A Baseball Negotiation, My Foot

The Catbird in the Nosebleed Seats ^ | 21 November 2010 | Yours Truly

[BluesDuke]

Mea culpa. I should have clarified and said 40-55 minutes by air, probably three hours or so by car. (Think he can't afford the air fares?) Lee lives in Benton. According to Travelmath.com he'd have about a 315 mile trip between his home and Arlington.

[hflynn]

Forget about skills. Jeter at 20 million per year will basically be paying for himself in JETER paraphernalia sales for the next 3 to 4 years . More important and way below the radar is the fact that JETER is ahead, ever so slightly, of Pete Rose's career number of hits. The Yankees have to lock JETER in 4 year contract on the admittedly remote possibility that a rejuvenated JETER posts hit numbers that begin to make 4000 look possible ias a Yankee. The guy is still on the correct side of the GOLDEN RULE which is HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE RULES.

[grey_whiskers]

The Gold Glove award is not a measure of defensive excellence but is instead a measure of a player’s popularity. Jeter is no where close to being the best defensive SS in the AL at this point in his career. He makes the routine plays but has no range.

Give me Mark Belanger.

Cheers!

[TexasNative2000]

I guess the subtle sarcasm didn't translate.

I figured you meant airtime - just a good natured poke. Well written and spot on. Looks like perhaps Jeter is going to be a more important signing than Lee.

[BluesDuke]

I guess the subtle sarcasm didn't translate.

I'm like any other pitcher---now and then I miss the spot. ;) Good show!

I figured you meant airtime - just a good natured poke.

Brother, you got me good! ;) But it sure didn't kill me to double-check.

Looks like perhaps Jeter is going to be a more important signing than Lee.

It's a distinct possibility. Depending on whether Nolan Ryan and company can persuade him of the home region advantages. As I noted in the essay, he sure did look a lot more comfortable pitching out of Texas than I'd seen him at any other time in his career, even in Cleveland when he worked in rotation with his buddy CC Sabathia. (That's one piece of leverage the Yankees may---may---have: Lee's friendship with Sabathia. Even their wives are said to be thisclose.) This is going to be a very interesting chess game . . .

[dangus]

>> I hope he goes to the METS <<

And I wish him well if he does.

>> and I hope you look at all the full seats at CITI and all the empty seats at Yankee Stadium and say WTF, I must have been wrong but <<

Hehehe. Just because Jeter moved cross-town? That’s silly.

>> the reality is that Jeter will get 17 million per year guaranteed for 3 or 4 years with incentives that might take him to 85+. The Steinbrenners are not stupid. There is no way Jeter doesn’t get 3000 hits as a Yankee. This Cash BS is nothing more than keeping the METS off the back page. <<

Yeah, it’s all a conspiracy to keep the Mets off the back page. “Cause these salary disputes rev up the fan base soooo much. Oh, wait... it’s not even baseball season.

[hflynn]

Yeah, it’s all a conspiracy to keep the Mets off the back page. “Cause these salary disputes rev up the fan base soooo much. Oh, wait... it’s not even baseball season.

Right a-hole. Check out your New York newspapers. I wonder why all I see is JETER,JETER, JETER stories. Dangus you are . . . . . . . . . . Well even if you do not know what you are everybody else does.

[hflynn]

Yeah, it’s all a conspiracy to keep the Mets off the back page. “Cause these salary disputes rev up the fan base soooo much. Oh, wait... it’s not even baseball season.

Right a-hole. Check out your New York newspapers. I wonder why all I see is JETER,JETER, JETER stories. Dangus you are . . . . . . . . . . Well even if you do not know what you are everybody else does.

[dangus]

>> Right a-hole. <<

Classy. I see a conversation about sports is enough to make you lose your dignity.

>> I wonder why all I see is JETER,JETER, JETER stories. <<

Really? That’s funny because I see Giants on the back page of mine. But I wasn’t denying that Jeter is a story, I was amused at the notion that Jeter being a story was a conspiracy against the Mets. The newspaper media does love the salary disputes: it’s a story that never ends; it allows them to line up with the unions against big, mean, old richie rich owners (as if the players weren’t filthy rich, but they’re union guys so that doesn’t count); it allows them to trash capitalism; and it allows them to keep the focus on the big names (like, yes, Jeter) that generate readers.

[hflynn]

Really? That’s funny because I see Giants on the back page of mine.

No shit. When you get off the back page after a Monday when the Giants played on Sunday in late November do you see a Jeter story or 2 or 3 or ..... on Jeter In the Post, News, and Newsday? Don't bother, you do.

[dangus]

You just can’t stop with the vulgarities, can you? Have you no dignity? No sense of shame, swearing like a sailor in a child-friendly forum? And over what?

[hflynn]

Yeah, it’s all a conspiracy to keep the Mets off the back page. “Cause these salary disputes rev up the fan base soooo much. Oh, wait... it’s not even baseball season.

Right, it's not even baseball season but . . . .

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 18, 2010

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 19, 2010

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 20, 2010

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 21, 2010 (BLUE STRIP BOTTOM OF PAGE)

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 24, 2010

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 25, 2010

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 26, 2010 (BLUE STRIP ON TOP OF PAGE)

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 27, 2010

AND FINALLY, THE CONSPIRACY TO KEEP THE METS OFF THE BACK PAGE EXPANDS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BACK PAGE NOVEMBER 30, 2010

[dangus]

Wow. Once again: what I’m laughing at is the absurd notion that putting Jeter on the back page is a conspiracy to keep the Mets off the back page. And no, it’s not baseball season, so all the articles about Jeter don’t imagine to a hill of beans, and don’t keep one fan from following the Mets. Seriously, dude: get some perspective. It just ain’t worth it.