I would be livid if I was a Red Sox fan. Would be enough to make me stop spending any money or time on the team for a while. A year removed from a World Series ring, your most hated rival is spending dollars to beat you in an arms race, you have a team that could compete for another championship... and your plan is to trade possibly the best homegrown talent you've ever had and a Cy Young pitcher for a few prospects so you can save some change on the luxury tax and avoid having to pay Betts next offseason? Counting pennies when the team has grown in value from $700mm to roughly $7bn in 18 years since the owners purchased the team? When the ownership group also owns Liverpool who just won the Champions League and is about to win the Premier League in a landslide and is drowning in cash? And when the owner is worth $3bn? Woof.
