A quick round-up of MLB trade deadline action.
MANNY RAMIREZ TO THE DODGERS — L.A. and Boston each send two prospects to the Pirates, while the Red Sox get Jason Bay. Bay is a minuscule downgrade at the plate, a remarkable improvement in the field, and his salary is less than one-third what Manny makes. Minus the loss of the prospects, nice work by Theo Epstein. He gets his choice of Boston skanks tonight. [Update: Written before I realized Sox were paying the remaining $7M for Manny. Still, if you're coming here for analysis, you're in the wrong place, my friend.]
KEN GRIFFEY JR TO THE WHITE SOX — News of the proposed trade broke this morning, but Junior approved the deal, so it's official. Chicago, which has an outfield of Jermaine Dye/Nick Swisher/Carlos Quentin and a 1B/DH combo of Paul Konerko and Jim Thome, successfully filled a hole it didn't really have.
ARTHUR RHODES TO THE MARLINS – So, okay: not nearly as big of a name as Manny or Griffey, but I felt like I really needed a third story to go with this. Rhodes couldn't have been moved farther away from the Mariners, both geographically and — what with the Marlins not sucking — metaphorically.
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"Nice work by Theo Epstein?" Get your fingers out of his ass. BoSox are paying all 7 mil of his remaining contract this year. The Dodgers are paying ZERO. Nice work by Theo? Please. He just wanted to get Manny out of town. Don't act like this was a savvy deal.
If you just look at Jason Bay, it's easy to conclude that he is going to fail in Boston. He looks he cries after every loss. He looks like Dildo Daggins old avatar! With a shitty move like this, Fuckhead Nation is going to run Theo's Jew ass out of town.
Allow me to be the first LA fan to bitch about trading for a slugger and have them end up hitting .160
In other news.
Holy shit holy shit holy shit fuck the pirates
and boston.
Congrats Manny. NOW CUT THAT FUCKING HAIR!
dont you mean … nice work dodgers… all they gave up was 2 prospects that arent that great budddyyy… and the red sox are paying manny's salary… they basically got manny for free… what a deal for the dodgers
and the pirates will suck forever
Good for Manny — now he can be closer to
his HGH supplierhis stable of Hollywood strippershis family.The Sox downgraded their Leftfielder, downgraded their bench, downgraded their bullpen, and lost two promising young players in the process. And it cost them $7 million to do it.
That said, Theo always has his choice of Boston skanks around here and he'll never ben run out of town.
Griffey getting traded would easily the baseball story of the year….if this was 1999. Anyway, bad move by Chicago. A mere glare from Ozzie Guillen could tweak Junior's hammy.
I am just thanking God above that the Indians somehow didn't trade Grady (as they are in "everything must go" mode).
Hey everybody, did you see Paul Byrd's shut-out this week? Call Mark Shapiro before it's too late!
A T.V. show is now in the works. Manny Being Manny will air on Tuesday nights on
UPNNBC. It's bound to be a hit. The pilot is Manny taking a tour of Universal Studios and thinking it's all real.Great. We really needed another lazy Mexican here. ¡Bienvenidos, Manny!
Theo paid a lot to get Manny out of town.
A ride home from Ted Kennedy could've done that and the Sox would have still had a couple prospects to barter with.
Glad the Phils stood pat. With our huge lead in the division, its no wonder we wouldn't want to shake up the team a bit.
Bay is a little more than a miniscule downgrade, but fuck it, I come here for the jokes and awesome rockin tits.