Category: yankees

(Full credit, this is a stolen premise from a friend.  He knows who he is.)

The Yankees got C.C.   Say he wins 20 games.  That just replaces Mussina’s 2008 output.  They are no better than they were.  In fact they are worse minus Pettitte and having no first baseman yet.

Say K-Rod saves a lot of games.   Wagner was doing fine.   The Mets are no better than they were the day before Wagner got hurt.  In fact they are worse because they don’t have Ollie Perez in the rotation.

Fun pickups, but plenty more to do guys.

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I hope K-Rod has learned to read www.metspolice.com and read 7 Things K-Rod & Mets Fans Need To Know About Each Other yesterday because one of the predictions has already came true.

I spent yesterday telling Yankee fans that the NYYs would sign Sabathia “three hours” after the Mets got K-Rod.   Sure enough you woke up this morning expecting to read about the Mets, and Sabathia will be the topic of the day.

The Yankees do not like it when the Mets get the spotlight.   The Mets announce a stadium, the Yankees announce a stadium.  The Mets pick a year to open a new one, the Yankees pick a new one.  Spotlight your new park with an exhibiion on April 3rd – we can do that too!   The Mets would have had today to themselves – nope, now it’s C.C.’s day.

The Yankees will be stuck with a guy who didn’t want to be here.  He’s Randy Johnson.  He’s A-Rod.   They came for the money but never won.

I’m excited about K-Rod even though deep down I know we’ll wind up hating him when he puts people on and only throws 92 mph.  That’s the scars in my psyche from Vince Coleman, Bobby Bonilla, and Four Inning Pedro.    Free Agents always let the Mets down.    Omar had to do it, and it was the right play.   Now I want Omar to take that Federal Bailoit Money and go get me three starters, two corner outfielders, a catcher, a second baseman and someone to pitch the eight.

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Good Lupica today

This week the News’ Juan Gonzalez reported that over the past several years the Yankees have overstated their expenses by more than $24 million as a way of underpaying rent to the city. Gonzalez reported in the same column that since 2001 the city has forgiven the Yankees $5 million a year off its annual rent to pay for planning costs on its new baseball palace across 161st Street from the old one. When caught, the Yankees agreed to pay up in full, making it sound practically heroic.

It was also in the Times this week that the cost to the city on infrastructure for both new New York City ballparks – parks, garages, road improvements, commuter rail stations – has jumped by $458 million over time. In addition, the Times reminded us that the two teams, combined, are getting nearly half-a-billion in city, state and federal tax breaks.