October 5, 200322 yr I don't think any cheating incident will ever top the albert belle fiasco , having Grimsley steal the confiscated bat is just classic
October 6, 200322 yr Doesnt make me like Olivo anymore... As I said, there are corked bats in every clubhouse. No need to get your panties in a bunch acting like it is the end of the world when it happens. It has happened throughout history and will continue to do so. So the smart thing is not "take the high road" when it usually has already happened to one of your own or easily could on the wrong day.
October 7, 200322 yr The whole point is if we had Sosa for 1993, and maybe thru 2000, we would have never had the attendance lull that caused so much selling off of players. We would have maintained a much higher Salary cap, and if needed, he could have been traded for something pretty incredible in 1999 or 2000. If you dont like Sosa, thats all fine--everyone has their opinion. He is no more selfish than 3-4 guys on our team who swing for the fences every at bat. Sosa may have used a corked bat, but he never held out of Spring training b****ing and crying about his deferred money. Sosa also never took the night off-he played almost every game from 1997-2002. His power, and RBI stats are staggering-borderline a joke. He reached base 7 times in the first 2 games of the Braves series! You may not like Sosa, and he bugs me too, but it's time to seperate personal feelings and logic. That trade hurt in many ways.
October 7, 200322 yr But who is to say that Sosa would have had the same number of HR's playing in Comiskey? I do believe that Wrigley is a smaller park, and the NL pitchers are not the same breed as the AL. Things could have been different for the guy. Also, Sosa didn't really become a HUGE star until '98, and that is when people started to flock to see him. So many of the Sox attendance problems would have been the same through '97. The star of the team was never Sosa, it was Ventura, Thomas, etc...
October 7, 200322 yr I agree he never was a star with the Sox, but he would have become one--he had over 40 homers in 1997. Even if they decided they had too many HR hitters after 2000, I would imagine sosa as pretty good trade bait. by the way, Wrigley's dimenson's are longer than comiskey's.
October 8, 200322 yr Sosa "matured" in the Wrigley environment. He would have been a much different person if the Sox had kept him. I'm sure the Cubs pushed him to be a media darling rather than a baseball player. Good for revenues.
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