Now This Is Depressing

Tim Hudson, my favorite player, was traded to the Braves. This hurts probably more than any other trade of my lifetime - except perhaps Joe Montana. Hudson is one of the best and the most ballsy of all major league pitchers. When he arrived in Oakland, they were a sad franchise, winding down from the Tony LaRussa days of glory...he got called up midyear and went 6-0 or something like that for the rest of the season and gave the team an edge it had lost over the years. That edge, coupled with Zito and Multder, the emergence of Giambi, Tejada, Chavez, and the famous Billy Beane signings - Jermaine Dye, Johnny Damon, Keith Foulke, etc, etc...led the A's back to the top of the AL, despite one of the lowest payrolls in the league.

Huddy will be sorely missed and I hope he wins the Cy Young one day.