A few days ago, the Braves traded their slumping Left Fielder, Ryan Langerhans, to Oakland for cash and/or the notorious "player to be named later", which incidentally, I think would make a great name for a hip-hop artist.
Today, Oakland traded Langerhans to the Washington Nationals for OF Chris Snelling. I fully realize that professional athletes are accustomed to a lot of travel, but it must be a little exhausting to be traded to a team that's at the far other side of the country, only to be traded back to the East Coast a few days later.
This got me to thinking... what if other industries had trade arrangements?
"Well, Frank, I hate to be the one to tell you, but we've decided to trade you to TGI Friday's."
"But I've been working for Ruby Tuesday for three years!"
"And we do appreciate it. But Friday's needs a good short-order cook, and they're sending us a top hostess and a busboy-to-be-named-later."
"I don't know what to say -- I'm shocked. Which Fridays am I going to? The one downtown?"
"Well, actually... you've been picked up by their outlet in Billings, Montana. Pack warm!"
I guess there are certain elements of job stability that you have to give up in return for that $380,000 minimum salary...
3 comments:
Being traded to a team on the other side of the country is no more exhausting than being traded to a team across the street. Having to travel to your new team is the really exhausting part.
However, if you'd done some research you'd see that Langerhans never travelled to California. He met the A's on their road trip in Boston.
How am I supposed to trust anything written on this blog if I know you make crazy inaccurate posts like this?
See? This is exactly the problem when a non-sports blog tries to bring up a sports story.
I wonder if anyone's ever been traded two or more times without having to travel at all. (e.g. NYY to NYM's opponent to NYM...)
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I believe that Mike Jorgenson was traded from the Mets to the Braves in-between games of a double-header in the early/mid-80's. I could be wrong though, as my knowledge of scandinavian baseballers has dwindled since I abandoned the dream of opening the Braves' Helsinki scouting office.
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