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You are here: Home / Former Rangers News / Arod traded to Yankees, Blalock signed long term

Arod traded to Yankees, Blalock signed long term

Posted by Joe Siegler on February 16, 2004 at 3:45 pm

  • It’s done – it was announced by
    Tom Hicks on the Ticket a few minutes ago that the trade was approved by Selig. 
     Alex Rodriguez is a Yankee, and
    Alfonso Soriano is a Ranger.

  • In another move announced today,
    Hank Blalock was signed to a 5 year contract
    with the Rangers.  Details (like $) haven’t been laid out yet – when they
    will, I’ll update.

  • If you check out
    my roster page for Arod, it has the
    revised terms of his contract spelled out – there’s only one issue I’m unsure
    about in it, so I’m fairly confident the revised terms are correct.

  • You know, it’s funny.  I said
    that if Arod wanted to not be here, then I didn’t want him here.  That’s
    obviously what’s happening, but the thing that frosts me most about this
    entire fiasco – the absolute worst thing is this.   We’re giving
    money TO THE YANKEES.  That’s unheard of.  It’s bad
    enough that we’re sending the best player in the game to the Evil Empire. 
    That’s bad.   But to give the Yankees money?  WHY?  They
    should be giving US money for the privilege of having the
    best player in the game.  Good riddance to a player who didn’t want to be
    here.  Best player or not, if you don’t want to be here, I don’t want
    you.  And that’s sad, because I really liked what he did ON THE
    FIELD
    for us the last three years.  Off the field he did next to
    zero, but on the field, you couldn’t ask for any better.

  • Fortunately, my season ticket
    package has the game of Friday, May 21st which is the first game the Yankees
    play here this season.  I normally don’t like going to Yankee games, as
    it brings out a hell of a lot of obnoxious fans to the Ballpark (aka Yankee
    fans).  However, you can bet your ass I’ll be there for this one.

  • All I ask out of this is that we
    put Soriano in center field, and leave Mike Young at second.   Oh,
    and use some of the money we saved on the Arod trade to tie up Blalock & Young
    for awhile.

  • The funny thing is that at the
    Mini Plan Season Ticket Holder function on Feb 7th, I got Arod to sign my 2001
    All-Star Game unused baseball.  It’s still cool, but it seems a bit
    tarnished today.

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