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Originally Posted by kutulu
I wouldn't expect much from Betemit. He's turning 26 soon and last season was his first significant action.
And Pan, yes the DBacks mortgaged the future ut they also won the division in 99, and 02 and finished above .500 in 03 (despite having lost RJ for basically the season and Schilling for nearly half of the season). The Schilling trade (however botched it was) was done with the intention of getting Sexson and the RJ trade was initiated by RJ, not the team as a salary dump. Those were the only trades involving high paid players.
People look back on it as a spending spree followed by a fire sale but it wasn't that way. They started building that team almost right from the start by getting Bell, Miller and Williams right away, then RJ, Gonzo, Finley, and Womack the next year. They traded for Schilling in 2000 and signed Grace (for less than what he made in 2000) and Sanders as free agents in 01.
People like to remember them as going from chumps to champs then back to chumps but it was NOT that way at all.
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Good points on Az.
I remember Matt Williams kind of held Cle. hostage with his desire to go to his hometown. He kept saying he liked Cle. and all but he was going to retire if they didn't trade him to Az. because he needed to be with his kids, so we did, didn't get anything for him but we did so because other than the threats he was a class act who treated Cle. and the fans with respect.
Of course when I lived in Phoenix and saw that beautiful new wife he had shortly after the trade I would have wanted to be closer to home more too.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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