Posted on 11/28/2003 3:04:27 PM PST by StatesEnemy
Just announced on ESPN...
Who will be first in the rotation? Kurt or Pete?
On the other hand, if they play like the Cowboys......
As a lifelong Brewers fan (you couldn't tell by my screen name, could you?), I'm sorry to say that Sexson will probably be either a Diamondback or a Giant before the year is over. The Brewers simply cannot afford to pay him what he's worth, and he's worth every cent of the $7+ million he'll make next year. He played all 162 games and hit 45 home runs this past year.
Have fun cheering for him - I certainly have.
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That 'he' was meant for Steinbrenner, too. It took Colangelo two years to pay back Steinbrenner with interest, but Schilling represented the perfect vehicle of retribution. The right-hander wasn't just the man who helped topple Steinbrenner's dynasty, and wasn't just the man who could make the Red Sox the actual favorites in the American League East.
Schilling was also the man who said this of Yankee lore: "When you use the words 'mystique' and 'aura,' those are dancers in a nightclub." (hahahaa...)
Schilling delivered this priceless (if scripted) quote before Arizona made a little magic of its own. And now?
"He'll be a king and a hero if they can win a World Series in Boston," Colangelo said of Schilling.
Yes, Martinez to Schilling to Lowe could be Boston's answer to Tinker to Evers to Chance, a relay that will connect the last Red Sox championship in 1918 to the next one in 2004.
The Sox didn't lose out on Schilling like they lost out on everyone from Jose Contreras to Bernie Williams to Babe Ruth. Colangelo hand-delivered them a slam-dunk trade, gave them 72 hours of quality time with Schilling, and would've granted a half dozen deadline extensions to Larry Lucchino, an executive Steinbrenner loathed long before he called the Yankees the "evil empire."
"I guess I hate the Yankees now," Schilling said at his Friday night news conference.
The owner who traded him? The evidence suggests Jerry Colangelo doesn't hate the Yankees, just the man who owns them.
LOL!
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