No more Nomaah

[dougo]

The Red Sox traded Nomar Garciaparra to Chicago, which is making me really sad for some reason. I haven't followed baseball much in the past few years, and not at all this year except for watching the All-Star Game (and Home Run Derby). And I'm not a particularly big Red Sox fan, although I've grown to like rooting for them after living here for 9 years. (Deep down I'm still a Pirates fan, but they've been losers for so long I often forget they even still exist.) But Nomar's cool, and it was nice to think that the archetype of the franchise player who stays with one team his whole career still existed. But no, it's all a big Rotisserie game to the owners these days, and apparently after the big drool-fest over A-Rod this spring, Nomar still had some bad feelings. I guess it didn't help that he rejected a 4-year contract this winter, and being on the DL for 57 games wasn't making it any easier for them to want to keep him. Still, it seems like a bad business decision. Are Doug Mientkiewicz and Orlando Cabrera really going to have the star power to bring the fans to the park?

Comments

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

You'd probably like this Slate article titled The Capitalism of Soccer: Why Europe's favorite sport is more American than baseball.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

if you think losing nomar is going to keep the red sox from filling up the smallest park in the majors, you're insane. there were lots of sox fans before nomar, there will be lots after him.

i'm not terribly sad -- he dug his own hole, and i'm happy (and suprised) that the sox could get a few decent players for what amounts to be just a 2-month rental for the cubs.

--sean