Let’s get right to it, shall we?

RandBall: You stay the hell away from Johan Santana. Do you understand, Lizzy? Look, by this point a trade of the Twins’ ace is inevitable. Some might say it could make the team better in the long run, which often happens when you deal away the best pitcher in baseball. But you keep your filthy Red Sox away from him. Minnesota has already done enough from your one-horse town. You know the drill: KG, Papi, Maroney, blah blah blah. Paul Revere? Originally from Stillwater. We do not care if the Red Sox offer the Twins the most attractive package in the sweepstakes. We do not want to see the sweet lefty pitching in Beantown. It would just be too much. As much as we don’t want to see Santana in Pinstripes, we would prefer that to a dance with the devil that is Boston sports. Not for all the Lesters and Ellsburys in the world.

Lizzy: Let me ask you, Randball, you would rather see your precious Johan in PINSTRIPES? I sure as heck wouldn’t. Although I’m rather enjoying the younger Steinbrenner continuing to do the same kind of damage to the Yankees as his father did. Throwing ridiculous amouts of money at aging prospects. Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, all pushing AARP age and making a gajillion dollars a year for the next 3-4 years. But I digress. I do salivate at the idea of a Santana, Beckett, Schilling, Bucholtz, Lester, Matsuzaka and Wakefield. However, your precous Johan isn’t on my Christmas list this year. Having him end up anywhere but on the m-fing Yankees is.

So I guess we kind of agree. I don’t want to see Bucholtz or Lester or Jacoby anywhere else but in Boston, because with the exception of Bucholtz, all of them played a vital role in bringing another championship to Boston. However, if the other option is Johan ending up on the Death Star? Bring ‘em
to Fenway, Theo. As a Boston fan living in Manhattan, I’ve delt with the insufferable bellyaching of Yankee fans over the course of the last few months, who are now totally convinced that trading away Phil Huges for a guy who honestly, is getting old, and maybe has 2 years of throwing strikeout baseball left before he really has to learn how to pitch, will bring that 27th ring to NYC. Call me a Grinch, but nothing would make me happier than to see the reverse of that taking place, to taste the delicious tears of Yankee fans everywhere, and having Santana end up in the grasp of the Mets or the Red Sox (for the record I’d prefer the Mets).

This entry was posted on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 11:14 am and is filed under Main. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.