Del-Got Him!
Dear Marlin fans, all five of you:
There’s something fishy going on. After days of staying up late and wondering if Josh Beckett— now a Boston Red Sock—will be able to date well-tanned bikini models anymore (they don’t like the cold, I hear), I see the Marlins and the Mets have completed the ultimate in fire sale trades:
Carlos Delgado + an offsetting 7 million dollar bills for Mets rookie 1B Mike Jacobs and sterling minor league pitcher Yusmeiro Petit.
Kudos for GM Omar Minaya for going for the talent, and swinging an aggressive deal, despite the possible public relations and personality pitfalls that might pop up like a Kaz Matsui hit. Delgado is, after all, famous throughout baseball for being the man who refuses to stand for the singing of God Bless America. And bless him. It’s the land that we love and I love it because we can say it sucks in peace. His not-standing stance became known at Yankee Stadium, where the homerist boos rained down from all sides. I hope this won’t be an offseason of reporters sidling up to him at 40/40 and asking if he’s going to stand for the flag and God Bless America.
What’s more, all of this print dedicated to his anti-war stance means I can’t google up information about how much Delgado is supposed to be a solid patron of the arts.
Delgado is famed in Mets circles for a swirl of BS and bile that came from Carlos himself and his agent, David Sloane, after signing with the Marlins—stuff about how Omar was trying to be all “we’re both Latino, trust me,” Sloane mouthing off about how great the Marlins were going to be, how Delgado was the balance of power in the east, about the pace of the negotiations. Read about last year here and here.
It was all very ugly and public, and I hope that won’t cause some Met fans or some Mets to welcome Delgado coldly. Carlos is one of my favorite players (though no José Reyes or David Wright) and I’m excited to see the Mets finally get a man who can straight rake the ball. Maybe now Beltran can hit second, Wright third, Delgado in the clean-the-bases position, and Floyd fifth. That's not a bad lineup. Not at all.
There’s something fishy going on. After days of staying up late and wondering if Josh Beckett— now a Boston Red Sock—will be able to date well-tanned bikini models anymore (they don’t like the cold, I hear), I see the Marlins and the Mets have completed the ultimate in fire sale trades:
Kudos for GM Omar Minaya for going for the talent, and swinging an aggressive deal, despite the possible public relations and personality pitfalls that might pop up like a Kaz Matsui hit. Delgado is, after all, famous throughout baseball for being the man who refuses to stand for the singing of God Bless America. And bless him. It’s the land that we love and I love it because we can say it sucks in peace. His not-standing stance became known at Yankee Stadium, where the homerist boos rained down from all sides. I hope this won’t be an offseason of reporters sidling up to him at 40/40 and asking if he’s going to stand for the flag and God Bless America.What’s more, all of this print dedicated to his anti-war stance means I can’t google up information about how much Delgado is supposed to be a solid patron of the arts.
Delgado is famed in Mets circles for a swirl of BS and bile that came from Carlos himself and his agent, David Sloane, after signing with the Marlins—stuff about how Omar was trying to be all “we’re both Latino, trust me,” Sloane mouthing off about how great the Marlins were going to be, how Delgado was the balance of power in the east, about the pace of the negotiations. Read about last year here and here.
It was all very ugly and public, and I hope that won’t cause some Met fans or some Mets to welcome Delgado coldly. Carlos is one of my favorite players (though no José Reyes or David Wright) and I’m excited to see the Mets finally get a man who can straight rake the ball. Maybe now Beltran can hit second, Wright third, Delgado in the clean-the-bases position, and Floyd fifth. That's not a bad lineup. Not at all.
posted by Norman Rose at 10:28 AM
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