there is a certain easygoingness in Asmara, at least on the surface.
A couple of years ago when grain speculators wanted to unload a bumper crop of wheat, ole Dick Nixon helped arrange a smasheroo of a wheat sale to the Russians.
If the PTBNL is Ben Ford, or if the DBacks plan on signing Womack long-term, then this is definitely a bad trade. As I see it now, I'd say there's a 90% chance the DBacks get the better end (by a tiny tiny margin) and a 10% chance the Pirates get the better end (possibly by a huge margin).
Uncle James had caught a cold too, so I went with Grissel; and found a chemist who'd been in France, and knew what a loch was and made one for me; […]
