New trade talks: A-Rod for

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Originally Posted by Excellance of Execution I said Shilling was injury prone last year, it happens to everyone. Pedro, up until last year was injured mostly every year before that, and as for Manny, he was either injured or playing at a level below what he is capable of. I'm not your typical Yankee's fan who loaths the Red Sox, actually i can't even say i hate them. I do however dislike it when people say things like "It would be nice talking baseball if you knew what you were talking about" just because you either don't agree with what i said or don't like what i said. I was just stating my opinion. As for Nomar being the key to the A-Rod deal, well that's not true. It all boiled down to money. They had a couple teams interested in Nomar, the White Sox and I believe the Angels come to mind, so that wasn't the key. If they would have gotten A-Rod, they wouldn't have had a problem moving Nomar, i just don't think it would have been good for the Red Sox because it would have made a lot of die hard Red Sox fans really mad. I compare the Red Sox offering Nomar for trade to the Yankees if they offered Jeter for trade. Whether it's good for business or not, it's going to p*ss off die hard fans, and IMO i think it will have an affect this season, because whenever Nomar struggles it will be brought up and it will be a distraction. But anyways, we'll see what happens.

Again, how can you call someone injury prone who has an apedectamy?

It's not like a reacurring hammy or something, that's why I said you don't know what your talking about.

As for Nomar, being the key for the A-rod deal, I meant in a positive way for the Sox, it allowed us to move Nomar who is in the last yr of his contract, now if we do, we have no real SS to take his place.

I still want to see if the MLBPA ok's this, and if they do, how the defered money was different then the Sox deal they veto'd.

Of course this helps the Yanks, but I just don't think it's the best move for them.

That being said, I don't despise the Yanks, I love the rivalry and respect what they have done, Gherig, Mantle, etc... but I'll say this, and I wasn't around but I bet Hero or DU could verify this...

I didn't here you yankees fans talking smack in 1918!