Thome was a Fool...or was it something else?

[Alex]

When you see the established Vets on our team, Omar, Ellis, and presumeably Matt Lawton, the budding stars such as Bradley, Spencer and Garcia, and the future stars such as Phillips... Thome would have had a good time in Cleveland.

This is just an opinion and only an opinion, but perhaps he wanted to play with more white guys. Thome really likes Charlie, and Charlie strikes me as relating more to white guys. I wonder if there is any truth to this rumor of mine.

I just don't think Thome made the right decision, and the extra year and a few million just seems irrelevant. And going to a league with no DH, what was Thome thinking?

Weird, really weird.

[Alex]

I base my assessment of Charlie on his comments about Enrique Wilson when Wilson was an Indian.

Enrique's last year in Cleveland, he was hitting over .400 while filling in for both Omar and Robbie in April while both battled nagging injuries.

Charlie was asked about Enrique and how well he was doing and Charlie said something to the effect of, "If that guy keeps playing this way we'll have to find a place for him in the starting line-up."

That just seems like such an awkward statement to make. Especially after it was Enrique who scored the winning run against the New York Yankees in the playoffs the previous year. The infamous play where Chuck Knoblauch held onto the ball as Enrique barreled around the bases and scored the winning run.

I just think that you don't call your own ballplayer "that guy" when he's been on the team for a couple of years already and has contributed as best he could considering how deep the team was back then.

I wonder if the base-running gaffes made by both Alex Ramirez and Enrique Wilson within a few games of each other led to their being traded to Pittsburgh for Wil Cordero that same season.

Closet racists, Charlie and Thome, could it be?
Or perhaps their just more comfortable with their own kind.

[Alex]

by the way, to prove that I'm not just saying this to be controversial, Manny Ramirez left for the exact same reasons! [img]graemlins/bat.gif[/img]