2008-2009 Yankees Off-Season Thread

I got to watch some of the game today, I was home from work sick. Posada went yard on the first pitch in the 3rd.

Teix had a nice hard single..then A-Rod grounded into a double play...

 

He's such a choker.

 

At this point no one can defend that Cap

 

Good start so far by the Yanks.

I agree with Shade's comment about ARod though. He's got some terrible advisers.

 

Hughes and Coke were bright spots of the day as well

 

Now the Yanks will be weraing new caps this year: http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/believe-it-a-new-cap-for-yankees/



That is absolutely awful.

 

i cant watch this year if they wear those. tragedy

 

Jeter has had the same haircut since he was a rookie.

 

Jeters' hair dosen't grow, it just is.

 

He clearly does not take hair performanc- enhancing drugs

 

It's really really early but so far it looks like Gardner is beating out Cabrerra easily for the CF job. Especially with one of them batting .429 and the other batting .000.

 

Joba is a bust. 1 inning, 2 ER.

And Cabrera is batting .125. 1-8 baby.

 

Which disturbs me because Gardner couldn't hit Cano on a fly if he ran the ball to second and handed it to him.

 

^ two words about that: Trade Deadline

 

SNY speculating that if the Dodgers-Manny talks break down one more time he will end up a Yankee.

 

^^ Always figured Manny never put Boston in the past. He wants to stick it to Boston really bad.

 

Ron Gardenhire said the same thing three days ago. Right now, Manny is the easiest signing on the market. You know the number, you know the years, and you know he's willing to defer money. The only issue is whether or not your team can afford him. The Yankees probably can. If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say that's Frank McCourt's problem. Just when he got the team to the break-even point, the economy took a nose dive, and he's still leveraged to the gills.

 

He's not willing to defer, that was the whole reason the latest contract went to shit and Boras countered with an identical contract, sans deferment.

 

That was midweek. It changed again this weekend.

In the last of Manny's counteroffers, Boras allowed for deferred salary, but he was carrying interest on the deferred amount. Actually a pretty fair point. Present day dollars have a different value. Boras split the difference in net present value with his last counter and they're now about $1.5 million apart. McCourt got all huffy and essentially said that he was looking for a 'yes' or a 'no' and not another counteroffer, so they'd have to start from scratch.

The real beauty if you're the Yankees or Giants is that both McCourt and Boras have sent copies of each of their offers to the press. Things have become so contentious that they don't want to have their position misrepresented. As a result, the entire world knows what it would take to sign Manny - $45 million over two years ($25/20), with an opt-out clause; and, if there's to be deferred salary, it has to carry interest.

 

SNY also said at the same time that if Manny ended up a Yankee every Met fan on the planet would be livid.