Michael Vick is Andy Reid's biggest, fattest blunder since signing T.O.

At best it creates the kind of QB controversy that kills the Eagles playoff chances and at worst it says the Eagles can't distinguish a dog killing and raping criminal from someone who should wear the Eagles green.

What transpired to throw the class, tradition and honor of the Eagles under owner Jeff Lurie and Andy Reid into to the sewer and allow Vick, a repugnant ex-con who spent a decade doing things to dogs that are unfit to contemplate let alone get convicted of doing for kicks?

The taste of raw sewage in the mouth of every decent and loyal Eagles fan won't be easily washed out until the Eagles wake up and own up to the truly stupid reasoning they employed to step around to sign this steaming pile of dog poop. 

Trying to use QB Kolb's slightly sprained ligament as an excuse to dumpster dive for Vick doesn't pass the smell test.

Vick has no place in the NFL, his infamy should buy him a lifetime of revulsion not a roster spot on the sideline.

I found my archives...as you were...

Skip over the smoldering wreckage of Boston selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees and you'll find a field of dreams littered with the stupidity of baseball's best and brightest as well as dumbest general managers.  Sure things seldom are but for long suffering fans the baseball trading deadline is long on dead and short on the bottom line...some of these came in the off season but one thing's assured bad trades get better with age because fans, like elephants, never forget...

Fergie We hardly Knew Ye
The Phillies trade history is spotty at best but who can forgive or forget the Phightin's swapping Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins, John Herrnstein and Adolfo Phillips for the Cubs Larry Jackson and Bob Buhl?  I know it's hard to swallow losing a player like Adolfo but Fly Jenkins 276 post-Phillies wins really put the lop in lopsided.

Trading Lefty wasn't a Wise Thing to Do
The Cards sent HOF'er Steve "Lefty" Carlton packing after he asked for a $10,000 raise and got pitcher Rick Wise in return.  Wise won 32 games over two seasons for those Redbirds while Lefty spent 15 seasons in Philly winning 241 games, four Cy Young's and a World Championship.  The Cards didn't recover for a decade.  Feel the burn.  

Tom Terrific Sees Red
How or why the Mets decided HOF'er Tom Seaver was only worth Pat Zachry, Doug Flynn, Steve Henderson, and Dan Norman eludes me.  Seaver had plenty of pop left in his cannon winning another 122 games while Mets fans watched their new pigs-in-a-poke rack up a combined cup of coffee in the bigs.  On a breezy summer night you can still smell this trade in Jersey City.   

Forget the Babe What About Bags
I'll give you Houston's 37-year old journeyman reliever Larry Andersen for 22-innings and three blown saves and you give me Double A 3rd-sacker Jeff Bagwell.  Sounds crazy but once upon a time Bagpipes was a Red Sox and stuff happens.  Bagwell, a four-time All Star, Rookie of the Year and NL MVP averaged .297, 174 hits, 34 HR's, and 115 RBI's over his15-year career with the Stro's.  The next time the BoSox trade with Houston fans should riot.

I'll See Your Smoltz and Raise You an Alexander
The Tigers made a deal with the devil for 36-year old pitcher Doyle Alexander who notched 29 wins for Detroit over 2&1/2 seasons.  The Braves got 20-seasons out of Smoltz, a Cy Young winning, 5-time All Star who pitched in 24-post season series for the Tomahawk's through the 90's.  Smoltz added insult to injury in this deal saving 154 games for the Braves making him the Swiss Army knife of pitchers.

The Curse of Curt
It's bad luck to trade Curt Schilling.  The worst kind.  First the Red Sox traded Schilling and Brady Anderson to the Orioles for pitcher Mike Boddicker who won 39 games over 2&1/2 seasons for the Sox.  Three years later the O's shipped Schilling, Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch to the Stro's for Glenn Davis.  Ouch.  Davis fly-swatted 24 home runs over 2&1/2 seasons in Baltimore.  Davis' hardest hit came in a bar where he broke his jaw on a guy's fist.  The Stro's kept Schilling for 1-year getting 3 wins out of him before sending Schilling to Philly for Jason Grimsley, (who never pitched an inning for Houston).  Curt won 101-games in Philly before they traded him to Arizona for a fistful of dreck, Omar Daal, Nelson Figueroa, Travis Lee, and Vicente Padilla.  The Diamondbacks kept Schilling for 3&1/2 seasons and a World Series ring before trading Curt for Casey Fossum, Brandon Lyon, Jorge de la Rosa, and Michael Goss from the BoSox.  Whatever Boston has in mind for Schilling, one thing is certain, don't trade him under any circumstances.

The Great One, Clemente
Last but not least isn't a trade but I can't kick the Dodgers long or hard enough for allowing the Pirates to take HOF'er Roberto Clemente in the Rule 5 Draft because they already filled their quota of Black players on the MLB roster.  This shameful unwritten agreement among teams makes a mockery of MLB bragging about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947.  No disrespect to HOF'er Robinson intended.  Baseball didn't really integrate until the 1960's when teams dropped the quota and finally insisted all players deserved the same accommodations at Spring Training.