Tuesday, August 03, 2004
REALLY?
As Raul Ibanez ends another rally, I have another post. Nothing's shocking.
From Alan Schwartz's Top August Deals column at ESPN.com today:
No. 13. Aug. 27, 1992: The Blue Jays trade Jeff Kent and a player to be named later (Ryan Thompson) to the Mets for David Cone. To this day, former Toronto GM Pat Gillick uses his acquisition of Cone as Exhibit A of what a post-deadline deal can do for a club -- and to its opponents. "I think it proves to the players, Hey, these guys want to win, they'll do what they can to win," Gillick once said. "That gives them a bit of an injection. I talked to Paul Molitor when he came to our club in '93, and he said it really took the air out of Milwaukee. He said that when Milwaukee heard we got Cone ... it hyped our guys up and it kind of deflated them a little bit." Cone helped the Blue Jays win the 1992 World Series, while Kent began to blossom in New York the following season.
It's too f***ing bad that Gillick couldn't have had this same wisdom during his reign in Seattle. I find it insulting that the Florida Marlins have won 2 World Championships in their short existence and the Mariners haven't won diddily-poo. (Sorry, no link for Jim Mora's hysterical interview. I had posted it last fall, but it no longer works.)
Yes, the life of a Seattle sports fan. Watching other teams win. Man I hope the Seahawks can erase the pain this fall.
From Alan Schwartz's Top August Deals column at ESPN.com today:
No. 13. Aug. 27, 1992: The Blue Jays trade Jeff Kent and a player to be named later (Ryan Thompson) to the Mets for David Cone. To this day, former Toronto GM Pat Gillick uses his acquisition of Cone as Exhibit A of what a post-deadline deal can do for a club -- and to its opponents. "I think it proves to the players, Hey, these guys want to win, they'll do what they can to win," Gillick once said. "That gives them a bit of an injection. I talked to Paul Molitor when he came to our club in '93, and he said it really took the air out of Milwaukee. He said that when Milwaukee heard we got Cone ... it hyped our guys up and it kind of deflated them a little bit." Cone helped the Blue Jays win the 1992 World Series, while Kent began to blossom in New York the following season.
It's too f***ing bad that Gillick couldn't have had this same wisdom during his reign in Seattle. I find it insulting that the Florida Marlins have won 2 World Championships in their short existence and the Mariners haven't won diddily-poo. (Sorry, no link for Jim Mora's hysterical interview. I had posted it last fall, but it no longer works.)
Yes, the life of a Seattle sports fan. Watching other teams win. Man I hope the Seahawks can erase the pain this fall.
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