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San Diego GM Kevin Towers has come out to say that if the Hernandez, Long for Kotsay deal is not done by Sunday; it's off.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, but A's fans should brace for the deal to go through.

Beane and CO are going to get hammered in the nest 10 days for their recent moves as some were brilliant and some did not make any sense. We want to give you the low down on the newly designed page very soon.

In the mean time, the A's picked up Mario Ramos off the Texas Rangers waiver wire. Ramos and Jason Hart went to Texas from the A's for Carlos Pena. Pena went to Detroit for Ted Lilly. Lilly went to Toronto for Kielty.

Hart was demoted, again, and Ramos was run out of Texas. That's hard for a pitcher to do in Arlington. But, if you want to know who the Justin Duchscherer is for 2004; he is Mario Ramos.

Ramos was being compared to Mark Mulder as recent as 2002 and was expected to be the late season sky diver guy for the A's. Instead he was packaged with some other fellers (Ryan Ludwick, Gerald Laird and Hart) for the depreciated Pena.

Pitching for Texas can do a lot of things for a player, makign him better is not one of them.