All-Season MFY IGT

[Guest sharpie]

I already hate Mazzone. It won't be hard to transfer my hate to him in another uniform.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

TheOldMole wrote: The Braves would let Leo go?

If he's on just a year-to-year contract like many coaches are then it's just a matter of time before he could go talk to them anyway w/o Brave permission. If he's on a multi-year then they certainly don't have to grant him the opportunity especially since it's only a lateral move. Such permission is usually automatic if a step up is involved.



If I were Leo, I'd be real sure to ask a boat load of questions about how much and how often that fat Conners guy down in Tampa is going to be hanging over his (figurative) shoulder and whispering things to George behind his back.
I'll bet Leo had a decent amount of say, or at least a highly respected opinion, about the timing and personnel decisions of pitchers being called up or sent down. In the Bronx not only won't he have that type of power but there'll be moves made without his knowledge and at times specifically against his suggestions.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I think the Braves have Mazzone signed through 2006.

[Guest MFS62]

I can just hear it now.
Jon Sterling saying "That Yankee ROCKS!"

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[Guest Frayed Knot]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I think the Braves have Mazzone signed through 2006.

Actually, I just read today that they don't. That he's on a year to year deal and will be free to go out on his own anyway.
That said, I think he's comfortable where he is and supposedly is going to give other suitors "a small window" to try and lure him away.

[Guest metirish]

Breaking News..Breaking News...Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn

]Torre: I'm staying THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 18, 2005, 2:42 PM EDT Joe Torre considered resigning last week, then decided to return to the New York Yankees next season because "I still want to manage here." Torre, who has two years left on his contract, had not spoken until Tuesday about his future since the Yankees lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Los Angeles Angels. After that defeat, he thought about leaving. "It was a waffle. It was going back and forth," he said at Yankee Stadium. Torre, who has led New York to four World Series titles, met Monday in Tampa, Fla., with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

so much for the anticipation of Torre talking...

[Guest silverdsl]

Yawn indeed. Exactly as I knew it would be. Some expected Torre to rip Steinbrenner a new one and quit but I didn't think he'd walk away from $13 million.

[Guest metirish]

Exactly silverdsl, can you believe the media guys were staking out the yankee stadium for Torre....for the last freaking week...

[Guest MFS62]

Like vultures circling over an injured animal, waiting to pounce.

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[Guest sharpie]

It is only because of the stakeout, however, that we learned that Chieng Ming Wang drove to the stadium, parked his car and then took a subway somewhere else so he could get the free parking that you get in the players lot.

[Guest Willets Point]

Oooh....free parking in the Bronx. I'm so jealous of these professional ballplayers.

[Guest metirish]

MFY's look to Japan for a pitcher...again...and get this he throws a "gyroball".WTF?

[url=http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spyanks044497798nov04,0,2438794.story?coll=ny-sports-headlines]Mr Gyroball man[/url]

[Guest Centerfield]

It's been popular in Japan ever since they outlawed the "Souvlakiball".

On Edit: Looks like he was basically a .500 pitcher. I'm ok with the MFY's overspending on a .500 pitcher from Japan who supposedly has great stuff. The last time that happened, it brought lots of laughs.

[Guest MFS62]

John Heyman strikes again. His article says "The Yankees don't have an obvious need for starting pitching".
I wonder what games he was watching. Maybe he just means they have a lot of them on their roster.

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[Guest metirish]

MFY's and Matsui reach a peliminary contract for 4 years $52M.

[Guest sharpie]

At least a bunch of it goes toward the luxury tax.

[Guest Centerfield]

I think this was a good move for the MFY's, but $13 million per seems a bit high for Matsui.

[Guest Valadius]

He's no spring chicken, that's for sure.

[Guest silverdsl]

Matsui has been pretty solid for the Yankees so I'm not upset that they're throwing a lot of money at him. But added into what he's done on the field is that he brings in a lot of attention and revenue from Japan - there's advertising $$, extra media coverage and fan support. So those things might have played into why the Yankees were eager to re-sign him.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

I was hoping he'd stick them for a 5th year.

Hard to say how much money the Japan angle brings in as International broadcast fees are split amongst all teams.
It def helps to "spread the brand name".

[Guest metirish]

He'll have pulled down nearly $75 million over his yankee career, he's done well for himself, he's a solid if not a spectacular player, some "experts" swear he's a very clutch hitter.

[Guest MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: I was hoping he'd stick them for a 5th year. Hard to say how much money the Japan angle brings in as International broadcast fees are split amongst all teams. It def helps to "spread the brand name".

Thought I read a year or two ago that the Yanks have their own YES/ Japan cable tv and marketing deal. The lynchpin of the deal was the Yanks having a Japanese player who is very marketable to Japanese viewers.
The Yanks weren't going to let him go, they'd lose too much anciliary revenue. He had them by the (rice) balls.

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[Guest Frayed Knot]

There are many NYY games shown in Japan due to Matsui (and Mariner games cuz of Ichiro) but the money that's generated by TV in foreign lands is "community" money - i.e. money to be split by all clubs lke network cash.
Whatever the Yanx are getting from Japan via Godzilla would be "secondary" money which is gained from increased awareness in the 'Yankee brand', attendance in the Bronx from visiting Japanese tourists, and so on. Even merchandising money - apparel, etc - is pool money so the direct impact of Matsui is tough to quantify.

[Guest silverdsl]

I think there's also a number of Japanese companies that advertise in Yankee Stadium that might not otherwise without Matsui being on the team, though I have no idea where that money actually goes.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wait, if I get drunk and buy a jersey with a Yankee trademark, Kansas City makes as much as the Yankees?

[Guest Frayed Knot]

That's my understanding, yes.
Merchandising money goes into a central pool - it's all [u:351688c6f0]MLB[/u:351688c6f0] licensed products after all and MLB is the one who owns those logos and copyrights - and is distributed evenly.

Increase in-house stadium advertising is something that would feed directly to the team.
TV ads over local TV would feed to the local station/distributor which would help the team indirectly (via higher rights fees) although, in the case of NYY/YES, it's all the same pie anyway.

[Guest Edgy DC]

MLB doing the licensing doesn't alone necessarily mean MLB distributes the moneys evenly.

I think the logos are still trademarked to the teams.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

]MLB doing the licensing doesn't alone necessarily mean MLB distributes the moneys evenly

No, but I've heard/read on several occasions that this is the case.
I'm merely using the owned-by-MLB angle as the explanation for why things are split evenly, not the proof.



Yanx picked up the '06 option on Tanyon Sturtze.
He was real good for them for a while as a long/set-up man ... then not so good by the end of the season.

[Guest metirish]

Captain clutch scores again...

[Guest Valadius]

Hahaha!!!