Billy Beane Got Greedy

Given that I spent much of my baseball-loving years in Fenway Park, I am safe in saying that I believed in the Curse of the Bambino.  Since I weathered that curse, I am now certain that Oakland now must live with the Curse of Yoenis Cespedes. Seriously.

Billy Beane is cool.  He is cooler than way he is portrayed in the movie, “Moneyball.”  Since Brad Pitt portrayed him in the movie, that is saying a lot.  He is more handsome.  (I think that is mostly because Pitt is a smoker, and it shows.)  Billy Beane knows a lot about baseball; he’s been putting together winning teams for a long time.  Never quite good enough to win the big prize, but he makes it to the post season a lot. 

Since I could never be for a team that plays the Boston Red Sox, I am not rooting for the A’s.  I am not against the A’s either.  I say this to establish myself as being basically non-biased about what is happening to the team from the East Bay.

Billy got greedy.  He went out and bought a bunch of top-notch players.  And he wound up trading away the guy who really made the franchise.  Yoenis Cespedes. He sent Yoenis Cespedis to Boston, Massachusetts.  Ever since Cespedes went to New England, the A’s have been losing.  The Red Sox were already losing, so that did not matter.  There is something oxymoronical about the idea of Cespedes in Boston. 

If he gets used to the place, and learns how to honor the history of Fenway Park, it might work for the Red Sox.  But the spirit of the Oakland A’s is not going to settle for the fact that Oakland traded away its spark.  If I were Billy Beane, I would do every thing in my power to return the Magic to the Coleseum.