The Yankees have some news to announce
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The Yankees have summoned the media to Manhattan tomorrow “to announce an international venture.”
Cash Money and team president Randy Levine will be there along with assistant GM Jean Afterman. Interestingly, the press conference is being held at the offices of Howard Rubenstein, the spokesman for George Steinbrenner.
I have to assume that means Big Stein will be there or be on a speakerphone.
Having been on vacation, I have no idea what this will be about. I assume they’ve made some kind of partnership with a team from Asia. Either that or they’re invading some small country.
I will be there and will post the news at some point tomorrow, probably after 5 p.m.
Update: Cashman and Levine are leading a trip to China later this month to establish some contacts. MLB believes China is the new frontier in terms of baseball interest. Chien-Ming Wang’s success gives the Yankees a little edge in terms of getting there first.
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So I guess cash is back in NY. Maybe its getting some ridiculous ace pitcher from Japan that nobody knew was available except cashman. And he pretended like he was taking some much needed R and R when he was really on a covert mission to acquire the yankees new ace. A man can dream, cant he?
Hmmmmmmm.
Maybe he is working with the United States government, helping develop baseball programs in the new educational facilities in Iraq.
If they are invading, Bruney, Britton and farnsworth should be on the front line. Those three guys are very intimidating looking.
Maybe they’re establishing a farm team in Asia. How AWESOME would that be?
It has been written…
Could this be the big trade they are talking about on the YES boards? Maybe A-Rod has been dealt and they are disguising it as an “international venture”.
Wangkee,
A-Rod is being loaned to the Yomiuri Giants? They do such things in football(aka soccer).
Or maybe Bernie.
Interesting… I wonder if it’s another deal like the one they have with the Yomiuri Giants…
Maybe Carl Pavano is getting his wish and is getting shipped to Cancun, Mexico for a box of buritos that Cashman can enjoy, along side Torre and Big Stein.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01.....ref=slogin
I guess if Brian Cashman becomes a big time rapper, he can always be “Cash Money”
Actually, Ross – I think he could slip right into a new nickname I’ve thought of recently: “GrandMaster Ca$h”
Got a nice ring to it, no? 8^ )
Wang speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese? Do they speak the mandarin language in China as well?
They signed Jack Bauer as a first baseman.
International venture? I will go with the news being a deal sending Pavano and Giambi to the Blue Jays for Halladay and V-Wells. Yeah. That.
So since it’s being held at Rubenstein’s does that mean no free lunch?
How can an international announcement have anything to do with arod?
Where are Rubenstein’s offices? Anywhere near the Corner Bistro?
I remember hearing the NBA was trying to get huge in China, too. I guess with eleventy zillion people there, any business would try to get its piggy toe in their waters.
Mandarin is a dialect of Chinese. There are about a Billion Chinese that speak it.
But wang is taiwanese, not chinese …
and if you ask anyone from China, they will tell you that Taiwan is a province of China. The speak the same language, although they have different governments. One is a democracy and the other is communist.
The Yankees are always in step with the times. Venturing into the China market is a smart move. If there’s talent to be tapped there, the Yankees will find it. Like in Japan or anywhere else in the world, people in China will be seen on film clips wearing the most recognized sports logo in the world, the interlocked NY. Eventually, little baseball brother in Boston will go there but as usual with them, it’s too little too late.
Talent eventually gets found. No matter where it is.
There are a lot of different dialects which speak in China,Honk Kong and Taiwan,but Mandarin is the offical language which we use here.
Baseball for china is still very weak now among Japan,Korea and Taiwan which three storngest baseball teams in whole Asian countries.If they want to find a talent,it still take time waiting for that,But I believe they can find one one day,not now.
I am a Taiwanese.We have long history background between China and Taiwan.Basically, you can treat us as two different countries,but we have the same history background for a long time.Anyone in china treat taiwanese are their people and Taiwan is part of their country,even though Taiwanese don’t think so.
Back to Baseball,If you ask anyone in China,they all know Chien-Ming Wang.They treat him as their hero as well.That’s why I suggest Peter can try to sell their book about Wang in China as well.During Christmas,I saw a news From China news channel about Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation.The reporter ask Jeter to say Happy Chritmas to Wang.
“Quote from Manny – A redsox Fan”
“Everyone bashed the Red Sox for spending all that money for the posting fee for Matsuzaka….Why doesn’t anyone realize that the red Sox are trying to get their foot in that door like the yankees have done already….When will people see that the sox also made a good investment with that money”
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My Initial Response to Him
“Recognizing that it is a good investment is one thing. Listening to the Red Sox organization and their fans whine about how the Evil Empire does this and that and How we poor wittle Wed Sox can’t afford to pway with the mean Yankees gets old and it is annoying.
The Yankees and Red Sox pay their players a lot of money to win games — when the Yankees do it they are ruining baseball and buying championships when the Red Sox do it it is competing with the Yankees and ok.
Try existing in and of yourself as the Boston Red Sox and not as the Anti-Yankees. The Sox made a good investment — it is like when they won the World Series and the whole organization acted like it was beer league softball. Act like you have been their before, be excited, celebrate, but be professional. The White Sox and Cardinals won the Series and Marlins and Angels and they did not act like it was Beverly Hillbillies meets Major League Baseball.
The Red Sox team has many great players and great fans that enjoy the competion and the rivalry, but the organization in general is classless —- If the Yankees are the Evil Galactic Empire from Star Wars, then the Red Sox are more like SpaceBalls (no offense to SpaceBalls intended)”
Peter:
I think Wang’s success in US didn’t help too much, remember Wang is a Taiwanese not Chinese, however, Chinese think Taiwan is part of China, when Taiwanese don’t think that..
All of the below is nothing about baseball….
Taiwan and China have a very complicated relationship.
With history, Taiwan is rule by some countries before, the Dutch, Spainish, Chinese (Ching Dynasty) and Japanese(1850s to World War II) which Ching Dynasty gave Taiwan to Japan, so there the problem began, some people say that Taiwan was return by the Janpanese to Republic of China (ROC), some say no, Taiwan’s status is undefined even some said Janpanese return Taiwan back is ridiculous, because who would you gave back to, afterall they didn’t want this land at first….
(PS: UK gave HK back to China because that was a 99 years lease in Ching Dynasty,expired in 1997, so they return HK to China, and the government is PRC)
When the KMT Govenment (ROC), was defeated by the Communist, they move to Taiwan, still use the same country name(ROC). At the same time, Miao called his new country as People’s Republic of China (PRC)..
I remember when I was studying in US at 8th grade, my social science teach want us to write of the country name of China, and I wrote “Republic of China” which at that time I think is the correct answer, but she said no, should add “People’s” in front, and that is the first time I realized that ROC is not a country that international world recognize..
To distinguish the two countries, I would like to call myself a “Taiwanese” and Taiwan is an independent country, and Chinese or PRC(China)is another independent country..
When the Chinese government say that Taiwan is one of their provinces, I feel not comfortable, especially when they say they will try all means, not to rule out the probabilities that by war to take Taiwan back as part of China….
And so when the Chinese Newspaper say that they think Wang is a hero of China, it make me feel that: uha, what are you talking about?? He’s not a Chinese at all, please don’t say that….
Again, Taiwan never rule by the PRC
Why can’t we have our country???
And have to be part of china????