Jim Thome has had an awesome career, and is completely loveable, but for the last few years, Twins fans had to hate him because he was the enemy. Well, rejoice, baseball fans, he's out of the AL again! (Well, rejoice, unless you are a Rockies or a Giants fan...)
Thome was traded by the White Sox to the Dodgers last night for minor league infielder Justin Fuller. The Dodgers also aquired right handed pitcher Jon Garland from the Diamondbacks for a player to be named later. The Dodgers are looking to beef up their roster due to the Rockies and the Giants all of the sudden lurking up on them in the standings - as of this morning, both teams are only 5.5 games behind the Dodgers.
It's still unclear what position Thome will actually play for his new team. He's been strictly a DH for the last couple of seasons, and hasn't played first base full time since 2004. I'm sure they'll figure it out somehow, they need his bat (and his 564 home runs).
Welcome back to that little place in my heart, Jimmy.
9.01.2009
We Can Love Jim Thome Again!
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I've always made an exception for Thome. It's impossible to hate that guy, even as a White Sock. I would just take all the hatred normally reserved for that spot on their roster and rechannel it into AJ Pierzynski. (You'd think his departure would then mean I would hate AJ less, but strangely that's not how it works.)
Bill, it's impossible to hate AJ less.
He's a D-bag.
I LOVE JI-
JIM THOME.
Agree. Doesn't matter who he plays for, it's hard not to like this guy. One of the better men in baseball and a real class act. I hope LA treats him well and with the respect he deserves.
Recent Family Fued Q: Person(real or fictional) with the last name "White"
1. Betty White
2. Vanna White
3. Snow White
4. Barry White
5. Rondell White
One of the contestants guessed Devon White. I only thought of Frank White. Is Rondell White really that famous?
Whoops, wrong thread, heh...
I've always loved Jim Thome anyway. Him and Jermaine Dye, I've always thought of as honorary not-White-Sox.
The ONLY thing that makes the memory of Game 163 bearable is that Blackie gave up one home run to Jim Thome. A lo-o-ot of pitchers have given up home runs to Jim Thome. If it had been anyone else in that godforsaken lineup, if it had been Quentin or that scrawny vampire Cuban kid or (God help me) AJ, I would *still* be wanting to stab someone every time I thought about it. But good ol' Jim? Aw, that's not so bad. Losing to Jim Thome has a very different feeling than losing to the Bitch Sox.
And now he's not any kind of Sock any more! Awesome. At least he'll get to the playoffs now.
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