Come on Moj! This is V-W Day! Ding-dong the witch is dead!! Jeff Weaver was Yankee cyanide, while Brown is a capable pro. I thought his performance ('98, SD?)against the Yanks was merely mediocre...
The only fear and downside to this is injuries, but if Boomer could come back, then so should Brown.
OTOH, what were Cashman and Steinbrenner thinkin' by not retaining Pettitte??
You would have loved Mike and the Mad Dog's hammering of Cashman on their show yesterday. Cashman admitted a $52m/4 deal may have kept Pettitte, and at that, they dangled it but with all kinds of strings. Ultimately Cashman then personally admitted he didn't think Pettitte was worth it! Dog and Francesa were both livid! The two of them not only thought he was deserved of it, but wondered how Cashman could let a guy like this walk IN HIS PRIME, when the Yanks were flinging at anybody and everybody millions for nominal players like Mondesi, Karsay, etal. The $39m the Yanks offered in Andy's mind wasn't enough for him to have stayed in NY over "home-town" Houston, but that $52m was....
The Yanks shot themselves this time -- you don't replace Andy arm, NOR character and leadership.
lol....alright, alright. You KNOW I'm thrilled to get rid of Weaver. I'm just a little skeptical about the health of KB. But as you correctly said last week, Brown running on fumes is much better than Weaver.
Cashman is the real wicked witch here. (The names Mondesi, Weaver, Boone, Ventura, and Claussen immediately come to mind). The guy should be run out of town on a rail. His moves almost always smack of desperation. .....and his latest one - not signing Pettitte - smacks of apathy, ignorance, and arrogance. The Yanks dissed Pettitte one too many times, it appears.
I'm sure Mike - what's the dude's last name? - is just killing Cashman. He'll doubtless have a few words to say about it this Sunday on Mike'd Up. Did you see last week's show? He started out by saying that he's not going to say a word about the Giants because their season is obviously over. I thought "yeah right," but Mike kept his word. ..Not a peep about G-Men disaster. The only good news on that front is that it appears that the Midgets are not even going to make their usual late-season surge ......so perhaps they'll get a decent draft pick out of it.