Unusual Trades In Baseball History

For only the fifth time in Major League Baseball history, a player was traded as compensation for a manager.

The Boston Red Sox sent Mike Aviles to the Toronto Blue Jays and in return received a pitcher and the Blue Jays manager John Farrell.

See NYT: Red Sox Make a Trade to Get a New Manager

However, the most unique baseball trade involved the legendary Ernie Harwell. In 1948 he became the only broadcaster to ever be traded for a player when Branch Rickey acquired him from Atlanta (source: USAToday).

Boats Are The Antithesis Of Performance

Boats. Yachts. Once a person gets one they can't stop thinking of it. It steals their free moments and their concentration. You can't think of anything else. You have fallen in love.

But a boat is different from a lover in that is not hidden. A boat makes a siren call to you and everyone knows it. Or should know it.

Linking poor performance to yacht purchases is a well known phenomenon. See Slate: The CEO Bought a Yacht?: Then it's time to sell.

I mention this because the Florida Marlins fired Ozzie Guillen as their manager after one dismal year.

Last fall after the White Sox let him go, he talked about buying a 62 foot boat then the Marlins hired him. And he got his boat and his Miami dock slip for the boat. And the Marlins had a horrible season.

This should not have surprised anyone.