Deal or Shit Deal
In this case, the "deal or shit deal" motif is largely moot - this is one of the great shit deals of the 70's. On this day 23 years ago, the Yankees sent Fritz Peterson, Tom Buskey, Steve Kline and Fred Beene to Cleveland for two players who would become crucial to their late 70's dynasty - Chris Chambliss and Dick "Dirt" Tidrow (the Yanks also got Cecil Upshaw, who was out of the bigs by the following season).
As I think is clear below, the moustache parity between the two teams was not disrupted in this deal, as Tidrow and Buskey's liprugs cancelled each other out and those Zapatas that Peterson and Chambliss had going were of equal measure. The Yankees may have lost on the locker-room cheesecake quotient in this deal. I mean, check out Beenesy and Fritzie down there. Freakin Playgirl models already. Chambliss and Dirt weren't much to look at.
Of course, they made up for that fact with one important skill - their ability to actually play baseball. Meanwhile, ole Fritzie was long past his prime, Kline's arm was shot, and Beenesy and Buskey were never any good in the first place. They're still crying about this one in Cleveland.
As I think is clear below, the moustache parity between the two teams was not disrupted in this deal, as Tidrow and Buskey's liprugs cancelled each other out and those Zapatas that Peterson and Chambliss had going were of equal measure. The Yankees may have lost on the locker-room cheesecake quotient in this deal. I mean, check out Beenesy and Fritzie down there. Freakin Playgirl models already. Chambliss and Dirt weren't much to look at.
Of course, they made up for that fact with one important skill - their ability to actually play baseball. Meanwhile, ole Fritzie was long past his prime, Kline's arm was shot, and Beenesy and Buskey were never any good in the first place. They're still crying about this one in Cleveland.
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