YASNY

I agree with R&W on the fact that in three years Damn will be an albatross for the Yankees. I also agree with chisoxfn that this was a good move for the Yankees ... but only in the short term. As for that comment R&W made about liking the direction the Red Sox are heading, well I didn't know you were all that infatuated with DOWN ... because that's where they are headed right now. They may salvage some things this offseason, but right at the moment, it ain't looking to damn good.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 04:09 PM) Here's the question...if the Sox tried offering him $9-10 mil a year for 2 years, do you think he'd bite? Delay FA for 1 year for more money this coming year? I seriously doubt it. First, he knows that if he doesn't sign with us, the odds are that he will be traded. The team that acquires him will probably have the intent on signing him, and also knows about what it will take to do so. Second, if he doesn't get traded, he's going to be a 27 year old FA pitcher with an 18 game winning season and post season experience on his resume. Third, if he waits a year, it just pushes back his opportunity to score big again on his next contract.

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 04:05 PM) IF my aunt Dorothy had balls, she'd be my uncle! Seriously, if JG got hurt, he'd have to live on $16 million for the rest of his life...not too shabby. Come up with a point that has some balls. That's garbage. Garland has no reason whatsoever to take a package of 8 per for 2. Hell he just turned down 8 per for 3.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 11:35 AM) Would anyone else be a little aprehensive about offering over 8 mil a year to guy that was complete average until this past year? Not for a split second. If he'd sign for 3/27 I'd do it in a heartbeat.

I guess since I'm a registered democrat, I'm allowed in here.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 10:38 AM) Guess it should have been in green.. it was a joke. I also take it you never saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Nope. Read the book ages ago, but I don't remember much about it.

Willie Harris is his mentor?

QUOTE(fathom @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 09:02 AM) I honestly think I've stopped reading stats on this site. Every stat seems as a way for a poster to push his belief onto others. Sometimes, it's better to not use stats as analyzing a player, and just trust what you see with your own eyes. 74.6% of scouts and GM's feel stats are overrated.

QUOTE(JimH @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 09:07 AM) Now THAT'S funny ! Sad, actually.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 09:51 AM) 42.. Not that anyone cares. Can't be 42. Jackie Robinson.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 06:42 AM) It is a nice article but soon some people will jump in and point out all the negative b.s. about Hawk and Tony, Belle, umpire confusion, and other stuff. If this was Mariotti, it would be trashed. It is never what is written, it is always who wrote it. I'm tempted to bash this post. The writer sucks.

QUOTE(TLAK @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 07:17 AM) Wow, the World Champions don't get any respect, even from their own GM, after they won 99 games and went 11-1 against baseball's best in the playoffs. What an incredible statement. Incredible. maybe. Accurate, probably.

I thought SportsCenter was going to jizz all over itself when they talked about this. Dimaggio, Mantle, Damon ... Ya Right!

QUOTE(bschmaranz @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 07:59 PM) Does anyone else find it hilarious that they have a Jacques and a Pierre in the outfield? The Cubs have been surrendering for years. Now, they are relecting that by acquiring outfielders whose names scream "France". Too bad Frenchie Fuqua played football.

QUOTE(forrestg @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) Garland wants all this money and he gets arbitration this year. When in fact if he's traded now he can get mo money that what we are willing to pay him. If we keep him until the trading deadline other contending teams will be paying us big money to take him off our hands and be giving us more in the way of prospects than before spring training..........If we keep him that long we can make sure McCarthy is ready and another minor league prospect has that much longer to prepare for his mlb debut................ What if Garland strikes gold in arbitration and the other teams know we want to dump that salary? I say trade him now.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:55 PM) Was about to say this. There's a lot of potential for injury in that lineup so I can agree with you guys. There is also the potential for some veteran ballplayers to achieve something. It doesn't happen all that often, as you get injuries and egos as part of the equation.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:06 PM) Thanks, I was going to call you on it. I would have swallowed my helping of crow.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:03 PM) The big thing in my eyes, regarding the Sox, is that the Rangers traded Young. This Vazquez has to be a done deal. Wait ... I reacted to the name. Of course, Young's with the d'backs.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:28 PM) Just going through what I've been through the last week or so and remembering all the attention this worthless piece of garbage received. . .it makes me so sick to my stomach that people that deserve that kind of publicity (good people who spend their lives doing for others) get jack s***. Your father-in-law had love and the type of respect a man can only earn. This piece of s*** shouldn't even enter your mind in any form of comparison.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:21 AM) I don't have any problems with them wanting more money. God knows that why I had been looking for a job for 3 years plus. Them looking for an 8% raise kinda blew me away, but looking at how quickly they came down really said that was just a negotiating ploy to me. What I do have a problem with is them going on strike. It is illegal, flat out. Its not like these guys are working for someone that doesn't really affect anyone else. When the transit workers go on strike it is the working poor who cannot get to work, not the middle class and higher who either have cars or know someone who has a car to get a ride with. There is a reason this is illegal, and it serves as a bad example for a vital group. What if the NYC police or firefighters decided they didn't like the raise they got offered and went out on strike? I know that example is a little more extreme, but the same idea. The transit workers provide a vital function to NYC and its greater metro area. As I said earlier they are estimating a net loss of nearly half a billion dollars a day by this illegal activity. Just for perspectives sake, one day of this strike would cost enough for the bridge to nowhere that everyone is so upset about in Alaska as an example of extreme waste. I don't have a problem with the workers trying to get what is best for them. Capitalism works both ways as far as I am concerned. I have a big problem with an illegal activity. Just for the sake of discussion, what if a law was passed making all strikes illegal?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:15 PM) But Drudge Report "opinions" aren't labeled as such. They are labeled as fact. I don't think that in any case you can determine bias on a mathematical scale. Those things are going to discount casual asides you'd hear from the anchor - which is more and more common on cable news. The merging of opinion and news stories without a clear line of demarcation is becoming more common. Asides from the anchor is the type of stuff I've been saying has been happening on network news for 30 plus years. Now, it's dismissed.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) To be honest this needs to go to the Supreme Court to establish the consititutionality of all of this. Forget the regular courts, this needs to have a definative answer. I wonder if a difinitive answer would be accepted ... or ridiculed.

Maybe this impeachment query will determine this in a definitive way. Did he break the law or not. We will see.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 07:27 AM) Agreed. And also agreed that the upsode to this story is the family was unharmed and the bad guy not so much. I just cringe at the thought that a guy playing hero can exacerbate a situation and inadvertently put his familat at greater risk. Also agreed.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:40 PM) I remember riding my bike four miles to my friend's with record albums under my arm that we would borrow from each other constantly. And I had a rotary phone as a kid. It sounded better than my parents cordless does now. The one they have in the bedroom still does. I used to play on my Commodore Vic 20 and screw Sim City, I had lego. I was one of those kids that hung out in the library after school til my Mom got home from work to pick me up. See what happens when you let your kids hang around with those dang librarians.