San Diego Son Adrian Gonzalez Seems Destined for Stardom in Boston

by Tom Krasovic

Filed under: Padres, Red Sox, Yankees, MLB Winter Meetings

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Where would the Boston Red Sox be without San Diego to prop them up every few decades or so?

First we gave them Ted Williams.

Now we're giving them Adrian Gonzalez, another sweet-swinging ballplayer, San Diego born-and-bred.

Between sending the Sox those gifts, San Diego also gave to Boston baseball executives Larry Lucchino and Theo Epstein.

Lucchino and Epstein would hire several able scouts formerly of the Padres. They also would hire Bill James, a fellow brainiac, and together with owner John Henry would build The Matrix on Yawkey Way. Two World Series championships followed, giving all those self-important Sox fans actual reason to be self-important.

 

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