For the first day of the offseason, there sure is a whole heck of a lot going on. We'll start with the Red Sox, who are scheduled to have their victory parade today and it's certainly well-deserved. Their 29-10 margin of victory in the World Series was the biggest ever for the fall classic.
Next, it seems (and rightly so) that Major League Baseball is not particularly thrilled with Alex Rodriguez or his agent, Scott Boras, for upstaging the Sox Sunday night with his "opt out" announcement. And yet he wonders why some people don't like him (this could apply to A-Rod or Boras, frankly).
A-Rod's former team, the New York Yankees, are said to be close to signing Joe Girardi to be his manager after making him an offer yesterday (and in doing so, losing bench coach Don Mattingly, who also interviewed for the job). It's so premature to speculate about whether Girardi will get the Yanks in the playoffs next year, it's silly. We don't know who is going to end up on this team, come opening day.
The man how used to manage the Yankees, Joe Torre, could be in line to succeed Grady Little as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. As if Game 7 of the '03 ALCS wasn't punishment enough for Little, now the man who clearly outmanaged him from the opposing dugout could be taking his job. Repeat after me..."WHO'S YOUR DADDY?!?! clap, clap, clap-clap-clap."
And oh, by the way, Torii Hunter and Barry Bonds are officially free agents, along with A-Rod. And the Braves dealt Edgar Renteria to the Detroit Tigers for a couple of minor league prospects.
All this, and the winter meetings are still weeks away!
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i wish all you sox fans, and baseball fans in general, could be here for the celebration ...people in this city are going crazy. i've never seen people take such pride and be given so much hope from their team, and and have the team be so grateful to it's fans...it's actually a pretty moving testimony of what sports can really do.
today is the parade and i would have been happy to be the understudy to the understudy for BWSC to report on the parade, but i was never asked. maybe something to think about for next year...yup, i said it ;)
Please be the bwsc's understudy's understudy!!!
I like where your head's at Not Gellar.
baseblogger, where do you think arod will end up?
at this point, i'm thinking the chicago cubs, although exactly how they'd pay him remains a bit of a tricky question.
i'm hearing a lot of people say san francisco though, although i don't see how that would be any different than his days in texas. the giants need a lot more than just a-rod.
That deal to acquire Renteria by the Tigers was a pretty big deal. Carlos Guillen will shift to first, meaning he'll miss leass time, and Renteria is world's better with the glove. Renteria will be more comfortable in Detroit than he was in Boston. That's going to be a pretty sick lineup with Curtis Granderson, Edgar Renteria, Gary Sheffield, Magglio Ordonez, and Placido Polanco
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