Viva Magglio
12-03-2002, 09:22 PM
Chances are that the Cubs and the Dodgers were negotiating the Todd Hundley-Eric Karros/Mark Grudzielanek trade at the same time the White Sox and the Athletics were negotiating the Keith Foulke/Mark Johnson/Joe Valentine/Ca$h-Billy Koch/A's Minor Leaguer 1/A's Minor Leaguer 2 trade. There was not enough time after the Sox trade for the Cubs to make their deal. So we can assume that their trade was not a deliberate attempt by them to steal our thunder from our trade.
Nevertheless, that is exactly the effect of what happened. On the Score, the White Sox managed to knock even the Chicago Bears off their usual Tuesday perch. But from the moment George Ofman announced reports of the Cubs trade, the Cubs virtually dominated Score programming. Even the football talk on The Gale Sayers Show gave way to primarily Cubs baseball talk.
Watch, I'll open tomorrow's Sun-Times and I bet I'll see maybe one page of coverage at most of our trade. Yet at the same time, there will be about fifteen pages of coverage on the Cubs trade! And don't forget the predictable Moronotti column in which he'll probably rip us for our trade but have his pants around his ankles when analyzing the Cubs' trade.
Regardless of whether or not this was a good or bad trade (I'll take a "wait and see" approach), it will be completly overshadowed by what happened on the North Side. :angry:
Nevertheless, that is exactly the effect of what happened. On the Score, the White Sox managed to knock even the Chicago Bears off their usual Tuesday perch. But from the moment George Ofman announced reports of the Cubs trade, the Cubs virtually dominated Score programming. Even the football talk on The Gale Sayers Show gave way to primarily Cubs baseball talk.
Watch, I'll open tomorrow's Sun-Times and I bet I'll see maybe one page of coverage at most of our trade. Yet at the same time, there will be about fifteen pages of coverage on the Cubs trade! And don't forget the predictable Moronotti column in which he'll probably rip us for our trade but have his pants around his ankles when analyzing the Cubs' trade.
Regardless of whether or not this was a good or bad trade (I'll take a "wait and see" approach), it will be completly overshadowed by what happened on the North Side. :angry: