On July 10th, I called in to WEEI, Boston’s sports radio to discuss potential trade targets for the Red Sox. At the time I suggested they ignore going after Roy Halladay and instead concentrate, now or in the off-season on prying Adrian Gonzalez off the Padres. I also posted about it here. On the radio the hosts curtly got off the phone with me, saying that I was being ridiculous and making no sense; well Hall of Famer Peter Gammons, one of the most respected names in baseball agrees with me as he says in his latest article on ESPN:
Considering Boston’s young pitching and the Padres’ lack of it (although 21-year-old right-hander Mat Latos threw 96 mph Sunday), a multi-prospect deal for Adrian Gonzalez makes sense for both teams. The Padres’ ownership is worried about the public perception if the team were to trade away Gonzalez. Fans? What fans?
Now, this isn’t to say Gammo is always right, but the fact that I’m on the same wavelength as him, and considering his sources and contacts within the Red Sox organization, I’d say I’m just a wee bit justified in saying to WEEI that I know more than they do.
The Slanch Report 
grasping for validation much?
Are you still mad about the Anti-“Fringe” post?
Geez, get over it.
I don’t need validation, I was fine with my call at the time, I’m just pointing out that they dismissed me for being ridiculous and now Gammons is saying the exact same thing I was.
yes, publically pointing out how “right” you are is pretty much grasping for validation. the kind of validation only running a blog can bring.
(the sad kind)
wow, publically.
i’ve got a case of the afternoon retardations…
i wonder if gammons has ever made a similar mistake. that would justify it entirely…
stop listening to your girlfriend being mad at me and tone down your derision, don’t be angry that you couldn’t work up the energy to maintain your blog
lets just agree that i’m smarter than the fill-in cohosts on WEEI, that the Sox SHOULD try and trade for Gonzalez and that I’m not your whipping boy and we can move on
uh, thin-skinned are we? you run a blog. not only are you not beyond reproach, but you are in fact inviting it.
you should run a baseball team. clearly. since you are as least as brilliant as a guy who has also never done that.
@Shatraw, sounds more like you got a case of the afternoon bitter-assholes/ desperate-cry-for-attentions. Validation? This a blog about one mans opinion, as it turns out he made a call (pun intended) and it was WEEKS ahead of what Main Stream Sports Media had to say about it. As for cry for validation, I think Peter Gammons validated it enough and Slanch was simply sharing that with his readers; personally I was psyched to see that the amount of time I spend a day reading here was not for nothing. I’d like to see you make a call that Peter Gammons or any other major source picks up weeks later on your blog, oh wait, you don’t have one.
see above.
hey shatraw – in honor of my brother’s impending birthday, i’d like to issue you a hearty “shut the fuck up.”
Shatraw, why don’t you start a blog where you tear apart other blogger’s blogs and blog-posts? You should stop wasting time bitching about the SR on SR. Maybe start taking tae-bo classes to start channeling that rage? I’d go with a punching bag on the deck, personally…
i should be able to tear apart a blog on the blog. i forgot slanch is so beyond reproach in his exciting and incisive journalism.
eat a dick.
i’m personally slandered and you all are attacking me? fuck all y’all.
4 words send slanch into a tizzy and you are all there to pick up the broken pieces of his shattered ego? you are all lame.
Where did I personally slander you? You just seem angry for the sake of being angry. In the words of one of my good friends, “get over it.”
whatevs. i’m over it. just try not to freak out and bring my girlfriend into a blog comment next time i’m ripping on YOUR BLOG (ie, not you or your life, because frankly that’d be too easy).
defend your blog by defending your blog, not my calling me angry. just because i’m angry doesn’t mean i’m wrong.
also, have you bothered correcting your misinformation in the ASG/FOX/Fringe post? or are you content to not be accurate in your assertions, as you are simply a humble blogger?
This…… thread…… rules!
@Shatraw nice use of apophasis. Your clever wording almost had me fooled that you had a point in the first place.
adam laroche, traded to the red sox. let’s talk about WEEI, the Slanch Report and Peter Gammons feel about that.
in other words, slanch is saying peter gammons copied him. hmmmm….reminds me of a certain fantasy league that used to be fun, that slanch is in. hmmmm…..slanch are you saying that since you had it first, gammons is not allowed to have the same thought as you, independent of you? (i mean, you’re not exactly in gammons’ inner circle) and after all, there are a finite number of teams, players, and therefore trades that can happen. and let’s not forget this is peter gammons- a great man, a legend….but also not nearly what he once was. i mean, last month he was saying billy beane should trade brett anderson.
I’m actually not saying gammons is copying me. Instead I’m saying he had the same idea I had, but that I said it 2 weeks ago. It’s not copying, it’s agreement
i agree that you are all gay! but amusing.
bachrach, way to throw ‘apophasis’ out there.
This thread IS great. Also, everyone copies Cockcroft in fantasy baseball (thanks for the Kendrick head’s up, loving the .317 BA since the call up!).
Also, Fringe is terrible.
right, because i DIDN’T let that one go 2 weeks ago. and nevermind that i never once before or since accused anyone of copying me, therefore shattering my credibility. but sure, there’s no such thing as copying, except when it comes to slanch and his blog. that much is clear.
Hey, I’m actually thanking you here, Myummers!
sorry,
SLANCH WHO ARE THE METS GOING TO TRADE FOR????