I personally can’t stand the guy because in my opinion that is betrayal! He was just money a hungry jerk!!!
2007-03-16 12:05:05 · 15 answers · asked by Nicole 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
he wasn't very good to being with. he's an average player.
2007-03-16 12:13:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he plays in 120 games, hits 20+ home runs and gets 100 RBIs, everyone will say what a genius Theo was for signing him. If he is on the DL most of the season and fails to establish himself as a clutch power hitter, everyone will say, Bring back Trot, at least we liked him. However tough he thought LA was, he has no idea how baseball crazy Boston is and how cruel the Boston media is. LA has one bitter psycho, TJ Simers, Boston has two radio stations full of knowledgeable but impatient baseball commentators and expressways full of impatient and not always knowledgeable baseball callers. In LA during the summer, call in shows talk about the Dodgers, the Angels, Trojan football, Laker basketball. In Boston, there is only the Red Sox nine months out of the year.
2007-03-18 12:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched JD Drew come up as a September call-up for the Cardinals in 1998. He was brought up (and is in the photos) the day Mark McGwire hit number 62. Drew had great potential. The Cardinals Gameday magazine at the start of the 1999 season compared him with Mickey Mantle because of the way both played. Unfortunately Drew was a good player for the most part but could never get 100% healthy. We watched him play good and really poor baseball here in St. Louis to start.
It was as agonizing to see him try to play a season like it was trying to see Rick Ankiel pitch again after the 2000 playoffs. We wanted to see him succeed so much that it was painful to see him fail and get hurt.
He can be a great addition to a ballclub, he's not spectacular but he can hit well enough to add to an already potent Bo-Sox lineup.
And if you were a professional baseball player and someone offered you that money, or even if you're not and a company that rivals your work offers you a 200% increase in pay to work for them, you would take the money in a heartbeat. I know I would. It's not his fault someone offered him that money, he'd be stupid not to take it.
2007-03-17 17:44:10 · answer #3 · answered by outlawoftorn2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JD Drew is a good player, but strange in the sense that he left LA.
Drew just wanted the money- the dodgers will be sad he left by the end of 07.
The red sox need him to stay healthy, and he needs to play like the big contract guy he acts like.
2007-03-16 12:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by Shutout105 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well J.D. Drew has been pretty much a disappointment everywhere that he has played so as a Dodger fan I don't really care. But I don't care if he left for the money, MLB is a business it becomes a business as soon as you continue playing after high school, anyone who has played college ball knows that. So as long as these owners will pay these salaries I think the players should get as much as they can.
2007-03-16 15:51:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Los Angeles Dodger fan and I thank the Boston Red Sox for taking Drew and all his can'ts to Beantown. I hope that they get the best of all 40 of his games this season before he breaks down and says "I can't play unless I'm 100 percent." At the end of the season, I hope they understand when he says "I can't play next season without a substantial increase in pay; I didn't get a chance to play this season to my potential due to injury" and "I can't seem to get along with some of the players in my clubhouse." Thank BoSox, thanks very much.
2007-03-16 12:40:26 · answer #6 · answered by Mangy Coyote 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lets see JD Drew went though hell to sign with Boston.Theo said "The Redsox wont sign a DL prune guy" Well they had him go though MULTIPLY x-rays and crap so JD Drew dont have no excuse to be injuried BUT I agree with LA Fans he did leave you guys dry but he stated he needed a change.
2007-03-16 13:49:09 · answer #7 · answered by lilgnt2003 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not bitter I actually thank Drew for leaving. The Dodgers are better off without him.
2007-03-16 18:05:31 · answer #8 · answered by evie ♥'s her Dodgers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything is about money now. LA fans should be glad that DL Drew is gone. he hardly plays and boston should be mad because of the ridiculous contract they gave him. 70 million? are you kidding?
2007-03-16 12:09:10 · answer #9 · answered by what? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no i am pissed that he came he is a waist of money and is way to injurable he was a pain on the dodgers and is goin to be a pain on the red sox
2007-03-18 13:38:49 · answer #10 · answered by nathan w. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, the fact that he left was very suprising! he had 2 years left in his contract and decided to abandon it, yes i do agree he is a jerk, he just wanted the money which is stupid. anyway it doesnt matter now, the dodgers replaced him with luis gonzalez and juan pierre
2007-03-16 15:04:14 · answer #11 · answered by xxdodgerettexx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