Catching up after a few days off...
McCarthy trade aftermathDumping out a boatload of links:
- I did like Jeeves' Kenny Williams-Jerry Krause link, and Kenny's moves, which have been beaten down in the press, suggest that old notorious mantra of "organizations win championships." Of course, Williams gives all the credit to the players when they succeed and often when they fail, though he also holds himself accountable.
- Jamey Newberg of the Newberg Report gives his own detailed perspective into the deal from a Rangers fan's point of view. It's a pretty dense read, but he is right when he says you don't see many baseball card trades anymore. That's definitely the right term for this one.
- The Cheat ranks the Sox's new prospects accompanied with notes from Baseball America. I'm not real as high on Sisco, because if the Sox are hinting that Brandon McCarthy is uncoachable, Sisco's reputation is worse; I'd probably go Danks-Gio-Masset-Floyd-Sisco-Aardsma-Rasner-Vazquez.
- Joe Cowley says Don Cooper likes what he sees, and he's not "just kissing the GM's ass." But the ledge-jumpers Cowley refers to in his lede aren't Sox fans...
- Once again, they're members of the Chicago media: Here, here, here, here, and here. The last one is intentionally not a link, because you know who I'm talking about.
Cintron, Sox reach contractAlex Cintron avoided arbitration by
agreeing to a one-year, $1.9 million deal. It's a perfectly acceptable deal for a perfectly acceptable backup. I still wouldn't want him starting if Juan Uribe is still in trouble, but I like having him around.
Gerald Ford, deadWhen I saw on TV this morning that Gerald Ford died this morning, I was
half-expecting to hear that it was because he jumped out of an office building, was chopped up by a propeller of a commuter plane, strangled by the corpse of Richard Nixon or mauled by a circus lion in a convenience store at the
senseless age of 93.