You're missing my point.
I'm going to say this one more time:
It's not that fact that Dunn was dealt that bothers me (in anything more than an emotional sense), it's the fact that we have to wait for two PTBNL.
It's the two PTBNL.
Trading away 270 homers without representation (plus a guy who sounds like a young version of Paul Wilson) really, really bothers me.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Nobody is pretending that. But the reality is that Adam Dunn should never be the best player on a really good team. I'm sorry, that's just the way that it is. He can be a very, very good player for any contending team. But he should never be the best player on any team. He was the best player on our team for damn near eight years, and you see where that got us.
How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
I think Dunn was only a Red for another two months, anyway. And that is not because I don't think he'd be valuable as a Red next year, but rather because he could also be valuable to a lot of other teams who would gladly outspend the Reds to get him. And good for Walt for understanding that and making a move to put the club in a position to address the other glaring problems with this team.
Good Luck Big Donkey, I hope to see you and Griffey both in the World Series.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
That the other GM's failed at building around Dunn doesn't mean it isn't possible for Jocketty to build around Dunn.
Whether it makes sense to do so is another question, but lets not act like it isn't possible to build a team around a power hitting slugger. Seems to me Walt's done that before.
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