The Offseason Thread: Bobby V to Boston

[Bay_Areas_Finest]

It would suck majorly to be an A's fan. All that franchise does is keep trading their best players away.

[Dirty Water]

It would suck majorly to be an A's fan. All that franchise does is keep trading their best players away.

No kidding. They are in purgatory. They have to keep trading good players once they get in the last year or two of their control for more prospects to feed to the major league level. No stars to get attached to... thus dwindling fan base. Therefore no more money to put in the team. Stuck in errible stadium across the bay from a team who recently won the World Series, playing in one of the best and unique stadiums in baseball.

Beane is a good GM, but he's in a crappy situation. Don't know why he ever turned down the Red Sox job.

[Dirty Water]

The point I'm trying to make is that there's no storyline hook. There's no Pedro, Don Zimmer, no zingers through the media. It's just the Red Sox and Yankees.

I think Bobby V will spice that up. Francona was always mum on trash talk and the like. I really disagree and think once they start playing more meaningful games against each other in September and October it will heat up again.

You also have to realize that 2003 and 2004 was historically dramatic with fights/close games/comebacks. Pretty much up there in some of the best storylines ever seen in sports. Even before that back to 98/99 was pretty riveting (Stemming from many Pedro and Clemens duels)

There will always be dull periods in the rivalry. 80's/early 90s were a good example of that.