Giants Fans Might have a Ray of Hope Coming

This morning, the Yankees bitch slapped the Mets by throwing out an insane figure to reel in the whale. CC Sabathia, perhaps last years most dominant pitcher, has agreed to a 7 year, $161 million dollar contract with New York (A), one day after New York (B) signed K-Rod, the most dominant closer last year in baseball, to a 3 year, $37 million dollar deal to help out the hapless bullpen...

ESPN is reporting that the New York Yankees have agreed in principal to a deal with coveted pitcher CC Sabathia. The deal will make Sabathia the league's richest pitcher as it is a six year deal worth $160 million, which is $20 million more than what was previously being reported.This comes as a surprise as over the past month it began looking more and more likely that Sabathia...

According to Dan Graziano, the Yankees met with CC Sabathia today, marking the second time in as many days both side met during this process.Cashman said last night's meeting and today's were both at Sabathias [sic] request, and that Sabathua [sic] was...

According to the Hot Stove Blog, Yankees GM Brian Cashman got on a flight to San Francisco to meet with CC Sabathia, suggesting that a deal could be close. This is the third meeting in three days for the Yankees and Sabathia, with no concrete deadline set for the six year, 140 million dollar deal.A Word around the meetings is that Brewers GM Doug Melvin did not increase his offer...

MLB.com's Ken Gurnick is reporting that CC Sabathia told Dodgers' general manager Ned Colletti he wants to be a Dodger.Colletti didn't reveal any more of the conversation, but he allowed there's "a possibility" that the Dodgers could enter the mix for ...

Here's a quickA look at new Yankee aces CC Sabathia's vital stats, courtesy of Lee Sinins Complete Baseball Encyclopedia. CC Sabathia is 2nd in the majors in RSAA over the past 3 years. Runs Saved Above Average is a?" to me a?" the single most important stat to judge a pitcher by. The formula is RA/IP [...]

So the Yankees have all but inked this year's top free-agent C.C. Sabathia, to seven-year $161 million contract. As a fan of a team that could never dream of dishing out that kind of dough, there's absolutely part of me that cringes at the thought of Sabathia taking his king's ransom to ply his trade [...]

According to NY Newsday, Yankees GM Brian Cashman has left the Winter Meetings to fly to California to meet with CC Sabathia again, as well as his wife Amber. The goal is definitely to sell Amber on the city because it appears that if Amber doesn't approve of a situation, CC will not go there. [...]

Now that CC Sabathia is set to become a Yankee, the attention will start to turn to finding Manny Ramirez a home. According to YAHOO! Sports, there's no market for Manny at this point.The Dodger offer, the only known offer, is for $45 million over two years."Was for $45 million over two years," ...

Holy crap it's been a little while since I've posted, hasn't it?Well, when you're spending eight hours a day in the library researching medieval Nottingham...yeah, yeah...anyway...According to multiple sources--Peter Abraham, ESPN.Com, SI.com and the NY Post, C.C. Sabathia is all but set to sign ...

CC Sabathia's agent Greg Genske had a very good day today. On top of the large commission he is about to receive from the $160 million dollar contract, Genske orchestrated a fantastic contract for his most high profile client.The best part of this contract for Sabathia is the opt out clause ...

When I'm wrong, I admit it. I didn't think there was a chance in hell that the Yankees would sign CC Sabathia. I truly felt that he was playing the Yankees to get a contract with a west coast team. But, I was wrong, and I admit it! In the end, Brian Cashman was able to [...]

Accodring to Joel Sherman and George A. King III, Brian Cashman flew to Texas this morning to meet with Andy Pettitte. Cashman was expected to deliver the following message to Pettitte: We have signed CC Sabathia. We are about to sign A.J. Burnett. We already have Chien-Ming Wang and Joba ...

It's the question that nobody wants to ask. With Yankee Land seemingly revolving around the gigantic left handed planet known as CC, we should take into thought what would happen should Sabathia spurn the Yankees $140 million dollar offer and sign elsewhere. I shutter to think.Would the world end?I suppose not. But I think some sort of mass hysteria would ensue in Yankee-ville. Fans...

We are trying something new this evening as Joe Demayo will host our first live chat starting at 7pm. It will last an hour and all our readers and listeners are welcome to participate. Topics include- Rule 5 Draft- Yankees acquisition of Mike Cameron and CC Sabathia- The starting pitching market ...