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Cashman has said several times that he's not dealing his young pitchers. If I were the Twins I'd ask for more than Hughes and Cano. They'd have to at least throw in Kennedy if not Chamberlain.

11 years from now $25-$30 mil might be today's $13 mil. Given that if healthy, ARod would be smashing hallowed career records to bits every time he steps on a field - and thereby filling seats - that might actually be a good deal. I'm just sayin'.

At this point wouldn't re-signing LoDuca be the smart thing?

"I've got a Gold Glove in my closet..."

There's something to be said for that, but even if I 'don't need the money', millions of guaranteed dollars and fame is a lot to walk away from. Would he get other offers? Sure but this is the Yankees and this is New York.

Sandomir had a good article yesterday as well... ]October 9, 2007 Tv Sports An Error-Plagued Game, but From the Broadcast Booth By RICHARD SANDOMIR No announcer is perfect. A mistake now and then is expected. The best ones realize that they�ve made errors and often do their best to fix them quickly. Then there is Chip Caray, TBS�s lead baseball announcer, who has been calling the Yankees-Indians division series and will work deeper into the postseason on the National League Championship Series. His play-by-play of the Yankees� 8-4 win in Game 3 on Sunday night was packed with errors and silly strategy, enough to give me agita. Caray�s skein of faux pas in Game 3, as well as during Game 2, befogged his announcing like the insects that swarmed Joba Chamberlain on Friday night. He stated that Derek Jeter was playing in his 49th postseason game � �No. 1 of all time.� Truth: it was his 49th division series game, out of 122 postseason games. He likened the �dynamic duo� of Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera to the Rivera-John Wetteland bullpen pairing in �those great early years of Joe Torre,� when they were dominating the World Series. Truth: Rivera and Wetteland were Yankee teammates for two seasons, and Torre managed them only in 1996. He said the �Yankees led the world� in home runs this season with 201. He liked saying it so much he said it again. Truth: The Brewers led the majors with 231, followed by the Phillies with 213 and the Reds at 204. The Yankees and Marlins were tied at 201. He extolled Alex Rodriguez�s �offensive heroics in the first two months of the season� for keeping the Yankees in the race. Truth: A-Rod had a sensational April, but he slumped in May to a .235 batting average with 5 home runs and 11 runs batted in. He introduced Indians reliever Joe Borowski in Game 3 as having played for the Brewers and the Reds. Truth: He never played for Milwaukee, and while he once signed with the Reds, he never made it out of spring training. Caray also noted his hometown, Bayonne, N.J., but pronounced it as if it were part of the Louisiana bayou. The error bug also hit the reporter Craig Sager, who reflected on the absence of Bob Sheppard, the Yankee Stadium public address announcer, and said that his first game in 1951 was between the Giants and the Yankees. Truth: The Red Sox were in town. Caray does not distinguish a go-ahead run from a winning run. In Cleveland on Friday, he said the Indians had the winning run on second base in the bottom of the eighth, and he put the Yankees in the same position in the top of the ninth. Wrong. He also believes that a runner on second will automatically score on a single. Not always. He also has an annoying air of certitude. With the bases loaded Sunday, and the Yankees leading, 5-3, thanks to Johnny Damon�s three-run homer, Caray said, �This is a spot where they have to score another run to win the game.� Does he also read palms? That attitude led him on Sunday, after Rodriguez�s first hit of the series, to say, �And here come the Yankees!� A-Rod went back to the bench on Jorge Posada�s double play. After Damon�s run-scoring single in the third, he said, �And here they come!� No, they didn�t: Jeter promptly grounded into a double play. I�m sure that Caray believed his own words when he said, about the Andy Pettitte-Fausto Carmona Game 2 matchup, that �you can�t get better postseason pitching than we�ve seen tonight.� But there had been better, like that perfect game at Yankee Stadium in 1956 when the 42-year-old Chip�s legendary grandfather, Harry, was only 42. Had the frequently (and ridiculously) loud Caray stayed on mute throughout the series, the analysis of his partners, Tony Gwynn and, to a greater degree, Bob Brenly, would have been worth three or four hours of my time. But a stronger play-by-play voice, like TBS�s other division series announcers, Don Orsillo, Ted Robinson or Dick Stockton, would have made Brenly and Gwynn better. TBS knows how to fix what�s wrong. Yesterday it added SNY�s Ron Darling to its studio program, providing experience that neophytes like Frank Thomas and Cal Ripken lack. Here are some questions to ponder through the rest of Caray�s work this postseason. Why isn�t he better prepared? If his producer, Jeff Gowen, is listening to what he is saying, why isn�t Caray improving? And why should I have to keep rushing to MLB.com to fact-check his facts? Notes Through Sunday�s games, TBS�s division series average viewership of 5.4 million is up impressively from 4.5 million last year on ESPN, ESPN2 and Fox. ...The NHL Network, with 50 live games and other programming, announced deals to be carried by Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, DirecTV and Dish. It will most likely be available largely on digital sports tiers.

