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So you are basic history that is 29 years old as a premise as to what will happen this year. Exactly who was playing in 1978 that will have an impact today? Can the Yankees rebound? Of course they can. Will they? Highly unlikely.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2007/04/29/2007-04-29_strapped_by_cashman.html 11th paragraph.

I'm a realist. This team has done nothing to show me so far that they will win the East again. Without Arod, the Yankees would be in dead last in the AL East. Mariano is old, the pitching staff is bigger on names than on talent. Sadly, the best pitcher this season for the yankees starting rotation has been Matt Desalvo. If you asked me who he was two weeks ago, I would have had no idea. What makes me think that this team won't do anything is the lack of power on this squad [outside of the horrendous pitching]. Take away Arod, and the team has 21 homers in 36 games. Torre is the wrong manager for this team, Cashman has had the worst beginning for a GM in New York in ten years. Okajima wanted to come to New York, so he gets Vizcaino. Lilly was dying to come to New York, so he gets Igawa. He has spent 25 million in posting fees for a f***ING MINOR LEAGUE pitcher. How this guy has a job is beyond me. I miss the days of the old Steinbrenner. He would have been gone by now. The truth is, there isn't much to go on with this team. The Sox have too much of a lead for this team to rally, and the disparity in talent, either way, is not big enough. If the Yankees had an 8 game lead, I would say they were finished too. LETS GO METS! LOL!

Eight games out, should have won today, and the Sox, after today's win, seem like a team of destiny. RIP 2007 Yankees. Bye Cashman and Torre. Good riddance.

Typo. My bad.

Ali should be first mainly for what he did in the ring and out. Even though he lost the championship, the guy won it five times. Talk about resilient. Marciano and Sugar Ray should be #2 and #3, in no respective order. Either or.

Cool...I'm gonna watch it today. Like Beckett versus Guthrie isn't? Although we should both win, my guess is that one of us will lose. Baseball is a funny game.

I know. I just watched Brig, episode 19. You know, Tivo has to be the single greatest invention in TV since they switched over to color.

Ali should be first. Period.

Finally...a little bit of fun here. You Sox fans can't handle posterity. You are so much more fun to read when you are in second/third place.

So we don't lose ground again. Fair enough. Need to catch up on Lost, and body simply doesn't recover like it used to after hard partying. We need to Sox to lose a few to make up some of this ground.

My team sucks! YAY! Actually, we really do suck. It aint gonna be easy to catch the Sox.

I forgot about Cone...and Clemens was just a spare part. LOL! It's been so long since we won, I can't even remember. Fair enough, point taken.

This is stupid. Who exactly was their strikeout pitcher in 1996? 1998? 1999? Stop talking out of your ass.

We will see.

Like what happened to the Yankees in April of this season? No team in baseball is 110 win team right now.

As for regular playing time, he had 412 [2000], 303 [2001], and 415 [2002] at bats in the three season prior, and he was on the 60 day DL in 2001 for a wrist injury. Seems like he had ample playing time to me.

Funniest post I've ever read here.

I agree with you too. God this pains me to say it. Who was it in Philadelphia that said that Schilling was a horse once every five days, and a horse's ass the other four? I've never heard a better quote about a player. What the Sox should do is give Schilling the same perks the Yankees gave Clemens. Except for him, it should be mandatory that on the days he doesn't pitch, he isn't allowed around the team.

Not fair, Rician. Your cap is where your payroll is. The real cap should be the average, which is somewhere around 70 million [i'm guessing]. Imagine all the players you would have to cut. Picking a cap where your payroll is currently at is cheating. That's like me saying the cap is 230 million. Come on, you're better than that.

I think the losing pitcher should commit ritual seppuku and disembowel himself. I can guarantee you I would watch this game over going to the game tonight.

I can't believe you guys. This is as much an admission as you are going to get without a blood test. DAVID ORTIZ HAS TAKEN STEROIDS. We're not talking as 16 year old kids in the DR trying to make it. I'm talking about his major league career, with 99.9% certainty while in Boston. You think if he came out and said he took them when he was 16 years old in the DR thinking that they were Flintstone vitamins, anyone would care? You guys are unreal. So we basically both have steroid popping DH's. I'm just annoyed yours had better drugs than ours. I'm not playing holier than thou, two of my team's top three hitters with juiced up in Sheff and Giambi. Read between the lines. Payroll, I can live with the disparity. However, steroids are a pet peeve of mine. You are caught doing it, automatic one year suspension. Caught again, banned for life. If you make the punishment severe enough, you'll stop all but the most desperate and dependent users.