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Originally Posted by vtred
Weekly "what if" fight match-up:
Pirates who traded with the Yankees vs. Indians who traded with Peter Minuit?
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That will depend upon Jose Tabata, Dan McCutchen, Jeff Karstens and Ross Ohlendorf turning out to be worth more than 24 bucks collectively.
Which reminds me....I have always heard and seen 24 dollars worth of beads and baubles listed as the Manhattan selling price, but where did they come up with that? How was it determined that the crap the Indians got was worth 24 dollars? First of all, there was no such thing as a dollar at the time of the purchase, so how the hell can anyone figure out how many of them formed the value of the beads? And it is never clear, are we speaking of 24 dollars in 17th century value or is this one of those deals where today those 24 bucks would be worth 40 million or something?
And while we are on the subject, I have been disappointed that the Padres have scattered their young players from the early part of the decade. Somewhere back in cyberspace is one of my earliest posts on FanHome and it was one devoted to pointing out that the Padres had the potential for fielding one of the all time great weird name teams. I had reviewed their minor league roster and noted that it was loaded with guys with names like Xavier Nady, Khalil Green, Wascar Serrano, Cesar Crespo, Wiki Gonzalez, Desi Relaford, Humberto Quintero...they had enough to fill out the entire starting eight with nary a Bob Smith or Jim Williams to be found, not even a Carlos Hernandez. I was predicting that by 2003, the Padres would be challenging the 1983 Marniers for the all time Name Oddity crown. ('83 was the year that Seattle decided to confuse the hell out of everyone by having everyone on the roster with more or less the same name as someone else on the roster.)
Alas...it was not meant to be. The Pads traded their young guys all over the league and they never fielded that dream team of all weird name guys.