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MLB Trade Deadline Thoughts
Posted by: justkutch on Aug 4, 2009 at 12:35:14 AM

Since the baseball trade deadline is now a few days old, I figured I would add my thoughts on what transpired.


First off, I am actually happy that the Yankees did not make any major deals at the deadline. The fact that Hal Steinbrenner stuck to what he told Brian Cashman during the offseason, that is if you sign Mark Teixeira then there is no more money to make mid-season moves, well I applaud that. If you can’t win after spending $180 million on Teixeira, $161 million on CC Sabathia, and $82.5 million on A.J. Burnett, then you don’t deserve to win.


With that said, are the Yankees flawed? Absolutely, and not getting another starting pitcher, like Jarrod Washburn, might come back to bite them. But if this holds true and the team does not make waiver moves, then I am happy with

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Omar Minaya's Mess
Posted by: justkutch on Jul 28, 2009 at 12:22:51 AM

If you don’t live in the New York area, then you probably missed what happened earlier this afternoon. The New York Mets, and more specifically, Omar Minaya, held a press conference to announce that they had fired VP of Player Development, Tony Bernazard. While that was supposed to be the story of the conference, Minaya apparently went to the Alex Rodriguez school of press conferences, and instead of cleaning up the situation, made it infinitely worse.


It was one thing that Minaya was scrambling around trying to figure out what he was going to say, and in doing so, seemed to keep digging himself a deeper and deeper hole. Yet just when you thought it was awkward, the Mets GM made it that much more so by calling out Adam Rubin of the New York Daily News, the writer who broke the story.

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