Leave it to me to have a delay in the most powerful part of my reaction to yesterday's trade.  I guess I was in shock in the immediate aftermath.  Today, however, while doing my usual blogosphere cruising, it occurred to me to check the following link: 

http://www.csnne.com/wickedgoodsports/justin-masterson-on-being-traded-07-31/   (yes, I'm too lazy and on the fly to TinyURL right now)

Then I cried for real.  When I got to the last paragraph I sobbed so hard that I aspirated a bit of coffee and had to cough strenuously to get it out of my lungs.  I'm fine now, but just so sad.  What an incredibly classy and thoughtful guy.  He can rest assured that he'll have fans in Red Sox Nation no matter where he goes.

I made a Justin icon a long time ago but never liked it much so deleted it.  In the past day I've seen some of my f-listers using theirs or uploading new ones in his honor, so I just made this one, which I like better even though it's nothing fancy.

Not Masterson! 

That really, really sucks.  He was doing a decent job for us, and besides that, I will miss his windmilly giraffeness and endearing smile.  LaRoche?  I barely got familiar with the guy before he was gone.  His head must be spinning right about now.

I'm not too awfully fond of Trade Deadline Day.

I'm not going to pretend that today was an easy one for me.
 

That's really about it for now.  I have more things to post about over the weekend; I've been saving them up because I've been busy over the last several days.  I also need to clean up my tags a bit, and will probably delete a couple more of my Julio icons, but not all of them, because I'm pretty attached to them.  So stay tuned.

P.S.  On a happier note, Albert hit two HR tonight, bringing his season total to 34 and his RBI total to 89.  I guess he had a slow time of it during the All-Star festivities because he was saving up to do that.  :::smile:::

I first saw the rumor earlier this morning on the Red Sox board on AOL, of all places.  Something about a radio station in Kansas City.  Nothing came up on a Google search, so I shot Ian an e-mail to ask him what he knew, then went back to bed to rest my leg.  Was having a grand time watching reggaeton videos and after awhile, LJ addict that I am, I had to log in again.  I read the comments to my most recent entry and I knew.  Checked my e-mail and my suspicions were confirmed by Ian.  And of course I've checked some of the major media, with no doubt more of that to come as the news spreads.

I haven't really processed this yet but I know as soon as it really hits me, my heart will be hurting even worse than my ankle.  Why the hell do all my baseball boyfriends get gone?  That's two already since I became a Sox fan, with the third no doubt to follow soon.  Coco love aside, wouldn't it have made sense to have a known quantity, and a very good one at that, as our fourth outfielder if they planned to give center field to Jacoby?

I hope this season brings Coco a career year that makes our front office regret this move.  See, now I'm getting angry.  What part of the five stages of grief is that?

Does this mean that I have to change my default icon and get rid of all my Coco icons?  They (and he) are so adorable that I can hardly bear that thought...

Now I'm extra glad that I stayed home from work today.  It would have been July 31 all over again.  I wouldn't have gotten a damn thing done for all the angsting and checking on line.  And just so it's clear...this is so much worse than July 31.

:::sigh:::