Today’s story, same as Friday’s story
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Dec 12, 2010 
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As expected, there’s nothing significant happening with the Cliff Lee story this afternoon. I was told this afternoon that the Yankees had not heard anything, and quite a few beat writers seem to have been told the exact same thing.
George King reports that the Yankees have spoken to Lee since Thursday, but they don’t plan to increase their offer(s).
Jon Heyman says Lee is still expected to choose either the Yankees or Rangers, but there are “strong signs” that a third team is involved. The Angels just lost out on Carl Crawford, so it could be them.
Are we there yet?
NYYrumors
@SI_JonHeyman mystery team is Nats but money falls far short of Yanks top offer. #CliffLee #Yankees #Rangers #Nationals #BSrumor
less than 5 seconds ago via web in reply to SI_JonHeyman
Braunecker has done a fantastic job, but there really was the perfect storm of events for him. Literally everything broke his way to maximize Lee’s contract.
Mauer signs an extension, Halladay signs that stupid extension, Lee gets traded to Texas instead of NY at the last minute, the Texas ownership gets settled, and Werth gets an outrageous deal that completely shifts the market.
Braunecker will be a household name?
When the sink is clogged up we’ll use a “braunecker” to unclog it.
Bret – the time has come, i have to start following you on twitter.
They will all cave…eventually…
The other cute expression might be: Is it soup yet?
I think this should be over soon. Everyone knows where everyone is. Yankees beat Texas and Nats offers, and Cliff Lee is going for the money. Yankees aren’t going higher.
End it already.
Come on Nationals stop prolonging the decision !!!! ughhhhhhhh
Lady, looks like your braunecker is shot…that’s why your havin trouble steering the car….That will run you $160 million….
Braunecker to me would be a short bout of flatulence, relief from gas cramps.
is Tampa a much weaker team this year?
they will add a DH who should easily replace what they got from Carlos Pena last season.
David Price is only going to get better and they’ll be adding Hellickson plus another year of experience for Davis. Maybe Jake McGee plays a role too.
Garza is a candidate to improve from a weak 2010.
Losing Crawford hurts. It’s up to Desmond Jennings to make it not hurt too bad.
Losing Soriano is probably the biggest loss on the team. If they don’t sign a replacement, it’s a big issue.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t count Tampa out by a longshot. That starting rotation could still lead them to the playoffs if the Yankees or Sox don’t get the job done.
The Rays are weaker, but maybe not “much” weaker when all is said and done.
I see plenty of people assuming they have zero chance. I don’t agree.
Braunecker is from Arkansas I believe….couldn’t make it as a player, so did the next best thing….that’s how he ended up with the Arkasas boys AJ and Lee
Actually, the mystery is the franchise that Lee will be buying with the contract he is about to sign.
Plus Braunecker is a household name in Arkansas.
The Rays lost Benoit too who last year was the best setup man in baseball probably.
I pluged the Yankees linup into a line-up simulator. I used the Bill James projections to fill in the data:
http://www.baseballmusings.com.....38;Model=0
I can’t see the “Magic yeam” being the angels. They have a rotation. They need at the very least, a 3rd baseman. They also need a DH and/or a corner outfielder.
As far as starting the season with Noesi in the rotation over Nova, I’d think prpbably not. Noesi has better stuff than than Nova, but, he’s not quite ready yet. Perhaps by the AS Break. Same with Mitchell/Phelps. I wouldn’t bring Banuelos up this year at all, regardless of how he does.
Ryan said six years is past his “comfort zone.”
“When they [the Yankees] went to seven years, that surprised me,” Ryan said. “But you don’t know the details of that offer. All you’d be doing is speculating.”
http://sports.espn.go.com/dall.....id=5912688
Braunnecker is also Moseley’s agent.
I can’t see the “Magic ***team”***
“I have no insight into when he’ll do that,” said Ryan on Sunday afternoon. “I don’t have a feel for it one way or the other. We’ll just have to see.”
Ryan said Lee has a lot to sort through and expected that it would take the free-agent left-handed pitcher some time. And Ryan, who made two of the three trips the Rangers made to Little Rock, Ark., to try to woo Lee, is trying not to worry about it.
“If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be,” Ryan said. “If he doesn’t come, we’ll keep working to improve our team headed into spring training next year.”
Bartlett is also out of the mix for the 2011 rays. Their fixes aren’t as simple as outlined below. I wouldn’t consider writing them off, but they have an uphill climb with a lot of questionmarks.
