2008-12-16T08:15:04-05:00 Cabrera-Cameron trade talks will resume soon 2008-12-15T11:46:55-05:00 13 2008-12-15T11:46:55-05:00 1 2 10 2008-12-16T08:15:04-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/631/340/thumb/yankee_tatoo.jpg 27 NJ tony gags Parsippany 631980 13 KENNY LOFTON is washed up he should buy a bottle of wine and go blow all his money somewhere......instead trying to give advice to someone who is about to become 160 million dollars richer ! much much much more than he ever dreamed of............ 3668933 2008-12-15T14:43:15-05:00 29 WI Back Door Bingo Milwaukee 616701 1 This is the exact reason why myself and many other baseball fans hate the Yankees and everything they stand for. They just spent 240 million on two pitchers and now want the Brewers to help them out by picking up Camerons contract. First 300 million dollar team to miss the playoffs. . . '09 Yankees 3661416 2008-12-16T01:03:48-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/427/519/thumb/joe_g1.jpg 560 NY Yank-ee Base-ball Coram 427959 This is the exact reason why myself and many other baseball fans hate the Yankees and everything they stand for. They just spent 240 million on two pitchers and now want the Brewers to help them out by picking up Camerons contract. First 300 million dollar team to miss the playoffs. . . '09 Yankees 12 calm down little buddy, it won't even be 200 million.... even still, maybe you clowns should put more effort into LOVING your own team rather than HATING the Yanks...... don't hate the yanks for doing what you wish your team would do..... we are just lucky to have an owner and a front office that cares about their fan base and WINNING, if you want to cry to someone, cry to your own teams because instead of investing money in their own team they just pocket the money they get from the yanks lux tax...... 3668356 2008-12-15T22:15:28-05:00 2 MN Yuckin' Fankees Minneapolis 235702 11 I'm sure the $300 million was just an exaggeration to make a point. Settle down and stop crying. We can all agree the payroll will be obscene. 3667352 2008-12-15T20:19:22-05:00 86 NY Cat77 New York 529412 10 I think Andy is a goner and Derek Lowe is Bronx-bound...does anyone know who the &quot;mystery&quot; team is 3666327 2008-12-15T14:43:15-05:00 29 WI Back Door Bingo Milwaukee 616701 1 This is the exact reason why myself and many other baseball fans hate the Yankees and everything they stand for. They just spent 240 million on two pitchers and now want the Brewers to help them out by picking up Camerons contract. First 300 million dollar team to miss the playoffs. . . '09 Yankees 3661416 2008-12-15T17:52:10-05:00 1121 CA Yankee27 Castaic 188694 This is the exact reason why myself and many other baseball fans hate the Yankees and everything they stand for. They just spent 240 million on two pitchers and now want the Brewers to help them out by picking up Camerons contract. First 300 million dollar team to miss the playoffs. . . '09 Yankees 9 Know your facts. Yankees took off $88.5 mill off the books in 2008 and will take off another $26 mill in 2009. They have spent $23 per on CC and $16.5 per on AJ = $39.5 per. That is still $49 mill less than 2008 when their payroll was around $210 million = $161 million. So they pick up Cameron, Sheets, Teixeira-or-Manny... still less than 2008. Even less after 2009. 3665069 2008-12-15T14:43:15-05:00 29 WI Back Door Bingo Milwaukee 616701 1 This is the exact reason why myself and many other baseball fans hate the Yankees and everything they stand for. They just spent 240 million on two pitchers and now want the Brewers to help them out by picking up Camerons contract. First 300 million dollar team to miss the playoffs. . . '09 Yankees 3661416 2008-12-15T17:33:34-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/360/315/thumb/VII_Logo_2.jpg 16 NY jayfiss New York 360755 This is the exact reason why myself and many other baseball fans hate the Yankees and everything they stand for. They just spent 240 million on two pitchers and now want the Brewers to help them out by picking up Camerons contract. 8 This a ridiculous sentiment. It's business. Just because the Yanks have the money doesn't mean they should have to make an uneven trade. The bottom line is- Cameron at $10M for Cabrera and another player is a not really a fair deal from business perspective. 3664763 2008-12-15T17:00:15-05:00 29 XX J-DuBz No City 629074 7 yankees are gunna get tex.. i can begt my life on it. there gunna swoop in last second with a big offer and land him. he wants to bea yank anyway...who doesnt? 3664323 2008-12-15T16:52:48-05:00 4 NJ JayEG Hoboken 635021 6 Keep Melky, he'll play better this year. 3664159 2008-12-15T16:09:02-05:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/634/344/thumb/mime-attachment.jpg 8 FL mbm Kissimmee 634984 5 Actually the Yankees are still around 40 million dollars under last years' salary even with the additions of Sabathia and Burnett. So like it or not, we have the money, and we will spend the money, deal with it. I like the move for Cameron. He's no big deal but he'll play a good center field and hit a few long balls. They need to look into a more permanent CF solution for the years to come....but for now, Cameron is alright. I think it's rather absurd to ask the Brewers to pick up part of Cameron's salary though. I think the Yankees need to add Manny Ramirez to protect A-rod in the lineup next year. If Alex bats third and you have revolving cleanup hitter that includes Posada, Nady, and Matsui, A-rod won't see a fastball all year. 3663228 2008-12-15T15:46:11-05:00 12 NY NYY-fan New York 634981 4 Hate them all you want, just explain to me what Sabathia's contract has to do with Cameron's? Whoever the Yankees did or didn't sign during free agency has absolutely nothing to do with the Cameron-Cabrera trade. These are seperate deals to be worked out on the merits of the players and contracts involved, not on anyone's feelings. This is a business, and just because the Yanks spent big on two signings doesn't mean they should just forget that in any other dealings they have. No other team or ownership group would, why should they? 3662756 13 <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img src="http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/mike-cameron-getty2.jpg" alt="Mike-cameron-getty2" width="300" height="400" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align:right;">Photo by Getty Images</div> </div> <p>The Yankees and Brewers are intending soon to resume talks involving centerfielders <strong>Mike Cameron</strong> and <strong>Melky Cabrera</strong>. However, the Yankees still see Cameron's $10-million salary as high and will continue to insist that Milwaukee either pick up a few million dollars or take <strong>Kei Igawa</strong> and some of his bloated contract off their hands.</p> <p>Igawa&nbsp;has $12 million and three years to go on his deal. The Yankees would expect to pay the bulk of it, but are asking Milwaukee to pay some of it.</p> <div>The Brewers have been balking at offsetting any of Cameron's&nbsp;salary by sending money to New York after the Yankees outbid them by $61 million for pitching superstar <strong>CC Sabathia</strong>. <p>There's been an unusually high connection between the Brewers and Yankees this winter. Longtime Brewers pitcher <strong>Ben Sheets</strong> has drawn interest from the Yankees and could receive an offer if Yankees veteran <strong>Andy Pettitte</strong> rejects the teams' longstanding $10-million offer to him. The Yankees appear to be looking at Sheets and Derek Lowe, another star free agent, as targets should Pettitte never agree to their proposal.</p> </div> http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/100/64/thumb/Heyman_Jon.png 0 NY Jon Heyman New York 10084 32541