2008-11-14T13:53:03-05:00 Yankees ready to offer Sabathia big bucks 2008-11-13T15:22:09-05:00 15 2008-11-13T15:22:09-05:00 1 2 10 2008-11-14T13:53:03-05:00 9 WA sincro Renton 598241 15 Those who read my comment apparently missed part of it. You also need a salary *floor* to make salary caps truly work. That prevents teams from taking the money they get and not spending it on players. In the NFL, that floor is 75% of the cap. 3340572 2008-11-14T13:31:12-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/521/315/thumb/schoolgirls-1312.jpg 10 CA Tk916 Sacramento 521755 14 SWISHER SWEET in a Yankees uniform. It's going to look so SWEEEEEEEET. 3340321 2008-11-14T12:48:11-05:00 1 CT Cindirella61 West Haven 607974 13 Nothing more than jealousy. you know that if you had the money available to you, you would put together the best team that money can buy! 3339658 2008-11-14T11:14:48-05:00 31 CA AnthonyL88 Beverly Hills 192536 12 There are lots of teams who got super rich owners, but they are too cheap to spend any money. What do all of the teams do with the money they get from the revenue sharing? The owners just pocket all of the money instead of using the money on the team. So don't blame the Yankees, who share their revenues with other teams. You must blame the owners of the other teams for not spending the money on their team. 3338641 2008-11-14T10:54:09-05:00 2 FL yankeeDevotee Port Charlotte 607882 11 you people are so sad...there is no such thing as a free player...everyone is essentially bought. The Marlins won twice with little out of pocket expenses but they still PAID the players so yes those 2 rings were bought. Don't come down on a team that has money and actually spends it to win. Come down on the teams that have money but spend like they don't. 3338140 2008-11-14T10:28:42-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/169/047/thumb/UVAS08.jpg 260 VA Hoos Your Daddy Glen Allen 169347 10 I don't care about anything other than I hope Steinbrenner Inc. chokes on any acquisition they get. 3337792 2008-11-14T08:38:28-05:00 1 AZ sun city stew Sun City 607819 9 lets all understand the dh rule. it is an option... the yanks can let dd bat any game he pitche s.. no problem.. 3336477 2008-11-13T23:08:05-05:00 22 NC noahfecks Charlotte 184309 8 Considering L.A. is the second largest city in the U.S., whose fault is it that the Dodgers won't come close to what the Yankees are willing to pay? At least the Yankees are willing to spend the money they make, as opposed to pocketing it. What does that say about their commitment to winning as opposed to Seattle's ability to suck it every year. Have fun in the cellar. Seattle can join Detroit as two once proud sports cities that have gone in the toilet. How 'bout the Sonics, er. . . I mean Thunder? 3334846 2008-11-13T20:43:45-05:00 3 OH NYmets78 Columbus 607414 7 sorry for the duplicate.. computer hickup. apparently I need a cap too. 3333327 2008-11-13T20:43:05-05:00 3 OH NYmets78 Columbus 607414 6 This is the reason why we need a cap now more than ever? you're right. Tampa Bay &amp; Philly. A long history of buying championships. Or maybe the cards &amp; tigers in '06. and the red sox in '07 don't buy championships, they earn them (and I'm a lifelong Mets fan, and we can't buy one either. and we try really hard. ask billy wagner &amp; pedro). 3333270 15 <p>According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Yankees are ready to make an offer to superstar free-agent pitcher <strong>CC Sabathia</strong>, who hits the open market at midnight tonight. The&nbsp;exact offer isn't known, but it&nbsp;will likely show Sabathia, New York's&nbsp;top offseason target, that the Yankees&nbsp;can&nbsp;and will outbid any other suitor interested in signing him.</p> <p>From <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/11132008/sports/yankees/yankees_ready_to_blow_away_cc_with_big_o_138398.htm" target="_blank">the story</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>CC Sabathia does not need the <a href="/tags/show_tag/42" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Yankees</span></a> to flirt with him. He knows their intentions already. All things being equal, Sabathia wants to go home to California and play in the NL, where he can hit. But as a friend of Sabathia's said yesterday, "he is mature enough and realistic enough to know that the <a href="/tags/show_tag/42" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Yankees</span></a> might not make it close. And if it is not close - no matter how much he likes the West Coast and likes hitting - he is not going to walk away from $25 million. This is not rocket science. It is about how much more the Yanks will spend than anybody else."</p> <p>One Yankee executive said, "we have to separate ourselves." Translation: They must divest Sabathia of his dreams of the Pacific and the batter's box by going to a financial region relatively quickly that no other franchise would even consider, especially in this plummeting economy. That means a bid north of the six years at $137.5 million the <a href="/tags/show_tag/53" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Mets</span></a> bestowed last year on <a href="/tags/show_tag/3457"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Johan Santana</span></a>. My gut says six years at $150 million sounds about right to force league-wide surrender before the bidding really even gets started.</p> </blockquote> 23181 18 NY The SI Staff New York City 21244