Nomar traded to Chicago — Page 2

As an I-77 guy, I stuck with the Tribe, although the Rocker trade was a pretty obvious bad idea, even at the time.

I am a huge Sox fan, and I'm mad that they traded him! Poor Nomar, he goes from one curse to another. Oy, I don't know if I would be able to handle it. The Curse of the Bambino and the Curse of the...Billy Goat? Psh. They sell break the curse cookies now, I ate one...

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How odd is it that the Red Sox and Cubs are dealing together to try and improve their pennant chances?

It would be like France and Poland sharing war strategies.

Why the **** did Showalter wait until Cone had thrown 140+ pitches? Why did he wait until Cone walked in a run? Because he didn't trust Mo. But as I said, I'll forgive him for not completely trusting Rivera before he was RIVERA, but I won't forgive the pitch count he put Cone through.

And Cashman couldn't make the Johnson trade this year because we have no farm system.

Farms aren't bought, dearie. They're drafted. And the Yankees haven't been drafting all that well lately. And in the few instances when something sorta good has come out of their system, like Claussen, they've instantly trade them away. Though this year's draft was actually kinda promising, we won't see that pay off (if it does) for another 3 years at least.

And Giambi has a benign tumor. I wouldn't rag on him too much.

Rivera had a 0 ERA in that series. 0. I think that inspires confidence. And he was always stronger in relief than in the starting position- his ERA was inflated by his starts in 1995.

And 140+ pitches just isn't cool. Cone wasn't exactly young, he had a bunch of baserunners, and he was just dead tired. I don't care if your bullpen hasn't inspired too much confidence. You go to them then, unless to want to do permanent damage to your pitcher. Grady Little made the same mistake last fall.

Yeah. *is sad* But regrets are useless anyway. All you can do is learn from your mistakes.

But honestly, I think Showalter wasn't just fired because he lost and this is Steinbrenner we're talking about- I think he had personality conflicts with several people in the organization. And the same thing was rumored about Arizona and Texas. Who knows.

I think Showalter is smart. And maybe he's made personality adjustments since coming to Texas. (Or maybe he just finds a younger team easier to control to his content than a team full of veterans with minds of their own).

As for the D'Backs logo thing...really? Heh. Cool.

So it's probably best for everyone that he left the Yanks. If he had a hard time with the 1995 team, I'd like to see how he would have dealt with people like Moose, Clemens, Gooden, Knoblauch, Irabu, and *shudder* El Duque. Torre isn't perfect at dealing at players with strong personalities or head cases (and the line between the two can be blurry sometimes), but he makes sure they don't affect the whole team.

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 02:54 PM

Well, head cases will be head cases. And Ruben Sierra is nothing compared to the sublime ridiculousness that is David Wells. This is a guy who broke his pitching hand in a barrom fight. Who got stabbed with a butter knife. Who wrote a book dissing his teammates- while he was still playing with them. Who didn't work out, then bragged about it. Then left his last World Series game with a bad back after one inning the next night, contributing more than any other individual player (including Sori, IMHO) to the Yanks' loss last year. I don't blame Torre for hating the guy.

Wow, i never knew we had such enthusiastic baseball fans here. But, GO CUBBIES!!!! thats all i gotta say! =D

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