Trade Deadline Madness!

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I’ve got to admit, I do get a little caught up in the trade deadline hype every year. I suppose the main reason is because my team, the (World Champion) Red Sox, are usually in the pennant race. And they also have a boatload of money, giving them an unfair advantage over other teams.

Isn’t it funny though, how much the media blows this day up? It seems to me that the media members making phone calls all day probably work harder than the GMs themselves. Everyone wants to be the first to break the big story, and it’s already started this morning with FOX’s Ken Rosenthal breaking the Griffey to the White Sox news.

I have this image in my head of the 4pm deadline rolling around, and at exactly 4:01, Buster Olney chugging down half a bottle of Patron, stripping down to his skivvies, and crawling into bed for the next 16 hours. Oh wait, that can’t happen because ESPN is running a Trade Deadline Special at 5:30pm. See what I mean? You can’t escape it.

BUT…If you want to TRY and escape it, might I suggest a short piece I wrote for the Burnside Writers Collective last year called “One Trade Deadline to Rule Them All”? It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had writing something, and while it’s a little dated now, I still think it might make you giggle once or twice.

I mean, where else are you going to hear about A-Rod being traded to Grey’s Anatomy for McDreamy? Unless there’s a WHOLE LOT of Patron involved, Steve Phillips and Peter Gammons aren’t going to be breaking THAT story today.

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