Nomar Retires As Red Sox #MLB
Um, who signed off on this?
Two-time batting champion, 1997 American League Rookie of the Year, and six time All-Star, Nomar Garciaparra announced his retirement from baseball after a 14-year career.
He announced his retirement after signing a one day minor league deal with The Red Sox, which allows him to retire as a member of the Red Sox. He will now go to work for ESPN as a baseball analyst, because that’s what they need, more people to talk about the Red Sox and Yankees. Good thing they snapped him up.
Has Nomar Garciaparra ever publicly said anything interesting to anyone? If he did, I missed it. Nomar will make you long for the days of Eduardo Perez and Fernando Vina. ESPN? Really? I don’t think Mark Grace is worried about being usurped as the most glib guy in baseball by Nomar Garciaparra.
Maybe Nomar can give us insight into other ballplayers with OCD. He can break down the intricacies of strapping and re-strapping you batting gloves 45 times between each pitch, or obsessively touching your wrist bands. We need to know more about that.
Why he felt it necessary to retire as a member of the Sox is a mystery to me. Last memory I have of Garciaparra as a member of that team was him sitting on the bench, by himself, while his teammates were locked in a fierce battle with the Yankees. His teammates didn’t seem all that busted up about him getting shipped out; always the most telling response to any player leaving a team. The Red Sox won a couple of titles after he left.
This is who you retired with. Case closed.
He was good, but let’s not be naive. He was most effective while the steroid age was in full bloom. He got huge, he broke down, and once testing started, he was never a top player ever again. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe it wasn’t. It wasn’t. Go ask Eric Gagne.
A very good player, whose best years were in the middle of baseball's golden age for PEDs, and who was mildly popular with his teammates at best.
And don’t even start with the ‘Nomar is a Hall of Famer’ nonsense. His wife, yes. Him, no way.
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Dear Nomar: put a shirt on please. Signed Bruce Pearl
Nomar may not be a hall of famer but his schnoz is eligible for immediate enshrinement in the RBS (Runaway Beak Syndrome) hall of fame. That thing is epic.