I think its way too early to predict how the newly configured Rays team will be. They lost some of their core players, and that will have its affect on their team, but they have a lot of talent in the farm coming up.
The East has the Blue Jays being a beast offense wise, though I’m not sure if that will keep up. That all depends on the Canadian Healthcare system.
The Orioles may not be back, but they were playing tough and they made some decent additions. They won’t be a punching bag anymore.
The Saux are as usual, and its tough to say how well their pitching will be, but their lineup is going to be tough to face.
I’m not really sure how to rank any of these teams this year. I wouldn’t be shocked to see the O’s take a step forward. Rays may suffer going down just because of all the other teams in the East being so tough.
what’s so hard about choosing NY….play with a great friend CC,forming an awesome 1-2 punch,get the highest offer,play for the most storied franchise in All of sports in an awesome facility….plus he can go back to Arkansas during the Winter…
“So if you want to go into the season thinking tampa takes a step back and the wild card remains a good shot you have to do so by acknowledging that you are going to be absorbing significant risk of missing the playoffs.”
cb-
i think the yankees took more of a risk in 2008 by going with hughes and kennedy at the same time.i said that was crazy at the time and had said that the yankees should have added livan hernandez that winter as the 4-5 guy to go with just one of the rookies.
unless there is something wrong with joba physically that makes starting a bad idea that the yankees may know and we don’t., i don’t see why sending him back out there is a big risk. he’s not a rookie. he’s started a lot of games.
i guess then it would get down too if pettitte wants to pitch this year. if he does the yankees would have a rotation good enough to start the year.
even though there is a lot of cash in the game, there will be teams trying to get rid of salary as mid season approaches. if the yankees don’t spend 25 million on lee they’d have a ton of cash to use.
it is not a given that the red sox will jell. they have done little to nothing with their pitching staff. what if they go backwards. no matter what their offense does , if they are in the last third of the league in pitching they may have to scuffle for a wild card spot themselves. farrel was a very good pitching coach. he worked with lester really closely. lester may miss him.
i’m just saying the yankees have options to lee, and i think they should seriously look at them because i do not have a good feeling about lee for the next 7 years.
Early prediction – Blue Jays meaningfully underperform expectations in 2011. Offense nosedives.
The Angels did not step up and grab Crawford, who they supposedly loved..can’t see them getting in a bidding war for Lee…plus it’s even further away from Arkansas than NY is..
“The Rays are weaker, but maybe not “much” weaker when all is said and done.”
BD-
I agree with you. The Rays will take a step back but they are still going to be a threat. They are still going to have good starting pitching next season and that will keep them in the wild card hunt.
The other factor is the Jays. They will be better as well.
Togther the Rays and Jays create an added complication for the Yanks to take a risk with thinking they’ll get the wild card.
The unbalanced schedule will make things very complicated for any AL East team next season because there will be 4 good to very good teams.
The wild card will still most likely come out of the AL East, but those teams are going to beat each other up and that opens up possibilities for the AL Central as was the case in 2008.
The Yanks can opt for a strategy of Joba or Nova, etc. to fill out the rotation. But there is real risk with that strategy. They may not make the playoffs.
Thing with the Rays is they are also shopping Garza. They are reducing payroll, and sometimes having a team broken up as theirs has been, where they lose so many to free agency, not even trying to re-sign any of them, it can shake up the remaining members of the team.
It will have a different feel to it, and inexperience on their part might show up at inopportune times.
Lee choosing Anaheim would be more of a slap in the face to Texas than if he chose the Yankees.
“It’s time to make the donuts.”
My offering.
The loss of the guys in their bullpen will hurt the Rays more than anything….they couldn’t hit last year but they won with starting pitching, defense, and their pen. They still will have good starters but their pen will take a big hit.
Benoit, soriano, choate, balfour. The entire pen needs to be rebuilt.
Team Braunecker is now on the clock….and has been for days….
The Rays have been winning on timely hitting as well. Their offense was streaky, but they seemed to get a good deal of hits at timely points of the games. With some of their former key players being gone, their offense might not be as good. Their pen was pretty solid last season and that is changed as well, as Blake stated.
It will be a slog to play in the East. All the teams are going to be tough, unless the O’s fall back to what they were in the beginning of last season. The O’s seem to have some really decent talent but they somehow were falling short. If they get it together its going to be quite interesting.
“is Tampa a much weaker team this year?”
bd-
i think in addition to losing CC, their bullpen has lost multiple guys.
i’m not saying that they’ll be a bad team, but i would be surprised if they won more than 90 games.
