Un-fucking-believeable

[Terry in Crapchester]

Or, let me rant about Steinbrenner a little more.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=r ... pe=fantasy

Let me see if I've got this straight: you've got a guy who:

1. is 38 years old;
2. missed most of last season with injuries;
3. has a reputation as a clubhouse cancer every single place he's ever played in his entire career;
4. has made it abundantly clear that he's not interested in returning; and
5. you screwed the pooch a couple of years back by signing instead of Vladimir Guerrero (although that's a topic for another thread . . .)

and you want to pick up his option????? :brad: x infinity. Or, if I could be a bit more levelheaded right now, I'd use one of the favorite words of one of my (few) fellow Yankee fans on this board: ponderous.

It's time for Steinbrenner to go. Yesterday. Period, end of discussion. Shit-for-brains is an ABSOLUTE FUCKING ABORTION as an owner. I hope he dies a slow, painful death.

We're the Yankees. We're supposed to be baseball royalty, for Chrissakes. Instead, we're owned by an incompetent boob who's spent the last 34 years running the organization like a glorified version of the Chicago Fuckin' Cubs.

There isn't anything wrong with the Yankees that wouldn't be improved -- dramatically -- by a change in ownership. We won't get #27 until we get a new owner.

And sorry to burst your bubble, RF, but all real Yankee fans hate this guy with a passion.

[JCT]

Wrong. They are picking up the option so they can trade him and get some pitching prospects. It's actually a smart move. Why let him walk away when you can get 2 or more young players. Plus it keeps him from signing with Boston.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Wrong. They are picking up the option so they can trade him and get some pitching prospects. It's actually a smart move. Why let him walk away when you can get 2 or more young players.

If you can trade him, more power to you. But he's got a lot of baggage at this point in his career that keeps his trade value down.

Plus it keeps him from signing with Boston.

Not a possibility that exactly strikes fear in my heart.

[Shoalzie]

I wanted to vomit when I heard the guys on local radio today suggest the Tigers go and get him. No thank you...I'd rather keep that curly-haired first pitch-swinging goof in right field that they've got now.

[Ucant#-463,721]

Wrong. They are picking up the option so they can trade him and get some pitching prospects. It's actually a smart move. Why let him walk away when you can get 2 or more young players. Plus it keeps him from signing with Boston.

RACK every sentence in this post.


I don't know where you get your info from, Terry, but the Sox need RF/1B help. He'd be perfect fit in Boston. You don't want him going there....

[Terry in Crapchester]

Wrong. They are picking up the option so they can trade him and get some pitching prospects. It's actually a smart move. Why let him walk away when you can get 2 or more young players. Plus it keeps him from signing with Boston.

RACK every sentence in this post.


I don't know where you get your info from, Terry, but the Sox need RF/1B help. He'd be perfect fit in Boston. You don't want him going there....

I never said the Red Sox wouldn't go after him. I said it wouldn't scare me if they did.

[General Peters]

Still think Steinbrenner is an idiot, Terry?

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Since when do the Yankees trade for young guys?

[Shoalzie]

Still think Steinbrenner is an idiot, Terry?

Humberto Sanchez won't get the Yankees to the World Series next year but the trade does give them some arms for the future.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Still think Steinbrenner is an idiot, Terry?

Sincerely, Jay Buehner for Ken Phelps.

I'll see Lax' Jay Buehner for Ken Phelps, and raise you a Willie McGee for Bob Sykes.

Does that answer your question?

[Dinsdale]

I'll counter for the Gambler for future WS MVP Scotty B (Gooooo, U&L!!!!!!!).

[Laxplayer]

What about the Yanks trading for Steve Trout a few years ago?
Wait.......Steve Kemp
There's more where that came from......