I don't get that. I am glad we did not get Crawford. Don't get me wrong I love Crawford but not a 7 year contract. 3 years? AMAZING Contract. 4 years: Still pretty good. By year five he'll be reaching his decline if he doesn't get it even sooner.

I am not glad that we didn't get Lee or Crawford. I am glad that we don't have Crawford for 7 years. Lee would have been excellent to have but we have other options.

And I'm not ready to call it a "Quiet off season" just yet. We just signed Martin. We might just be coming out of the gate slow. Let's see if they really wow someone and trade for a Josh Johnson or something. (Even though we'd get pretty fleeced for him)

Lyle Overbay to the Pirates.

Matt Stairs to the Nationals.

Gerald Laird to the Cardinals.

lol Matt Stairs

Did the Nats think Stairs is a better choice then Derek Lee?

Minor league deal

Oh, well that makes sense.

Cardinals have the two best defensive catchers in the majors now. Although neither of them can hit.

The Yankees sign.........to a minor league deal.............

















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Mark Prior.

Low risk move I like it. He'd be good to have just in case.

First Wood and now Prior. The Yankees are probably just bringing them in so they can personally apologize to Joba Chamerblain for scaring the Yanks into stifling his career.

Skip Bayless:

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Bayless is an idiot. There's so much wrong with his logic that I don't have the time or energy to point out right now

:y:

The Mets could win 12 in a row in September and he'd be saying that they're gonna collapse again

The problem is that their front office and the Yankee supporters spit the retarded rhetoric and the fans drink the kool-aid, allowing them to rewrite history to some degree.

I think it was some writer who said that he was glad they found out Lee wasn't going to work out in NY before it was too late. Which is odd, considering the bucketful of cash the Yankees wanted to give him and then the second bucketful with the additional year - then the flying down to his home and begging him to come here.

Clearly, they weren't concerned about it as of last week.

so the Yanks get punched sqaure in the face earlier this morning and they fire back with a Mark Prior signing :lol: April Fools right?

Skip Bayless is a monumental retard. Just a notch above Colin Cowherd.

yea, he gets paid to make retarded comments

hate that whole show where there's 4 people and that moron host presses the mute button

Bayless just says things to get people riled up and make himself controversial.

Lol the Philly news stations are praising Cliff Lee for being selfless and not caring about money. In the end, he's still making $24 million per year.

Well he did leave 40 or 50 million on the table....

I know, right? Everybody's like "Oh, Cliff Lee shows us that for some athletes, it's really not all about the money".

Dude's making $24 million per year. Since when does making $24 million a year signify not caring about the dough? Yeah, he would've made more money with the Yankees and Rangers, but it's not like he took a 2 year deal worth $10 million to pitch for the A's or anything.

Also, never understood what the difference is between 90 and 120 million dollars is. I mean, is there really something you can do with 120 that you couldn't afford with 90? I feel like Ryan Braun said something to this affect when he signed his contract. Its kinda true IMO.

Gilbert Arenas said it. "What can I buy with $120 million that I can't buy with $100 million?"

I can buy stuff that's worth 120 million.

Why did I not think of the phrase "Cliff Lee took his talents to South Street?"

I'm upset with my self.

If Pettitte doesn't come back to the Yankees for the start of next year I would be disappointed if he didn't at least make a Clemens-esque triumphant return around the All-Star Break to save our season, complete with Suzyn Waldman hysteria.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdtn0Z4o8cM

Well Lee was the best option on the free agent market wait a few days they'll get back. And think about this The Yankees beat out Red Sox and Blue Jays for Russel Martin.

And beat out Texas for Mark Prior. Mark Prior was also pursued by the Rangers.

...and what have those two done lately?

Was listening to Stephen A. Smith this morning (his show's actually not bad) and they were talking about how Cliff Lee's kid has cancer and Philadelphia has a better children's hospital than Dallas and New York. So if that's the reason he took less money, that actually makes a lot of sense.

Kinda Baffled how Matsui is signed for under 5 Million. Guy's numbers and history show he's for real. Kinda surprised my Jays didn't make a bid for him. He'd be a great fit, imo.

Waiting to see who signs Randy Gregg. I believe the Jays get a #1 pick from whomeever inks him to a deal. - LOL

How come this hasn't come out before?

Before what?

Before anything... That stuff usually comes out. That's obviously more important reason to come to Philadelphia over anything else even the money.

I'm just surprised I haven't heard that before.

Matsui's knees couldn't handle the turf when he occasionally played in Toronto, even just running the bases.

I recall when he was in Philly during the playoff push there was talk of his son and cancer. So it was known.

I heard the stuff about Lee's kid before but everyone I saw write about it assumed the hospital he wanted to be near was in Texas I think. Guess they assumed wrong.

And I guess the contract he took from Philly really wasn't as huge a difference as first thought.

He gets a 5 year $120M deal with a vesting option for a 6th year at $27.5M (or 12.5M buyout).

Yankees offered most guaranteed at $148M. Rangers offered $138M guaranteed with an option that could have brought it to $161M.

Interesting, becasue I've never heard anything about his child with cancer.

I hear it's really easy to get that option for the 6th year. So the contract is basically is guaranteed $147.5 million.

AW someone in Seattle listened to me...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...age_of_ya.html

AHAHAHA the comments on the blog there are amazing. Cano and Hughes for Felix.