Lester82

Not sure i saw the episode you're referring to, i'll admit. But, they just had the episode the other night on where he drives his former/almost in-laws all the way out to the end of Long Island ...as part of an attempt to pretend he was taking them to his "home" in the Hamptons. His almost in-laws hated him and knew he had no home in the Hamptons and just wanted to watch him sweat. hahaha

:thumbsup: I was a kid in the 90's and started watching Seinfeld in re-runs... Constanza's the man.

hey - this guy has " sources " that say Youk is on the trading block. Another reason why I hate Bleacher Report... http://bleacherreport.com/articles/368060-mlb-trade-rumors-kevin-youkilis-apparently-on-the-block

You beat me to it... I was thinking of making fun of Arod's lack of masculinity and urge to date women more manly than him

NEXT UP: Bernie Madoff investment tips for the common man

Jacko talks about objectivity... NEXT UP: John Edwards talks about keeping faithful to your wife http://nonviolentmigration.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/john-edwards.jpg

I just had to re-quote that part of Jacko's rant to Dipre, 'cause I can't stop laughing. I mean Buchholz is unpredictable... as opposed to Joba? hahaha And Dice K wasn't really frequently injured for 2 years, but I'd have to acknowledge his recent injury problems like you'd have to acknowledge the potential for dropoff in Andy Dandy.

And I think Joba is important because I'm expecting a sizable dropoff from oldman Pettitte in 2010. Sorry, last year will take a toll on him. Vazquez and/or Joba will be key for the Yanks this year.

You also have the caveat that Joba still has proven nothing as a starter. They were talking on WFAN in NYC yesterday about how much the Yankees have screwed up that kid's transition to starting pitcher.

....*Shocker* that Jacko went giddy about Tom Verducci's "spot-on!" favoring of the Yankees starting rotation. Btw, Tom Verducci picks the Yankees seemingly every year in the AL East. I like him, but the SI baseball issue that he helps do each year, rarely picks anyone but the Yankees to finish first in the AL East. Not that it's unusual to see a team with the Yankees talent + resources finish 1st. But, I was most puzzled when Verducci was picking the Yankees to finish ahead of Boston in 2007. I just didn't see going into 2007 how the Yankees had a better club than Boston's. Verducci then said the Red Sox would have trouble repeating the next season, so he was predicting the Yankees would finish ahead of them in '08. He basically said it was the Year-After Effect for W.S.-winning teams and that Boston would have trouble. So he picked NYY over Boston in '08. I notice he isn't talking about the 'year-after effect' for the 2010 Yankees and all the innings that oldman Pettitte had to log, and even younger guys like CC. It's just tough for pitching staffs coming off long runs in the playoffs + the number of starts that Pettitte, CC, and Burnett made on short rest towards the end.

He also said the Rays look like the best team training here in Florida of the Sox, Yanks etc.

On another topic, the starting staffs of Boston, NYY.... interesting what Verducci said on WEEI in Boston. I don't agree with him, but he favors the Yankees staff http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2010/03/19/tom-verducci-on-dc-yanks-have-rotation-edge-on-sox/

Jose Iglesias, we love you. Even kids growing up in Cuba know the Red Sox have no shortstop to block you! It finally works to our advantage.

Smile reading this... sweet!

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/03/hechevarria-close-to-signing-with-blue-jays.html It's the Blue Jays from the latest report

1.2 M for Chan Ho Waste. Not good. Signing. But hey, I love it as a Sox fan. Thank you, Cashman...

Exactly! http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=4935400

Just heard on radio NYY signed Chan to 1.2m deal, i'll have to check out that story.

Wow. You know you're a Yankee homer when you started this thread and talk about the positives of a Chan Ho signing. I giggled when I heard the Yankees were interested in ol' Chan Ho.

ARod will be excited and want him to wear a blond wig and change his name to Madonna. Sorry, cheap shot.

Things "weren't PC then"... Well, sure. That's also code for they were racist. Old boys network. Sorry, this is going back in time, but whatever Joe DiMaggio was nicknamed wasn't quite on par with the Yankees saying "you gotta be the right kind of n-gger to play for the Yankees." It was a statement that was a mix of both the arrogance then of the perennial winner Yankees, coupled with their racism. Then there was Tom Yawkey, who might as well have worn a Klan robe at times. Thankfully we're past those days. Dan Duquette was actually quite great at looking to players of all corners of the globe. And there were others before or after him that were progressive. (Which is what Ken Rosenthal missed when he was talking modern Sox.)

I even wonder why the Red Sox always seem to have to stand alone in the stain of racism among baseball teams, even if they don't truely stand alone. (But they have to deal with that when they were the last team in the majors to intergrate...) ESPN Classic once had a tremendous piece on the life of Jackie Robinson. They read letters that Jackie Robinson had written, in the letters Jackie Robinson specifically mentions the Red Sox. He says although there happened to be racism in the Red Sox organization, the Red Sox were far from the only team with tolerance issues. Robinson mentioned racism in the Yankee organization. The Yankees were one of the last clubs to add a black player to their team, Elston Howard. This ESPN piece explained part of the backwards reasoning on the Yankees' part for why they chose a catcher to be their 1st black player. Because he would be behind a catcher's mask (well part of the time). They could sell it better to their white NYC investors on Wall Street. The Yankees even privately said a black ballplayer had to be the "right kind of n-gger to play for the Yankees." The more racially progressive teams in baseball were in the National League. The Cardinals with black and Latino players on their teams years before other clubs, and of course the Dodgers having Jackie Robinson as the first black player and the Giants were also progressive.