As a Sox fan, all I can say is oh well. It would have been nice to add such a nice bat and good glove at a relatively young age, but I think the Sox should be okay. Lowell is a big question mark, but I think Lester will get even better this year and Clay Buchholz could really make a splash this year. The Yankees are fully loaded and are looking to be the dominant team in '08. Teix is and will be one of the best hitters in the AL for years to come, and that rotation is looking dominant as well. However, these are some damn risky moves and I think a case could be made that with Burnett-Sabathia, and now Teix the Yankees have vastly overpaid on every individual move this season. If the economy continues to go in this direction and even advertisement revenues continue to decline, the Yankees could be in some serious trouble.
¡¡¡ǝɯosǝʍɐ Really tho, the Sox did nothing to improve. We added no one. We have the exact same team that lost to the Rays last year. If we are counting on people to be healthy all season, we are fucking fucked.
Yes we are. Right now we're looking at 3rd place because I fully expect the Rays to play as well next year as they did. But it could be fun to watch the Yankees this year. ... :wink:
the same thing is said before every season for the Yanks when they go out and sign players, that is why it is so funny as the practice repeats itself that people think the results will be different. at this point, the Yankees are actually going to have to go out and win before I believe in them. I've been tricked before thinking they were the best team.
Time for Met management to step up and show some balls. Just like Santana fell in their laps last year, Manny is falling in their laps this year. They should take advantage...I like this lineup....... Reyes, Castillo, Beltran, MANNY, Wright, Delgado, Church, catcher...... Met starters make it a seven inning game, then bring in JJ Putz, and KROD.
I get a kick out of this as well...... what's going to be funny is watching the Yankees not win the World Series yet again after they sign everybody that isn't hiding under a rock. The smart Yankee fans know you win the WS by building a team not buying one. There is a reason the Yankees haven't (in their minds) been successful since 2000.
uhmm, the Mets offseason thread is a couple down. you don't win anything in the offseason, but you do sell tickets. and free agent signings sell tickets. with the price the Yankees charge, they have to sign these types of players to get the fans excited again, especially after last season when they finished behind the Tampa Bay Rays for crying out loud.
07 it was hawkins, ensberg, rasner, molina, pettitte, posada, mo, and arod. 06 it was igawa, mussina, mientkiewicz, cairo, villone. 05 was johnny damon, mike myers, farnsworth and dotel. 04 was pavano, jaret wright, and tony womack not as earthshattering as everyone would have you beleive.
I gotta tell ya. After watching the Jets collapse before my very eyes it sure is nice to get such great news from the Yankees. WATCH OUT!
they certainly didn't turn out to be, but that didn't stop Yankee fans from singing their praises at the time, the same thing that is happening now. that is all I am saying. regardless of how good it look son paper and how great the headlines for the signings read, they are going to have to prove it to me on the field. if not, it is the same old story repeating itself. Baseball isn't inherently better off if the Yankees win, but they certainly are when they actually build a winner, not simply assemble it.
But there is an OBVIOUS different in the level of talent acquired this year. Certainly you can see that.
they have to have a win now mentality, with most of their key everyday players in decline phase. they filled key holes and kept all their prospects. they lost big contracts, and filled them with others. hopefully this time they signed the right guys.
Its going to be fun watching the Yankees in the post-season next year. They just added another AROD type choker. In 15 ABS in the 2008 postseason, Teixeira had ZERO doubles, ZERO triples, ZERO home runs and ONE rbi. The guy is a choker just like AROD. The guy does not like the spotlight. When will the Steinbrenners and Cashman ever learn?
of course I do. these are great signings, nobody can deny that. but players don't play the game on a dotted line, so I don't put too much stock in simply adding players because the team on paper is better, and I would assume after the past how many ever Yankee offseasons in which they made big signings that everybody thought made them the team to beat, on paper, Yankee fans would be a little more pessimistic going into the season instead of repeating the same mantra that "these signings are different." no, it's the same until the results actually change, and for the Yaankees that result can only be a WS title.
"From the moment we arrived in Boston in late 2001, we saw it as a monumental challenge," team owner John Henry said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "We sought to reduce the financial gap and succeeded to a degree. Now with a new stadium filled with revenue opportunities, they have leaped away from us again. So we have to be even more careful in deploying our resources." :lol: ------- I used to be one who really cared about the way the Yanks used to spend their money, and still am to a degree, but if the Yankees don't care about it, there is no use for me to worry about how much they're paying for players anymore. I'm just happy to know that they're signing them. At the end, the fans will have to foot some of the bill, but I'd rather do that than bitch for another half decade about how I wish they were being smarter with their money. Plus, this argument has three chief counter-points. 1) They had a ton of money coming off the books, 2) The players they signed are no doubt excellent players and generally good personalities, 3) The free agent class next season is chicken-shit, so put all the eggs in the basket now.
