All of the talk about Jake Peavy coming to the White Sox has gotten me excited. However, the talk about him potentially not waving his no trade clause has made this story one with a potentially huge letdown for White Sox fans — unless you don’t think the trade is a good idea, but I’m not buying that argument at all.
Who knows if it will help, gain any traction, or ever get back to Peavy, but I started an online petition where White Sox fans can show their love to Jake Peavy. Here is the link:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/peavywhitesox
I set a goal of 10,000 signatures and I have no idea if that is too ambitious or not ambitious enough. But maybe, just maybe, if Jake sees all the love that will be showered down upon him by making the move to the White Sox, he will be just a little bit more convinced to come and become a South Sider, a good guy wearing black, and a postseason pitcher well into October.
Sign up for the petition and I’ll do my part to try and promote it and get it some pub, and perhaps even get it to Peavy if we have a decent enough number of signatures.
And if I hit publish and read that’s already decided not to come, well, I tried to do my part right? (BTW…Sox are currently down 10-0 to the Twins. If the two game winning streak fooled you into thinking we couldn’t use a Peavy-like shot in the arm, you’re crazy!)
Update: Well, it looks like the petition was way too late and way too late (and never mattered at all). Breaking news on the ESPN Bottom Line just now that Peavy has rejected the trade to the White Sox. He must have tuned in for today’s 20-1 shellacking and thought, “Umm, yeah…about that. I don’t think so.”
It was an exciting thought while it lasted.
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