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The Play in California:
Throughout last season and at the end of the year, Giants fans were promised a youth movement. The Rent-A-Player days were supposed to be over. We want to see the kids play.
First the Giants got rid of Peter McGowan, the 66 year old. Who was he replaced with? Another 66 year old named Bill ...
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December 08, 2008
As mentioned here, Brian Cashman and CC Sabathia were set to meet tonight in Las Vegas to talk about their favorite television shows, music and movies.However, according to Jayson Stark (via MLB Trade Rumors), Sabathia's agent, Greg Genske, asked to me...
Via Serious Sports News Network
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December 10, 2008
NEW YORK, NYa?"The signing of CC Sabathia by the Yankees on Wednesday presented the Yankees with one answer to two of their problems: shoring up their porous pitching staff, and a way to destroy the old Yankee Stadium.
"We were all set to wire up the place for demolition," commented Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees part-owner. "But now [...]
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December 10, 2008
Joel Sherman reports that Brian Cashman also met with CC Sabathia's wife, Amber, today in San Francisco. As a result, Cashman is "more optimistic than ever," according to Sherman's source.The same source also said that Cashman could begin the process ...
Via The Chuck Knoblog
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December 08, 2008
It seems like the Brewers are doing everything they can to try to entice Sabathia to stay with them. They may be willing to add a sixth year and an opt out clause after 3 years. They also may be willing to go up to 120 million dollars. If this is true then I think Sabathia would seriously ...
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December 09, 2008
The first day of the Winter Meetings was pretty busy. I know I barely left my computer today, as evidenced by me posting 14 times.Much of the news today was spent talking about CC Sabathia. We learned today that he met with the Yankees for the second...
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December 10, 2008
With Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings wrapping up over in Sin City, the biggest story of baseball's offseason has finally come out: CC Sabathia is going to be a New York Yankee for a long, long time. Initially wanting to stay on the West Coast, the Yankees finally lured the big man to the Bronx [...]
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December 08, 2008
Sabathia met with the Yanks again today. Judging by what I`ve heard lately, I`m feeling optimistic about our chances with him. I think he may sign a deal by the end of the meetings, just a hunch though.
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December 10, 2008
Jon Heyman has some expensive news: the Yankees will attempt to sign CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett.Cashman also spent a good part of the day on the phone with Yankees ownership talking over the financial implications. The upshot appears to b...
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December 10, 2008
It was fun while it lasted Captain Cheeseburger, but now you're just another one of the sell-outs who yapped and yapped about what was truly important to you - West Coast, chance to hit, blah blah blah blah blah - and ended up taking the biggest, fattest, greasiest contract you could get courtesy of the [...]
Via NY Baseball Digest
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December 07, 2008
It has been a long while since the Yankees faced competition in their pursuit of a free agent. Not since Greg Maddux in the winter of 1992 have the Yankees had to work so hard in procuring the "object of their affection". During that time, Greg Maddux spurned $15 million "Yankee dollars" to sign with [...]
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December 10, 2008
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 ...
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December 08, 2008
Several reports indicate that New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman met earlier today in Las Vegas with free agent pitcher CC Sabathia, one day after Cashman met with free agent first baseman Mark Teixeira and his agent Scott Boras in Maryland. Sabathia still has the Yankees 6-year, $140 million deal on the table, originally offered [...]
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December 09, 2008
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...
Via Dom D's Mets Fan Blog
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December 09, 2008
Kaz Matsui is a Met!2003: Kazuo Matsui, a Japanese seven-time All-Star shortstop, agrees to a three-year $20.1-million deal with the Mets. Twenty-eight year-old 'Little' Matsui hit .305 with 33 home runs while driving in 84 runs last season with the Seibu Lions.A couple of trades and signings noted today in baseball history:1982: In what will turn out to be a pair of unwise...
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December 10, 2008
We do our final two hour marathon show tonight as I am re-joined by Howard Megdal of the NY Observer.We will dissect the signing of CC Sabathia, talk about who will be the next starting pitcher signed, and if the Yankees plan on making a move on Manny.Howard and I will also talk about some [...]
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