Huh. This is awkward. Now that no other team wanted to sign Alex Smith, just like SFist's own Daisy Barringer predicted, and the 49ers tried (unsuccessfully) to woo Peyton Manning, Smith resigned from looking elsewhere and then re-signed with the 49ers. Hurray?

And with that, Niners owner Jed York sent out this somewhat uncomfortable Twitter message welcoming back San Francisco's star quarterback. Ahem:


"Tough" is one way of putting it, yes. It's like Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives set to football machinations.

What was Smith's response? We can only imagine. However, leave it to Barringer to come up with her own perfect and perfectly blunt scenario: