Drive 4-5, the Yanks were in the World Series two years after 1979.

And SJ44: stop arguing with that German kid from youtube who fragged his computer. It ain’t worth it.

“Here’s hoping that the Steinbrenner family learned by their mistakes and DON’T fall in love with former All Stars and sell off the team’s future prospects!”

Yes, Ichiro is very comparable to Johnny Damon. Another pearl of wisdom.

The guy is never hurt, is in the prime of his career, and you deem him “overpriced”.

No, I don’t think I’ll STFU but, thanks for playing.

For those that don’t recall, in 1979 the Yanks fielded a very good team that included a 24 year old 2nd baseman ( Willie Randolph),two 33 year old outfielders named Jackson and Murcer and a 36 year old Tommy John. The ages on that team are very similar to the 2007 team.

Starting with the Cliff Johnson / Goose Gossage dustup in April and culminating with the Thurman Munson tragedy in August, everything that could have gone wrong went wrong all season.

The Yanks finished in 4th place in the AL East and it took 16 years to regain their luster. Here’s hoping that the Steinbrenner family learned by their mistakes and fall in love with former All Stars and sell off the team’s future prospects!

Do you know the extent of his injury in comparison to Winfield’s or is that not in COT’S?

You are going off reading COT’s as your foundation for this “grand plan”?

How about watching games and seeing what players are doing? That could be helpful to you.

Its wonderful and gratifying that you can read a book. But, that doesn’t make you able to fill out a roster, as we have seen with your “grand plan”.

Kevin Thompson as an everyday player? What have you seen in Kevin Thompson that nobody in baseball has seen that would make him an everyday player?

Kevin Thompson isn’t an everyday player on any team in baseball. He’s a career AAA player whom no one wants. You want him starting in LF for the New York Yankees and you say I don’t know what I am talking about?

You gotta admit, that’s pretty funny.

Now, you are a doctor and you “know” Johnson’s leg is going to heal. What if it doesn’t, which it hasn’t for the past two years? How does he fit into this grand plan, if he can’t play anymore or, can’t play effectively?

Why in the world should the Yankees acquire another guy with a bad leg? It makes no sense.

May be time to tell mommy your computer time is up for the day and give the computer back to the adults.

No one’s giving Dye 2 or more years on his 2005 or 2006.
They probably aren’t giving him that on his 2007 which will be so-so at best looking at the projections.

Got news for you: the Yanks aren’t “eating” $52M. Again learn to read:

$13M cleared getting rid of Abreu, really $7M after signing Lowell. They use that stockpile in the minors to get an MLB ready RF. They use $9M no longer paying Jaret, Javier, and RJ. They let A-Rod walk for $16M cleared and trade Igawa who believe it or not would garner interest for another $16M cleared.

$52M – 48M (16M + 16M + 9M + 7M) = $4M eaten.

My “grand little plan”. I didn’t say I wanted Dye, I said he’s the only viable OF I’d sign. Ichiro is in his waning years and would be overpriced, I don’t care how great he was/ is in Seattle. See Damon in Boston.

Nick has a shattered leg you say? O.K., he’ll be only 29 at the end of this year, legs heal, and it’s only just about June. Dave Winfield missed all of 1989 and he probably had alot more wear and tear on his body than Johnson. Worse-case scenario he joins the Yankees May 2007. D.C. takes on $7M) to unload him (we’re not paying all $11M or even half that and if they decline then o.k. they can go screw) if we give them a decent prospect, we get Nick for 2 years $4M but check this: ya trade Farnsworth’s $5.25M for next year, Johnson costs nothing. If D.C. wants to pay $5.5M (half the contract), Nick costs $5.5M – 5.25M cleared trading Farnsworth = $250K for 2 years. Even if D.C. ate just $2M, we have Nick for 2 years $9M – 5.25M = $3.75M, an average of
$1.5M/yr.

BTW where did I say eat $52M and spend more money? Learn to read cuz nowhere did I say add more money. Signing Jose Molina, Chris Woodward, and Darrin Erstad for the bench for a mil each/ $3M combined, Lowell for a year and $6M (another guy who won’t get 2 or more years even from Boston), starting Kevin Thompson in LF for $400K, and a rookie in RF is “adding salary”. Try REBUILDING FOR THE FUTURE. Lowell is merely a one-year stopgap 3B but I’d re-sign him if he had a
2008 like his 2006. Truth be told I don’t want Dye and/ or Ichiro in the OF. I don’t want Sean Casey at 1B. How can you possibly think Damon and Giambi who are done now, are viable players for 2008? We keep and play them cuz they make a boatload of money? Well so what? Nah-ah, these two have to go. Try to buy them out if possible.

I just outlined how to absorb that money, you’re too lazy to read, that’s not my problem.

You are the same guy who is advocating the Yankees eating over 50 million dollars worth of contracts (using your numerous different blog names), just cutting guys loose for nothing, and wanting Nick Johnson, whose career is in danger of ending because of his broken leg, and you want me to “know what I am talking about”?

Take your own advice. Your post clearly shows you are clueless. You didn’t even have the guts to back it up with your previous blog name. You had to add another to rip me.

Solid work on your part.

Have you even followed free agency in the last year or is your head stuck so far up your butt, you can’t see what’s happening in the game?

The entire sport is awash in cash and teams are spending it.

Don’t look at Dye’s numbers now and project what they will be at the end of the year. Look at his numbers, and his history, at the end of the year, then project how he will be paid.

He will have several 2 and 3 year offers from teams for more than 7 million dollars. He isn’t going to sign a below market deal just because he fits into your little “grand plan”.

Just as the Yankees aren’t eating over 50 million dollars in your fantasy world and getting nothing out of those deals.

I know you find that hard to believe but, anybody who needs 100 blog names to write the drivel you have been writing, then demand others “know what they are talking about” isn’t going to be taken too seriously if you want to talk baseball.

Now, come up with another blog name and post more nonsense so we can all be educated by your “baseball smarts”.

If he was so good for a multiyear deal how come the Chi-Sox didn’t extend his contract after his wonderful 2006? He’s making just his clup option $6.75M hence why I said one year and $7M.

Know who you’re talking about next time you come on here.