Boy, it looks like the Cubs really wanted to get rid of Sammy Sosa, sending him to the Orioles for Jerry Hairston and prospects. Jerry Hairston! And the Cubs are picking up a lot of Sosa’s salary as well. One of the first trades this offseason moving a major hitter from the NL to the AL (Beltran fortunately stayed in the NL, and Delgado went to the NL).
Man, that makes the Orioles even more annoying this season. I don’t really mind that the Devil Rays are terrible, since they’re uniformly terrible. I do hate that the Orioles play the Sox tough and then roll over for the Yankees.