I didn't want you anyway... I think

Picture the scene: You're at a crowded bar with your boys watching the game and checking out a cutie sitting with her girlfriends at a nearby table. She catches you looking and you glance away. Then you catch her looking and she glances away. Then, eye contact. Shy smiles.

Meanwhile, your mind is racing: Should you walk over there? Should you buy her a drink? Should you buy her a drink and bring it to her yourself? But then... she stands up! She walks over! She smiles again! And then she... talks to the guy standing behind you. And, even worse, the guy standing behind you is a dick.

So of course you think... I didn't want her anyway.

Now picture that same scenario, only instead of a cutie, it's Randy Moss.

For several months, it's been rumored that my Packers were about to swing a deal for the 30-year-old wide receiver. And I really didn't know how to feel about that.

My heart said, "Randy Moss!" That punk with Minnesota, who every game would dog it for three quarters, then kill us in the final two minutes? But even worse was the mooning incident. How could we even consider trading for a guy who pretended to moon the cheeseheads in Lambeau Field? (My outrage at this incident was later somewhat tempered when I learned that some Packer fans hang around after games to moon the visiting team's bus.)

But my head said, "Randy Moss!" I mean, who is the best wide receiver Brett Favre has ever had? Sterling Sharpe for the last two years of his career (and Favre's first two). Brett also caught the tail end of Andre Rison. Outside of those guys, I guess it would have to be Donald Driver, Robert Brooks or Antonio Freeman. Clearly, none of these guys is in Moss's league. Heck, do you think any of those guys would have ever had a 1,000-yard season with anybody but Favre throwing him the ball?

So while my heart and my head are feuding about Moss wearing the Green and Gold, I hear that Moss has been traded... to the Patriots.

For a fourth-round pick.

Huh.

The Raiders gave up Moss for the 110th pick overall. The Packers had the 112th pick. You would think the Packers could have made up the difference of just two spots by throwing in a later pick, or something. (In fact, the Pack did trade #112, to Pittsburgh, for a 4th and a 6th, #119 and #192.)

Talk about devaluation. Just two years ago, the Raiders gave up the 7th pick overall plus a seventh-round pick and linebacker Napolean Harris to get Moss, who was the 21st pick of the 1998 draft. Now he's worth just the 110th pick? Heck, we got a second-round pick for Javon Walker last year. Walker is just two years younger, is just as much a pain in the ass and blew out his knee in 2005. Go figure.

So. Moss got traded. We flirted a little, he walked over, but wound up talking to the other guy.

What a bitch.