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Peter Gammons
Look, Peter, we are sorry that Dan Duquette ran over your dog, that his family members routinely egg and teepee your house, that he wrote in his Christmas card, "Peter, Bite me! Dan," that he doesn't get every damn free agent in existence to play for the Red Sox, that he fired all your sources in the front office, and, most of all, that he doesn't return your calls anymore. We feel bad that you've been hurt so deeply. But grow up for goodness sakes!
The Red Sox have won a good number of games over the last six years. Dan Duquette's trade and signing of Pedro Martinez is possibly the best GM move of the last five years. If Cashman is so smart why is Jeter going to make about three times, what Nomar does over the next four years. Is Duquette perfect, NO, but he isn't the Anti-Rickey either.
Why take the Sox to task when the Mets failed just as badly (their best pitcher is likely gone as well)? Good Grief, the Mets have just as much crap going on as anyone else. What about Tom Kelly and his inability to win anything other than "moral" victories? What about LaRussa's idiocy in the playoffs or the Orioles lawn bowling brigade? What about an Angels team that can't win 80 games and gave away their best outfielder because he was "too laid back." What about John Hart in Cleveland? Do you even realize that the Red Sox have won only five fewer games over the last three years? Let's make a friendly wager on whether the Sox make up that difference in 2001.
Pick on the Phillies, who are in the fifth largest market and whose big off-season moves are to waste $15m on two mediocre 34-year-old relievers? Write about the Phillies for awhile, and tell us about the inbred mess their management has become. Dallas Green, Greg Gross, John Kruk, and Larry Bowa. I hear Bake McBride is fine tuning his resume. (You can even use that line if you like.)
Peter, just leave the Sox alone till opening day. Make the Phillies or Twins your whipping boys, they deserve your spleen a whole lot more than the Red Sox do.
But president Randy Levine, GM Brian Cashman and Joe Torre, in the midst of winning a World Series, figured and planned it all out. Mike Mussina is a Yankee because those Yankees people do great jobs; he is not a Red Sox because the people who run that franchise have great jobs.
Look, Peter, we are sorry that Dan Duquette ran over your dog, that his family members routinely egg and teepee your house, that he wrote in his Christmas card, "Peter, Bite me! Dan," that he doesn't get every damn free agent in existence to play for the Red Sox, that he fired all your sources in the front office, and, most of all, that he doesn't return your calls anymore. We feel bad that you've been hurt so deeply. But grow up for goodness sakes!
The Red Sox have won a good number of games over the last six years. Dan Duquette's trade and signing of Pedro Martinez is possibly the best GM move of the last five years. If Cashman is so smart why is Jeter going to make about three times, what Nomar does over the next four years. Is Duquette perfect, NO, but he isn't the Anti-Rickey either.
Why take the Sox to task when the Mets failed just as badly (their best pitcher is likely gone as well)? Good Grief, the Mets have just as much crap going on as anyone else. What about Tom Kelly and his inability to win anything other than "moral" victories? What about LaRussa's idiocy in the playoffs or the Orioles lawn bowling brigade? What about an Angels team that can't win 80 games and gave away their best outfielder because he was "too laid back." What about John Hart in Cleveland? Do you even realize that the Red Sox have won only five fewer games over the last three years? Let's make a friendly wager on whether the Sox make up that difference in 2001.
Pick on the Phillies, who are in the fifth largest market and whose big off-season moves are to waste $15m on two mediocre 34-year-old relievers? Write about the Phillies for awhile, and tell us about the inbred mess their management has become. Dallas Green, Greg Gross, John Kruk, and Larry Bowa. I hear Bake McBride is fine tuning his resume. (You can even use that line if you like.)
Peter, just leave the Sox alone till opening day. Make the Phillies or Twins your whipping boys, they deserve your spleen a whole lot more than the Red Sox do.
posted by Sean Foran # 2:07 PM 
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