We are all geniuses when it comes to the big fantasy trades we are able to pull off. But at one time or another, each of us had to have the wool pulled over our own eyes at least once.
For me, I remember the day like it was yesterday now. I had just sit down after my first offseason of fantasy baseball. I had a couple of good ideas from the past season and wanted to take a look at how I could improve my team for the future.
It was the winter of 1995 and I was eager to get back into the playoffs and take another stab at our defending league champion....when all of a sudden, an offer popped across my screen.
It read:
Boston Brawlers (other owner)
Offers you: Kevin Brown & Ken Griffey, JR
in Exchange for: Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds & Derek Jeter
Man you know where this is going now don't you :(
I was a kid back then ok. That was 13 years ago and I was barely 15 at the time ok, so DONT JUDGE ME!!! :)
Well, at first things didnt look so bad. I had just acquired one of the top pitchers in the game from the past few seasons and a very promising young OF. All I gave up was Barry Bonds (an OF in his prime who was slightly worse than Griffey in my opinion at the time) and two prospects. Curt Schilling had not developed to that point and had been given plenty of chances and who the crap was Derek Jeter anyway?
Well, 13 years later I can now safely say that had I held onto Bonds, Schilling and Jeter I would have had more than 6 titles to show for my long hours of effort. I learned on that cold snowy day in the middle of the offseason that sometimes the best deals are the ones you never accept at all.
From that day forward I learned the name of every prospect that could straighten his own jockstrap. Since then I have brought in many winning players and learned alot.
Tell me about the day your sun got clouded over!!!