If maple bats suck...

[Overrated]

...then how good can this guy be? I love stories like this: Pitcher traded for 10 bats.

http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/news/story?id=3409864

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Kerry Ligtenberg, please pick up the dark-stained courtesy phone ...

 

[Flash]

Oh God ... the Vipers should have failed two years ago. I have no idea how they're still in operation.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

At least it wasn't the proverbial dozen baseballs and case of socks.

Those maple bats are costly...

 

[mustangj17]

Thats almost as bad as the time a player to be named later was traded for a player to be named later.

 

[Barsuk]

... ash bats swallow?

Great minds, buckdubs.

 

[Bubbler]

Thats almost as bad as the time a player to be named later was traded for a player to be named later.

Or when Harry Chiti was traded by the Mets to Cleveland for a PTBNL ... and then returned to the Mets as the PTBNL.

Wasn't Dickie Noles also traded for himself in the 80s in a similar deal?

 

[Shoeless Joe]

What did he trade for these assholes? A used puck bag?

 

[EStreetJoe]

We've got Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe here ... which member of the Black Sox will show up next?

 

[buckweaver]

We've got Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe here ... which member of the Black Sox will show up next?

I thought I saw Chick Gandil a while back ...

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Ed Cicotte wants to go on record as noting that he was never traded for bats ...