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Originally Posted by Amnorix
Right, the '04 team won the WS **AFTER** getting hot after the all star break during which they traded Nomar. Their fortunes clearly and obviously took off after getting rid of him.
Yes, the '08 team did fine to come back from down 3-1 to ultimately lose to a team with less than half the Red Sox' (absurd) payroll. Hard to be too impressed with it, really.
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And everyone knows how TO divided the locker rooms he has been in.
Look, I'm ok with certain guys that have certain types of baggage. For example, Michael Irvin had the drug problem, but the guy was as hard a worker and as loved by his teammates as anyone. And in the locker room and on the field he was all about winning and helping his team win. I'm not saying that I want a big drug user on the team, I'm saying you're always going to have some guys with baggage, but you have to find out whether or not it effects the team.
In Marshall's case, it does. In TO's case, it does/did. Larry Johnson? We all know about that. That's the point, you don't want guys that cause problems in the locker room or on the field. I don't give a damn how much talent they have, a locker room divided will NOT win anything. This is a fact. So any player that brings that kind of behavior into the locker room, I don't want. So Marshall can go corrupt some other team someplace else or stay in donkey land where he gets force fed the ball/has his stats padded more than any other WR in the league.