Archive for November 1st, 2007

Torre officialy named manager of the LA Dodgers

Press conference monday.
from Dodgers site 

Yankees and Red Sox need to join forces, Rot on the Bench (er couch)

Yes, you heard me corretly. Both teams should agree to NEVER DEAL WITH A BORAS-REPRESENTED PLAYER EVER, EVER AGAIN.
Wouldn’t that be great? The two biggest baseball markets automatically out of the running for any of the players he represents? Would the big BIG free agents ever want to be represented by Boras? He would have significantly less [...]

Dear Scott Boras

Mike T: Excellent, excellent job on that post. My sentiments exactly.
If the current Yankee ownership even entertained a conversation with A-Rod at this point they would lose their bargaining position with all future players.

Dear Scott Boras

Excellent job, Mike.  Let me add a little bit of irony to the situation as well. 
When Bernie Williams first hit free agency (Boras was the agent), Bernie played the Yankees off of the Red Sox, that is all true.  However, when it came down to the 11th hour, Bernie by himself picked up the phone [...]

Dear Scott Boras,

I just wanted to drop you a line to let you in on reality.  The Yankees should NOT “treat A-Rod the same way they deal with reliever Mariano Rivera and catcher Jorge Posada, who also are free agents.” There are several reasons why A-Rod is not in the same situation as Posada and Rivera. 
1.  Mariano Rivera [...]

The scariest picture of Joe Girardi ever.

Coronation set for 1pm today. 3yrs, $7.8mil.
Torre close to finalizing a 3yr, 4+mil/yr contract with LA today.