I don’t think the Yanks would miss the playoffs with Nova in the rotation.
Lee is an upgrade over Pettitte and Nova should be able to out-pitch Vazquez.
With the prospects saved from signing Lee instead of trading for a pitcher, the Yankees could easily use them to upgrade the offense as well…not to mention the pen.
That wasn’t Scott Boras, it was a parody account.
I was just thinking about the catcher’s for next year. Still pending the Martin saga. If Montero stays and makes it out of spring training, then you’re looking at about 30-35 HR’s out of that position. You take that and put it against the Sox catchers and there’s a huge gap. I expect Posada to put up better numbers with more rest.
Chase,
Really? How did it get verified with the Twitter verification seal?
The Rangers front office sure do a lot of interviews. The conference call after the offer, 2 Ryan interviews this week and Greenberg the other day. Hopefully that is them talking to their fans instead of being confident.
Who is Soriano’s agent?
if martin can throw out 35- 40% of the runners i think he’d be very valuable in neutralizing the red sox running game. they need some one who can do this whoever it is.
Posada has been taking a real beating as catcher. With him being a DH for a lot more of the games his knee should be in less pain as well as his hands. Its going to be an adjustment for him playing that role, if that is what ultimately happens.
I’m looking forward to seeing how many HRs Bautista will be hitting this coming season.
The Rays also lost Pena, no? Didn’t hit for much average, but had power.
The Rangers FO are under new management. That makes them hard to figure out. Ryan is a talker. I do think that a lot of the chatter from them, especially their press conference to tell everyone they finally made their offer(s) to Lee, seems to be for the benefit of the Ranger fans. Especially if they lose Lee, they can talk about how hard they tried.
I had heard that the Rays had some interest in Giambi. He would be a decent replacement for Pena’s bat. Not sure where that stands, if anywhere.
Whenever Lee signs is going to be a big story, but at some point the anticipation and excitement of the whole thing is going to wane.
If Braunecker keeps dragging this out he runs that risk. Eventually people are just going to say “finally” instead of all the excitement and anticipation that is going on right now.
This news is prime to explode and create the most news now.
As the rosters stand now, the Rays in 2011 are done.
They have on legitimate threat in their lineup – Longoria.
Their pitchers consist of inconsistency and injury questions, Shields, Niemann and Davis.
Price is a dominant 1 and Garza is an okay 2. But rumors have Garza being shopped. If Hellickson starts for them and is really good, then they have decent pitching. But as it stands now, they are not a threat at all.
The Jays are a decent threat, their offense should regress to the mean, their pitching is young and actually pretty decent. If they trade for Greinke, look out.
•Christian Red of The New York Daily News hears from a source that the Lee situation “should get resolved early this week.”
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It should have been “resolved” 2 days ago.
Yes, the real Scott Boras did indeed block NYYrumors on Twitter.
This is a guy who negotiates through the press so he’s not taking any chances with me.
Although, I will say that the combination of Davis, Price, Niemann, Garza, and Shields is better than what the Yankees currently have as their starting rotation. Hopefully, that will change in less than 24 hours.
The Angels cant even sign a big FA when they are openly courting him. Not worried about them here
http://sportsthunderdome.blogspot.com/
Christian Red leaving nothing for chance. What a loser. “Sometime early this week”…..sweet nugget there pal.
Angelo,
There’s no need for you to include your blog after every post you make. Just a suggestion. Your name is already highlighted with your link. Just a suggestion.
BBFan December 12th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Who is Soriano’s agent?
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Scott Boras. That’s why the Rays didn’t even make a weak attempt at signing him.
The Patriots definitely have made a deal with the devil. Their playing is unworldly.
GB-
Absolutely. 2 days ago. Lee was never going to get much more than CC money.
I think the Yankees have been there for a while.
I would have liked to see Cash try and turn the tables on Lee’s agent. Inject some fear into him that the offer might go away at some point.
Goldilocks. Not too patient just right.
It’s over soon. One way or another.
Link to Boras’ twitter?
raymagnetic says:
December 12, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Angelo,
There’s no need for you to include your blog after every post you make. Just a suggestion. Your name is already highlighted with your link. Just a suggestion.
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He’s only posting to drive up traffic on his blog. Pete would never have put up with it.
MTU
Check your email.
Trisha,
Trouble is the Jets forgot to.
Bret,
The @realscottboras was fake. The Scott Boras Corp. had it removed from Twitter.
