05-09-2009, 03:56 PM
<!--quoteo(post=36768:date=May 9 2009, 02:47 PM:name=bz)-->QUOTE (bz @ May 9 2009, 02:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->And why are we so worried about coddling these players? I guarantee you if DeRosa were on the team still and happened to bitch about his role, all of you would be yelling for him to suck it up and quit being a bitch. And none of you would be going "Welp, I empathize with him because it's a contract year blah blah blah"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's not about "coddling" anyone. But it's incredibly important to keep your players happy. And it's playing with fire to turn someone like DeRosa into a bench player after all that he's done the last three seasons. So when you have a situation like that, with an adequate replacement for the job he would've been doing this year (not what he did last season), and you're looking to save money wherever you can, you trade him.
It's not about "coddling" anyone. But it's incredibly important to keep your players happy. And it's playing with fire to turn someone like DeRosa into a bench player after all that he's done the last three seasons. So when you have a situation like that, with an adequate replacement for the job he would've been doing this year (not what he did last season), and you're looking to save money wherever you can, you trade him.
The thing you need to remember is that all Cardinals fans and all White Sox fans are very bad people. It's a fact that has been scientifically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Being a Cubs fan is the only path to rightousness and piousness. Cardinal and White Sox fans exist to be the dark, diabolical forces that oppose us. They are the yin to our yang, the Joker to our Batman, the demon to our angel, the insurgence to our freedom, the oil to our water, the club to our baby seal. Their happiness occurs only in direct conflict with everything that is pure and good in this world.
-Dirk
-Dirk