Emeritus SW intern Keegan Hamilton, who now writes for our sister paper (and my alma mater) in St. Louis, thinks the Cardinals should swap a couple prospects for crappy Mariner third baseman Adrian Beltre, punctuating his treatise with a “hell yeah.” Hamilton has long been a Beltre defender, whereas I’ve been something of a critic since the M’s overpaid for him a few years back, with the team subsequently reverting to 1980s form. But we second Hamilton’s “hell yeah” emotion. Get Beltre, who’s in the last year of his contract, the fuck out of here while the M’s can still fetch something — anything — for him.