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Special Delivery…ummm…not!

so…it happened. We got what I can only describe as a piece of jello in return for Shea.
Smokin’ at the Half Note“;?>

Watch this guy pitch. It’s like at the exact moment that he starts to throw the ball, someone on in the rafters yanks all the bones out of his body. That can’t be healthy. I give him a year before he’s all wrapped up and on the DL with something strained or torn.

Kim, a black belt in tae kwon do who is known as B.K., also was nicknamed the Little Unit by his Arizona teammates, who include Randy Johnson, the Big Unit.

A black belt? Red Sox Matrix-style? Wasn’t Izzy Alcantara a black belt?

The only thing cool here is a nickname like “the Little Unit”.

‘’It was difficult,'’ Epstein said. ‘’We weren’t looking to move Shea Hillenbrand, but this trade is about winning the World Series. It’s become clear to us that to put ourselves in the best possible position to win the World Series we needed to add more pitching.'’

Difficult my ass! You weren’t looking to move Shea? Then what about all the trade talks during spring training and the first month of the season? I wasn’t looking to move my ass of the couch, until you did this and made me get up and stomp around a bit!

hrmmm….add more pitching=win a World Series? Most likely, what will get us closer to the Series is taking more games from the Spankmees. Let’s just hope the Kim’s “learning experience” worked:

Kim forever may be remembered for two of the most memorable blown saves in World Series history. With the Diamondbacks leading the Yankees, two games to one, in the 2001 Series, he squandered a 3-1 lead with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning by surrendering a two-run homer to Tino Martinez, then gave up a game-winning shot to Derek Jeter in the 10th.

A night later, Kim blew a two-run lead in the ninth by coughing up a two-run shot to Scott Brosius. Kim was gone when the Yankees won it in the 12th on a single by Alfonso Soriano. Though the Diamondbacks won the memorable seven-game series, one of the lasting images remains Kim dropping to his knees on the mound amid his failure.

He’ll fit right in…

Ok…I’m not going to be bitter anymore.

Hillenbrand is faced with selling the home south of Boston he bought over the winter

Can I buy it? that would me Erika happier about this trade, if only slightly.

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