Wrapping it up from the Bellagio
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I’m here to report that Brian Cashman was not at the $10 blackjack table I just spent the last 90 minutes at. So I have no update on the developing CC Sabathia story.
(Many of the tables at The Bellagio are only $10, a concession to the slumping economy. So there are a lot of scurvy characters playing at what is a very nice casino. I was doing pretty well but felt compelled to leave when the guy next to me refused to hit on his 14s or 13s against face cards but was hitting on 15s against a 4. Of course he kept winning and everybody else would lose. The two other guys at the table and I were ready to give him a code red.)
I did see a few other team officials, including Joe Girardi, and there is a general sense that the Yankees will get this done. Sabathia didn’t request three meetings with the Yankees in as many days for no reason.
It comes down to this: the Angels, Dodgers and Giants have stayed out of the game. If the Yankees wrap up Sabathia, they can then play Burnett, Lowe and Sheets off each other and make the best deal.
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Jeff Passan, who does a terrific job covering baseball for Yahoo! Sports, made a lot of friends earlier tonight when he went to the local In-N-Out Burger and came back to the press workroom with a pile of burgers and fries. He was accompanied by Kevin Kaduk, who does the very fine Big League Stew blog for Yahoo! Jeff and Kevin are long-time friends of this blog.
If you’ve been to In-N-Out, you know what I’m talking about. There was much happiness. Lance Burton couldn’t have made those burgers disappear faster than we did. Cheesy Vegas jokes. I’ll be here all week.
The Yankees writers took time out from grumbling about rewriting the CC story to race each other to the back of the room. Dan Graziano of the Ledger won said a source who was granted anonymity because he was not given permission to speak of Graziano’s speed.
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The Twins have made Delmon Young available, a week or so after Ron Gardenhire essentially said he was their fourth outfielder. At first glance, Young looks like an attractive player to at least consider. But the Rays moved him last winter and now the Twins want to move him again. Both of those teams have good track records of correctly evaluating their own talent.
Sometimes trades are simply good baseball trades. Sometimes teams just want to get rid of guys they don’t like.
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Outside of the buffet, the longest line here is for general managers who want nothing to do with Manny Ramirez. Red Sox (obviously), Mets, Yankees, Giants and even the Angels, who said it would take some unusual series of events. Tigers? Nope. Rays? Too expensive. Blue Jays? No money.
Scott Boras is good at getting teams to bid against themselves (as the Yankees for for A-Rod last season), but where is he going other than the Dodgers? Manny wouldn’t last 10 minutes in the no-hope environments of Baltimore and Washington.
By the time this whole mess is over, many players are not going to get what they thought when it started.
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Chad Jennings
Sam Borden
In and Out is always a must when I goto Vegas
“If you’ve been to In-N-Out, you know what I’m talking about. There was much happiness.”
Double Double with Grilled Onions is the only way to go. I’ve got it down to: Combo #1, Grilled Onions, Iced Tea”.
Maybe the Yankees could get an In-n-Out in the Bronx for CC.
Oh man, 3:30 AM and I get no CC news? I’m not even tired oddly enough, oh well I think I’ll go play some tetris.
In-N-Burger is WAAAAAY overrated
“Maybe the Yankees could get an In-n-Out in the Bronx for CC.”
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Five Guys.
That’s all I’ll say about that.
When will Manny will call the Dodgers and tell them how he wanted to be a Dodger all along for the 2 year deal and that Boras messed everything up without his permission?
And nobody was going to give Arod the 10 years he was looking for, especially after opting out and costing the Yankees all that money from Hicks.
Then low and behold the Yankees corporate crew (and Scott Boras) sold the Yankees on the ownership on the idea that Arod’s contract would pay for itself. Despite all the melodrama, the circus, the booing, the infighting among the fans, the added media scrutiny on the team, the tensions among the players, Arod’s lack of clutch hitting etc. etc. etc.
You think Manny @ 3 years 60 million won’t pay for itself if the Yankees make him the DH and keep him far far away from bathroom doors in left field?
Hey Pete,
“Outside of the buffet, the longest line here is for general managers who want nothing to do with Manny Ramirez. Red Sox (obviously), Mets, Yankees, ”
So Cashman flew back from the meeting with CC in SanFran to get in the buffet line?
Wow, he must be hungry.
hey pete,
blackjack is not a team sport and that guy was playing the “right” strategy
at least he didn’t split 10’s which is what usually happens at The Bellagio
Maybe you’ve been discussing it on the other thread, but sincw this is that most current one, I’ll post it here: I just heard on NY1 that “the Yankees have got their man in CC Sabathia”!!!
WOW!!!! EXCELLENT!!!!!
BTW – A #1 Combo with BOTH your Burger AND Fries “Animal Style” is THE way to go at In ‘n Out Burger!!! (Sorry for the Caps but – once you taste a #1 Combo that way – you’ll know what I mean!)
Joel Sherman in the NY Post just updated and confirmed CC at 7:08 AM:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12.....143481.htm
WOW!! Cashmoney makes a House Call, sees the Mrs. and seals the deal.
YESSSSS!!!!
I bet Cash lands at least one more before leaving Las Vegas. If they land AJ I suspect they don’t sign Pettite and leave the # 5 slot for Hughes/Kennedy/Aceves to battle over and save some $$$.
Way to go!
Hey Pete,
if you follow the hit rules in Blackjack ….you lose.
The casino wants you to….because then they win.Plus, they have all the other dumb players programmed to get mad at the guy who doesn’t play their way.
It’s a brillant strategy on the part of the casinos.
It amazes me how all the sheep in the world don’t get it!
I’ve alwsays found this to be one of the funniest commentaries on the human condition.
Yeah according to Sherman its a done deal.
There have been so many erroneous reports I don’t feel comfortable getting excited yet until this is confirmed with another source.
This is the NY Post we’re talking about here.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....index.html
Did we bid against ourselves??
Very nice work out there, and I love the “A Few Good Men” reference.
When Giambi first signed with the Yankees, I remember him saying that one of the things he missed about the West Coast were In-N-Out burgers. I’m sure Sabathia will miss those too, not that New York has a shortage of good food.
Pete: The guy sitting next to you at a BJ table does not effect your odds of winning. He may be annoying, but your odds remain the same. I’m personally more annoyed by the people at the table who are upset by the play of others.
mmmmmmmmmmm, In n Out Burger. Nice of him. Still, he seems to have a big anti-Yankee bias… I get sick of the guy.