Saturday, August 25, 2012

Big Red Sox trade today....



They traded Ted Williams frozen head and a can of tuna for a quart of Magic Johnson's Aid's infected sperm.

It was an even trade.

Best of luck to both teams.
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10 comments:

Chip S. said...

I've been drinking some excellent champagne to celebrate this trade.

August 25, 2012 at 9:12 PM
blake said...

The Brain That Wouldn't Die!

Classic!

August 25, 2012 at 9:29 PM
ndspinelli said...

ChipS, Was Gonzalez a malcontent? Beckett is now just a bloated, smug, ham n' egger.

August 26, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Chip S. said...

Not sure. But he was the price that had to be paid to dump Crawford's contract and Beckett's belly.

Hated to give up Punto, tho. ;-)

August 26, 2012 at 11:46 AM
ndspinelli said...

he's a scrappper.

August 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Chip S. said...

One of the Giants had the best reaction to the trade when asked about its impact on his team's chances: "Now they've got the same guys who choked in the stretch last year. What's not to like?"

(Or words to that effect.)

August 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM
ndspinelli said...

Trash talk from the bay area..I like it. I see you were in the bay area recently. Did you get to the ballpark? We went to SF for an anniversary a few years back. I loved the park..saw the bay area interleague classic

August 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Chip S. said...

I didn't go this time, but I did go two years ago when the Red Sox were in town. In retrospect, that series was when both teams' fortunes turned. The Sox clobbered Lincecum and played excellent overall ball; the Giants were totally overmatched.

Then Buchholz blew out a hammie running the bases and Pedroia fouled a ball off his foot and broke it.

I still like the ballpark despite those memories.

August 26, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Chip S. said...

Nick, since it's just us two seamheads talkin' baseball in here, I'll opine on why I think AGon didn't put up the monster numbers people expected from him in Fenway.

The Sox looked at the chart showing the distribution of his hits in Petco and saw that a huge number of flyball outs to LF would've been homers in Boston. What they overlooked--as do almost all sabermetric types--is that baseball is a game of strategic interaction. So if you're pitching in a ballpark with a huge LF, you work LH hitters up and away to induce fly balls to LF. But the first thing I noticed after AGon came to Boston was that he was being pitched inside. And RF in Boston is very spacious (Ted Williams never hit as many as 50 HR in a season).

August 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM
ndspinelli said...

Higher order thinking, GM ChipS.

August 26, 2012 at 1:16 PM

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