Nobody can see the account, you weren’t blocked.
The Rays trying to sell season tickets in the Tampa – St. Pete area is like trying to sell hooded sweatshirts in hell.
Any box scores in 2011 showing attendance of 10,000 fans is more like 5,000 fans in the seats.
KPB-
Check yours.
Well Jets have one last shot
With all the left-handed batters now in their lineup, if boston had more resources it would have made sense for them to add the best available FA lefty, Lee, so that their lineup wouldn’t have to face him.
Hopefully they are not the mystery team.
They would have to trade one of their starters, but it’s not impossible to imagine that it could be done.
Sorry Gary J E T S are done as of last week….sorry man
Are there people out there who actually think/state that Mark Sanchez is a legitimate NFL QB? I have never seen a guy so out of place in a league as he is.
Trish the pats have the look of being unbeatable right now. NE 475 total yards Chicago 185 and both teams played in that weather.
I agree Carlo.. He’s regressed big time
SAS, maybe it’s not too late?
I’m going to be totally ill if the Pats get to play their last two games and make it look like they are scrimmaging against pop warner teams. Green Bay plays them next week at Gillette, and their last game is against Buffalo, at Buffalo (oh dear).
Good throw there for the first down after Coutry blew the last one
If the AL East keeps improving, sooner or later the wild card is going to be an AL East team. 2011 could be the year when the Yanks have to win the division if they want to be in the post season.
Doubtful Rogers plays for GB next week with the concussion
Jets Lose
MTU
Your turn.
Another Jets disaster.
Gary, I am so hating what they’ve been doing, totally because it’s the Pats. I think someone needs to take a 2 by 4 to Belichick just because he is about the most sour, arrogant, and condescending jerk around. If nothing good ever happened to his teams, it would be too good for him. I cannot stand the cheating loser.
What the Giants did to them as definitely karma. But I think he deserves non-stop karma.
SOMEONE STOP THE DAMNED PATS, WOULDYA PLEASE!!!
Okay realistically, what are the chances that the Packers can take it to the Pats on their home field. I’m not counting on it happening but the sweetest thing of all would be for the Bills to jam it to them. But we know that’s not going to happen.
“Doubtful Rogers plays for GB next week with the concussion”
Even that. Though they didn’t look that bad with their other QB in there. But obviously not the same.
Talk some more Rex Ryan. You P.O.S.
pats are on a mission.
jets out of commission.
The East is becoming so tough that they might knock themselves out of wild card contention. The West and Central are not nearly as tough. This is a good reason why there should be a balanced schedule. Allow all the teams to play each other equally.
So disappointed in the Jets. Thought they would make Miami pay for last week. Tomorrow is going to be unbearable on sports talk radio.
Trisha,
Green Bay is a good team this year. I am not going to say they will beat the Pats, but there is a chance.
Jets tanked today dropping passes. Showed no heart, same old Jets.
Fran,
You’re right. Maybe a little music in the car, which I never do, will hit the right note (pun unintended).
Sunday is opt-out night.
Beware.
SAS, how realistic is it though that Rodgers will be ready to play next week? And without him, how much of a chance does GB have?
SAS,
Good one
I think I’ll be avoiding the sports talk shows.
I am an avid Jets fan and I admit I am in panic mode.
GB lost to the LIons today. Forget them.
Fran, all I can hope is that the Pats are being set up for a huge fall. You know, kind of like what happened during their last “perfect” season. You know I’m a fan of the big hammer coming down at the very last minute.
GB lost to the Lions but Rodgers was hurt and probably was hurt long before he was taken out of the game. He was sacked early on in the game. He played like he was in the ozone for quite a while there.
Calling Clifton Phifer “Cliff” Lee… come on the Universe is awaiting on your decision.
Trisha,
I didn’t know Rogers was hurt. That makes a big difference.
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Fran,
The Jets were my first favorite football team back in the Namath days. My Dad liked the Giants but couldn’t pull me into football like he did baseball. When I married, my husband’s whole family were Giants fans…so I still like both teams.
Patriots – Celtics – Bruins – and now a loaded Sox team.
How does NY with all its $$$ keep letting Boston be a better sports town?
Another year NY teams get dominated and beat up in the press.
ANNOUNCEMENT: I have been admitted to study Dietetics at a nearby college. This is my first step towards becoming an RD!!! Back to school for me!!!
carry on with the baseball Yankees fans!!!
