APRES MOI, LE DELUGE

In case you don't know, it's an apocryphal remark attributed to Louis XIV.

Hey! Don't complain! There's no rule that says that you shouldn't have to continue your education in order to understand what in the Sam Hill your Commish is saying.

Let me put it another way: since mid-February, I've received a total of nine trade proposals (six of which have been approved and announced, three pending).

These trades involved a total of 26 players and 13 picks. That's 26 names to move around on the rosters, 13 places in the Draft Order (which is...sigh....not finished) to adjust.

Now, of those 26 and 13, 17 players and 10 picks were involved in trade proposals involving one team. This means that just one team is accounting for 67.5 percent of the trading activity, and thus 67.5 percent of the work. Again....sigh.