It is the offseason in baseball, but baseball doesn’t really have an offseason. Sure, the NBA and NFL draft create some offseason buzz. Yes, there is more player movement in those leagues than there used to be. But baseball is the only sport in which trades happen frequently enough to matter. And right now there is only one (prospective) trade worth talking about: Alex Rodriguez from Texas to Boston for Manny Ramirez. (By the time I post this, the trade may actually be dead. But even if it is “officially dead,” things like this have a way of being reincarnated.) Sportswriters are a lucky bunch. They were sports fans first, devoted to the games they now cover. How come, then, that on the most important story in baseball right now, 99% of them get it wrong?
They do this for a living?
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Ugarte, my drunken rant against the MLBPA aside, I agree with almost every aspect of your analysis of the trade(s). One thought: if the BoSox trade for Rodriguez and Ordonez, after already acquiring Schilling, will it actually become fashionable to “pity” the Yankees?
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