Red sox & yankees....not your usual babble

the red sox are turning into the yankees.  that's right, i'm saying it.  my team is going down the shitter.  over-paying athletes and maxing out their payroll.  its bullshit.  this is partially thanks to scott boras, but sox brass are still the ones approving the deals and cutting the checks. 

a great example of this foolishness is trot nixon vs jd drew in stats:
  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S 1 JD DREW                                     2  Batting Statistics                                     3  Career: Batting | Fielding 4 SEASON TEAM G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS   5 1998 StL 14 36 9 15 3 1 5 13 4 10 0 0 0.417 0.463 0.972 1.435   6 1999 StL 104 368 72 89 16 6 13 39 50 77 19 3 0.242 0.34 0.424 0.764   7 2000 StL 135 407 73 120 17 2 18 57 67 99 17 9 0.295 0.401 0.479 0.88   8 2001 StL 109 375 80 121 18 5 27 73 57 75 13 3 0.323 0.414 0.613 1.027   9 2002 StL 135 424 61 107 19 1 18 56 57 104 8 2 0.252 0.349 0.429 0.778   10 2003 StL 100 287 60 83 13 3 15 42 36 48 2 2 0.289 0.374 0.512 0.886   11 2004 Atl 145 518 118 158 28 8 31 93 118 116 12 3 0.305 0.436 0.569 1.005   12 2005 LA 72 252 48 72 12 1 15 36 51 50 1 1 0.286 0.412 0.52 0.932   13 2006 LA 146 494 84 140 34 6 20 100 89 106 2 3 0.283 0.393 0.498 0.891   14 Total -- 960 3161 605 905 160 33 162 509 529 685 74 26 0.286 0.393 0.512 0.905   15                                       16 TROT NIXON                                     17 Batting Statistics                                     18 Career: Batting | Fielding 19 SEASON TEAM G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS   20 1996 Bos 2 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.5 0.5 0.75 1.25   21 1998 Bos 13 27 3 7 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0.259 0.286 0.296 0.582   22 1999 Bos 124 381 67 103 22 5 15 52 53 75 3 1 0.27 0.357 0.472 0.829   23 2000 Bos 123 427 66 118 27 8 12 60 63 85 8 1 0.276 0.368 0.461 0.829   24 2001 Bos 148 535 100 150 31 4 27 88 79 113 7 4 0.28 0.376 0.505 0.881   25 2002 Bos 152 532 81 136 36 3 24 94 65 109 4 2 0.256 0.338 0.47 0.808   26 2003 Bos 134 441 81 135 24 6 28 87 65 96 4 2 0.306 0.396 0.578 0.974   27 2004 Bos 48 149 24 47 9 1 6 23 15 24 0 0 0.315 0.377 0.51 0.887   28 2005 Bos 124 408 64 112 29 1 13 67 53 59 2 1 0.275 0.357 0.446 0.803   29 2006 Bos 114 381 59 102 24 0 8 52 60 56 0 2 0.268 0.373 0.394 0.767   30 Total -- 982 3285 547 912 204 28 133 523 454 621 29 13 0.278 0.366 0.478 0.844  
we passed on trot, a fan favorite that has spent his entire career in boston where he handled the media perfectly.  he signed with cleveland, 1 year 3 million.
we signed jd drew who had a ton of issues in LA with privacy & the media.  despised by his LA fans for being lazy and playing without heart.  he has been known to show less heart and effort than manny.  we signed him to a 5 year 70 million deal.
both have them have had their careers bogged down over the years with injuries.

i won't even get into what we paid for matsuzaka, but we also overpaid lugo to play short. 

the newest money pit the sox are interested in...Todd Helton, looking for around 90 million over 6 years. 

god help major league baseball and my beloved red sox.