Friday, March 10, 2006 |
Barry Bonds, The 15-Hours Brave
About an hour before the announcement [of the trade to the press], I decided to call [Pirates GM] Ted Simmons just to coordinate the timing of the release.
"We have a problem," Ted said.
"What do you mean, a problem? Don't want to release it just yet? What?"
"I can't do the deal," he said.
"You can't do the deal? You did the deal! Ted, you agreed over the phone, general manager to general manager. We MADE the deal!"
In baseball, that's about as sacrosanct as anything gets. That had never happened to me, nor has it since, where there was a total reneging of a trade. ...
I guess we can say Barry Bonds was a Brave for 15 hours. At that time of his career, he didn't have the right to approve a deal, so I'm not even sure if he is aware this happened."
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