Ditto

My paper's say Detroit wants Ajax and Hughes. Fuck em'!

Well, I'll tell ya, picking up Grandy would make Damon obsolete in a hurry. I don't know if he's a smart a player as Damon, or as clutch, but that short porch in right will draw him headlines. Plus, Damon's defensive skill have been crap lately. I hate to give up Ajax, though. Call me sentimental, but I'd like to see our players come up from down under. Kennedy I'm not sure about. We can live without Coke, and I'd pay someone to take Dunn.

He showed a little more ass this time. A true warrior.

I was thinking Osi was put on the back burner because of Romo's quick release. One of Osi's strengths is reaching around his blocker to grab the arm of the qb.

Lackey, Bay, and Holliday. If the Mets don't sign all three, boycott!

Halliday, Beckett, Matsuzaka, and Lester sound mean enough. It's gonna be interesting. Let's hope Cashman can drive up the price.

I agree completely. Concerning Hughes, it seems his degree of success depends on arm strength, and I don’t know how else you can get that without pitching till all those little muscles in your body are near exhaustion, or maybe roids. I wouldn’t have put him in the pen to begin with. He was just starting to come on when he was put out there to make room for Wang when Wang wasn’t doing too bad out there himself. His sinker was working lights out. No one can predict, but it’s possible Wang would have stayed healthy if he did stay out there. As far as Joba goes, I’m not sure he has the mentality to be either a closer or a set up guy. Although he was able to work out of few jams of his own making. He was pitching well in the first half of the season, so who knows what went wrong, Joba rules, lack of maturity, or what. I just hope we don’t trade either of these guys for a 32 yr old pitcher, especially if we have to throw in Moreno and Jackson.

That's what reset buttons are for, Nem, and I'd be willing to reset right now since what we're doing now isn't working.

Ordinarily, talk like this from an outsider would piss me off, but I think the dog is right on this one. Jacobs=no mas. The guy needs to grow a set and realize he has to fight for a yd or two, even if there isn't any holes opened up for him.

VG, you ought to E-mail this to Mara. Maybe we can get you on the payroll. No bs.

I corrected my post, Jocko.

I don't remember it, but I'll go with that. Yep! According to his rating, yeah. 92 vs 86 last year. He just seems to be rushing his throws or dumping them too early, and he's not using the pocket like he used to. Btw, I think Phillips being out has a lot of our defensive problems.

I like Blackburn. As I said before, he has a nose for the football. He also gives 100% on every play. He just doesn't seem to be able to read offensive alignments at this point, which is why he shouldn't be calling the shots. Corrected.

If he'd played at the level he did last year, we might be 8-2, even with our shitty defense. I don't know whether it's him or the rookie receivers running the wrong routes, or both. We also still can't consistently punch out a 1 or 2 yd gain when needed, either. That's another thing. Why don't they ever give Hedge the ball on short yardage. If anything, it would show their defenses that he's an option.

Now that that's settled, what's everybody think people will say if the Yanks sign Mauer it two years? Not that I think the Yanks will sign him. I mean, a gold glove catcher that hits .360 with some power? Nobody will be able to afford what he'd be worth.

Blu is still mad because before the Yankees bought the Babe, the Giants owned NY.

Unless Pettitte retires, I don't see a need for another starter. Don't forget, we also have Wang, and that makes him, Joba and Hughes vying for two starting spots. And, we can also put together a package to lure Halliday away from the Jays if their new GM is up for it. As far as M. Holliday and Bay go, they will be expensive. In fact, the Mets will be crazy if they don't go all out for both of them.

That might not be so far fetched. Osi isn't putting nowhere near the pressure on qb's that he has in the past.

Is that local news, AP, or what? Some of these articles are just speculation, or rumors started by the writers to sell newspapers.

I'm not sure, but I think Figgins can file for FA this year. If so, we can sign him if it's not too much, then unload Hairston. PS I just read where Figgins did file. He'd be a great pick up since playing him 4 times a week wouldn't hurt our line up one bit.

Ha, ha, Blu! But it's more like you guys can't let us celebrate without you're trying to make us feel guilty.

It makes it more of a dilemma since we also have an aging catcher and SS. You don't want to take either of those bats out of he line up, and although Jeter's holding up now, who knows about next year. The Yanks might be able to squeeze in either Matsui or Damon, but not both. I totally agree about the pitching. As far as replacing Mo, that's not going to happen, at least not in my lifetime. The guy is unflappable, and it's amazing how often he hits the target a catcher gives him. Until we find someone close, we'll probably have to go by committee.

It could be that pitchers, especially hard throwers, lose that extra pop on their fast ball without putting noticeably more effort into it. Then his location has to be near perfect. Just saying. Hopefully, that won't matter with Pettitte tonight since he relies on junk and finesse. Anyway, put me down as being against the 3 man rotation.

What's this about Arnsparger as a consultant? I didn't know he was still alive. The guy was a defensive genius, just not a good head coach.

If we match CC with Lee and Pettitte with Hamels, AJ and Gaudin should be able to take care of the rest. And also don't try to throw too many high fast ones like the last time. Fuckers were hitting them out on pitches they had no business swinging at.