I would first like to thank Cracker for his kind remark on my last post, I am sorry it took me so long to respond.
The pennant race in the Al East is starting to heat up, The Rays are still looking strong and are 3 games up on the Red Sox as we enter the dog days.
There are 2 other teams still in it my Yankees and the Blue Jays, 5 1/2 and 11 1/2 respectfully.
If you think the Jays are out of it just because of a double digit deficit, lets go back in history.
Thirty years ago the Yanks where 14 1/2 behind the hated Red Sox, with the Sox in town for 4 games (that is when 2 games where played nearly every Sunday and 1 ticket got you in for both of them) and got swept.
Back then the Yanks and Sox really hated each other and there was a real fight nearly every game and in that series there where 2 or 3 per game.
Many of the pundits said the Sox would be foolish to trade Manny and they would not get back value, well using the theory of less is more and the Sox didn't need more of Manny he was getting to be more of a distraction plus the addition of Jason Bay it looks like the Sox did well in this trade.
The Yankees have not made as big a splash during the trading deadline but did make 2 trades, they sent 4 low level prospects to Pittsburgh Pirates for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte.
The Yankees then sent Kyle Farnsworth to the Detroit Tigers for Ivan Rodriguez, Farnsworth became expendable with the addition of Marte and young arms coming out of the farm system and the need of catching help.
The Rays have been quiet during the trade deadline, this can be taken two ways.
Wether or not a team makes trades at the deadline the players and fans have reason to think management is behind them or not.
I do think in this instant it is different, the Rays farm system is loaded and they believe they can get help from there.
The Yanks where in a similar situation last year they needed pen help and they brought up a kid named Joba Chamberlain, do I need to say more.
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Tom, a good informative post. I think Manny will make a big hit in LA. Sporting News quotes him as saying he wants to finish his career in LA. Works for me.
BTW, you are very welcome. The Manny and Bay trade was good for both teams. The Dodgers were the big winners though. Have you seen the way Manny is hustling on the bases. If he played like that the Red Sox would NEVER have traded him, but he would never have hustled like that in Boston. Good trade all the way around....except for the Pirates.
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