Clemens (again) denies PED use
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A few minor notes from around Yankeeland:
60 Minutes has taped its interview with Roger Clemens. He again denied using PEDs. Don’t hold your breath if you’re expecting much beyond that.
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CNN has an interview with Hideki Matsui. No great revelations here but interesting nonetheless.
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Hammerin’ Hank told the Daily News that the Yankees are still interested in Johan Santana. Well, at least he is. It’s the same stuff that was said at the end of the Winter Meetings.
Whether the Twins are interested in their offer is another story. I think Brian Cashman and money man Hal Steinbrenner would throw themselves in front of the bus to keep this from happening.
Hank also said he wasn’t interested in bringing back Clemens. You think?
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Peter Abraham
Santana will be introduced at Yankee Stadium before Jan. 25th. Bank on it!
If Hughes is on the table (I pray he’s not), that’s the offer they’ll take.
I don’t want to lose Hughes, but I want Santana. Boy aren’t you glad I’m NOT the GM?
Wow, that CNN interview is a joke. Couldn’t they get an interviewer who knew SOMETHING about baseball? “Which pitchers SCARE you?” “Which pitch do you know if you see you’ll get a hit?” Matsui kindly says he’s a fastball hitter, but you knew he wanted to say “If someone throws a fastball right down the middle, I’ll probably get a hit, you stupid cracka.”
I was half expecting her to ask “How excited were you when you kicked your first field goal?”
While there were some suggestions that the Yanks had pulled their deal off the table and were backing off, indications I received from the Twins were that the Yanks remained clearly in the picture. This story backs that up. It always helps when Hank Steinbrenner speaks up:
“I think the Twins realize our offer is the best one,” Steinbrenner said Wednesday in a telephone interview with the New York Daily News. “I feel confident they’re not going to trade him before checking with us one last time and I think they think we’ve already made the best offer.”
Steinbrenner said the offer “does not include two of the three young pitchers” – Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy, from a group that also includes untouchable Joba Chamberlain – “but it’s still the best one. And let’s face it, we’re the best able to handle the kind of contract (extension) Santana will be after.”
here is what i dont like.. when hank says ” I think they will check in with us one last time, because i think, they think we’ve already made our best offer..
hmmm.. well thanks hank.. way to tell minnesota that you HAVE NOT made your best offer.
IMHO.. i think, that hank thinks, that the fans think. that hank knows what he is doing.
meanwhile. i think, and most Yankee fans probably think, and im sure minnesota fans, and their GM think, that Hank is a complete idiot for continuing to talk!
Did they ask what pitch do you know you have no chance at hitting?
BTW, while I play devil’s advocate against the claims that Clemens used PEDs, I am not so naive as to not realize that they’re probably true.
What’s disappointing is that we didn’t need a “sunshine” report to basically confirm what was already known. So what was really accomplished is that 2 beloved Yankees (we all loved Roger at some point) were knocked off their pedestal.
Baseball needed to move on and the report basically only brought joy to one city and one demographic (media). Even if it comes out later that some of the other greats from other teams used steroids, it would bring me no joy.
if the yanks plan on holding on to hughes and still making a trade for johan,
what do you guys think the trade would be?
kennedy/cano/melky?
KEEP HUGHES!!!...Thats all I care about…
Please Hank,
Knowing we’re basically the only ones who would be able to broker a blockbuster extension, I would offer up Kennedy (who is a very good pitcher), Tabata, and 2 RHP prospects. Kennedy is very good, but Hughes will be very, very good. Even that’s a little rich for my blood, but it’s gotta hurt to work, right?
They take the offer with Hughes because they need a future star and Lester is not a star.
kennedy/cano/melky?
I doubt Cano and Kennedy would be in the same deal. My guess would be Kennedy,Horne,Melky. Or Cano,Marquez. I know they have stated Cano is untouchable but it seems like this is another Johnson deal. Where getting him is a must in thier minds.
dont get me wrong, its obvious that hughes is the best pitcher the twins can get for johan..
which is why i think they should accept our deal.. if your trading a 2 time cy young winner, you need to get a blue chip pitcher in return.. and hughes is the only blue chip pitcher being offered..
wow.. im so sick of talking about johan santana.. haha
“I doubt Cano and Kennedy would be in the same deal”
agreed. it’s too much.
S.O.S, agreed. It’ll either be IPK and Horne instead of Hughes, or a Cano/plus deal, where the Yankees can keep the Trinity together.
I was hoping Hideki might say something in English. Oh, well. And I agree that the way some of the questions were phrased made me cringe. I “love it” when someone is asked, for instance, “how did you feel after hitting your first major league homerun?” One day, just once, I wish a player would say something like, “it was no big deal for me, I expected to do it sometime.”
But thanks for the link, Pete, I love stuff like that. It’s a nice diversion from Roger, Johan, et al.
Also, Cano is only a couple years away from free agency and is already starting his arbitration years and is expected to hit the $4 or $5 mil mark per year. Not that the Twins can’t afford it, but if Cano stays on pace, he’ll be a $10-12 mil/per in a few years and the Twins would be going through another Hunter fiasco again. I don’t think the Twins want that and I’ve also heard that they’re looking for players with less than two years ML service time.