The new Yankee Stadium will cost a reported $1.2 billion.  He says there are 300 million people in America.  The Yankees have given so much to America.  If each American would give 33 cents to the cause, the stadium would be fully funded.

Colin Cowherd is bad at math.

So WFAN's Joe and Evan (I missed them so much last week, what with Mike and Russo on vacation) just declared that the Oakland A's firesale has begun.  At first, I thought, "Holy Crap!  Why did Billy Beane trade Eric Chavez?"  Then I realized that they were referring to last night's trade of Jason Kendall to the Cubs.  The same player who Baseball Prospectus wrote off before 2006, is apparently the impetus for a firesale.  Time to quote one of my esoteric statistics:

Kendall's OPS the last three years: .666, .709, .542

An OPS of .700 is pretty much the OPS of a replacement level player.  So over the past three seasons, Kendall was barely above replacement level once.  In other words, the A's could play their AAA catcher and realize the same level of output.  Not only will the A's do that now (Sorry Joe but Piazza will remain the DH), the A's have managed to get someone in return.  A player who was just as well off by being jettisoned from the team, was sent away for someone in return.  Correct that - two people in return.  Clearly, the Cubs were trading for a name, not for value.  If either prospect pans out, Billy Beane can lay claim to having made another "F'ing A trade."