There's been a lot of trade talk threads around here, about Randa, Chavez, Zito, Schmidt and all sorts of players who supposedly could make us even better. But yesterday as I watched the Pregame with Kenny Williams, Kenny brought up an awesome point, with a team this good (50 f***ing wins in June, can you f***ing believe it?) it is EXTREMELY disrespectful to talk about players who need to be replaced.
Im no angel, and I get fed up with Crede's batting problems a lot, but to talk of replacing a player who is a clubhouse favorite and obviously a piece to what could be a WS puzzle is STUPID. Saying that El Duque needs to be replaced is even dumber and calling for yet another bullpen arm beats all others.
These guys are close to warriors as you'll ever see hit the baseball diamond. They lay out the stats that could be mean huge paydays this winter to move runners over and set themselves up. They do all kinds of things that if you asked of other players on other teams, they'd laugh. Try telling the Boston/NYY/Northside Ego-maniacs about Ozzieball, they'd get a great laugh out of it. But for some reason or another, we reeled in 5 players who were believers in our system.
They found themselves to be good fits and were what us fans always look for, winners. And look what they've done so far, they've won. Dye started off slow, many were calling for his ticket out of town, people want another starter because El Duque isnt all that. Tads, Pods, AJ and Hermy of course have been finds that makes the big boys scratch thier heads and wonder why they didnt offer them billion dollar uber-contracts.
So why are we doing this? Offering up trade ideas that would bump these warriors to the bench, pitting them to be forgotten and thier awesome accomplishments of this 1st half to be totally forgotten. I find it to be a total lack of respect amongst us Sox fans as a whole. The fact that we can find negative things to say about our ballclub which has done nothing but sacrificed what could be awesome stats for a win.
These guys are awesome, they're changing the face of baseball, and we think we can stand here and critisize thier accomplishments and ask for them to leave.
I'll tell you what that is, a total lack of respect and I cannot believe I'm part of a fanbase that does this.