Yankees thread

[EgonSchiele]

I heard the Yankees are in talks for yet another major acquisition. Reports are coming in that several high profile architects have been contacted about building a death star near the newly finished Yankee Stadium.

[BuckeyeMike80]

Scorned skipper Joe Torre is blasting the Yankees - calling many of his former players prima donnas, confessing he stopped trusting the powers that be years before he left the team and charging that general manager Brian Cashman betrayed him.


In an explosive new book called "The Yankee Years," Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates after he developed a "Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.

JOE TORRE RIPS ALEX RODRIGUEZ & GEORGE STEINBRENNER IN BOOK - New York Post

[LitlBuck]

More money
AP

AP

by Ronald Blum

NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Pettitte's only thought was to stay with the New York Yankees. He had no interest in returning to his hometown Houston Astros.

Still, the 36-year-old left-hander was bothered when the Yankees wanted to cut his salary from $16 million to $10 million.

"Heck, the bottom line is I'm a man, and I guess it does take a shot at your pride a little bit," he said. "But when you put all that aside, I wanted to play for the New York Yankees and, you know, that was the bottom line. I wanted to be there. I wanted to play in that new stadium."

After months of stalled negotiations, Pettitte and the Yankees agreed Monday to a $5.5 million, one-year contract. While the guaranteed money is less than half New York's original $10 million offer, he can make an additional $6.5 million in bonuses: $4.5 million based on innings and $2 million based on days on the active roster.

[BuckNutty]

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

I'd like the record to reflect that Bucknutty is an evil, hateful person.

[starBUCKS]

Line em up...

[NY Buckeye]

Couldn't script a better comeback for Alex tonight.

CC was awesome.

Hopefully the start of a run.

[Jake]

NEW YORK (AP)?Mark Teixeira(notes) sparked the Yankees with a takeout slide at second base after being hit with pitches twice, Hideki Matsui(notes) and Jorge Posada(notes) hit three-run homers and New York beat the Texas Rangers 12-3 Tuesday night to take over best record in the American League.

Once again, the keen Yankee management has found talent where no one else could see it and pieced together a winning team. Sure, the base salaries for this season of Teixeira, Sabathia, Jeter and Rodriguez add up to more than the entire payroll of half the teams in the league, but it isn't money that is building a winner (or enabling them to keep their home grown guys). It's shrewd talent evaluation. No one else saw the hidden abilities of those guys, not to mention AJ Burnett. Only the Yankees knew, and that supreme baseball knowledge is paying dividends on the field.

Speaking of dividends, it's a damn good thing they got over $500 million from taxpayers to finance their new billion dollar stadium otherwise they'd probably be playing in an abandoned lot somewhere. I just hope they can afford to pay that $26 million luxury tax, approximately 3% of the total of four contracts (Sabathia, Teixeira, Jeter, ARod).

I think I'll do my part by looking into buying some $2600 tickets when the Royals come to town.

[starBUCKS]

Originally Posted by starBUCKS

Line em up...

Deja Vu

[jlb1705]

Vladimir Guerrero hits record HR at new Yankee Stadium - MLB - SI.com

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Yankee Stadium record for home runs in a season has been broken with eight games to spare.

Ummm... Hasn't every home run at Yankee Stadium this year broken the stadium record, seeing as how it's the first year in a new stadium? Just because it has the same name...

[Taosman]

Swish! Nick Swisher dating actress.

Joanna Garcia : Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

[Taosman]

Swish is a Man-ho!

[BuckeyeNation27]

is that Brady Quinn reaching in from the right?

[Jake]

Originally Posted by Jake

Once again, the keen Yankee management has found talent where no one else could see it and pieced together a winning team. Sure, the base salaries for this season of Teixeira, Sabathia, Jeter and Rodriguez add up to more than the entire payroll of half the teams in the league, but it isn't money that is building a winner (or enabling them to keep their home grown guys). It's shrewd talent evaluation. No one else saw the hidden abilities of those guys, not to mention AJ Burnett. Only the Yankees knew, and that supreme baseball knowledge is paying dividends on the field.

Speaking of dividends, it's a damn good thing they got over $500 million from taxpayers to finance their new billion dollar stadium otherwise they'd probably be playing in an abandoned lot somewhere. I just hope they can afford to pay that $26 million luxury tax, approximately 3% of the total of four contracts (Sabathia, Teixeira, Jeter, ARod).

I think I'll do my part by looking into buying some $2600 tickets when the Royals come to town.

If there's a god the $500 million mercenaries will [censored] down their legs in the playoffs. Better still, that meteor we keep hoping to hit the big house when scUM-ND play each other could hit the House New York Taxpayers built when the Bosox come to town for the ALCS, lest we hear about the "greatest rivalry in sports that was one-sided as hell for 90 years" ad nauseum.

[OSUsushichic]

A-Rod News From The 'You Can't Make This Stuff Up' Department... - Alex Rodriguez - Deadspin