Hopefully it isn't too late to take a flying leap onto the bus that wants to drive Eric Gagne out of Milwaukee as quickly as he got there.
My Brewer-loving buddies will quickly dismiss my opinion as that of a rare bird that grew up a Cubs fan but somehow found a way to pull for both the northsiders and the Crew to the north.
However, as a follower of the Cubs, I can smell my own. I've seen my fair share of dead ends at the tail of the bullpen. Even my boy Kerry Wood has me less than convinced thus far.
However, on-field performance is just the tip of the argumentative iceberg here.
First off, even if Kid K mysteriously dropped about 35 pounds before last season, he, unlike Gagne, wasn't cited by Senator Mitchell in the recent foreboding report.
Not to mention the Cubs threw a couple million dollars at Woody, while Gagne is the 10 million dollar man that the frugal Brewers threw virtually their entire batch of eggs at. That is aside from Mike Cameron...I don't think I need to remind you why he's MIA. At least the Crew knew Cameron was a juicer before throwing big money at him.
Worse yet, Gagne arrives at spring and does his best impression of the last athlete I genuinely despised on one of my favorite clubs, Sammy Sosa. Whereas the self-proclaimed "gladiator" suddenly lost his grip of the English language in front of congress, Gagne could suddenly only speak in French when confronted on the steroid subject during spring training.
At least he spoke then. After blowing a save in Chicago, he wouldn't even speak with reporters.
In short, there's a reason why the Rangers chopped this guy's salary in half and STILL shopped him on the trading block. It's bad enough that Gagne's stuff has mysteriously dissipated. If he doesn't start playing better, or at least nice, he's going to find the locker room at Miller Park a very lonely place.
That's if he still has his name on a locker by the All Star break.
My Brewer-loving buddies will quickly dismiss my opinion as that of a rare bird that grew up a Cubs fan but somehow found a way to pull for both the northsiders and the Crew to the north.
However, as a follower of the Cubs, I can smell my own. I've seen my fair share of dead ends at the tail of the bullpen. Even my boy Kerry Wood has me less than convinced thus far.
However, on-field performance is just the tip of the argumentative iceberg here.
First off, even if Kid K mysteriously dropped about 35 pounds before last season, he, unlike Gagne, wasn't cited by Senator Mitchell in the recent foreboding report.
Not to mention the Cubs threw a couple million dollars at Woody, while Gagne is the 10 million dollar man that the frugal Brewers threw virtually their entire batch of eggs at. That is aside from Mike Cameron...I don't think I need to remind you why he's MIA. At least the Crew knew Cameron was a juicer before throwing big money at him.
Worse yet, Gagne arrives at spring and does his best impression of the last athlete I genuinely despised on one of my favorite clubs, Sammy Sosa. Whereas the self-proclaimed "gladiator" suddenly lost his grip of the English language in front of congress, Gagne could suddenly only speak in French when confronted on the steroid subject during spring training.
At least he spoke then. After blowing a save in Chicago, he wouldn't even speak with reporters.
In short, there's a reason why the Rangers chopped this guy's salary in half and STILL shopped him on the trading block. It's bad enough that Gagne's stuff has mysteriously dissipated. If he doesn't start playing better, or at least nice, he's going to find the locker room at Miller Park a very lonely place.
That's if he still has his name on a locker by the All Star break.
