Alan Embree was the first to get scooped up after being released from the Boston Red Sox. The latest happens to be last season's playoff hero Mark Bellhorn. That's right, the sideburn'd and (practically) mulleted Bellhorn cleared waivers yesterday and was in Seattle to suit up in the pinstripes of Boston's sworn baseball enemy. Haha - clean shaven and well groomed to top it off!
So much for the Yankee mystique. Why does that have anything to do with this? If you look back in the last ten years you'll notice a pretty steady stream of former Sox players heading over to the Dark Side. Wade Boggs went, and won a series with them. Clemens went and, well, ditto for him. Before them, LONG before them, there was the Babe. That history has been beaten to death so we'll stop there. That's the mystique Bostonist is speaking of, where our best go over there to win that championship because they are the winners. Heh. So much for that.
Since the Rocket went over, we've seen some of our less than stellar bats and arms make the switch - Tony Clark, Paul Quantrill, Tom Gordan (ok, he had a decent season but that doesn't help in the playoffs does it eh?!), Alan Embree and now Bellhorn. From that list it looks like a steady decline in talent heading over there, while the Sox have seen a steady climb in pillaged talent - Ramiro Mendoza (it can only get better from there), Boomer Wells, and John Olerud. Boomer's become a steadying, albiet distracting, force and Olerud has made more than a convincing choice to replace Kentucky Fried Kevin at first.
What's next? Yankees sign Oil-Can Boyd and the Sox trade for Andy Pettite? Would it surprise anyone at this point?
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hey, don't forget wade boggs. he eat a whole chicken before every game and rode around yankee stadium on a police horse after the world series.
of course, he ate a chicken rather than eat.
uhhh ... I didn't forget wade boggs.
"Wade Boggs went, and won a series with them."
i'll selectively read what i want to read. facts be damned!