Lol this is like the trade deadline all over again.

*wakes up, turns on ESPN, hits panic button*

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At least he'll in in the NL and not on Texas.

Yeah. But now you gotta think about what if Pettitte retires? We got 2 starter roles we gotta fill.

Gotta funny feeling Brandon Webb's about to get paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaid

Nope. Injury risk.

You're right, New York needs to be more conservative with their money.

Or they could take some of that $40 million they have lying around that would've gone to Lee and Pettitte and maybe take, get this, a gamble on some guys with huge upsides.

They've thrown over a hundred million dollars at Hideki Irabu, Kei Igawa, A.J.Burnett, and Carl Pavano but god forbid they spend some cash on a 31 year old former Cy Young winner.

I want Brandon Webb. He's a risk but a risk I'd be willing to take. Either that or see if maybe Garza, Floyd, Buehrle, Danks, etc.etc. are willing to get in a trade. Buehrle is at his last year we might be able to trade for him.

Buehrle won't shave his beard.

Judging from facebook, the Philly bandwagon is at capacity

just saw it. Actually I openend up my e-mail and saw Legend posted something on my facebook and knew :( . gutted

Yeah first thing I saw this morning was legend on my facebook.

doucher.

I wonder if Seattle would do a Joba for King Felix trade straight up.

Sure they would, in fact they'd prob. take AJ over Joba.

:lol::lol:

OOOOOoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Innovator!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I dunno. Something is wrong with a sport when fans go crazy and brag to other fans about how a player accepted their team's offer for more money.

Assman what the fuck are you talking about?

That'd be better than Christmas

whats up buddy

Not too bad of a morning. Yankees sign Russell Martin.

<font color=goldenrod>They played the clip from last year of Cliff Lee basically crying during an interview upon finding out he'd been traded to the Mariners. "I was intent on spending the rest of my career in Philadelphia."

He had his mind made up all along, he was just waiting for them to make an offer.</font>

Dammit, I've been refreshing the daily news and espn to see this....must get confirmation before unleashing a Jeterarian fist pump

can't really hate the guy for that though. in this day and age, that should be held in high regard.

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah. It kills me that it's the Phillies...but I can't deny that it's a cool move on his part to fuck off the union and sign for less money to go where he really wanted to go.

Rangers fans definitely have the right to be pissed off though. Sounds like he had his sights set on Philly all along, so saying he'd definitely stay if offered 6 years was kind of a dick move since their final offer was like 6 years, $140 million or something.

He also said that he would definitely have stayed in Texas if they won the WS. Makes me wonder if he was telling the truth there.</font>

The good thing is that Texas is still in good shape, it's just losing out on Lee hurts. I love how the Yankees did not get what they wanted. That makes me smile to no end. I always appreciate the opinions of LC and Innovator because they stay true to their team, but sorry guys I have a huge smile on my face after this

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing Francesa today. This is the first time in ages that the Yankees didn't get their top target.

Browsing over their message boards it seems like they feel they are entitled to get whoever they want, and for once they didn't.</font>

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...tnerId=rss_nyy

BOOM THERE IT IS.

Why are you happy? I am glad he is gone. Had 2 all star years and then went to COMPLETE shit. He is not that good anymore, guys. Too injury prone, as well.

So the Yankees will sign a catcher with a broken hip, but not a Cy Young winner with a bad shoulder. Hmmm

If you've sat through watching Jorge Posada catch, you'd understand.

What the fuck? Why is Francesca not on The YES network today?

I really wanted to hear him cry.

Cliff Lee

Ahahaha, the midday guys are filling in for Francesa...even worse. 5 hours of Mets talk.

<font color=goldenrod>I don't mind Evan Roberts, but Joe Benigno can fuck right off. Most Mets fans can be pessimistic at times, myself included - but he sucks the joy out of absolutely everything.

I'll never forget the massive rejoice in 2008 when the Mets traded Santana, only for Joe to be like "He's probably going to blow out his elbow or something"</font>

I don't know I had read that a "source" said Texas was too hot for him. Obviously some pitchers don't like pitching where it's really, hot. Just like some pitchers don't want to pitch where it's really cold. That sounds like one of the factors he had to consider.

Yankees fans are cracking me up nationwide. There seems to be tons of them going on and on about how glad they are that the Yankees didn't sign Lee or Crawford, because they aren't any good.
Suddenly they're frugal and content with a quiet offseason.
Give me a break.