As a bucs fan I was extremely pleased at the way that game ended today. I was thinking when they scored that touchdown and were going for the field goal there was no way he would miss and then bam, the ball went wild, crazy.
Bret if that is what you want…CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Clown – pats last super bowl, lost to giants
Yanks last team to win world series
Who gives a sht about hockey
Don’t recall season ending well for the C’s last year
Trisha,
I have to worry about the Jets right now, but I hope the Pats fail too.
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SAS,
The Jets (and Joe Namath) were my first team too. I would watch the games with my dad every Sunday. He hooked me on football and baseball.
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Bret,
Congratulations. Good luck in school.
clown, are you a stupid douche bag in real life or do you just parade as one here? What city’s team won a Super Bowl more recently, NY or Suxville? How about the more recent World Series win, NY or Suxville? And what about the Bruins, fool? Or does three and out titillate you?
Why don’t you take your jealous little ass out of here and descend to the level where you’d be happiest – with the rest of the witless beantown fools who have New York envy written all over them. You singularly make jackasses look like Rhodes scholars.
i’m bored with the cliff lee stories. how bout cashman actually goes out and fills some other needs in the mean time.
Bret-
That’s great news. Congratulations !
trisha, you’re a lady after my own heart.
Fran, I hear ya. I hope that Ryan finds the bromide for whatever ails the Jets. If Buffalo is winning its games, then you know any team can find a way to turn things around.
Wait – I do remember something about hockey……didn’t the bruins blow a 3-0 series lead recently?
Frankly, the more I think about it, boston has had next to no success anywhere in recent years.
Wait – I do remember something about hockey……didn’t the bruins blow a 3-0 series lead recently?
Frankly, the more I think about it, boston has had next to no success anywhere in recent years.
Ryan is a blowhard and will have to learn the hard way.
Trisha,
Clown never makes sense or is right.
My Dad is responsible for my love of the Yankees, but I go back far longer than you do…lol
There is no way the Lee announcement was going to happen on a Sunday getting buried by Football. This will go down Tues/Wed so Lee & his agent can get maximum attention.
clownthrowindown
So your user name is sort of self-mockery.
Welcome back Triica….She returns with gusto !! You just got to Love Her……Hope SJ survived Chicago
I couldn’t help myself GB. I am so sick and tired of envious little groupies coming over here and polluting the forum with their bad breath and Yankee envy. Assclown has been leading the charge for a while. What an obnoxious bore.
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Congrats Bret. Getting into a program you really want to be in is definitely a high.
Joe Benigno classic rant @ 10am
Thank you everyone!!!!
I’m really just really happy right now
Child nutrition is my passion and I can’t wait to get back to school!!!
trisha – true pinstriped blue December 12th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I couldn’t help myself GB. I am so sick and tired of envious little groupies coming over here and polluting the forum with their bad breath and Yankee envy. Assclown has been leading the charge for a while. What an obnoxious bore.
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Just keep on not helping yourself, Trisha. I may pick up some tips from you on the proper treatment of trolls.
Pat M –
I really try to be tolerant but when someone makes a living out of playing the fool that person needs to be dropkicked, and constantly – though some of the clown’s statements make me think that may be part of the problem. Dropkicked on his head too many times.
Joe Benigno classic rant @ 10am
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JK, at this point I can’t say I blame him. Just an awful Jet performance today.
Congrats Hitman.
Carlo,
I didn’t say Boston would win all four championships. But I wasn’t talking about past history either. Do you root for past teams or do you root for the guys out there now?
And you neglected to mention the Mets, the Jets, the Islanders and the Nets. The only NY team that’s even in the same class with a Boston team is the Yankees. And that’s only if they get Lee.
Fran, I didn’t get to see the Jets game because I was watching Chicago. Believe me, that was a painful watch. I really don’t know if it’s easier to watch a team lose by 29 points or 4 points.
WOW trisha -
Can’t you find it in your heart to be more open in the expression of your true feelings concerning trolls, LMAO.
After getting their clock cleaned last week , the Jets had to bounce back today. What do they do….they revert back to the worst nightmare for Jets fans. This is not only the fault of the QB and his receivers who dropped TD passes, but the Coach, who is clueless and naive , Belichick owns him.
He had the audacity to say the fault was “not on one man,” referring to his QB.
Sure wasn’t, it was on him, why not admit it.
This collapse will go down in history when they lose the next 2 games against the Steelers and Bears and miss the playoffs.
And as an aside, Brady looks like such a little freak with that dumb hair and beard. Ugh.
