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Now that the excitement of the trade deadline has passed -- with all the news seeming to come in the hour after the actual deadline expired -- it's time to take a look around the World of the Web to see what others are saying.

Sure, Bauxites had plenty to say immediately following the flurry of non-Unit moves. But of course, so did newspaper writers in the home cities of the teams most affected. Here's a starting sample.

Note: Though it would seem the immediacy of the Web would allow news to be posted well in advance, many newspaper Web sites still follow, more or less, the dictates of their press run. So even in the tidal wave of opinion that accompanied The Nomar Trade [tm], for instance, by 12:15 a.m. Eastern Time Sunday morning, both the Boston Globe and Chicago Sun-Times Web sites carried only the AP wire stories with minor changes to the headline and lead.

Not so for their competitors.

Boston Herald
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Red Sox deal Nomar in a defensive move: GM Epstein hopes infield strengthened
Fans express remorse: Sad to see Nomar gone
Star bids farewell to fans
Theo takes a gamble: Trade will put Sox GM on the hook
Mientkiewicz starts fresh

Chicago Tribune
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Nomar, no less
Garciaparra gets an A+
With Nomar, Cubs could really set sail (Rick Morrissey)
As good as a trade gets (Phil Rogers)
Cubs' heist: It's a great hit-and-run (Mike Downey)

More to come ... please add additional news, feature and columnist links you know about from these and other affected cities like Miami, Los Angeles and Phoenix -- and of course, your comments and feedback on the columns and articles themselves.

No Toronto papers are represented in this thread, as tomorrow's usual Roundup will cover any applicable stories, should they appear.


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_Mick - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 01:04 AM EDT (#32302) #
New York Daily News
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Yanks ship Contreras to White Sox for Loaiza

Miami Herald
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This link to the main baseball page with the article:
Trade with Dodgers costs one Penny

Here's a truly GREAT factoid from the Herald column: would you have guessed that the two-time World Series champion Marlins just traded their all-time winningest pitcher in franchise history to get LoDuca and Mota? Wow.
_Mick - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 01:17 AM EDT (#32303) #
Arizona Republic
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Finley headed to Dodgers
Johnson staying put

Los Angeles Times
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Shaken but Not Rattled, They Roll
_Gwyn - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 09:04 AM EDT (#32304) #
Dan Shaughnessy rips Nomar in the Globe. "He hates Boston and he hates the Red Sox and you should be glad that he's gone. If you are a Red Sox fan, he is not your friend."
Craig B - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 09:59 AM EDT (#32305) #
He hates Boston and he hates the Red Sox and you should be glad that he's gone. If you are a Red Sox fan, he is not your friend.

Dan Shaughnessy is gone!? I knew all that other stuff about him, but I didn't know he was leaving Boston.
Craig B - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 10:03 AM EDT (#32306) #
Hey, we should play another round of Who's The Worst Columnist In Baseball... let's throw out some nominees first

Tracy Ringolsby
Dan Shaugnessy
Buster Olney
TJ Simers
doesn't Michael Kay have a column?
Skippy Bayless

This thread, I'm sorry, gentlemen, is a Griffin-free zone. Opinion on Rowdy Richard vary widely around here, I know, but let's not attack our own.
Pistol - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 10:13 AM EDT (#32307) #
Isn't there someone really bad in Atlanta that Gleeman's shredded a couple times?
_Jim - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 10:44 AM EDT (#32308) #
Tracy Ringolsby get my vote. It's close, but that idiotic cowboy hat puts him over the top.
Mike Green - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 11:03 AM EDT (#32309) #
Craig, I'm shocked :) You undoubtedly are aware that Rowdy Richard was taken by Dick Bartell. Turnabout is fair play, so how 'bout Deadly Dick?
_Moffatt - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 11:18 AM EDT (#32310) #
The fact that Ringolsby has a newspaper job and Kent and Gleeman don't is undeniable proof that the world is not a meritocracy.
_Chuck Van Den C - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 11:44 AM EDT (#32311) #
What's really disturbing about Ringolsby (whom I concur stinks) is that I recall reading, about 100 years ago, that Bill James thought very highly of him. Seem to recall this being during his Asbtract days, but my memory she's not so good no more.
_Mick - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 02:15 PM EDT (#32312) #
The fact that Ringolsby has a newspaper job and Kent and Gleeman don't is undeniable proof that the world is not a meritocracy.

Moffatt, I know you're engaging in some intentional hyperbole there, but becoming a baseball columnist is hardly a hand-it-to-whoever's-handy deal.

I didn't go into/stay in journalism because to get the "cushy" $60,000 annual (what, everyone, thought it was more?) columnist job, you spend 15 years writing obituaries, then police blotters, then covering high school lacrosse, then ... well, you get the idea. Starting at about $18,000 a year.

I guess depending on how you define "meritocracy" -- someone who "deserves" a job (and who decides that?) versus someone who "earns" a job through prescribed channels, then yes ... in fact, this corner of the world IS a meritocracy.

In fact, the advent of Web publishing is making the latter type of meritocracy much harder to succeed in, as "names" like Joe Morgan take plum columnist slots alongside the guys who earned it the old-fashioned way like Neyer. If you can succeed on TV, you will be given (not "will have earned") a Web column. The same was never true of newspapers.
_Moffatt - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 03:20 PM EDT (#32313) #
Well, by meritocracy I meant the dictionary definition of the term:

"A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement."

I guess I was more arguing the former than the latter.

I was being intentionally hyperbolic, but at the same time what "ability" has Ringolsby shown?

Ringolsby is incredibly boring to read, seems to do nothing but take cheap shots, and unlike Griffin, is not a great wordsmith. If Griffin is like Rush Limbaugh, Ringolsby is like that crazy guy who calls in every talk radio show and rants about everyone.
robertdudek - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 06:46 PM EDT (#32314) #
It doesn't matter how many years you spend writing obituaries. If someone else is a better baseball writer than you, that someone else should have the job and not you.
_Matt - Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 07:05 PM EDT (#32315) #
Olney's 'analysis' of the deadline trades:

A)did not get positions correct (Wigginton is a LHP or something now apparently)
B)the commentary concerning the Steve Finley trade was virtually IDENTICAL to the commentary he used regarding the Lo Duca trade.
C)He didn't even bother anyalyzing the trades from all of the teams' perspectives. Granted, the average fan doesn't care about the perspective of a team building its longterm resources but I question if Buster even knows anything about all of the prospects involved.

So, although I admitedly am not familiar with all of the 5, I'm gonna have to vote Busta...

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