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Wow there's really been a lot of bitching around here the past few days about the Yankees making trades. How come every other team can go out and bolster their roster except the Yankees? Everyone gets in an uproar anytime the Yankees do something. Those of you taking exception to the Yankees making trades need to quit your bitching, seriously.

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Good points. I hadn't even thought about it in terms of making free agents expendable and the draft picks involved.

This reconfigured package sucks! I don't mind moving Karstens, but I like McCutchen. It's a shame. I as thrilled ith that first package. Oh well though, still a good addittion for the Yanks, and of course you have to give up talent to get it in return. The Pirates made out much better than they originally would have.

Tonight is gonna be a really good game.

Papelbon deserved every bit of the verbal assault he got at Yankee Stadium that night. I was at the game and was screaming Mo's at him. But that's based solely on the comments I read in the paper that morning. He should have just kept his f***ing mouth shut and been happy to be at the All Star game. Dude is in his what, 3rd season? Somebody should tell him to sit back, shut up, and pay his dues. For the record, he and Youk were the only Red Sox I booed that night. I had no reaction to Drew's HR and I actually cheered Pedroia, the only Red Sox player I really like. It's funny to see how much you guys are bitching about the response the Sox players got at the game. Think about what it would have been like had the ASG been at Fenway, and a Yankee manager was managing, and there were 6 Yankees on the team. It ould have made what happened at the Stadium that night look like golf-clapping (Except for the Papelbon piece, of course. "Mar-i-ano!")

You have got to be kidding me.

I was at the Stadium for all the All-Star festivities Sunday-Tuesday. All I can say is wow. What an incredible 3 days.

I as at the futures game today and he looked damn good. He could absolutely have a productive career in the future.

He was progressing pretty well a few months ago too, then it just hit a whirlwind I guess. I remember he as making a lot of public appearances, wrote a book, even did a very small handful of games with YES this season (1 or 2 tops if memory serves correctly). It's such a shame. Interested to see what kind of tribute we might see with the All Star festivities at Yankee Stadium.

Well after battling cancer and going through treatment for some time now Bobby Murcer has passed away today. I just walked past my TV which had on Yankees Postgame and I saw a Breaking News brief and am very saddened to hear the news, so much so there were actual tear-drops rolling down my face during the YES tribute. Bobby was a great player, person, and Yankee. His love for pinstripes and the Yankees really shined through in everything that he did. You could feel the passion in his broadcasts and in other work he did. He will be truly missed. The world just lost a great man and a great Yankee. RIP Bobby

Hey why not. I'm still waiting on David Wells haha There's nothing wrong with taking a chance on a low risk-high reward guy. It's not often, but sometimes you can manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

He's just some insurance. He's at least six weeks away from beginning a Minor League rehab, and what exactly do the Yankees have to lose?

You're over-analyzing my dude

This time a Cape Cod man beat a man with a baseball bat before proceeding to start hitting the car in which the man's kids were sitting. Simply because the dude's plates were from New York and he assumed he was a Yankee fan. Ridiculous. http://www.northjersey.com/sports/yankees/YanksSix_rivalry_spawns_punks.html

There's a practical theory.

It's Kay, Leiter, and Kenny Singleton (NY native, former Met, Oriole, and Expo. Been doing Yanke games for 12 years now). HGe wasn't referring to Waldman doing the game, what had happened was that they were mentioning how today is not only Steinbrenner's birthday, but also John Sterling's. So they did a shot of the radio booth with Sterling and Waldman in it as Sterling was being presented a birthday cake by somebody. She is damnn ugly. You can't get the NESN feed? I know this year for me, DirecTV offers both feeds of a game (if available) as opposed to just the home team's broadcast as in years past.

Cool dude.

Bil. get your head on straight. First,the Manny incident and the Nelson/Garcia incidents are very different. No, I never said he should have left his work station and lost his job, if that even was his work station. I said he should keep his mouth shut or go somewhere else to cheer. The job description for groundskeepers does not include cheering and antagonizing opposing players. See above. Where did I ever say he should quit his job? The McCormick and Williams scenarios are very different. One involves a part-time club employee acting unprofessionally by being antagonistic and loudly cheering for the home team in the visitors bulpen. I'm not saying that because it's the Yankee bullpen cheering for the Sox shouldn't be allowed, but if he wants to cheer he should have bought a ticket. The other involves an important member of the organization not being able to fulfill a hefty, last-minute request by a spoiled player, who plays for the SAME TEAM that employs him, who eventually shoved him to the ground. And he thinks he can get away with just a simple apology. Sorry doesnt, and shouldnt fix everything. And this is one of those instances where sorry shouldn't be enough. As for your Canadian news excerpt..gee. How reliable. Considering Canada and neither of it's two MLB teams at the time had anything to do with this series, you should have probably found something from a news outlet here in the states. Preferably New York or New England related.

