*Baseball* The trade that WILL NOT DIE...

[SirFozzie]

Is back being discussed.

ARod for Manny, Nomar for Magglio.

This trade has been beaten, set on fire, drowned, forced to listen to six hours of George W Bush speeches, tromped on with spiky shoes, blown up, atomized, poisoned and stabbed to the point of death (AND BEYOND), but still, the two teams are talking trade again.

Why? Why must you torture me so, Boston Red Sox! Don't make me wait for another six weeks while you play "Yes he's coming, no he's not.. yes he is..."

[Ksyrup]

Where is it being discussed? In your head?

I don't see any reason why this trade had to go off a couple of weeks ago, anyway. Who says they can't come to an agreement on February 15? March 1? July 31? Obviously, you'd like to have the whole mess done with before the season starts, but it doesn't have to happen now (or a month ago).

[KevinNU7]

this is easy, he isn't coming. The media here loves to talk about the Sox and since the team is all set they are bored. Nomar and Manny will be on the Sox next year so stop listening to the media about A-Rod

[McSweeny]

this is easy, he isn't coming. The media here loves to talk about the Sox and since the team is all set they are bored. Nomar and Manny will be on the Sox next year so stop listening to the media about A-Rod

what he said

[rkmsuf]

Reportedly A-Rod is making a big stink to make this happen...

[RendeR]

and as usual the sox will entice their poor sapped devoted legions of self important zombies and break their hearts as awalsy in the end...

god I'm so sick of new england.

[SirFozzie]

ESPN reporting trade talks alive and well.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1713598

:P

[Ksyrup]

If you're Garciaparra, can you really get upset about this? Unless he's got the ego of Derek Jeter, he's got to understand that A-Rod is better than he is. They wouldn't be trying to get rid of him if A-Rod played third base - or if he had taken their generous offer of 4 years, $60M. He's really in a tough place, so I hope he doesn't make himself look bad by speaking out against the trade.

[stevew]

Nomar brought this upon himself I agree. 15 mil/season is what Nomar is worth in a best case scenerio.

[RendeR]

15 mil/season is what Nomar is worth in a best case scenerio.


this is the most assinine reasoning I've ever heard. WORTH 15 million a year? holy shit people lets take a reality check here. This entire trade topic is probably the single BIGGEST reason baseball has become the worst major sport in this country.

[Huckleberry]

Actually, gameplay is the reason that the NBA is far and away the worst pro league in this country.

[Ksyrup]

this is the most assinine reasoning I've ever heard. WORTH 15 million a year? holy shit people lets take a reality check here. This entire trade topic is probably the single BIGGEST reason baseball has become the worst major sport in this country.
Let's not get into this AGAIN. It's OK to pay actors $20M a movie or $1M+ an episode, but athletes aren't allowed to make insane amounts of money for playing a sport? Jennifer Aniston has a net worth estimated at $76M, for chrissakes!

If they are making money for those who pay them, the sky's the limit - more power to them. Uf, like Maddux and Pudge, they want to use an agent who prices them out of the market, so be it. If there's one willing to pay, there's a market, and I say get all you can.