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The rich get richer, the evil empire strikes back

HAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

i called it.

pure domination
tampa bay, you can forget about last season, it was a good run.
boston...lol, you have no chance unless you sign tex. which you probably will. but still, you have no chance
Blue Jays? Your wonder boy better do it again this year, except youll be facing three amazing pitchers so...3v1, ur done
Anyone else left in this division? There used to be this team who had a player named Cal Ripken on them. Who were they again?

the evil empire does prevail. muahahaha

and for a second i thought CC had morals...guess not!

Sorry Slinky. This might be the start of a new subset of conversations. It's not quite as bad as Giambi going to the Rays. It does look like Abreu who is one of my favorite players is not coming back. If that helps any.

NYY25to13: oh ye of little faith.

Too bad for CC. Any time a big name pitcher goes to the Yanks he gets worse.

I guess he didn't want to go to the Dodgers after all.

No jinx here, still got the physical.

QUOTE(#2):

Originally posted 06:46 AM ET  12.10 by EastCoastBeast

HAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAi called it. pure dominationtampa bay, you can forget about last season, it was a good run.boston...lol, you have no chance unless you sign tex. which you probably will. but still, you have no chanceBlue Jays? Your wonder boy better do it again this year, except youll be facing three amazing pitchers so...3v1, ur doneAnyone else left in this division? There used to be this team who had a player named Cal Ripken on them. Who were they again?the evil empire does prevail. muahahaha

I forgot, who are the other starters for the Yankees? Oh yeah, Wang, who was hurt bad last year, Chamberlin, who was injured twice last year and Sabathia. Who else do you have? Going after injury prone pitchers, I guess you didn't learn with Pavano when you go after Sheets and Burnett.

Back to trying to buy a championship. Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Also, I thought you had all these stud young pitchers, oh yeah, no one else wanted to trade for them either.

Lets compare staffs.....

Beckett
Matsuzaka
Lester
Wakefield
Buchholz, Masterson, Lowrie

Yankees

Sabathia
Chamberlin
Wang
(Blank)
(Blank)

Still lots of work to do to be a legit contender. Burnett looks like he is going to the Braves, Lowe has already stated a desire to go back to Boston.

QUOTE(#6):

Originally posted 06:57 AM ET  12.10 by Favrefan

Too bad for CC. Any time a big name pitcher goes to the Yanks he gets worse.

Randy Johnson, Kevin Brown, Javier Vazquez, Jeff Weaver, and so on. Track record isn't really good here.

QUOTE(#9):

Originally posted 07:01 AM ET  12.10 by The Original Tony

No jinx here, still got the physical.

Mmmmmm......buffet's..........

QUOTE(#1):

Originally posted 06:37 AM ET  12.10 by antwain

The rich get richer, the evil empire strikes back

I guess the only way to get a player to NY is to overpay. Nothing new to see here, let's all move along.....

There must be a reason he didn't want to go to NY, that would waive a red flag to me. If he doesn't want to be there, he may not give the effort he did in Milwaukee pitching on short rest and so forth. I'd be a little nervous about that.

QUOTE(#10):

Originally posted 07:04 AM ET  12.10 by Schadenfreude - Chitown bound.

I forgot, who are the other starters for the Yankees? Oh yeah, Wang, who was hurt bad last year, Chamberlin, who was injured twice last year and Sabathia. Who else do you have? Going after injury prone pitchers, I guess you didn't learn with Pavano when you go after Sheets and Burnett.Back to trying to buy a championship. Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Also, I thought you had all these stud young pitchers, oh yeah, no one else wanted to trade for them either.

and the sox pitching staff?


you got DK, who walks everyone on the planet
Josh Beckett, who PRETENDS to be ok (when we all know his **** is injured (12-10WL last year)
you got wakefield, whos like 80 years old and throws 2mph knuckleballs that knows how to hit
curt schilling? yeah, he was good, but the cortisone wore off. who else is left? seriously.

Gahook I think he did want to go out west but I guess he wasn't willing to take a discount. No way someone else would give him $140 million, guess $120 million just not good enough.

Keep trying to forget about the other pitchers, like Lester. How many playoff games has the combined starting pitching staff for the Yankees won? I believe that Lester, Beckett, or Wakefield alone have won more. Can't buy that kind of experience.

Oh, the shot at Wakefield, as long as he is effective, who cares how old he is?

Schilling didn't pitch last year and the Sox still beat the Yankees in the division. Did you notice that the Yankees didn't make the playoffs and lost 2 starters, 1 who won 20 games?

QUOTE(#16):

Originally posted 07:18 AM ET  12.10 by antwain

Gahook I think he did want to go out west but I guess he wasn't willing to take a discount. No way someone else would give him $140 million, guess $120 million just not good enough.

Still, that raises a red flag to me. His desire was to go one place, the union puts pressure on him to reset the pitching market to go to another. There is a LONG track record of players going where they don't want to go and not performing well.

True I wouldn't be suprised if the union did pressure him behind the scenes. Still after reading about the signing I died a little bit inside. It just makes my hate for the Yankees grow stronger.

QUOTE(#18):

Originally posted 07:20 AM ET  12.10 by Schadenfreude - Chitown bound.

Still, that raises a red flag to me. His desire was to go one place, the union puts pressure on him to reset the pitching market to go to another. There is a LONG track record of players going where they don't want to go and not performing well.

Dang.. you beat me to that... lol...