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PeteU Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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You'll inevitably come across somebody here who will give the "Mussina was lowballed" excuse or what have you.

I'll tell you now, I really don't care. I rooted for the guy like he was family when he was with the Orioles. He showed no class in exiting and going to the Yankees thinking it would mean a quick ring for him.

Would I trade one Yankees World Series win with Mussina on the roster for six Orioles World Series wins? Absolutely. But given that hasn't happened, I still get a guilty pleasure out of the fact Mussina has been locked out of getting the ultimate ring. He deserves to be shut out. Lowballed or not, he showed nada in the sense of loyalty to the fans who cheered him on for nine years.

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Lowballed or not, he showed nada in the sense of loyalty to the fans who cheered him on for nine years.

You know, why should players have to show loyalty to the fans of their team by staying there, when at every turn fans are calling for players to be traded away? Heck, look at the Red Sox and Bronson Arroyo. He took a discount to stay with the Red Sox and they traded him away.

And can you really, really blame him for wanting to go to the Yankees? He's certainly seen more postseasons with the Yankees than the Orioles have seen in that same timeframe.

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I harbor no ill will toward MM (though I do like the fact that he hasn't won there....maybe he'll sport as O's cap if he makes it to Cooperstown). He wasn't going to win here and I 'loved her enough to let her go' as they say.

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You know, why should players have to show loyalty to the fans of their team by staying there, when at every turn fans are calling for players to be traded away? Heck, look at the Red Sox and Bronson Arroyo. He took a discount to stay with the Red Sox and they traded him away.

And can you really, really blame him for wanting to go to the Yankees? He's certainly seen more postseasons with the Yankees than the Orioles have seen in that same timeframe.

If there or here were my only choices at the time, I'd have picked there if I were him (ass-ugly uniforms aside!)...however, I really, really thought he was going to end up in Cleveland after he left Baltimore.

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You know, why should players have to show loyalty to the fans of their team by staying there, when at every turn fans are calling for players to be traded away? Heck, look at the Red Sox and Bronson Arroyo. He took a discount to stay with the Red Sox and they traded him away.

Exactly right. I have 2 questions for the Moose-haters:

1. If he had stayed, how many of you would really go out to the ball yard to see *him* pitch. I think this is a case of people talking like Moose should have demonstrated loyalty (despite the fact that he *did* that, and his reward was to get treated like dirt) when most of those same people would not show any loyalty to him, and would just stay home when his turn in the rotation came around.

2. If Moose had stayed, how many of you who are so quick to criticize *him* for a "lack of loyalty" would now be saying it's time to *forget* about any loyalty to him, and that we should be trying to ship him out of town as part of a youth movement? My guess is 100%. So, come on, who among the Moose-haters would now be wanting to *keep* him here if he had stayed?

Let's see who thinks loyalty is a 2-way street. I believe that loyalty is something the Moose-haters somehow demand *from* him a whole lot more than they would ever show *to* him...

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Saw this on another board...

One of these things is not like the other...;)

<img src =http://www.astronomy.com/asy/objects/images/saturn_1981_500.jpg></img> <img src=http://i.xanga.com/Forever_Lord_of_the_Rings/t/Gollum%20n%20the%20Ring.jpg></img> <img src=http://www.smallbiztechnology.com/graphics/telephone-rotary.jpg></img> <img src=http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/pictures/MikeMussina.jpg></img>

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Exactly right. I have 2 questions for the Moose-haters:

1. If he had stayed, how many of you would really go out to the ball yard to see *him* pitch. I think this is a case of people talking like Moose should have demonstrated loyalty (despite the fact that he *did* that, and his reward was to get treated like dirt) when most of those same people would not show any loyalty to him, and would just stay home when his turn in the rotation came around.

2. If Moose had stayed, how many of you who are so quick to criticize *him* for a "lack of loyalty" would now be saying it's time to *forget* about any loyalty to him, and that we should be trying to ship him out of town as part of a youth movement? My guess is 100%. So, come on, who among the Moose-haters would now be wanting to *keep* him here if he had stayed?

Let's see who thinks loyalty is a 2-way street. I believe that loyalty is something the Moose-haters somehow demand *from* him a whole lot more than they would ever show *to* him...

You're talking to the wrong person here. I was loyal to Mussina to the last game he pitched in an O's uniform. I never desired to see him play for any other team.

Hell, I even defended him when he showboated himself in the bullpen during the 1993 All Star game, even when apparently he hadn't been called to warm up. Dude made me hate Cito Gaston for no good reason.

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