Stu’s Huntdown: The Knoblauch trade
Posted on January 31st, 2008 – 2:00 PMBy Michael Rand
This timely Hunt down might be one of our all-time favorites. By the way, did you know Feb. 6 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the trade of Chuck Knoblauch? Also, did you know that Knoblauch is German for “garlic.” OK, we’ll let Stu take it from here:Name: The Knoblauch Trade (Chuck Knoblauch, Eric Milton, Cristian Guzman, Brian Buchanan and Daniel Mota).
Nicknames: Knobby, Miltie, Goozy, Buck and we’ll just say “Danny” for Daniel Mota.
Claim to Fame, Minnesota: a deal wherein the Minnesota Twins traded their best player to New York for a fistful of unknown prospects. Sound familiar?
Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: the Yankees would eventually discover that some of the players they parted with were All-Stars, while the player they received had problems with the throwing of a baseball from second base to first base. This is recognized by many as a problem if the person doing the throwing is, in fact, a second baseman. Advantage: Small market!
Where They Are Now:
*Chuck Knoblauch. The “where are they now” question seems more pertinent when the United States Congress is asking it along with a subpoena, no? Per the New York Times, he’ll appear before the House Oversight Committee on Friday to discuss the whole Brian McNamee/Roger Clemens/HGH kerfuffle.
*Cristian Guzman. Will begin his fourth injury-plagued year with the Washington Nationals this spring.
*Eric Milton. Traded by the Twins to the Phillies for Carlos Silva and Nick Punto, he subsequently signed a lucrative free agent deal with the Reds. Per Wiki, his career record with the team amounts to $1.14 million per win. Ouch. Currently unsigned.
*Brian Buchanan. Traded by the Twins to San Diego for Jason Bartlett, Buchanan now lumbers around the outfield for the impossibly-named Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
*Daniel Mota. To say information is scarce would be an understatement.
Glorious Randomness: When Knoblauch is sworn in before the House Oversight Committee, will Minnesota Committee member Betty McCollum throw a hot dog at him? Because that would be awesome.
19 Responses to "Stu’s Huntdown: The Knoblauch trade"
“Danny Mota” sounds too much like the name of a short story by WP Kinsella (who also wrote the book that became “Field of Dreams”), “The Night Manny Mota Broke the Record.” It’s an odd story, but a good book, “The Thrill of the Grass”
Everytime I see the name Knoblauch I want to throw batteries and hot dogs. I don’t know why that is?
Must be a nervous tic.
Tavaris learned how to throw from Knoblauch.
Say what you will about Chuck Knoblauch. None of this changes the fact that Tom Brady is the most handsome athlete of his day.
Having attended the infamous “hot dog” game with RandBall, I must admit that RandBall truly did give 110% in making this game as funny as I remember it.
By the way, my favorite memory of the game was after the PA announcer warned the fans that the Twins might have to forfeit the game the rancor died down for a bit. About an inning or so later some jackaninny started the wave. As the wave made its way around clockwise another jackaninny (neither me nor RandBall) heaved one last hot dog just as the crowd jumped up around him/her. It was the the greatest example of opportunity and timing that I have ever seen from a sports fan.
… and Rocket is the most handsome commenter on RandBall.
None of this changes the fact that Tom Brady is the most handsome athlete of his day.
Indeed.
I’ve already started scouring google images for a good one to put on my “Tom Brady Man Crush” t-shirt. I’m leaning towards this one:
http://socialitelife.buzznet.com/images/2007/10/tom_brady_101207_01-thumb.jpg
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Roughkat, that photo scared the hell outta me.
That might be better suited for the “I’m Having Tom Brady’s Baby” T-shirt.
Hey, Rand, can you blow on the Baseball Moderator 1000 cartridge?
I tried to post a comment and the screen is just flashing from grey to blue.
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Look what happens when ACCESS VIKINGS goes down…
I don’t know who wins in a fight with P3 against ACCESS VIKINGS COMMENTER or BUSTER RHYMES but I’d gladly pay at least $7.50 to watch.
Roughkat, I thought that was the undercard for the Lesnar-Mir UFC fight Saturday night. I’ll probably be paying more than $7.50 for that.
Dave, I pasted this onto the Access Vikings blog since I really don’t know (though never asked) why the number of posts there is always huge…in the hundreds ! Why so ?
“Does this blog recruit from the erectile dysfunction mailing lists to consistently get so many members, so to speak”
P3, I’d guess it was more of a Hooked on Phonics mailing list that they’re recruiting from…
I mean when I did submit there, if I waited more than a millisecond to do so, there would be 100 then 250 entries…”who are those guys ?”
