2008 Woodie Awards
To trade or not to trade, no question
Beau Markut
Issue date: 12/7/06 Section: Sports
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The time for Major League Baseball teams to wheel and deal their players is upon us. There are some players that seem to be attracting the attention of the nation despite the current craze of the NFL. Some of the players are as follows:
Barry Bonds: "Barry will play next year," Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, told ESPN.com again this weekend, "unless he gets hit by a bus." Well I hear the rumble of the American people as they scramble for school and travel busses alike to run this man over, despite his status of the greatest slugger of our time.
Baseball GM's are sprinting like Olympic competitors away from Bonds and with good reason. Never in the history of sports has one man more thoroughly destroyed his or her sport's image than Bonds' has.
This strange but understandable move by player shoppers in the MLB is pristine proof that no matter how good a player is, if the fans hate them, they will not play.
Right now Bonds is sitting in his California home without a job or a team, and that is where he needs to stay. The former slugger needs to cope with retirement and enter a job somewhere that cannot possibly take any more damage to his image. My suggestion is Enron.
Manny Ramirez: For this player I need to calm myself, take a deep breath, and say that the Boston Red Sox's general manager is on a serious amount of mind debilitating drugs, most likely crack/cocaine. When every team in your conference is hoping that you trade a player, do not do it!
The 34-year-old left fielder hit .321 and 35 home runs. What else do you want from a player? Yes, he is an expensive player to have, but the Red Sox just put down 51.1 million dollars just to meet with Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, not even to sign him. So money is certainly not an issue for the BoSoxs.
I am not a professional general manager, but I do understand the concept of paying for what you get. Boston pays top dollars for Manny, 78 million dollars over four years to be exact, and for that they receive a great player. Here is a tip for all of the MLB GMs out there: when you have one of the best players in the league, KEEP HIM!
Barry Bonds: "Barry will play next year," Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, told ESPN.com again this weekend, "unless he gets hit by a bus." Well I hear the rumble of the American people as they scramble for school and travel busses alike to run this man over, despite his status of the greatest slugger of our time.
Baseball GM's are sprinting like Olympic competitors away from Bonds and with good reason. Never in the history of sports has one man more thoroughly destroyed his or her sport's image than Bonds' has.
This strange but understandable move by player shoppers in the MLB is pristine proof that no matter how good a player is, if the fans hate them, they will not play.
Right now Bonds is sitting in his California home without a job or a team, and that is where he needs to stay. The former slugger needs to cope with retirement and enter a job somewhere that cannot possibly take any more damage to his image. My suggestion is Enron.
Manny Ramirez: For this player I need to calm myself, take a deep breath, and say that the Boston Red Sox's general manager is on a serious amount of mind debilitating drugs, most likely crack/cocaine. When every team in your conference is hoping that you trade a player, do not do it!
The 34-year-old left fielder hit .321 and 35 home runs. What else do you want from a player? Yes, he is an expensive player to have, but the Red Sox just put down 51.1 million dollars just to meet with Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, not even to sign him. So money is certainly not an issue for the BoSoxs.
I am not a professional general manager, but I do understand the concept of paying for what you get. Boston pays top dollars for Manny, 78 million dollars over four years to be exact, and for that they receive a great player. Here is a tip for all of the MLB GMs out there: when you have one of the best players in the league, KEEP HIM!
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