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Be Careful What You Wish For
For the last two years, the general hue and cry from Twindom has gone something like this, “Jesus Christ, trade some of those young pitchers for someone who can hit!”.
And, I don’t mean to speak for the masses here, but I believe the call was for someone who hit with his man bits and not with his vagina.
Well…it’s morning in Minnesota, and Bill Smith’s reply to our call was “Why don’t you shove Carlos Gomez up your ass. Small Market's in the HOUSE”.
We’ve not only traded one of best young pitchers (a trade I kinda love), but we’ve now managed to make Boof Bonser our 2008 Opening Day Starter. Whoops!
Can you tell I’m mad? I mean, can you really tell? How about this…watch this clip and then you’ll probably understand. I’ve never been to Turkey, but I’m seriously thinking about going.
Let me be clear…I LIKE the Matt Garza trade. I LIKE the prospect of Delmon Young hitting the ball all over Carl Pohlad Memorial Stadium. I wasn’t mad when we traded Luis Castillo and I believe NOT paying Torii Hunter 90 million dollars, even though it made this website’s name obsolete, was the RIGHT thing to do.
But don’t those moves highlight in big, glowing, Joe Mauer-pink neon the absolute NECESSITY of re-signing Johan Santana???
Here’s what every Twins fan should be asking this morning…”What’s the fucking plan, Mr. Smith?”
Are we really to believe this team is ready to compete for a title now? And, assuming the answer is “No fucking way”, when will we be competing? Are we waiting for Justin Morneau to be MORE in his prime? Am I missing a BEVY of young players in the minors that are two-three years away that are going to make all the difference?
This feels like a move that is two days late and 25 million dollars short. If the team was willing to part with Garza, why not last year or the year before when a trade would have produced a hitter that could have helped us get over “the hump”? If we’re re-building, then why not trade Joe Nathan at last year’s deadline for young players? And, most mind-numbingly important of all, if you were willing to give Johan 4 years at 20 million…why not five? Or how about four years at 25 million? Jesus. Mary. Joseph.
So...What’s the fucking plan, Mr. Smith? More moves to come? Trading Nathan at this year's deadline?
Until this becomes more clear to me, I’m sorry, but I am forced to give you a special, mandatory TWT nickname.
We’ve officially gone from The Quiet Genius to a Man-Lady named Phuck.
(By the way…in all seriousness…I can’t wait for the season to start. Go Twins!)
(Oh…and this was supposed to be a Farewell Johan post. Well fuck that…but my favorite Johan memory is probably the duel with Curt Schilling when he struck out six of the first seven hitters )
(Or maybe it was win he gave up a MONSTER home run to Big Papi in the World Classic )
And, I don’t mean to speak for the masses here, but I believe the call was for someone who hit with his man bits and not with his vagina.
Well…it’s morning in Minnesota, and Bill Smith’s reply to our call was “Why don’t you shove Carlos Gomez up your ass. Small Market's in the HOUSE”.
We’ve not only traded one of best young pitchers (a trade I kinda love), but we’ve now managed to make Boof Bonser our 2008 Opening Day Starter. Whoops!
Can you tell I’m mad? I mean, can you really tell? How about this…watch this clip and then you’ll probably understand. I’ve never been to Turkey, but I’m seriously thinking about going.
Let me be clear…I LIKE the Matt Garza trade. I LIKE the prospect of Delmon Young hitting the ball all over Carl Pohlad Memorial Stadium. I wasn’t mad when we traded Luis Castillo and I believe NOT paying Torii Hunter 90 million dollars, even though it made this website’s name obsolete, was the RIGHT thing to do.
But don’t those moves highlight in big, glowing, Joe Mauer-pink neon the absolute NECESSITY of re-signing Johan Santana???
Here’s what every Twins fan should be asking this morning…”What’s the fucking plan, Mr. Smith?”
Are we really to believe this team is ready to compete for a title now? And, assuming the answer is “No fucking way”, when will we be competing? Are we waiting for Justin Morneau to be MORE in his prime? Am I missing a BEVY of young players in the minors that are two-three years away that are going to make all the difference?
This feels like a move that is two days late and 25 million dollars short. If the team was willing to part with Garza, why not last year or the year before when a trade would have produced a hitter that could have helped us get over “the hump”? If we’re re-building, then why not trade Joe Nathan at last year’s deadline for young players? And, most mind-numbingly important of all, if you were willing to give Johan 4 years at 20 million…why not five? Or how about four years at 25 million? Jesus. Mary. Joseph.
So...What’s the fucking plan, Mr. Smith? More moves to come? Trading Nathan at this year's deadline?
Until this becomes more clear to me, I’m sorry, but I am forced to give you a special, mandatory TWT nickname.
We’ve officially gone from The Quiet Genius to a Man-Lady named Phuck.
(By the way…in all seriousness…I can’t wait for the season to start. Go Twins!)
(Oh…and this was supposed to be a Farewell Johan post. Well fuck that…but my favorite Johan memory is probably the duel with Curt Schilling when he struck out six of the first seven hitters )
(Or maybe it was win he gave up a MONSTER home run to Big Papi in the World Classic )
5 comments:
This DOES suck, but I find it hard to blame Bill Smith.
Maybe my "facts" are wrong, but I've now heard a few times that there was a $100 million dollar offer on the table to Johan. And I guess we'll see what happens, but it looks like (shockingly, I know) the Mets will be able to give him somewhere closer to the 6 years, $150-$175 million range.
So, in all likelihood, our options at this point were to trade him now for this deal (because the Rox and Skankees pulled the big pieces off the table the past week and because Santana's agent demanded a deal IMMEDIATELY or they would go to free agency), or to lose Johan to free agency and we get a couple of draft picks. Sounds like Bill Smith did the only thing he could to me -- don't hate the players, hate the game.
Santana and his agent may have made this diffifcult, but the fact is that there was more on the table earlier in the process (Hughes) and Phuck elected to wait and see if something better came along. That's on him.
The problem with this whole thing is the only thing we firmly KNOW was ever on the table is THIS deal. How do we accurately know what was ever on the table before? You have total trust in the media reports? I don't -- at least, not enough to stir up much angst against Bill Smith (at this point). I'm not trying to say he's not Phuck -- I'm just waiting to see if he's Phuck or McLovin.
Wait...you think THIS deal, which has been reported from the begining, was "guessed" correctly...but not the other two?
All indications, from the same sources that reported on the Mets deal, are that Hughes and Melky Cabrera were on the table. As well as the Boston packages headed by Ellsbury or Lester...but never Ellsbury AND Lester.
And my point isn't that we should have traded Santana AT ALL. We should have signed him last year, early. We were waiting for what, exactly?
I guess I am believing in this report more than than the early reports, yes, because it seems like more of a done deal (even though it's not technically finalized). I would have vastly preferred the Hughes-Cabrera deal if it was true -- I just have doubts that it was.
As for signing him last year early, I'm with you there. But the waters are equally murky there -- how do we know we didn't try? Best guess is that we did, and likely offered him EXACTLY WHAT WE DID NOW. We just accomplished the same thing with Morneau and Cuddyer, so we think that we just decided not to do it with Johan for some separate reason? Lastly, last year wasn't Bill Smith's watch -- it was TRyan's.
I'm trying to muster some anger towards the front office, but I just can't.
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