Saturday, August 18, 2007

OK ... you were right

Boy, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

Can someone tell Terry Francona to resist the urge to, you know, throw a perfectly good season in the trash by encouraging him to never pitch Eric Gagne again? I mean, what the friggin' heck?

He had a 2.16 ERA when he arrived in Boston, but has promptly blown two saves (after blowing six during his entire career), seen his ERA balloon by two full runs and cost the Red Sox at least three games in the past week. If the Yankees hadn't struggled in their previous two series, he singlehandedly might have enabled them to tie Boston for first place in the American League East.

Good Lord, can we go ahead and call this the second-worst trade in franchise history?

4 Comments:

Blogger Josh M. said...

You're right, Edgar Renteria for Andy Marte was definitely worse. Wait, that is the worst trade in franchise history you're talking about, right?

12:08 PM  
Blogger Mike-El said...

Gotta be Bagwell for Andersen.

7:35 PM  
Blogger TKAthens said...

Ahhh...pardon me while I bathe in the flop sweat of the Red Sox nation!!! Here we go Yankees, here we go! Oh god...even I think that's too much...I feel so dirty - Go O's! We ain't mathmatically elimanted yet!

8:02 PM  
Blogger Sara said...

This is like the karmic polar opposite of the Nomar-Cabrera trade in 2004. Everything about it feels bad and doom-y.

3:03 PM  

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