I remember it well. Pulling out of the Field 6 parking lot at Jones Beach where I heard the stupidest thing I had ever heard. The horrible details begin below and finish in the link.
Twenty years ago today, a hell of a trade took place, a trade involving two high-profile players with plenty of talent—and the two guys were traded for each other, too. Well, admittedly, one wasn’t anywhere near high profile at the time of the trade, but it’s still a bigger exchange of talent than you normally see in a transaction.
On Aug. 27, 1992, the New York Mets set star pitcher David Cone to the Blue Jays for Jeff Kent. Well, it wasn’t quite a straight up trade, as Toronto also threw in a player to be named later, Ryan Thompson.
I’d rather have David Cone today than Kent in his prime….and Ryan Thompson was 90’s code for Valdespin.