Big Al, I say that any Sux fan who ventures onto our sacred territory does so at her or his own risk – especially those who come here to work out their life-long angst about rooting for hapless teams from Suxtown.
And what does Clown think the Sux used to get Carl Crawford? Beer cans?
Santonio Holmes has been a flop so far this year. How many wide open drops has he had this year? He cost the Jets the game today.
trisha -
This clown has lots of company this off season, and others here that profess to be Yankees fans, but, spend the majority of their time running down the team and their FO.
I to get sick of it, and find it difficult to hold back.
So very happy to see you back.
Holmes has been great until today. He has made many game winning catches. He dropped a TD pass today but Sanchez was horrible today, still shellshocked from last week.
GB7 -
They’ll blame the rain, wet ball etc, none of these guys stand up and admit they cost their team a win. The last 2 weeks has been a train wreck.
Big Al, happy to be back.
I have a lot of pent up energy so I will probably be able to act as your point guard!
trisha -
Great, I love how you handle the ball.
Holmes drop cost the Jets 4 pts as they kicked the field goal, they lost by 4.
Cotchery dropped an easy one too but Sanchez missed wide open receivers and too many INT’s like last year. He seemed demoralized.
My name is clownthrowindown and I’m even stupider than my name would suggest. True story.
The Jets didn’t blame the weather or anything else. They admitted they played a poor game and dropped too many passes. The OL was awful as well. Ryan thought about pulling Sanchez at the end of the 3rd quarter.
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Trisha,
There is no good way to loose. This game was as bad as last week’s loss to NE.
ray -
As they say, stupid is as stupid says, (something to that affect)and his name says it all.
Fran -
You’re right, losing by 4 or 40, it don’t matter, it’s a loss either way.
This game was as bad as last week’s loss to NE.
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Fran-
Don’t you think this game was a result of last weeks pants-pulled-down party inflicted on big mouth Ryan by Belicheck. They were humiliated.
Good night folks, catch you in the morning.
Big Al,
lol, you’re right.
Sanchez sounds like Joba.
Denial.
mick,
I agree that the Jets were humiliated last week. All the more reason to come back this week and take it out on Miami. After the game last week all the Jets were talking about how they would come out this week and get off to a fast start and I expected that.
Headlines in Post and News : SAME OLD JETS
Ryan set them up for this with his High School antics.
raymagnetic –
Enjoy the rest of the evening all, as much as you can anyway. Time to watch the Phils take it to Dallas.
In regard to the NYDN story about a decision “early this week,” I don’t understand how a Yankee source would have any idea when Lee is making his decision.
The only people that know when this decision is coming are Lee and Braunecker.
If Lee does not have a decision tomorrow, Cashman should get on the phone with Seattle and see what they might want for Cy Felix (I know it would never happen), then make sure that word gets out about “Yankees in trade talks for Felix Hernandez”.
The weekend is enough, Lee needs to also have some consideration for whichever team he picks (not to mention the other one) needing to get other things done.
From what I’ve seen from Holmes, he leads the NFL in WODP this year and at least 2 were in the end zone.
GB,
I have watched all of the Jet games this season. Holmes has dropped some wide open passes like today in the end zone, but he also won 2 games for them. One was a TD pass and the other was a long pass that set up the game winning FG.
This whole waiting around for Cliff Lee to make a decision is ridiculous at this point. He’s coming across as arrogant and greedy. Make a dang decision already.
The more he prolongs this, the more I am getting turned off and realizing how bad paying 7/$170M for a pitcher that’s 32.
In fact, I’m more turned off about his behavior than I am when my girlfriend farts in bed.
Fran, I know that he’s caught his passes, but, that’s why he’s there, but, just too many were when he was nearly alone….today is just 2 of them. What did they use to call it? He keeps hearing footsteps from 5-10 yards away.
Braunecker just got offers Thursday – it’s Sunday. This is not a long time. There are multiple offers to compare and evaluate with estate planners, accountants, etc. This is normal.
GB,
That’s true. He is getting paid big bucks to catch passes.
Fran the original December 12th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
GB,
That’s true. He is getting paid big bucks to catch passes.
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Fran, I have to laugh when I see the whining and complaining about Sanchez. They would have hated Joe Willie after 2 years in the NFL, too. That’s what they seem to forget. He’s in his 2nd year, and he doesn’t have Don Maynard and George Sauer to throw to, either, or Matt Snell coming out of the backfield to throw to.
http://www.baseballprospectus......leid=12568