It’s trading season! Hidalgo (the player, not the horse in that Viggo Mortensen movie) to the Mets for Weathers. On the Billy Koch trade to the Marlins, here’s my thoughts (first posted on Boston Sports Media: I’m lazy these days and doublin’ up comments). Isn’t it weird to trade with a team that you’re playing a series with? It’s like Beinfest went, hmm, I like the look of that guy sitting on the bench, I’ll take him.
Next thing you’ll know we’ll hear about an in-game trade. I can see it now, Theo Epstein and Brian Sabean in a clandestine meeting on a yacht off McCovey Cove. “Here, we’ll give you Cesar Crespo, and you give us Barry Bonds. Bonds will lead off for the Sox in the next inning.” Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?
Edit: all that written before Bonds’ ridiculous statements about Boston being a racist town despite not actually having played there. I don’t doubt the Sox had a racist past (or, at the least, took shamefully long to integrate) but right now, that doesn’t seem to be the case.