Trade Rumors

If this deal happens tomorrow it will change the opinion most of us have about Red Sox management that has developed over the last 12 months.

Underachieving problem child #1 (only because Lackey has been on the DL all year) Josh Beckett...

Grotesquely over paid, perpetually injured, monumental underachiever Carl Crawford...

Superstar in the making who also happens to be grossly overpaid while only underachieving a little now and then who also is developing a reputation as a locker room cry baby who also blamed last year's collapse on god as if god lost 20 games in September, Adrian Gonzalez...

And Nick Punto... Nick Punto? Yes, three superstars and one sub-Mendoza line hitting Punto.

If the rumors are true they could all be members of the Los Angeles Dodgers by the end of the weekend.

Punto is irrelevant, baseballily speaking. I'm sure he's a nice enough guy, but he doesn't match the talent of the other guys.

Losing Gonzalez doesn't make me happy although one more piece of text message related bullshit and I'll hold the door for him on his way out.

Crawford over the first almost two years has looked like one of the worst free agent signings ever. We are talking Jack Clark bad. He played well in the short time he played this year, but yet another surgery threatens to keep him on the shelf beyond the start of next season. 20 million a year for this? Dump him.

Josh "chicken and beer" and "we only get 18 days off a year" and "pissed off at the press for asking if he's hurt despite the fact that he'd gone to more than one doctor over a two day span" and "completely unable to win a freakin' game anymore" Beckett. I think that when he's on his game he's still a great, great pitcher. Unfortunately he hasn't been on his game for 12 months and it's clear that he just doesn't give a shit anymore. I can't wait for him to go. I'll help him pack. I'll call the cab to take him out to Logan Airport.

Honestly, I don't even care who L.A. Is offering to send us in return. I hope they are all high level prospects that we can build around, as well as using the something like 200 million dollars we would have paid to Beckett, Crawford, and Gonzalez to retool the roster with players who care about their jobs and want to win.

Like I said, I'd hesitate to dump Gonzalez, but otherwise I am hoping, hoping, hoping that this deal happens, even if it costs us AGon.

Come on Ben Cherington. Show us what you are made of. Get it done!