the red sox never traded away babe ruth.
Perhaps, unknowingly, ColHogan was being kind.
Ruth was sold for cash so the Bosox owner could finance the "No No Nanette" broadway play. Talk about priorities!
The sox sold ruth because they were in financial distress
the boston red sox always had bad management thats because the big wigs up top called all the plays they never wanted to give the managers full control
I am well aware of the truth
and every year the sox put on a good show and fizzle out
not they are holding on to try to get the wild card
The redsox will never catch the yankees
and i dont want to hear that yankees but the series ect.....
Because the redsox had the highest paid team salery last year and the year before
hogan
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Baseball payrolls as of Aug. 31, 2002 as determined by the commissioner's office. Totals for active players include prorated shares of signing bonuses and All-Star bonuses, but not other earned incentive bonuses. Deferred income is discounted to reflect the interest rate.
Teams Active Term. Pay Total
N.Y. Yankees $132,029,757 $1,400,000 $133,429,757
Boston 108,099,535 2,150,000 110,249,535
Texas 105,915,190 1,000,000 106,915,190
Arizona 103,078,877 450,000 103,528,877
Los Angeles 101,479,889 25,000 101,504,889
1. MLB - 2001
1 NY Yankees $125.9
2 Boston 108.4
3 Texas 105.3
4 Arizona 102.8
5 Los Angeles 94.9
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Sorry to inject levity here but since the Bosox last won the World Series in 1918, they've appeared in the Fall Classic 4 times and have lost each Series in 7 games.
Now that is brutal!
thats because they plain stink and the years they got there there was no stiff competition like today
hogan