My two favorite teams made big moves today. The NY Knicks just made five-man trade with the Bucks and Hawks. And of course, everyone is talking (or bitching about especially in Boston) the NY Yankees acquiring A Rod from the Texas Rangers. And the big loser in that deal was the Boston Red Sox (who failed to trade for A Rod last month) of course.
This deal is drawing comparisons to when the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919. Larry Mahnken wrote on his blog Replacement Level Yankees:
84 years later, the Red Sox have once again lost out on an all-time great to the New York Yankees. No, the trade is not truly comparable to the Ruth sale, and the ramifications are nowhere near as great, but the Red Sox did pass on Rodriguez for the same reason they shipped out Ruth: it was a good business decision. The Yankees, on the other hand, saw the opportunity to get a player who could contribute things to the team that no other combination of players could do, and they appear to have taken it.Oh well. This summer will be exciting for sure!
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