And People Say Baseball Isn't Exciting
For those of you who a) haven't heard or b) live under rocks of varying sizes, the Red Sox of Boston have done everything they could to expunge the Curse of the Bambino...by trading another really, really good player. Nomar Garciaparra is going to another unlucky team in the Chicago Cubs, who were cursed by a goat many moons ago. Not having a goat to hex them again, the Cubs instead sent marginal player Francis Beltran to the Twins, for an incredibly good shortstop (who's been a bit off since injury, but the upside...)

Now, Babe Ruth was traded for cash, because the Red Sox were losing money. Here, they got...well, they got Doug Mentkiewicz and Orlando Cabrera. But did they need another first baseman? Did David Ortiz's bat-throwing incident really bother team officials so much that they decided that he wasn't worth keeping around? And, if so, then why is he still on the team?

Getting Orlando Cabrera is a good call, though, and I don't blame them for replacing a shortstop with...a shortstop. I thought the purpose of trades was to improve your roster by filling out positions where you were weak. Shouldn't the Red Sox have looked for pitching? I mean, Derek Lowe is a major-league pitcher and all, but he's a 5th starter at best. And there are the Red Sox, asking him to be the third.

Come on guys, do what the Reds did. Trade everyone for money and start over. Competitiveness is overrated.

In another story, Yankees 1B Jason Giambi has a benign tumor, which has been causing weakness and general malaise since his return from Japan. I didn't know you could catch cancer in Japan, but apparently, they decided over there that Montezuma's Revenge was a bit of a pansy ailment, and upped the ante. Mexico, it's your turn to put the hurt on American tourists. Don't let me down.