Topic: Yankees Baseball

The Yankee season will be a success if Hank Steinbrenner lets Cashman call the shots.    This means no Santana; no 20+ million per year contract for however long.    Hank has already interferred by giving Posada, and Rivera more years and money than they're worth, and by going back on his word to re-sign A-Rod for 10 years at 30mil. per.    They can't trade A-Rod unless they "eat" most of his contract.   I'd be surprised if Rivera lasts a whole season. 

It looks like boy Hank wants to be like boy George and run everything with the Yanks;  GM, Personnel Director, and act like an owner who doesn't have a clue.    If Santana is brought on board,  I hope Brian Cashman takes another GM position where he can be a GM, and not a figurehead.

Both years they led the division in August only to collapse.  In that respect they have more in common with the Mets.  we'll see.  Don't forget that after finsishing in 2nd place 6 years in a row the WC had to be invented just to give perennial  2nd place teams like the Sux another shot in 2004.

And don't be dragging Tap into your negitive-pathetic world. If he has a problem with me, let him speak for himself to me personaly. So when you go crying to jim, show him first the posts you write about me instigator !!!

Hank paid A-Rod i agree money that is way over-board.

But! with the last year in the Stadium, and to promote the new stadium in 2009, with A-Rod most likely breaking Bond's Hr record. I'm sure they considered that event in a factor to pay A-Rod.

You can't imagine the revenue that event will bring into the Yankees organization. With the media, tv, merchandise, and other avenues of revenue.

So! i guess you can say they are using each other. The Yankees for all the attention and revenue in the new stadium, where they will make A-Rod's record a glorious event to promote the new stadium. And A-Rod using the Yankees for the money he will get for allowing the Yankees to use him, when he breaks the record, in the new stadium.

Now! all A-Rod has to do, is stay healthy.....hahahahah 

“Pavano ponders about future”.         Schifoso!

Knowing where that comes from, the so anxiously awaited Mitchell report, shall not surprise anyone.

After seeing how deftly he single handedly defeated the Indians it will take a lot to surprise anybody. Some early indications are that if the culprits went on a shopping spree prior to MLB effective date they haven’t much to fear. The Union is already fighting tooth and nail for Guillen though.

Mitchell will include as many Yanks as he can push the envelope with (once a sux always a sux) the worthy news’ part will be reading how many sux will be on that list: from Schilling to Coco from Varitek to Ortiz and a few guys like Lowell and Many in between. I doubt that (once a sux always a sux). My bet is the sacrificial lamb will be D. Millard, he’s long gone.

Handpicked by Bud nonetheless. Sometimes I wonder about that charge that the Wild Card system was instituted not to encourage parity in the AL and NL or to make the ALCS and NLCS more exciting but to actually help the perennial AL East Division second place make it to the postseason: the sux. Can’t argue with the results.

Bud can now retire. The deed is done.

When i read what is still owed him, and he has not decieded yet to take a minor league contract, to make room for 'players not disability cases' I thought!! what if he is taking a spot for A-rod on the rooster, after A-Rod completes his contract ???

Then! the only option, is taking him on a ferry boat ride in his sportscar, and dumping him in it into the Hudson River......What a waste of humanity   what a poor excuse for a man, and baseball so-called player.

Yet he probably takes and spends that 39.9 million, like he earned it. The Yankees were robbed !! as most of his injuries were brought on , by his bad attitude, in being scared to pitch in the Stadium. His sportscar should have driven in the back of that garbage truck, with him and his girlfriend in it. That's all he is Garbage........ Damm ! it gets me mad, how he took the Yankees.

And his new agent said, that with his conditioning, he could be ready to pitch in the Major Leagues by mid-summer. Because he does not want to lose some of the benefits of playing in the minors, opposed to the Bigs.......... Where is the cement !!!! I want to have his sorry As!s Wacked.... Then get the rest of the Yankees money back to them. To give to Santana !!! hahahaha....

Politically correct version

Once Minn grew too bold and greedy and demanded that Kennedy be added to the list of Hughes, Melky and other prospects the call should have been an easy one to make. No deal thanks. Try raiding and pilfering someone else’s team like Foston or Anaheim (err Los Angeles).

Yeah Foston was going to negotiate with Santana a six year deal and Beckett was going to be a happy camper for the entire 2008 season: Yeah in another parallel universe maybe.

So Foston had no choice but to mess with the Yankees plan which shouldn’t have been a problem money wise (for the Yankees). Santana wanted a 6 year extension at $25 Mil per year? No problem.

Who was going to say: “over my dead body”? Nobody. 

