Manny to the Yankees? Another Christmas gift for Red Sox Nation

Could it be?Seriously... could the Yankees be finally saying to the world "WE ARE RUDDERLESS!"?The Yankees are potentially thinking about bringing in Manny Ramirez?Why not just tell Andy Pettitte to stay home?Why not tell Derek Jeter "We think the clubhouse has been too peaceful"?Could the Yankees be reverting back to all of their awful late 1980s, early 1990s habits of bringing in people that

Some Green from the Teal - Giving the Florida Marlins some credit

It is easy to trash the fish for their cheap ways. But right now they are looking to make the NL East very very interesting in 2012.The Marlins are indeed the strangest franchise in all of American sports. On the surface they look like a classic Quadruple A team like the Royals and Pirates. They trade veterans for prospects, turn those prospects into big league players and when they ask for too

Brian Cashman is having a hell of an off season

On December 3rd of this year, Brian Cashman rappelled off of a 350 foot building in Stamford Connecticut. He did NOT fall to his death.And that is probably the one positive thing that has happened to Cashman this off season.As of this writing, Cashman's improvements to the team have been NOT losing two Yankee legends, signing a non tendered catcher from the Dodgers, an adequate lefty reliever

How happy are the Twins they signed Joe Mauer when they did?

Not that Joe Mauer came cheap. He is paid like a unique superstar which he is.But holy cow, compare Carl Crawford and Jayson Werth's contract and their worth to Mauer... an MVP batting champion home town hero catcher?And if he was on the open market can you imagine the Yankees desperate to make a splash and with a huge hole at catcher and an inviting right field porch doing the bidding?Can you

Another Cliff Lee thought

Each day Cliff Lee doesn't sign, it seems like the Rangers, the Yankees and probably some other team add more money to the offer.Each week that goes by it seems like another year is thrown onto the contract.What if Cliff Lee waited until just before spring training?Get the teams all sweating.He could have a 15 year contract for $375 million.Hey, it's worth a shot!

Aww... Wittle Derek's Feelings Got Hurt

Now before I get bombarded with Yankee fan e mails calling me a gutless, hating Red Sox fan, let me get a few things out of the way.1) Derek Jeter is a great Yankee.2) Derek Jeter has been a wonderful superstar.3) Derek Jeter belongs in the Hall of Fame.4) I would have loved to have seen Derek Jeter in a Red Sox uniform.5) I have praised Jeter on this blog with this post, this post and this post.

Red Sox get Carl Crawford! Two can play this evil game!

It's starting to feel a lot like 2003, 2004 and 2005 in here. And your pal Sully couldn't be happier.As I wrote back in 2007, the Red Sox are an evil empire as well. And MAN it is fun to root for the bad guys!The Red Sox picked up the best two left handed bats available and didn't have to give up Jose Inglesias,, Ryan Kalish or Daniel Bard.They've gone from having a rotation of Darnell McDonald,

Come to Fenway, Carl

It's a little better than the Trop.There is the Green Monster in left rather than those stupid rings in the Trop that you could hit with a flyball.And oh yeah, they don't have to literally GIVE tickets away to fill up the place.I think you'll like it.I know trying to sign Crawford away from Tampa, which the Red Sox are evidently trying to do, makes my team as greedy and as vulture like as the

Giants sign Pat Burrell and fill their need for a hitter who can't field and strikes out a lot

That is according to Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News, and why would he lie to me?But it strikes me as an odd move.Yeah he got a bunch of big homers when he came over to the Giants after being cut by Tampa.And sure he is a graduate of Bellarmine Prep in San Jose was a local kid who helped the Giants win their first World Series title by the Bay.But let's face it, a lot of Pat

Good luck Victor Martinez

Victor Martinez has moved on from the Red Sox. There was no post season glory with him behind the plate. Heck the Sox never won a post season game in the year and a quarter he called Fenway home.But he got a few hits for the Sox, made an All Star team and was a likable enough guy to root for.This Red Sox fan wishes him well as he goes off to Detroit.Meanwhile with Martinez gone and Beltre certain

The Red Sox need to offer Mariano Rivera a three year contract

Wait a second! The Yankees are playing hardball with Mariano Rivera?Um… wow.That is the most staggeringly stupid thing I have ever heard in free agent history.YES, stupider than the Cubs offering Milton Bradley a long term deal.YES, stupider than the Rangers making Chan Ho Park one of the top paid pitchers in baseball.If there is ever a lynch pin to the success of the Yankees since 1996, it has

Would someone else PLEASE bid on Derek Jeter?

Derek Jeter will be a New York Yankee in 2011.Everyone on the planet Earth knows that.I am sure there is a bushman in the Kalahari desert bewildered by a Coke bottle who when asked about Jeter's contract status would reply "Jeter? *Click* He's not going anywhere! *Click*"And yet both Jeter and management are playing out a bizarre charade as if he could play elsewhere.One Yankee executive (whose