Smizik on coming roster moves

Bob Smizik has a good assessment of how the Bucs ought to consider the next round of roster moves. Parts are a bit melodramatic, but he's right, and he could strengthen his case by pitching it not so much as a sacrficing now for the future but as doing the smartest thing for winning now. It's not true the team has no present. The moves he advocates would be best for winning now and for winning later.

I'm not down with pollyanna calls for hari-kari as if losing big now is the quickest way to win big soon. Smizik's not making that case though it does partake of a bit of that sentiment. There's no way I'll be convinced that the Bucs have to lose 100 games before they will win 100 again. No friggin' way that makes sense.

Anyway, I searched all over the majors for a team that could start Simon and can't find one. If he's not good enough to start on the other 29 teams, that ought to say something in big, blinking letters. He strikes me as a potentially useful pinch-hitter. That's not something we can say about Nunez. As much as I love his radio ads, Nunez doesn't bring anything that we can't get from younger guys with greater potential.