I hate the Yankees.
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 AzzurriDawg4
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Wow. 170 mil from the Yankees to Teixeira. |
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Posts: 631 12/23/08 02:40 PM Consigliere |
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hatfieldms |
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Posts: 1949 12/23/08 06:00 PM |
As much as I like this move, I am more excited about the pitchers they brought in. Burnett is a high risk.high reward signing but CC was a hell of a pick up.
Baseball season cannot get here soon enough
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 ArrowDawg |
Are they building an entire team with free agents? Geez! What's their team salary.......... | #22 | ||
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Posts: 3907 12/23/08 06:07 PM |
......up to now, $10 billion? Sick bastards.
It's gonna be funny as hell when they STILL can't win anything after spending loads of money again.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was
once like in the United States where men were free." - Ronald Reagan
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Optimus Prime 4 |
can't really blame them though. They make enough to afford it, and they would be stupid | #23 | ||
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Posts: 5946 12/23/08 06:13 PM Cobra Kai Sensei |
not to try to get the best players. Their fans would probably think it was worse if they made that much but didn't spend it on players.
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hatfieldms |
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Posts: 1950 12/23/08 06:15 PM |
ArrowDawg wrote:Their payroll is less than it was last year. They have signed 3 guys this year, it just happened to be the top 3 on the market. Like I said, they seemed to fill needs this year with younger players instead of going after the aging superstars |
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UCantStop15 |
Yes, meaningless HRs... | #25 | ||
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Posts: 4003 12/23/08 06:22 PM PhD, 'Tang |
I won't say he's overrated because you can't really overrate the numbers he puts up but he's just not clutch. He's twice the ballplayer
Derek Jeter is, but if my season is on the line I know which guy I want with a bat in his hands and it's not A-Rod. Just like clockwork, he grounds into
double plays or strikes out when they need a big hit. Ask a Yankee fan and see what they say.
Certain guys are great and certain guys are clutch. Some guys are both. Just like Karl Malone and Pat Ewing. Great players, not clutch. |
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FlabLoser |
buy/sell: MLB should bail out the auto industry** | #26 | ||
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Posts: 5496 12/23/08 08:44 PM |
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Todd4State |
It probably will be A-Rod | #27 | ||
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Posts: 3402 12/23/08 08:59 PM |
AzzurriDawg4 wrote: |
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state20006 |
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Posts: 106 12/24/08 12:02 AM |
don't get me wrong tex is one of the top 3 or 4 first basemen in the game but first basemen are a dime a dozen. probably 50% of the league is satisified
with who they have on first. i'm thinking they could have waited 3 years with someone inside their system or traded for a top notch prospect and that could
have saved them some serious cash. i know they're all about winning now but they are stuck with him for 8 seasons. thats a major commitment. i always
thought he benifited a lot from the ballpark in arlington and that homerun porch. he's hit 40+ once and has hovered around 30 the past couple of seasons.
so i really don't see him hitting 40+ homeruns anymore. and i'm assuming the steinbrenners are banking on 40 rather than 30. with that said the yankees
may field the best offensive and defensive infield in the history of the game next year.
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hatfieldms |
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Posts: 1951 12/24/08 01:10 AM |
state20006 wrote:The yankees would rather spend the money than trade away all of their prospects. This is the new direction cashman has taken them in the past few years, and that was proven last year when they passed on Johan. And I agree that 8 years is a long time but they are getting this guy in his prime. It is a little different than some of the bonehead moves george made earlier this decade |
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Todd4State |
You should see him take batting practice | #30 | ||
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Posts: 3410 12/24/08 09:12 AM |
he has LEGIT tape measure power. I saw him put several into the upper deck in Seattle.
And like I said, Yankee Stadium has that short RF (built for the Babe) and with the protection in the lineup that I think he will have, he's going to see that many more pitches to hit. So, even if he benefitted from that in Texas, he will likely benefit at least as much from the New Yankee Stadium. |
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hotdigitydog |
Actually it was $180M, but who's counting. It's only an extra $10M and in the grand | #31 | ||
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Posts: 1276 12/24/08 02:31 PM |
scheme of things in MLB, that's chump change these days.............
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SoxFan343 |
Short term it will help them | #32 | ||
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Posts: 167 12/24/08 05:59 PM |
Long term, its going to hamstring them a ton. They have 6 players with $800 million still committed to contracts.
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hatfieldms |
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Posts: 1952 12/25/08 08:58 AM |
SoxFan343 wrote: this contractwont hurt them at all. Tex is just entering his prime and will only be 37 when his contract is up. Much better than some of these ridiculous contracts they have given out. And the good thing is, even with these moves they are 20 million under what they were last year with another huge chunk coming off next year |
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KurtRambis4 |
i cant wait | #34 | ||
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Posts: 3104 12/25/08 09:21 AM |
to get back to ny again to see the new stadium next season. woooo. and for all these clowns saying it's a joke spending all of this money, don't act
like your favorite team wouldn't if they had ny's wallet.
+1 for ronny's archive and no capitalization
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