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alright celt bot? jeter not a goer then:D you keeping up to date with celtic fc? referee's SFA caught cheating

worth it to get one over the yankees

i'd be in favour of this: http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2010/11/30/why_not_short_stop_with_red_sox_for_yankees_icon_derek_jeter/?page=1 What if the Red Sox decided to make Derek Jeter a contract offer? Abraham framed his piece in sheer speculation. He was just having a little fun. He wanted to know if Sox fans would tolerate such a notion. In the fortnight since Pete’s preposterous proposal, things have gotten ugly between the Yankees and their captain. Jeter’s agent, Casey Close, said Jeter is the Yankees’ modern-day Babe Ruth, and general manager Brian Cashman dared Jeter to go find another bidder. ESPN New York is reporting that the Yankees have told Jeter and Close to “drink the reality potion.’’ Last week the New York Post ran a Photoshopped back cover featuring Jeter in a Red Sox uniform next to a headline that read, “Picture this.’’ Dissing Jeter is not a winning strategy, but the Yankees can get away with it because they know that no team is going to make a serious offer for the iconic shortstop. Which brings us back to John Henry. Suppose the Red Sox step up and shock the world? There is simply no downside to making Jeter a massive offer. In the worst-case scenario he calls your bluff and you get the Yankees captain. I don’t care if Jeter is way past his prime or if the Sox would have to wildly overpay a player of his diminished skills. I say offer him the world. Forget about Jayson Werth. Blow Jeter away with dollars and years. At worst this would just mean the Sox would jack up the final price the Yankees must pay. It could be sort of like Mark Teixeira-in-reverse. And if Jeter actually signed with Boston, the damage to the Yankees’ psyche would be inestimable. Jeter finishing his career in a Red Sox uniform would be the 2004 American League Championship Series all over again for the hated New Yorkers. Think of how you’d have felt if the Knicks had signed Larry Bird at the end of his career. The Jeter saga is back-page stuff in the Daily News and the Post just about every day. Jeter wants to be paid like Alex Rodriguez. The Steinbrenners have drawn a line in the Tampa sand. And Gotham is split. Jeter is 36 and has made more than $205 million during his 15-year Yankees career. He is coming off his worst season, in which he hit .270 and tied for the major league lead in outs made. His on base percentage was .340 and he slugged .370, both career lows. Cashman has admitted the club has concerns with Jeter’s performance and his age. Jeter just completed a 10-year, $189-million deal.Continued... Hal Steinbrenner went on the radio and said that the talks could get “messy.’’ He was right. The Yankees have offered Jeter $45 million over three years. At that rate, Jeter would be making more than $3 million per year more than any big league shortstop. The Daily News reported that Jeter’s initial request was for six years and $150 million. Close said the report was untrue. Now the Daily News and the Times are reporting that Jeter wants 4-5 years in the $23-million to $24-million per range. Rodriguez is going into the fourth year of a 10-year, $275-million deal and Jeter wants to remind everybody that he’s the stand-up captain who never choked and never cheated. Jeter can’t possibly spend all this dough, but athletes equate money with respect (remember Pedro Martinez?) and Jeter wants to feel some love at the end of his Hall of Fame career. Any way you cut the figures, there’s a big gap here. The team is offering $15 million per year while the player wants at least $23 million per year. And more years. This is where the Red Sox step in. What’s the harm in offering Jeter $20 million a year over three years? If you can pay J.D. Drew $14 million per year . . . if you can pay a Japanese team $50 million just for the right to speak with Daisuke Matsuzaka . . . if you can buy a futbol club for $476 million, why not spend $60 million to bust pinstripe chops for all the ages? Jeter is closing in on 3,000 hits. Imagine if he gets his 3,000th hit as a Red Sox . . . at Fenway . . . against Mariano Rivera? Since we are pretty certain Adrian Beltre is gone, the Red Sox have a big hole at third base. Jeter could play third. Or you could trade Marco Scutaro and put Jeter at short. This certainly would make the Sox less boring. In an era in which NESN ratings are routinely beaten by reruns of “Everybody Loves Raymond,’’ Derek Jeter could make the network more interesting. Stir it up, Sox. Take a chance. Make Derek Jeter an offer he can’t refuse.

