It's like watching the run up to the war in Iraq.
All year, we vow to plunge forward, according to a plan: We'll push youth, build the future, avoid the old ways.
And then, poof.
We're about to trade Melky Cabrera, Phil Hughes and somebody else -- better believe, it'll be a solid prospect -- for Johan Santana, "the best pitcher in baseball," as the scribes love to say. (They also say he's only 28, but he'll be 29 in spring training.)
Poof.
I blame the syncopaths who cover New York sports. Everything they write is pitched to one notion: Suck up. Suck up. Suck up.
The Yanks read the writers, and the writers read the Yanks, and we talk ourselves into anything. We make policy through a talk-loop with people who never played pro baseball, never made a trade and never face accountability for a bad deal.
And everything is predicated on what the Redsocks might do. Everything.
Consider this tidbit in today's article by Pete Caldera, who covers the Yankees for North Jersey media, talking about his Yankee source: "The source also indicated that the Yankees have not felt pressured by what the Red Sox are currently offering."
Uh-huh? Really?
Well, that leaves two possiblities: The source is a lying sack of shit. Or it's the cab-driver who takes Caldera to weekend dolphin-sighting excursions in the Hudson River.
Are the Yanks so lost that their entire focus now is on what the Redsocks might do?
Sure seems so.
Wasn't that why Boston never could win?
We are now the Redsocks.
Poof.
Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Johan Santana, Phil Hughes, and disgruntled fans, that's the subject of tonight's Talking Points Memo. Nearly everyday, there's something written on the Internet or printed in the mainstream media about the Yankees sacrificing their future by trading for Johan Santana.
ReplyDeleteLet me ask, did you whine as much when the Yankees traded one their can't miss young pitchers, Eric Milton, for another lauded Twin All-Star, Chuck Knoblauch. As I've asked on the Radio Factor, how did that work out? Milton's 87-84 for his career and the Yankees won three rings with Knoblauch often getting clutch hits and sometimes throwing balls into the stands. But, hey, even that worked out as one ball hit that smear merchant from MSNBC's mother.
Those pinheads in the mainstream media and on the internet must ask themselves, what is the bigger risk? Trading a top young pitching prospect like Hughes, or letting the Red Sox get the one-two punch of Beckett and Santana and an automatic trip to the World Series each year? Seems like the answer is obvious. The Yankees must make this trade.
And that's tonight's Talking Points Memo.
And now to discuss the potential Santana trade, let me bring in syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin. What say you, Malkin?
I blame the Clintons!
ReplyDeleteLetting the Red Sox get Santana is like letting Iran get a nuclear weapon! It can't happen. It must be stopped. (goofy smile)
ReplyDeleteI am not the redsocks. You are!
ReplyDeleteI say, let the Red Sox have him.
ReplyDeleteHe'll be 29 and injured next season, anyway.
Remember Carl Pavano?
He was "29" when we got him, too. Virtually never pitched for us, once he cashed that first mega -check. Now, he's 34 and still hasn't pitched. Won't pitch.
And we gave up only money for him.
Let Boston have every high priced, over the hill, super star. That's what ruined the Yankees, and that's what it will take now to bring down Boston.
But the Yankees have all of a sudden become too stupid.
I am becoming a soccer fan.
_ Alphonso