Red Sox

Two very important transactions involving my beloved Red Sox in the last 24 hours or so. First off, we signed Edgar Renteria. He is one of the most underrated shortstops in the game. Well, if you can call a 4-time All Star and a 2-time Gold Glove winner a underrated player. When people think of the great SS's they usually name No-Mahh, Fag-Boy Jeter, and Miguel Tejada with the obvious omission of A-rod because he is a 3rd baseman now. Anything to join the Yank-me's, eh A-rod-in-Jeters-arse? How did you like us celebrating on your field? I digress...

Anyways, Renteria is a great sign for the Red Sox except that I think that they may have paid a bit too much for him at 4yr's and $40 million. I was actually hoping that they would re-sign Orlando Cabrera but I hear that he wanted about the same money. Renteria is the better player than Cabrera...although Cabrera was good for comic relief with his 6,000 different handskaes as seen on the Red Sox dvd's. I personally thought that the Sox would either re-sign Pokey Reese for short money or one of the other 3-5 SS's (i.e. Barry Larkin) that are still on the market seeing as how they have prized prospect in Hanley Ramirez a year or two away from being a major league SS in the minors right now. Maybe now they will use Ramirez to trade for a front-line starter...maybe Tim Hudson? A boy can dream, can't he?

**Update**

Tim Hudson got traded to the Braves. DAMMIT!!

As far as Pedro goes....thanks for the memories and enjoy being the one who superceded Mo Vaughn as being the latest veteran that the Mets overpaid for. They are stupid for guaranteeing (sp?) 4 yrs....maybe they think he can be a closer after his arm falls off next year. I highly doubt that the NY Mets and their fans will let you show up whenever you want for practice/games etc... like you did in Boston.

A quick story about Pedro...

During last years playoffs he actually showed up after a workout had ended and ran into manager Terry Francona while he was leaving the park. Pedro then said that he thought they they were supposed to workout at 4pm, not 2 pm. He was walking in at 5:30. Pedro was late for being late. That tells you all that you need to know about Petey. Don't get me wrong...he was far and away THE BEST pitcher that I have seen in my short 30 years. Hell, he had a three year Koufax-ian run while MLB had a unprecendented era of offense never before seen in 110 years of baseball. To top it all off, he did it the AL where the DH is king! Anyways, respect (read: M-O-N-E-Y) is all that Petey wanted and he got in the form of four years and 50+ million. My only question is why he didn't take the same years with slightly shorter money to go to St. Louis as has been reported? Wouldn't you rather go to a team that led the league in wins last season? I guess they didn't respect him enough. What a douchebag.

ps- John Halama signed with the Red Sox, good signing...short money, he is a much better pitcher than his stats....if that makes any sense