Cliff! Cliff! Cliff!

Even if he turns out to be a bust, he is the biggest name the Sox have picked up at the trading deadline. Mike Boddicker is really the only other one who comes close.
It drives me nuts that the Sox administration is so anti-Yankees. Perhaps they have a stake in the business of those jerks who sell 'Yankees Suck' shirts outside of Fenway. NESN had Sox GM Mike (interim, I don't want to be interim) Port, Theo Epstein (what is his role! he is like a seventh grade cheerleader) and John Henry (the pale owner, not the money grubbing son) in the studio to announce the trade. Port mentioned he was happy the Yankees couldn't get Floyd. He said the Yankees tried to get him from Florida last year at the deadline, earlier this year, and again from Montreal recently. Then co-owner Tom Werner was on with Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo. Werner noted that he was happy the Yankees couldn't get him. My Lord! If it's that important, they should recruit George Costanza as a spy to get all of Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman's secrets, and just try to make the moves before the Yankees do. I wonder if Werner broke up with Katie Couric b/c she works in NY and might be a Yankees fan. Who are they trying to please with that rhetoric? I take that back, there is definitely some goof out in Leominster who smiles just a bit every time they talk like that.

sidenote: Werner is a weenie. Remy and Orsillo both asked him if he could land Jerry either a role on a sitcom or on Days Of Our Lives, and he completely ignored them. He also noted that the Cliff Floyd trade along with the Ted Williams tribute proved the new ownership is committed to spending money. The Ted Williams tribute? Sweet bearded Jesus! Come on. He must have asked John Henry Williams for help with those remarks.

Cliff! Cliff! Cliff!