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Oh look, there's Roy Oswalt. You're only four games back from first, and meanwhile the Astros are last in the NL Central. Surely he'll come join your squad, right?
From the Houston Chronicle:
The Chronicle has learned that Oswalt would invoke his no-trade clause if the White Sox attempted to acquire him.Oswalt has a no-trade clause, and if he ever waived it to go play in Chicago it would be with the Cubs and not the White Sox.
Not only does Oswalt not want to get together with you, but you might have to watch him live happily ever after with your neighbor? That has to sting.
I fully expect this to devolve into the kind of thing where Guillen gets the "It's not you, it's me" talk from Jason Marquis. Then he will truly know rock bottom.
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I’m fine by that. Oswalt hasn’t been as good this year.
by Dominic00 on Jun 1, 2009 5:30 PM EDT reply actions
I think its just great that another ballplayer wants to stay on a guaranteed loser and not go to a team with a chance to win.
…..First Peavy and now Oswalt?….I actually can understand, the National League is an inferior league…WHY go to the AL and get hammered by better talent when you can stay in the NL and beat up on horrible teams
…WHY go to a league where you have 9 hitters instead of 2 or 3 hitters?
The NL is a joke and its totally understandable why those pansies would rather lose and look good instead of taking a shot at winning something…The "experts" said that Peavy didnt go because "he wanted to bat" and now these people are saying that Oswalt wants to stay in Houston because Chicago is a hitters park…huh? Houston isnt? Balls fly out of that place faster than a hobo on a ham sandwich…the REAL reason is that Oswald doesnt face an AL lineup in Houston…. I hate athletes that invoke no trade clauses to stay with a team that wont win half their games…This just goes to show that once a player gets his winning is put on the back burner…The days of indentured servitude are long gone BUT the owners need to get rid of these no trade clauses.
by WGullett on Jun 1, 2009 9:37 PM EDT reply actions
Kevin Kennedy refuses to be in even the same town as Oswalt. Lincoln Kennedy avoids him doubly so.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Jun 2, 2009 12:16 AM EDT reply actions
Let me think, why would a pitcher not want to go to the White Sox…
It took a recent 8-2 stretch to reach .500 in a very weak division
The offense ranks at the bottom of the AL, so he would still have the run support issues
*(their pitching is 2nd in RA in the AL so why are they going after another pitcher)
The core of the team will be blown up within 2 years because of aging players declining and F/A, and they don’t want to go through yet another rebuilding process
Why go to the second team in the second city?
The manager is a raving lunatic
He may actually want to stay near his family in Houston
There are prob more reasons that are legitimate enough, but you guys get the point.
by ChiCubs032 on Jun 2, 2009 8:16 AM EDT reply actions
So in conclusion an over-paid slightly above average pitcher may or may not refuse a trade to a below average team…
In other news paint is drying…
by a-roid on Jun 2, 2009 10:37 AM EDT reply actions
neither Peavy nor Oswalt seem like the type to take to Guillen’s theatrics… especially when he could and would go after either one whenever it pleased him.
I’ll bet the AL/NL thing works against them too
and the fact that the Cell is a hitter’s park
by msgg139 on Jun 2, 2009 1:33 PM EDT reply actions
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