tough crowd i went with @GlobeSox i'll keep you in the loop when i get tweets;)

may as well be got this twitter thing on my phone and get alerts so was hoping to follow some one for red sox news EDIT- shall i just log in here for red sox news

cheers anyway, was hoping maybe a prominent journalist mabye did twitter updates

anyone use this? red sox people worth following?, particularly for fast breaking news

Usually take a look at the blogs on SB nation over the monster

My beloved club is the world famous celtic football club As this is an american forum I called it soccer as if you mention football to an american they will think you are talking about gridiron

Edit- fair play to city fans who stood tall when chips were down, but they spend more on wages now than their total income, its madness Yeah 6-0, I think a 50 year old king kenny came on for a cameo and scored About ?10 for ticket and ?10 for bus, unforgettable experience Football is unaffordable these days to average guy in the street, if I were to take my 2 kids to bramall lane or hills'boro be looking at about ?70 for the matchday, I can do better things for ?70 notes, with so much tv money it should be no more than ?10/?5 for adults and kids to go to the football Sorry to rant on, I may be getting too old also

Cc has throw into a few jam's in ALCS but to be fair to him has got out of them Luck? Good pitching? I'd go for the latter One game sticks out where he gave up 3 runs in opening inning, he got out of bases loaded to keep the score at 3-0, could have been a lot worse, a little luck involved too maybe Best comeback ever? I can think of a better one that involved the yankees, where their supporters showed their class in game 6, raining bottles and missiles on to the pitch

Absolutely agree last point, just who arsenal/Chelsea? 2 of richest clubs in the world and not a big cup between them, don't get me started on city I've been in that anfield road end, went down from glasgow for a friendly, about 14/15 years old, missed a maths exam to go:D , we lost 6-0 but 12,000 of us sang our hearts out- after the game I ran on to pitch just in the goal mouth and picked up some grass, soon lost it tho

Com on texas Finish em in 6

i think we will see celtic vs liverpool at fenway next preseason a cert celtic to win;)

just celtic and most are in debt, the "bigger" the club the bigger the debt unsustainable

don't kid your self mate all english clubs are in huge debt (celtic fc have none) and liverpool could have gone down the tubes only last week, the EPL bubble will burst no other club including liverpool could enjoy these scenes in the states http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae134/sheffieldcelt/utf-8BY2VsdGljLmpwZw.jpg

celtic history in european cup, 1 win, another final and coutless semi's and 1/4 finals instead of sky buying the rights to show matches, if every club could sell individual right to televise their games, celtic would be one of top clubs in europe, as pointed out before could any other british club sell out fenway?

poll to follow freak to put giants in world series?

celtic are worldwide draw, massive club but held back by the country they play in, last years champs lge was a one off, after that top7 there is nothing of interest in europe, agree about german football, very well run lge bolton stoke fulham everton:D birmingham etc are bringing in more money then the likes of celtic rangers ajax psv porto dortmund, its not right and will be the death of european football

aye suppose he will, he's been in and out for them, i think that boy will go on to be very good starter

Be good to bring in a superstar pitcher, c.lee for instance but too much money tied up in starters, I think john lackey was a mistake last pre season, think because he was no.1 free agent boston dived in too quick to tie him up Realistically-improve bull pen (d.holland of texas would be excellent player to bring in but don't think they will trade), crawford or werth will come in-hopefully werth and hold on to big papi

After the success of celtic fc's visit to fenway and the sudden interest in liverpool fc due to NESV's buy out I think we'll see celtic vs liverpool at fenway next pre season, it's gotta happen

Sheffield Wednesday used to have 40,000 turn up regular, now they are in 3rd teir or english game and struggling to stay in business due to large debt incurred chasing the premier lge dream Very sad for the fans of that team

European football on its knees because of over inflated value of premier lge, in years gone by there would maybe be ten had potential to become champs of england now only 2 or 3 Outside english top 5 and spanish top 2 there is nothing else, everything is geared towards them 7 clubs and nothing else counts Celtic fc one of biggest clubs in the world, we sold out for a match at fenway pre season, 30,000 celtic fans turn up to sing sweet caroline but because we play in scottish lge we can never win another european cup Blackpool fc will have more income than celtic fc this year Its wrong