As for Posada, certainly he’s not the worst but as catchers go he’s one heck of a DH. I always thought the ability to actually catch the ball was sorta integral to being a catcher, hence the title “catcher”. Maybe they can just rename the position “and the throw gets past Posada”.

good one Pete.

and when Damon finally reaches up to snare the ball in his stumbling shaky manner, you can almost hear him say – “I’m coming Elizabeth, I’m coming”

I watched Baseball Wives last night. Close games make me nervous, so I watched the show and switched back to YES at commercials.

It was fine. Jorge was extremely moving when he was talking about his son.

And the show went to lengths to say how much baseball players miss because they’re on the road so much.

Here’s the thing. The baseball season is approximately 7 months long. Half that time is on the road, half that time is at home. So they’re only not home about 3 months of the year, in total. The other 5-ish months of the year, they are home FULL-TIME.

I’m not saying it’s not grueling. I’m not saying it’s easy for baseball wives to cope with their husbands being gone during times when they really could use them home. But there are millions of other husbands who travel for their work or who work shifts or who simply work long hours who miss important events and school plays and holidays, etc. These players are highly compensated for the “inconvenience” playing baseball causes in their lives.

The ladies were all lovely and charming. I actually liked them and enjoyed the courtship stories. At the end of the day, they’re just people who happen to be in the baseball world. They deal with things that all of us have to deal with.

I’m thinking of the time I had to take my daughter into a specialist in NYC and she was maybe 7 years old at the time. And tiny. And they had to give her this stuff to do a test and they had no bedside manner and I heard my daughter screaming. And then on the drive home, my daughter vomited in the car. My husband had to work that day. I was on my own. We dealt with it. I’m sure many of you moms and dads have similar stories. So, what I’m saying is I empathize with these ladies, but they don’t deserve a pedestal unless we all get one.

The other thing that struck me was: Scott Proctor did not smile once. Not once during the entire time he was shown, and it was quite a bit. Maybe a quarter smile. That was it. And Cole Hamels is really a cutie.

IF the Yankees were to agree to something like that the prospect “cost” would be reduced dramatically. I wouldn’t even consider Wells who is already 30 and is due almost $ 100 M over the next five years. Rios however is two years younger (28) and “only” has about $ 60 M over the next five seasons. He also fills the long term need for a RF.

Rios and Halliday would cost less in 2010 than Pettite, Matsui and Damon combined. Promote Austin Jackson and you’ve gotten younger, more athletic and cheaper.

I’d offer Wang, Cabrera/Gardner, Pena (rather keep Nunez) and Cervelli/Romine and see if that was close. Eventually, though I don’t think a deal gets done without Hughes/Joba.

I really like Posada and AJ together, too – though Jorge did have a hard time with AJ’s curve last night,lol.