A-Rod Trade? Does It Get Lower?

There is no doubt that the A-Rod trade was a good trade by the Yankees. There is no doubt that the A-Rod trade made many faces smile in baseball. There is no doubt that A-Rod is the best overall player in baseball. There is no doubt the Red Sox had the same chance to get A-Rod. There is no doubt that the A-Rod trade would have made the Red Sox a much better team. There is no doubt that the A-Rod trade hurt too many Red Sox fans yet again. My last sentence is the one that catches my attention. Yankee fans love to feast of our sadness. George Steinbrenner loves to see us sad. He lives to make our lives miserable. Baseball is business. I am most certainly angered and jealous. But what makes this trade so bad? It's the hurt that it gives to the most loyal fans of baseball A pain we have felt for 85 years.

Red Sox Nation was looking up. The Red Sox had the team, the stamina, the luck, and most importantly...the drive. The Red Sox were 5 outs away from a World Series birth. They were 5 outs away from beating the Yankees. They were 5 outs from a celebration that would have lasted forever. They were 5 outs away from a win fans have been waiting for, for their entire life. In a couple of bad decisions, the Red Sox were just trying to keep it a tie game in that horrible bottom of the 8th. I went outside (I'm not religious at all) and prayed. I prayed to the Baseball Gods for the Sox to get out of it. I wouldn't walk on anything other than a wood floor. Just beating the Yankees would have been a World Series victory in itself. But Jorge Posada tied up the game. I was already heart-broken. I lost all my spirit. I went to sleep. The next morning came the bad news. I don't even need to repeat it. It hurt. It hurt to know how close we were and how fast it crumbled.

6 months later, many of us were still recovering. Recovering from seeing the same thing we've seen for 85 years. After watching a long, hard, faught battle for a trade between Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez fail something terrible happened. Aaron Boone did it again. He played basketball and injured himself for the season. The Yankees went out and silently and quickly acquired A-Rod for Alfonso Soriano. It hurt everybody in Red Sox Nation. Some of us even became sick. If I watched the A-Rod press conference, I would have thrown up. I almost threw up just thinking about it. Thinking about A-Rod in pinstripes. It just made me sick to my stomach. Not only would I have been sick but I would have broke my television. I probably would have thrown a chair at it or shot it with a gun. There is no doubt about it. George Steinbrenner loved making this trade. Not only did he acquire the best player in baseball but he broke our hearts...again. Never have I been so sick over one trade.