MFS62 wrote: OK, then what other theories do y'all have? Later How about he's a young player, still learning, tried to do too much, lost his focus, got tired, ate too many jelly beans, ran out of clean underwear....

Go Sox.

I think it would be pretty cool if the Red Sox and Yankees changed places in terms of dominance and failures. Maybe the Red Sox coming back from 0-3 to the Yanks in '04 really was a reverse of the curse. It would be 2 championships in the last 4 years for them as opposed to the biggest post-season choke in history and three first round knockouts for the Yanks. If the Sox win it this year again Yankee fans would have to start wondering about the mojo. Go Sox.

Edgy DC wrote: The point is that arguing in his defense isn't so far fetched that you have to go to an alternate universe to fetch the argument. I'm not quite sure why you seem so willing to give Glavine a pass. His last three starts don't bother you as much as they do a lot of us?

Okay - I reconsidered and voted Rox.

I enjoyed that article martin, thanks.

On WFAN today Francesa & Russo had Omar on and asked him if it was true that the Mets are leaning towards not trying to re-sign Castillo based on his hard-partying influence on Reyes. It wasn't stated as fact, rather a rumor they heard and brought it up to Omar. Minaya said that that was the first he'd heard that - you know what he's sayin'?

4-2 Rockies, bottom 8.

I'll keep that in mind going forward.

Once again - you know exactly what I'm trying to say.

He came here with a seasonal average of 16-9 and a 2.67 ERA over his 16 years with the Braves. He took a hell of a lot of money to then average 12-11, 3.97 over the next 5 years. His regularly scheduled clock cleaning appointments always coincided with his facing the Braves. He choked so bad he made Mets fans fondly remember Armando Benitez. Good riddance you non-emotional professional athlete.

Vlad - sadly you are just too young.

I'd like to be as insane as Scott Boras.

You'd have to at least think about a deal like that. But then who do you replace Reyes with?

I was rooting for the Pods this postseason now what do I do? I hate when teams with state names and stupid nicknames (Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks) push themselves into baseball lore so I can't root for them. Since I'm an NL guy all I have left is the Phillies (oof.) and the Cubs (eh, maybe). I like the idea of the Indians winning but I don't know a lot about them and I'm not sure I really care to learn. Yankees and Red Sox are kind of boring. Los Angeles Angels might just be my default team. I'll keep you all posted.

Duh.

I watched this game to the end - fun game, exciting. Reminded me to some extent of Game 6 against Houiston in '86. Long extra inning game, back and forth, everything on the line. Fun.

No. He doesn't. He spit the bit twice in those last games. Tom Glavine needs to retire or play somewhere else. For what its worth I was never a big Leiter fan either.

Well whoopie-dam-doo for Tom Glavine. He's mentally fit! Boy I feel better now. The athletes never have as much invested as the fan. Most of us have been rooting for the NEW YORK METS for years, since we were kids even. We see 'METS' we see so much more than a bseball team, we see our whole lives. These kind of losses and seasons hurt so much because the Mets are a part of us. To the vast majority of players the teams they play for are simply their employers. Nothing more, nothing less. That's why when a franchise gets a guy that seems to care as much as the fans do - Derek Jeter, Ken Griffey, Craig Biggio, George Brett, Tony Gwynn, Cal Ripken, etc. that guy becomes beloved. The fans feel like that guy has as much invested as they do. Maybe we've got one in Wright. I'd like to think so. I don't blame Glavine for feeling the way he does, I understand it. His nonchalant postgame reaction doesn't bother me. All I heard all season about Glavine was '300, Hall of Fame, crafty veteran, mentor to the young pitchers, blah, blah, blah' and when push came to shove it looked like he didn't even make an effort.