Doing the laundry

Elephants in Oakland points out that we "root for laundry." We don't root for players, we root for the guys wearing our team's jersey (and don't give me that nonsense that the game used to be different, it's always been this way; the only difference that free agency brought is that now the players get to make some decisions about where they play, not just the front office). That's true. But in this case, I think EIO may be over-compensating and in denial over the trade of Mulder and Hudson. The Elephants have to know that the Oakland staff had a magical run there and their dismantling marks the end of an era. Believe me, the Yankees are still wandering in the desert since losing Pettite, Clemens, and Wells.

That's what makes the "Waiting for the Mullet" so agonizing.