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soul-selling in quest to defeat evil empire? | alex

It has become the Paris Sex Tape of the baseball world: the A-Rod for Manny trade. People can’t stop talking about it. People can’t stop postulating and pontificating and prophesizing. Today's New York Times called the trade a “must” (yeah, what would you know about it anyway, graybeard?), and now crazy rumors are afoot involving a possible follow-up three-way between Boston, L.A. and Chi-town. See, I told you it was like the sex tape(s)! All I know is that next year’s looking pretty good from this Sox fan’s perspective, but I’d hate to see boy wonder Theo Epstein get so caught up in the monumentality of his trades that he forgets the basics. In other words, he’s got the best offense in the league as things stand right now.

A certain Manhattan-based Sox fan with a “web presence” brought up the possible emotional ramifications of losing hometown favorite Nomar, echoing some of my own concerns. Would a pennant, or jesus-mary-and-joseph a World Series victory, be the same without him? In my gut I feel like the Sox would be cheating Nomar by leaving him out of what is clearly a very serious run at the championship. But judging by their track record, if the numbers work they can’t afford to care.

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