The Yankees were dead serious about Santana not suicidal. They were prepared to deal Hughes and Co for the privilege. It’s a good thing common sense prevailed (we probably would have been bidding against Foston in a few years for the right to sign Kennedy and Hughes this time . . . . what a mess!!!).

The upside is that although a few voices were very vocal, make that extremely vocal about the Yankees mortgaging their future so their Fantasy teams would look very good; the gross silent majority (sorry Ronny) were not happy about the deal and clearly said so in polls taken after the deal fell through.

We know anything can still happen but we’re happy in the realization that Hughes, Kennedy and Melky . . . Oh and Jeter too, are still with us.

Aaron Rowand goes to the Giants and that seems to take care of a) that rumor of Matsui going to the Giants and b) trading all those players for Santana since Rowand is no longer available (unless the yanks replace him with Corey Patterson and go ahead and resurrect a push for Santana). So the Santana trade plus Rowland would have meant the Yankees might have had to increase their payroll by additional $37 Million, a nice round figure (WOW).

As it’s often said: Sometimes the best trades are those that never take place.

Listening to Curt is enough to make you sick. First it was Curt who kept hammering the media for not going after steroids suspects hard enough and saying something had to be done and soon. Then he had a chance to say and do something on National TV before Congress and he turned deafmute (never heard nor had been privy to any steroids talk or practice).

Now conveniently placed in the team that must have some tiny connections to the Mitchell’s investigations (at the very least) he’s going with a pre-emptying strike by saying everybody must be mature about it and be ready to go on with their lives and their passion for the game. He personally would forgive and feel compassion for any present and past colleagues of his (the accent is on past) that might be mentioned on such report; he goes on to say that he would understand if some sux fans become emotional and go after any Yankees players mentioned (just an example he says . . . yeah Curt) on such report while overlooking any sux players also mentioned (surely former players).

Is looks to me that we’re talking parameters here (like agents often say); the question is whose parameters?

"There's been a lot of speculation that we need a true power arm, an ace or whatever," Pettitte said, "but I disagree with that. I think Wang is an absolute stud. I think he is an ace. I understand that he struggled in the postseason before, and that's going to happen."

In a season where the Yankees had a horrible first half Wang still delivered his 19 wins.

Now go ahead and tell me: a 19 win season doesn’t an ACE make.

With a little more support from the organization or A LOT!!  The guy could be a 20+ game winner. Guaranteed.

My guess is if Posada with no outs and a man on second brings that man home Wang is easily a 20 game winner. Or Matsui (no I’m not picking on Matsui) or anybody else for that matter.

I was going to say or Arod but with the guy posting 156 RBI’s or that .422 OBP (Billy Beane . . . . eat your heart out) that would sound ridiculous.  

My uneducated guess is Arod, Matsui, Posada, Jeter, Abreu, Damon will have a great year and Cano and Melky will have an exceptional year (just imagine Cano and Melky the one-two punch kids always motivating each other) and with Giambi on his walk year . . . what’s not to like?

If we could only get another power right handed batter (hey, we were going to increase the payroll by . . . a few bucks right? What’s a few more million to go toe to toe with Detroit? (Leyland goes:  hey guys they talking about us now. Great lineup Leyland, give us your best shot because we’ll be lights out wire to wire).

Did I mention you won’t see many sux current players on that report? I meant players of fame and fortune? Why?

If you haven’t been tuning in you probably think it has to do with that HUGE sign at the Mass border that says: “No cheaters allow to play at Fenway for the sux”.

Yeah right that’s the only reason there will be many more players from the Rangers and the Yankees than from the sux or the Mets where the seller was successfully dealing left and right.

It has nothing to do with politics but with a thorough, FAIR and UNBIASED investigation performed by none other than Mr. squeaky clean “I don’t let my party colors blind me in the slight” hONORABLE sEN mITCHELL the patrician in whose honor the City of Cleveland is naming a Holiday after (in the month of October mind you) the name of that Holiday is not fit to print here.

At least baseball players are smarter than the NFL players. Look at Vick instead of cheating on steroids and HGH he was involved in dog trafficking, torturing, fighting and drowning; Oh and he smoked pot too. He got what he deserved because he messed with the mighty ASPCA instead of the NFL or MLB. He picked his poison and lost.

So if I’m Lupica or Chass I’ll be on Bud’s tail asking him: SO Mr. Commissioner what took you so long? Just kidding.

How about Mr. Commissioner: “when do you think the new easy to perform HGH test kit will be ready? And Sir can we put a rush on that order?”

They’re that tough, you know that.

Mets practitioners of the same art need not worry other than the usual cursing from Yankee fans in their cross-town games. Isn’t that amazing how smart and clean Giambi looks now? Go figure.