[ThePundit]

Here are a bunch of Yankees and Met trades: What other ones on any team can you guys think of?

1) Red Sox trade Babe Ruth to the Yanks for cash.

2) Mets Trade Nolan Ryan to the Angels for Jim Fregosi

3) Yankees trade Fred McGriff to the Blue Jays for Dale Murray

4) Yankees trade Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps.

5) Mets trade Jason Bay to the Pirates for some middle reliever.

6) Pirates trade Willie Randolph and Doc Ellis to the Yankees for Doc Medich.

7) Red Sox trade Sparky Lyle to the Yankees for Danny Cater.

Mets trade Jeff Kent to the Indians for Carlos Baerga.

9) Yankees trade Tippy Martinez, Rick Dempsey and Scott McGregor to the Orioles for Ken Holtzman.

10) Angels trade Mickey Rivers and Ed Figueroa to the Yankees for a chronically injured Bobby Bonds.

11) Yankees trade Roberto Kelly to the Reds for Paul O'Neil.

[legend]

The Cardinals trade Reggie Smith to the Dodgers for Joe Ferguson
The Red Sox trade Cecil Cooper to the Brewers for George Scott
The Yankees trade Bobby Murcer to the Giants for strike out king and phony, faking fraud Bobby Bonds, father of the disgrace of all of baseball

[Who Dey]

Reds trade Brett Tomko and Mike Cameron to the Mariners for Ken Griffey Jr.
I win.

[EmpireWF]

The Cubs traded Dontrelle Willis for nothing
The Bucs have been dealing star players for nothing
Mets deal Scott Kazmir to Tampa for Victor Zambrano

[pete_b]

Okay I don't know who the Cubs got for him but when they traded Bruce Sutter I was crushed. Does anyone remember Sutter? He had one of those split fingered fastballs. He was so good one night that when he struck out a guy the billboard in digital lights at an AWAY game said "THIS IS GETTING MONOTONOUS"

[Wizard of Os]

Originally Posted by legend

... The Red Sox trade Cecil Cooper to the Brewers for George Scott ...

Wait a minute, Legend, weren't Coop and Boomer the same guy?

[Wizard of Os]

Originally Posted by ThePundit

1) Red Sox trade Babe Ruth to the Yanks for cash.

This is by far the worst trade ever involving any player, any franchises, any sport (maybe even in any business), any millennium ever. On so many levels.

Forget selling Manhattan for $24. This is America and here's Henry Frazee selling the all-time world icon of the sport that would be the red, white and blue lifeblood for one world war and decades more to come. For what? Theatre? Look, i love theatre; i have an upper degree in dramatic writing. But dude owned a baseball team.

On Frazee's theatre-producing career, both wikipedia.com and espn (on their "You Can't Blame" series) burst the mythic bubble that the Sultan was sold to fund a Broadway theatre production and specifically a piece called No, No, Nanette. Nanette was the most successful of pieces Frazee was involved with.

Two questions. Does anyone know anything about No, No, Nanette other than as the inaccurate answer to an iconic trivia question? Does anyone know anything about George Herman Ruth and/or the New York Yankees?

(Incidentally, one bit of trivia about No, No, Nanette that is true: The song "Tea for Two" was written for the show.)

If the "Saturday Night Live" bit "What Were You Thinking?" were done for sports history geeks, episode one would have had Frazee skewered and episode two never would have happened.

All time worst. The Ruth trade will never be matched. Ever. Impossible, inconceivable, etc.

Cheers, everyone.

[legend]

Boomer's the guy that had 221 RBI left in him, Cooper the one that had a little less than 1,000.

[Wizard of Os]

O sure. there's that...

But i remember at the time that this trade was perceived as a good one in Boston, getting rid of a distraction for essentially the same player at the same position, etc etc. Even thirty or so years later it seems weird when the 'Sox had Yaz to play first anyway...

Boomer -- just another example of shattered saviour in Red Sox history, right along with notables like "Soup" Campbell and Tom House.

Cheers, all.