I now know for sure that jesus will haunt the Yankees for the next 15 years.
Luckily, Seattle is awful now and may not keep us from securing second place in the AL East, but we have just treaded on the same snake that bit us years back.
This excuse for a pitcher they sent us will be having surgery before May, I assure you.
He will go the way of those lefties whose names we can't pronounce and who never contributed a lick to the yankees.
El Duque has done his best to spin something positive and hopeful. Disregard every word.
His argument is similar to that which says our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan will bring peace, democracy, brotherly love and tranquility to those nations. Or that we will all soon book vacations there, dance with Omar, Muhammud and Abu in their mosques, have cocktails on the shore of the Euphrates and play stick-ball in the back alleys of Bagdhad.
Cashman has, in panic, erupted with a disaster for the ages. Soon, he will be GM for the Royals.
As for us; we shall be reading, within weeks mind you, reports of renewed arm troubles. Then we can look forward to yet more surgery, a lengthy recovery progress, and finally the excitement of a moderately successful inning or two at "A" ball three years hence.
In the end we shall have nothing but further disappointment, unrealized expectations and, at long last, an endless winter of drinking as we hopelessly try to forget this day.
Jay Buhner twice in a lifetime is too much for anyone to bear.
Mark my words and mark them now. This is a disaster.
The Yankees needed pitching in the worst way, and they filled the need. I'd have loved to see Montero develop into a great power hitter, too, but his lack of position and the need for pitching trumped all.
ReplyDeleteIt's not like they traded Montero for some nobody. The Buhner trade was terrible because they traded an up-and-coming slugger for a fading scrub DH. Piñeda is 22 and throws 95 mph. If they'd traded Montero for Chone Figgins, then we'd have a complaint.
I'm just really tired of seeing A.J. Burnett as the no. 2 starter for this team.
I too worry about the arm troubles. But we have Arod for six more years, and at least three of them will be as a fulltime DH.
ReplyDeleteI HATE seeing Montero go. This is why I like signing free agents and using the Yankee clout. But it will be interesting.
Normally, when the Yankees trade someone, I sort of root against them, instinctively. But I will never root against Jesus. Never. It's not his fault.
The Yankees have needed pitching in the worst way for the past decade. This trade was unnecessary. Typical Yankee impatience and the willingness to give somebody else's questionable youngsters time in the bigs before doing the same with our own.
ReplyDeleteThis is incredibly stupid. This has triggered the 'stupid' switch developed over 45 years of Yankees watching. The switch is very seldom wrong.
The bad news is, this article is probably correct.
ReplyDeleteThe good news is, Montero is a free agent in six years.
JohnF looks like a giant douchebag.