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Dear A-Rod | 10 comments (10 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Zito... (#5)
by dmanderek24 on Mon Aug 28 2006 at 4:28 PM EST

Zito will stay with the A's...they're leading the division with no signs of slowing. To let your #1 guy go now would be public relations suicide. The A's keep Zito and get knocked out first round.
As for Zito signed with the Yanks; I say PLEASE, NO. He's a great pitcher, but you want to talk about mental issues. That guy gets humiliated every time he's in the Bronx. He'd crack so fast, he'd end up sitting next to Pavano in the whirl pool.
Go to the Mets, bud. Not the Sox though..not the Sox.

Zito (#6)
by Garrett Rudolph on Mon Aug 28 2006 at 11:37 PM EST

Losing Zito would be public relations suicide? They let Tejada go. They let Giambi go. They let Mulder and Hudson go. The Oakland management and ownership is not making the moves they make because of public opinion, they are making the moves based on a lack of funding.

Zito's chance of wearing Oakland green come next year are next to nothing.

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Um, yes.. (#7)
by Anonymous Fan on Tue Aug 29 2006 at 4:27 PM EST

Would it be public relations suicide for the Yankees to trade Moose? Red Sox to trade Schilling? Mets Pedro? Sure, Zito isn't the calibur pitchers these guys are, but the fact is, he's the #1 pitcher on the 1st place Oakland A's rotation. I don't care how much money you want to save or how you don't just want to let him go..but to trade him now would be the biggest WHITE FLAG imaginable. Of course, we all know the A's won't make it anywhere in the playoffs, so I guess it wouldn't be all that bad of an idea to move him now.

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: Um..no (#8)
by JDWC on Tue Aug 29 2006 at 5:45 PM EST

Maybe for any other team, trading away a #1 pitcher in the rotation would be PR suicide, but not in Oakland. We held it together when Giambi, Tejada, Hudson and Mulder all were let go one way or another. Why? Because the fans here in Oakland know that no matter who we get rid of, there's a younger player who can fill the spot nicely. Billy Beane always has these things prepared and planned out so there's no need for us to worry.
J.D.
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: A's (#9)
by Trevor on Tue Aug 29 2006 at 8:31 PM EST

There are only 5 players remaining from the Oakland teams that biffed at the beginning of this decade. Don't be surprised when the A's knock off Los Tigres in the first round.

"No, cause it ain't sh*t. Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me? Ain't sh*t ... Next time I might shake my d*ck." --Randy Moss
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