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I am not addressing in my post whether the Damon 4 year contract will be a good one. I was only addressing the fact that the FO got outmaneuvered by the Yankee FO and shutout of the negotiations. Four years $52 million might have been more than the sox were willing to go, but they might have considered some counter-offer if they had the opportunity to keep him from going to they Yankees. Cashman foreclosed all possibilities of a counter-offer. My post was addressing Cashman's skill vs. Theo's. The focus was not on whether Johnny D's contract was good or not. For that, only time will tell. As for back-tracking on the Pedro contract, I am not doing that at all, because the FO didn't do anything worthwhile with the savings. They threw the money away on Clement, Renteria among other cheaper duds. They should have gotten more for the $17 million/year that they saved on Pedro.

Because the Red Sox had no other representative on the All Star team?

When your team rips your heart out with the latest in their line of post season chokes,....well, hopefully the weather is good.

Jeter's lack of support for ARod spoke volumes. As the Captain, he should have lent him some support if only in the press. Some in the press felt that he was privately delighting in ARod's floundering. It was so obvious that Yankee fans on this site mentioned that on Yankee sites their were opposing camps: pro-jeter, and pro-ARod. The icon acted in a petty manner.

OPS is not the best measure for a # 2 hitter. OBP, low k ratio, pitches/AB are more important measures in front of Ortiza and Manny. We don't need Pedroia swinging for the fences.

He's outsmarted our FO on a number of occasions. The most prominent example was the Johnny Damon fiasco. The Red Sox thought they would have a right of first refusal if Damon got any other offers, but Cashman put Damon and his agent in a corner by giving them a take it or leave it proposal and they effectively shut the Red Sox out of any possibility of a counter-offer. They also shut out the Red Sox from making a counter offer on Abreu and they landed themselves a #3 hitter at the trading deadline. We need a RF going into next year, and Abreu would have fit the bill quite nicely. He is a good fielder, base runner and hitter that would have filled our need for a #5 hitter. The FO put out that cover story that in order to pay Abreu his $17 million it would have cost $27 million to cover for the fact that Cashman had outmaneuvered them again. We need a #5 hitter. What do we think Soriano, Lee or Sheffield will cost? They will not be much cheaper than $17 million a year and they will want a 4 year commitment. Abreu would have been a one year deal. Also, he is a much more patient hitter than the others as well as a better fielder and base runner. Look at the young players that have become stars Wang and Cano. I don't think these guys went through the draft process. Cashman deserves full credit for bringing them in. When the Yankees need to fill a hole, he finds a way to fill it, and it doesn't always cost a load of $. Brian Bruney, Tanyon Sturtze, Aaron Small, Shawn Chacon and yes even Al Leiter were inexpensive acquisitions that made great contributions to the Yankees over the last few years. What has our FO done? Wade Miller, Jason Johnson and...?

The Choking Yankees, who have made a habit of gagging in the post season.

It's working now.

The Tiger series makes the Yankee-haters Bliss list at #9. We all know what #1 is. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=list/yankeehaters/061008 BTW: Where are all the Yankee fans today. Please come out to play Optimist, 26 to 6, 26 Reasons to Hate Us, and Papelboner

Manny wants out and we would get younger with ARod and it is as close to replacing Manny's bat as you can get, but it ain't ever going to happen.

...or maybe Steinbrenner fires Cashman and Luchino hires him. I would n't mind seeing that. I am not advocating firing Theo, but Cashman is the PH.D. Professor and Theo is an undergraduate. If he were to become available and the Sox were to grab him, I would not be unhappy.

The Boss weighs in calling the Yankees loss a "sad failure." http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6041500

I am having issues with it. Only the "new post" button works. I can't navigate around the site.

Matsui in right? His arm is only slightly stronger than Damon's. Teams would go first to third like crazy.

I haven't seen this rumor coming from any reputable media outlet.

If you get rid of Sheff and Abreu, you only have two OF's. Who would you plan on being your RF?

Torre had a great run run in NY. It was time to change the face in the dugout. This Yankee team didn't need a calming influence in the dugout like the self-motivated teams that won championships. This team needed a kick in the ass, a jump start. Torre can't do that. Frankly, it was time for him to go last year. He didn't want to work for George anymore and George wanted him gone, but there was too much money left on his contract for either one to make a move.

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The Mets sweep LA with a 9 to 5 victory.