Farewell to Luis Alicea. Maybe if he was around for the Jack McCormick thing, Manny would still be here! (Reuters photo)
Sure, it’s almost all Yankees-related, but it’s baseball news nonetheless.
I’m sure I should be more concerned about the Yankees throwing a bank at CC Sabathia, but I’m not. And every time I see the Yankees grabbing for the high-priced players, I think about Mike Mussina and Jason Giambi and Carl Pavano and Johnny Damon and, hell, even ARod (and so many others) and then I look at the cabinet where they keep their World Series trophies and notice that they haven’t put one in there since 2000. And I smile a giant smile and enjoy the show. What would be sweet, though, was if they threw their bags of money at CC and he said “Meh, no thanks. I’d rather not go to a third-place team.” Heh.
I will say that I’d be more than a little bummed if AJ Burnett or Derek Lowe or BOTH of them, really, ended up with the Yankees. Not for any fear of the Red Sox having to face them (hell, they see Burnett enough as it is) but from the viewpoint of players I actually like playing for the Yankees (hello Xavier Nady). Man, that makes my stomach hurt. Both Sabathia and Lowe are represented by, you guessed it, Scott Boras, No they aren’t. Just Lowe is. Thanks to Matt for pointing out my mistake! Greg Genske, is Sabathia’s agent. so THOSE negotiations could be interesting. Don’t give in to the dark side, Derek. Don’t do it!
Hey at least Mike Lowell is getting healthy for when the Red Sox trade him after they sign Mark Teixeira!
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(I am not advocating this to happen – see frowny face above!)
And we say farewell to Luis Alicea. The hottest first base coach in the American League (rawrr!) and Manny calmer-downer will now become the hottest first base coach in the National League (rawrr!) – and Manny calmer-downer? (I’m still convinced old Omar wants Manny and that Manny would love playing in New York, regardless of all his whinings about how horrible it is to be hounded by the press and fans.)
It’s Saturday and it sounds like the rain has stopped pummeling my house. I’m going to go try and enjoy some of the day – hope you do the same!
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Omar and his attempts at an All Dominican road show would have succeeded, if only the players did not get hurt, right? The Wilpon wallet has to be getting thinner, especially knowing that a new broadcast network was launched and the economy is impacting everything. I don’t rule out Omar making a bid for Manny, but the final deal may be a four year gig, and unless the DH is factored into NL starting in a couple of years, I just don’t think it’s meant to be.
Mr. Manny may also find himself getting less than BORE-ass might like.
I kind of like the idea that Donald Fehr and his agents of evil find their collars a bit tighter than normal.
Posted 15 Nov 2008 at 11:34 am ¶Hi Cyn,
This doesn’t have anything to do with the post about Manny, although I enjoyed it. Just didn’t know if you wanted in on this discussion over at “Firebrand of the AL”. Didn’t know if you’d run across it yet.
http://firebrandal.com/2008/11/14/red-sox-roundtable-whos-our-catcher.html
Posted 15 Nov 2008 at 3:26 pm ¶I don’t think I can survive another hot stove season that revolves around Lowell trade speculation :(
Posted 15 Nov 2008 at 11:24 pm ¶Keep Mikey.
Sign Randy Johnson.
Trade him to Kansas City.
Bring back Bronson.
Theo needs to keep me on retainer.
Posted 15 Nov 2008 at 11:58 pm ¶You were just joking about Mikie being traded, right:(
Posted 17 Nov 2008 at 8:34 am ¶