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Old 01-12-2005, 03:07 AM   #3 (permalink)
sgn43
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I really really wish I could tell you what DePodesta is thinking. For a while I was convinced that he was a secret operative working for George Steinbrenner. The only thing I can think of to explain all of this is that he's clearing beaucoup cap space to make some BIG deals....but for who? No one is left and surely Lowe can't be that blockbuster deal he was going for. And yeah, Kent and Drew...I totally forgot they were on the team until you mentioned them.


You'd think after the debacle last year would have taught him a lesson. Trading away Mota, the best setup man in baseball for the best closer in baseball (sidenote: we do still have Gagne, right? Depodesta didn't trade him to the Red Sox for a pack of gum and a Curt Schilling rookie card, did he?!), Paul Loduca, the team's undisputed leader (and a huge fan favorite in a town that is hard to impress, especially when you're not consistently winning) was about as insane as it got. Especially due to the fact that the Dodgers were absolutely on fire when the deal was made, and the main objective in the trade wasn't even met (get Randy Johnson in blue). But, by an enormous stroke of luck, Finley came on board and was so clutch that I swore I'd have his babies despite it being physiologically impossible...and if not impossible, very very very painful.


So, like you pointed out...the two biggest parts of our making the playoffs (and the only reason we actually took a game from the Cards) were the first to go. And now here we are, team morale probably all out of whack, chemistry who knows where, and all of us fans completely confused as to what in the name of uncle jimmy's corncob pipe is going on.


Bottom line: DePodesta needs to cut his cocaine habit before he trades every last one of our starters for the starting line up of a tee-ball team plus their aftergame snacks. However, if the aftergame snacks include snowcones, it might be worth it. If there's Grape flavor, then definitely.
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