I said they wouldnt put up with PHYSICALLY HARMING A CLUB EMPLOYEE. That's what I was referring to. If anything that helps my point. That would be more tolerated in a lower-lever Minor League, as opposed to the Majors.

Kilo, you're ridiculous. Idc who he is, its unprofessional for a groundskeeper to be openly cheering during a game, especially in the visitor's bullpen. I worked in the NY-Penn League last year, Short Season A ball - do you think our groundskeepers were hanging out in bullpens, heckling players, cheering and s***? No. hy not? Because it's unprofessional. He's a groundskeeper, not a cheerleader. And when did I "cheer" Nelson for what he did? I'm not portraying this "holier than thou" image, I'm saying it's ridiculous that the Red SOx bend the rules for this guy, and allow it to slide with a simple apology. As for Garcia, what do you mean "that doesn't excuse the action?" Are you stupid. Are the Royals players who went after that father/son duo in Chicago who attacked Mike Gamboa back in 2003 wrong for getting involved? They saw one of their coaches get attacked by people not in uniform. Garcia saw the same thing and ran to his teammates defense. Obviously the two incidents are different, but in a quick spur of the moment situation would you prefer Garcia sit in right field with his thumb up his ass like "gee, should I go help." It wasn't a fan, as we know now, but what way of knowing that did Garcia, or anyone else, have at the time?

Like I said, who knows what the dude said to him. Is what Nelson did right? No. Did he have to go to court for his actions? Yes. Rather judgemental of you. Either way, when a team's employee is being so unprofessional as to cheer for the home team in the visitor's bullpen, it's blatant disrespect. I just looked at some articles, and from what I've gathered Nelson asked Williams to leave the bullpen if he was gonna be cheering, but he refused. What happened from there, idk. But it's not fair to blame that whole situation on Nelson. Williamscould have been saying ANYTHING. He should have kept his mouth shut, or gone somewhere else and cheered. I dont even know why he was in the bullpen. But as for Garcia, if it was a spur of the moment reaction and he saw his teammate in an altercation perhaps he didnt stop to observe the reactions of the other 24 players on the team. He may have rushed his judgement, but I doubt his thinking was "og look, Nelly's beatign some dude up, let me go jump in and help him." That's ridiculous. The only other explanation would be that he was coming to Nelson's defense. I wouldn't besurprised if they did NOTHING. And as for the apology, of course it was going to be accepted. It was Manny Ramirez, future HOFer making the apology. Regardless of his true feelings, you dont think the SOx told him tpo just accept the apology and let it blow over. If it was a Julio Lugo, Manny Delcarmen, or an Alex Cora you think it would have just boiled over this way? Lets get real here. Shawn Chacon lost his job for a very similar action, and all Manny has to do is apologize. And look at WHY he shoved McCormick. What a stupid reason. Because the Multi-millionaire superstar couldnt get enough free tickets? It's not McCormick's fault. Sometimes the home team just doesnt HAVE them.

Crespo, check your PMs

I was talking about Ponson, and if what happened in Texas happened here. Seems liek you guys thought I was referring to Manny. 700, who "honored" Jeffrey Maier? I don't recall. All of that happened before was even on the team. I'm not trying to argue about which is the "classier organization" or anything. I'm talking about current players and how their behavior is handled. Not the personal history of players who've played for a particular team over the course of time. If A-Rod physically harms a Yankee employee, apology or not, I have a hard time thinking that Girardi, Cash, or ownership would go without reprimanding him. Players under contract and in uniform have professional standards that they have to live up to. Superstars not named Manny Ramirez, namely Shawn Chacon and Sidney Ponson, have lost their jobs for intolerable behaviors recently this season. Because Manny is Manny he just gets a slap on the wrist. Not even. And one thing I want to point out about Nelson and Garcia; Nelson was being heckled by that groundskeeper. Are you that naive to think that he just went after him for no reason? Who knows what dude wa saying to him. But as a team/park employee he should have known better, and been punished as well. He has no reason interfering with the players and being an *******. And as for Garcia, he saw his teammate in a scuffle with a person not in uniform and went ran to defend him. What exactly did he do wrong? For all he knewthe groundskeeper jumped Nelson, or perhaps he thought it was a crazy fan or something at first. And to say they weren't punished isn't fair, because they had to face the legal ramifications of their actions. I'm not condoning what they did, but I'm saying that if you're going to use that as an example then at least look at the whole picture.

Well Varitek's a bitch. Plain and simple. And Pedro's crazy. That explains those two incidents.