[alnorth]

My primary fear is obviously that we'll screw this up. That fear is a *LOT* less now than it was a week ago due to the sheer interest in and perceived value of Greinke. We'll probably do well whether we know what we are doing or not because a half-dozen teams are competing for him. They probably cant play around and try to low-ball us or they may get topped by one of the other 4 or 5 teams.

My secondary fear probably doesn't really matter because like with Cassel, what the fans think is irrelevant as long as you are correct and start winning. I am afraid that when the deal is announced we'll have this pre-conceived notion of some mammoth return for Greinke and find some excuse to be disappointed, even if its a nice deal where we'd say the team trading Greinke won if we were just outside observers who weren't Royals fans.