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SportsGrid’s Best Of 2010: Kerry Wood Trade Headlines Inspire Immature Laughter

Seeing as how 2010 is drawing to a close, we figured we’d give you a second viewing (or first, don’t be shy!) of some of our best posts from the year that was. Whether they captured a defining moment from this year, reflected some of our better work, or were just too off-the-wall not to include, we’ll be running through our favorites on Christmas day. In this post: Kerry Wood gets dealt to the Yankees, and certain people (me) get far too amused by accidental double entendres.

Additional ed. note: This quite possibly remains the weirdest post I’ve ever written for the site. Needless to say, it immediately stood out as one of my favorites.

The MLB trade deadline was today. We wrote about one deadline deal already. Others of note: Ted Lilly to the Dodgers, Jake Westbrook to St. Louis/Ryan Ludwick to San Diego, Rick Ankiel to Atlanta.

But there’s one trade we’d especially like to talk about – the Yankees’ bullpen-strengthening trade for the Indians’ Kerry Wood. But we would not like to talk about the baseball aspects of this deal. No, we would like to talk about ESPN’s article on the trade, which provided the day’s best deadline headline. (Heh-heh. Deadline headline. It’s like I’m a poet and didn’t even…realize that was the case.)

Now, last we saw, the headline was still in its original form, unfortunate phrasing and all intact. But in case they ever change it, we shall preserve it in all its glory below:

…but wait, how is getting THAT gonna help the Yanks shore up their bullpen?…oh, wait. lol. “Yanks get Wood.” lol. Here’s a digitally-enhanced version:

And if there should be a headline at any point using the even more hilarious phrase “Yanks’ Wood,” we will be there. You’re welcome.

Photo via, hi-larious MS Paint editing by yours truly