Minor leaguer traded for 10 baseball bats

[Sniper15 0]

This guy has got to feel like a piece of crap: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-t...p&type=lgns

[moose77 0]

First thing that came to mind when I heard about this story was something that happened in the early 1980s. The Seattle Breakers of the WHL (before they were called the Thunderbirds) traded a player to the Victoria (now Prince George) Cougars for a bus.

Here's a link to the story, second one down from the top: http://letsgodu.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html

[dix0r 0]

First thing that came to mind when I heard about this story was something that happened in the early 1980s. The Seattle Breakers of the WHL (before they were called the Thunderbirds) traded a player to the Victoria (now Prince George) Cougars for a bus.

Here's a link to the story, second one down from the top: http://letsgodu.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html

well, at least a bus sounds infinitely better than a small quantity of bats, hah.

a beer league guy i used to play with jumped ship mid-season, and we demanded a case of beer in return. i don't think they came through, unfortunately.

[Doctor Hook 0]

At least it wasn't a used puck bag.

[Rustpot 1]

Isn't that like when a player gets traded for "future considerations"?

"Hey, we're going to let you go, probably for nothing in return, best of luck, get the fuck out"

[Chadd 916]

Isn't that like when a player gets traded for "future considerations"?

"Hey, we're going to let you go, probably for nothing in return, best of luck, get the fuck out"

In one case, the guy traded was the "future consideration", I just forget who it was.

[mack 44]

Which one did Detroit buy for a dollar, Maltby or Draper? May have been both but I thought Maltby was actually traded.

[kosydar 0]

Pretty sure it was Draper. He gave the dollar back after they won the first Cup.

[SuperMan3 1]

HAHA, The Vipers and their shennigans.

[Dougie8 0]

Isn't that like when a player gets traded for "future considerations"?

"Hey, we're going to let you go, probably for nothing in return, best of luck, get the fuck out"

In one case, the guy traded was the "future consideration", I just forget who it was.

Harry Chiti. Here's a list from another message board that has all the weird trades in the past.

http://www.411mania.com/ubbthreads/showfla...mp;Main=6097603

[Neal 41]

Pretty sure it was Draper. He gave the dollar back after they won the first Cup.

Yeah, Draper. $1 to the Jets.

[ronnychencharik 0]

One of the assistant coaches for my old high school's JV team was traded for a water bottle and a pizza in his junior days.

[JR Boucicaut 3803]

Pretty sure it was Draper. He gave the dollar back after they won the first Cup.

Yeah, Draper. $1 to the Jets.

FROM the Jets.

[top 0]

HAHA!!, thats all i have to say!

[zanman187 0]

around here 2 brother were traded from thier junior B team for a skate sharpener lol!

[kosydar 0]

I've heard of someone in a shitty junior league being traded to a team so long as that player's old team gets to eat hamburgers at the concession stand after every game they play there.

[Neal 41]

Pretty sure it was Draper. He gave the dollar back after they won the first Cup.

Yeah, Draper. $1 to the Jets.

FROM the Jets.

Yeah, but the dollar went to the Jets. You say tomato, I say Tomahto, the Red Wings still committed highway robbery on that one.

[JR Boucicaut 3803]

LOL I see it now...

No prob.

[Chadd 916]

Which one did Detroit buy for a dollar, Maltby or Draper? May have been both but I thought Maltby was actually traded.

Maltby was traded for Dan McGillis or the pick that was used for McGillis, don't recall exactly.

[Drewhunz 3]

Sad story. John Odom passed away November 5th drom a drug overdose.

Link

[barrett 0]

Wow that is sad. Imagine being the manager who made the trade which it seems resulted in Odom's drug ussage it seems,

[foppa21 0]

Wow that is sad. Imagine being the manager who made the trade which it seems resulted in Odom's drug ussage it seems,

Bullshit. People make their own choices. The manager didn't put a gun to this guy's head and tell him to do dope.

[barrett 0]

Wow that is sad. Imagine being the manager who made the trade which it seems resulted in Odom's drug ussage it seems,

Bullshit. People make their own choices. The manager didn't put a gun to this guy's head and tell him to do dope.

Well it obviously brought him a lot of humiliation and stress if he quit the team only three weeks later. I obviously know to take drugs is his own choice but i don't know about you i would feel bad if i did something to cause a man to start using drugs again and eventually od. Just saying that the manager obviously played a part in the whole situation.

[Chadd 916]

The manager had nothing to do with it. If you want to find the person responsible, look no farther than the player himself.

[interpathway 9]

Wow, less than a year after the trade. Horrible to hear, too unfortunate it came to this.