Comments on: Jumping Ship

By: NBarnes

NBarnes — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:27:38 +0000

5. Re: Who gets thrown under the bus next

Speaking as a bloodless Red Sox fan android, with a brain composed of DNA selectively chosen and remixed from Billy Beane, Theo Epstien, Bobby Cox, and Albert Enstien, the answer is clearly... Manny Ramirez. He'll be playing his 33 year old season in 2005, the fifth of eight on his contract. If I were Epstein, I'd be having night sweats about age-related decline and owning Ramirez's age 35 and 36 seasons. Much better to find someone with more money than sense and unload Manny for a nifty prospect. If the Cubs notice that Jeromy Burnitz is not the answer and are in a pennent race at the deadline, I'd ship them Ramirez in a New York minute if I got value back.

As for tradition and the defense of Williams in CF (since Williams badly needs defense in CF /drumroll), that's a nice pivot from saying that the reason you're getting the worst CF defense in the league is tradition to flaunting your newest and tallest mercenary starting pitcher. Might want to run that one past your 3rd baseman, too, but don't wave hello; that's a sore spot, or so I'm told.

By: KJC

KJC — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:02:59 +0000

4. After all the talk about Yankee tradition MEANING something (a la Bernie), jayd goes to the new Frankenstein head (I mean that both figuratively and literally) Randy Johnson for his post's kicker.

I better point would've been made by ending with "Trot, you waddlin' loudmouth redneck, meet Moose -- again." At least there's some tradition with Mussina...

By: jayd

jayd — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:50:16 +0000

3. Pathetic,Jay
Can you imagine the Yanks dumping equivalent players like Nomar, Derek, Pedro, Pokey, Cabrera, Framingham's Own Lou Merloni, etc., etc. Never mind the total mind boner of getting rid of Hero Dave Roberts for Jay Payton, where's the outrage, crimson hosers? Who gets thrown under the bus next?

But, hey, Theo's a genius, baseball talent is a fungible asset measurable by whiz kidz with speadsheets, and the Yanks are an "expensive Frankenstein". Gimme a break, Jaffe.

I'm proud to root for a team where tradition MEANS something. Bernie is our centerfielder, and that speaks volumes about who WE are. Tampa is more of a team than the RS. Mel is going out a winner and so is Bernie.

This has really been a RS year. Even the President is fighting for RS Nation. Think of it, if they can pull the plug on Terri Schiavo, who is 95% brain dead, is there a member of RS Nation who is really safe?

Start the clock, ladies. It's time to count up to 86 again. Start spreading the news, baby. Trot, you waddlin' loudmouth redneck, meet Randy.

By: Dan M

Dan M — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:23:55 +0000

2. In Jay's defense, he admits to being a fair-weather Yanks fan from the get-go, which is understandable considering he's a transplant.

My problem with the piece was more like "haven't I heard this a thousand times before?" Also, echoing earlier comments, perhaps BP needs to disclose the investment they've made in the Red Sox every time they run an article about how poorly other teams are managed. Just get your book out, let it sell, and let's please move on.

By: Knuckles

Knuckles — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:52:23 +0000

1. Weak, Jay.
Are we now so objective in our love of the game that we can only appreciate a team if it is constructed with all the soulless tactics of a German auto-maker, and it's ok to jump from team to team depending on current front office mindset? Where I come from, you root for the hometown team, and if you don't, you'd better have some damn good reasons to back up your decision. Your teams are like your family- when things go poorly, it sucks, and sucks hard, but when things happen that are cause for celebration, you get to experience the highest of the highs.