Well, it certainly looks like the Nate McClouth trade is going over well in the Pirates clubhouse
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Brian (aka trav007)
Jun 4 '09, 14:23
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UPDATE 11:14 a.m.: The clubhouse is not a good place to be this morning. The players are angrier, more disillusioned this time than with either the Jason Bay or Xavier Nady trades from last year, and it is not close. More on this in a bit.
11:35 a.m.: OK, back to the players' reaction. The clubhouse was quiet and sullen, to say the least. Players sat in groups, vocally discussing the trade -- not minding at all who listened -- and none was pleased. "Wow," Freddy Sanchez said. "I think the biggest thing was the shock factor. It's obviously a tough pill to swallow. Our No. 3 hitter just got taken away, the guy who leads our team in home runs and RBIs, and we're 6 1/2 games out. We could still have been right there. I think we still can. But we're all just kind of wondering right now ... wondering what it is." I asked Sanchez when the future will arrive in Pittsburgh. "I don't know. You're going to have to ask them." ... Others decilned to comment on the record, but used very strong language to express their feelings. "I feel cheated right now," one of them said. "I want to be a winner here, and I don't know what to think right now."
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