When the news about the Eddie Guardado trade broke, the first reports I read said that the Twins would announce a roster move later in the day to make room for him. I took a look at the roster to make my best guess at who would be gone. Adam Everett? Randy Ruiz? I didn’t even think about Mike Lamb. Why? It certainly wasn’t because I thought he was having a decent year.
Than I remembered that I had read this article by Jeff Pearlman. I cannot recall ever reading a news story about a professional athlete that sounded so … defeated. Makes sense why he’s gone, now. A quote:
“I’m not that great of a player, and I know that,” he said. “I’ve been sent down and called up a number of times, and it beats on you a little. You crave stability, because after a while you forget what stability is. You …” Lamb stopped talking. It was time for the Twins to do their pregame stretching, a ritual Lamb has endured more than 1,000 times as a pro. “I’d love to tell you it never grows old,” he said, grinning.
“But it grows old.”
Better luck in Milwaukee, Mike. Bill Smith’s first dips into the Free Agent market didn’t work out much better than Terry Ryan’s generally did. See Also: Carl Monroe, Livan Hernandez. However, I will be hiring a team of Rocket Scientists to study how this team remains in the AL Central race in September.
How you do that voodoo that you do…
