Delta Burke yesterday, Meg Tilly today

+2 for Calcaterra

I wonder how the Yankees are valuing defense.  If defense really is the new OBP in terms of being undervalued and underrated, can the Yankees of all teams be this far behind the curve?  And, if so, who is responsible for their inefficient philosophy, and should they be on the chopping block?

First - I suggest the Kevin Costner role is filled by Posada if he is allowed to catch otherwise to Melky if he is still there as his psyche has to dead by now.

Secondly - Demographically speaking I think Craig just left ever under 30 reader scratching there heads with the Big Chill reference.  I suspect Google just got a bunch of hits referencing a great movie for the 40 plus crowd.

They can yell at the visiting team to get off their lawn, and to turn down that darn rock and roll music when the anthem is played.

yankeeh8er:  you get a +1 for living up to your name.  You get a -1, however, for accusing the Yankees of making a joke out of a non-existant salary cap.  You and I may not like the way they play, but they’re playing fair and square.

I’ll give him a pass on that, Ben.  Good spleen cannot be bothered with sound grammar.  Sometimes you just gotta bring the noise.

Jason:  If the Sox give Texiera $31.25 mil a year I will officially denounce my membership to RSN and may consider if they go much higher than $20mil/year or exceed 8 years.  In fact a part of me want them to back away completely and win the AL East with the team they have and show others that they can win with drafted and developed talent and not high prices FAs.

Of course I do appreciate you calling out the hypocrisy of any Red Sox fan who complains about the Yankees soending money.  Any fan of a team with a payroll over $100 million cannot make use of the inflated payroll argument - that is truly restricted territory and can only be use by the fans of teams with limited funding sources.

Still makes me cringe.  I really struggle with guaranteeing that much money over so many years, especially as it helps set the bar higher.

Again a large part of me really wants them to walk away completely, sign Smoltz and a decent RH 4th outfielder and let minor leaguers fill in the remaining spots.  That is, win with basically what they have which is a nice blend of homegrown talent, some good players via trade and couple of right fill in the gaps FA talent.  You know - kind of like the Yankees did when they went of that great run in the late 1990’s.

Sorry for the boff…  Guess I could have said “roof”  haha

  But clear me up here. There IS no salary cap? I thought there was some sort of compensation patment for the teams going over a certain amount. I know the revenue is split somewhat evenly for the garb whatnots.

Just another reason to hate them.
I can’t believe you actually believe the yankers HELP the league. If they didn’t ALREADY over pay and run the salaries through the ceiling. There wouldn’t be a need for the luxury tax in the first place.
How can you sit there and watch them claim the land, worth 24 mil. Pay some DOUCHE to change it to over 200 mil… Get a BILLION dollar tax break. And imediatly launder it thru OVER PAYING 250 mil on 2 players.crazy
IF YOU SUPPORT THIS?  YOU’RE AS BIG A JERK OFF AS THEY ARE.  You’d steal from your neighbor too wouldn’t ya?