Originally posted by ginaitaliangirl: Plaw, you should be a sports announcer or something. I enjoyed that.
I did once aspire to being a sportswriter.
Anyway, thanks. Glad you enjoyed the Don Bosch story.
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Originally posted by Don Jasani: why would The Met Baseball people ok that deal? Even with Cardwell as the silver lining, it just doesn't add up. Such a deal would never fly today I think.
Cardwell was just a throw-in who happened to work out, but he has a place in baseball history as the first ever "fifth starter".
You're right about today.
With the improved scouting and everything, there's no way a deal like this could have been made today. Fortunately for the Mets, though, after Ribant left the team he never amounted to much of anything either, so the whole deal was basically a wash except for what the Mets got out of Cardwell.
