The Yankees took out two ads thanking Mike Mussina for his time with the team today, both full page. One was in the Daily News and the other in the New York Times. I bought them just for the ads, because that’s what fans do. Newspaper is really hard to scan in or take decent [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2008
Oh God It's December 2003 Again
Pettitte, 36, has spoken more than once with his former manager, Joe Torre, about joining the Dodgers, according to major-league sources. … His first choice is to stay with the Yankees. The Yankees say they want him back. But at the moment, the Yankees are focused on the top free-agent starting pitchers — CC Sabathia, [...]
2008 Veterans Committee Ballot
It’s just about a week until the Veterans Committee selections are announced for 2009 induction. Here’s the ballot going in (which was put together back in September or maybe even a little earlier). Bolded are people who should probably have been put in the Hall a long while ago in my extremely humble opinion. Post [...]
John Harper Is An Idiot (Wherein I Rant About Wins)
I don’t really like calling attention to dumb things that are written by sports writers because there are just so many of them and usually it’s just a mild annoyance. But every once in a while something so stupid is published that my mind is really blown and I can’t let it pass by. I [...]
Pro Mike Mussina Hall of Fame Argument Round-Up
It’s officially five years away but there’s already some talk about whether Moose is a Hall of Fame caliber pitcher or not. I happen to believe that he is. One thing that I hate is when people try pluck a random once in a lifetime talent out of the air and say “Well, he’s not [...]
Things Being Made Official
First sadly Moose has officially retired. No more fun quotes in interviews but I hope he does at least part time commentary for YES or somewhere I can hear him. Secondly Hal is officially in charge of the team now. No surprise that Hank isn’t the “official” owner given that he can’t even be bothered [...]
This Is Insanity (The Bad Kind)
George King, noted crazy man and reporter for the New York Post, published his on one of his off season roundups: The Yankees New York Yankees , for the second time inside a week, are on the verge of making an eye-popping offer to a free-agent pitcher and behaving like the days when The Boss [...]
Top 50 FAs
Handy link to Keith Law’s top 50 free agents. Texiera is #1, CC is #2, AJ Burnett is #4. I still don’t want him–I’m so tired of glassboned pitchers. I completely understand he is an extremely talented guy but he’d take too many years unless his market dries up very quickly, which it will not.
