The 'Boy Was I Wrong!' Thread

[SrMeowMeow]

I'm never wrong, but if I were, Adam Dunn would be one of my misses.

[Greg Pappas]

I'm never wrong, but if I were, Adam Dunn would be one of my misses.

I remember the day you had actually thought you had been wrong, only to discover that you were mistaken.

[jiminnj]

I was mighty upset when we traded a great 26 year-old starting pitcher, who had started for the AL in the all-star game that year, for a washed up 30 year-old outfielder from Cinncinati.

[MarylandAaron]

I thought that Daniel Cabrera was a future CY candidate.

I thought Jeremy Guthrie was nothing more than AAA fodder..

I thought MacPhail was going to be the savior of this franchise.

BWIW!

[Remember The Alomar]

I thought it was impossible for anyone to be upset with a walk off home run.

Boy was I wrong!

[SrMeowMeow]

I remember the day you had actually thought you had been wrong, only to discover that you were mistaken.

That was a confusing day. The universe imploded, as I recall.

[OFFNY]

I thought it was impossible for anyone to be upset with a walk off home run.

Boy was I wrong!

The entire White Sox team was upset ....... plus a couple of Oriole fans.

[3 o's bro's]

Could you imagine Bedard for Cueto, Votto, and Hamilton?

Jones, Tillman, Sherril (Bell), etc.

BWMW

[OFFNY]

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I have well over 6,000 posts, so I've been wrong at least 3,000 times. I don't have time for all of the specifics.

[ShaneDawg85]

Could you imagine Bedard for Cueto' date=' Votto, and Hamilton?

Jones, Tillman, Sherril (Bell), etc.

BWMW[/quote']

This gets thrown around so much that people honestly think it's fact. Such a deal was never put in place. The names most commonly thrown around were Hamilton, who admittedly would have looked good in an O's uniform, and Homer Bailey. Cueto was never part of the deal, and Votto was not a likely piece.

[TakebackOPACY]

This gets thrown around so much that people honestly think it's fact. Such a deal was never put in place. The names most commonly thrown around were Hamilton, who admittedly would have looked good in an O's uniform, and Homer Bailey. Cueto was never part of the deal, and Votto was not a likely piece.

We don't definitively know that. Cueto's name was thrown around throughout the process. What we do almost definitively know is that Bruce was 'untouchable' for Bedard; and the Reds didn't pull the trigger on a deal for Haren because 'Cueto' was untouchable for Haren; and the Reds preferred to deal with Bailey as the centerpiece. It's also unclear where Votto fit in.

In hindsight, it appears that perhaps a deal with the Reds became much more unlikely after they traded Hamilton in December (receiving a young Edinson Volquez in return, by the way).

[scOtt]

I thought I was wrong once. But I was mistaken.

[waroriole]

This gets thrown around so much that people honestly think it's fact. Such a deal was never put in place. The names most commonly thrown around were Hamilton, who admittedly would have looked good in an O's uniform, and Homer Bailey. Cueto was never part of the deal, and Votto was not a likely piece.

Exactly, that trade was fantasy that people like to think existed. IIRC, the rumors at the time were Hamilton, Bailey...... I think at best it was Hamilton or Votto. I remember us wanting Bruce at first, and that might have been what killed the deal.

[BrunoCherrytown]

I thought it was smart to take a 3-month old baby to an Orioles spring training game...What could go wrong?

And to add insult to injury, I thought it'd be cool to wear one of those front loading baby backpacks during said event...

BWIW

[JERSEYORIOLE]

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I have well over 6,000 posts, so I've been wrong at least 3,000 times. I don't have time for all of the specifics.

Don't be so hard on yourself, I dont think it's much more then 2,800