Treat Mr Rivera With Respect Little Boss Hank S

Mariano Rivera eventually may accept the three-year, $45 million deal the Yankees have offered him, but the closer isn't quite ready to do so just yet.

It appears as though Rivera has given up on the idea of getting a fourth guaranteed year from the Yankees, but according to a source with knowledge of the situation, Rivera still is trying to negotiate some type of option for 2011, one that could kick in based on the number of games the righthander finishes during the first three years of the deal.

The Yankees increased their original offer to Rivera of three years and $39 million by $2 million per season, which would give him an annual average salary of $15 million, making him the highest-paid closer by more than $4 million per year.

But after hearing Hank Steinbrenner speak publicly about his age (the closer turns 38 at the end of the month), Rivera seems determined to get something else put into the contract. If Rivera can't get the Yankees to budge, according to a source, he is expected to accept the three-year deal, which he hasn't yet, despite an Internet report to the contrary.

"He is really mad," the source said. "But he'll still sign eventually."

******Great way to treat the money maker Mo has been for the Yankees. What do you expect when the Yankees are run by people in that Hobo state of Florida

Huh? A-Rod-ten is back for another 10 years

November 15, 2007 -- One day after Alex Rodriguez met with the Steinbrenner family in Tampa, the superstar third baseman and the Yankees agreed today on the parameters of a 10-year deal worth $275 million.



Jeez....50 home runs during season, a very long nap in the playoffs...well maybe he'll catch lighting in the bottle one of these playoffs



Number Two Loser Jason Giambi

NOW we need a first baseman who can hit 25-30 home runs, and Field the position better than a the man of stone handsno no not Roberto Duran- but our cowardly lion ( remember the fight with the Red Sox when Pedro knocked down Popeye and Jason was no where to be found!!!) little man JASON GIAMBI

Thank You Mr. George Steinbrenner

This Uta Hagen quote is how I sum you up






"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”



Thank you George Steinbrenner

It Was Interesting While It Lasted Boss George

Inside sources tell me George Steinbrenner at best his health is "fragile" and at it's worse my source tells me Boss George is becoming more confused and somewhat incoherent. With Hal S. and Hank S. taking all the shots and requests at the this past GM meetings, I quess the incredible era of George Steinbrenner is fast coming to a close.

Boo

The fact is, there may never be an uglier welcome awaiting an athlete than the one that's in store for Alex Rodriguez whenever it happens. New York sports fans don't like it when athletes don't embrace them (even if it takes a while for the fans to extend the bear-hug arms too, as was the case here). But they REALLY don't like being scorned. Put the two together, and factor everything else that's been in play with A-Rod from the moment his acquisition was announced on Valentine's Day 2004 ...

Well. It's going to be something else, put it that way.



Don't pass-out A-Rodten- take it like a man-okay- I quess Iam shooting to high for the boy from Miami

THIS IS HOW BAD A-RODTEN IS...Agent Blames Everyone Else!

You just have to laugh sometimes when you hear Scott Boras speak. He must think everyone is as dumb as Tom Hicks, the Rangers owner he once convinced to pay Alex Rodriguez at least $50 million more than anyone else was willing to bid at the time.

Boras has made himself unusually available in the last few days, which means even he understands what a disastrous decision he made to upstage the World Series by leaking word of A-Rod's opt-out Sunday night.

Apparently he feels it's his duty to try to stem the flow of venom aimed at his client from baseball and media people all over the country. But yesterday he only inflamed the situation by insulting the intelligence of Yankee fans and anyone else who paid more than casual attention to A-Rod's trials and tribulations in pinstripes.

Check this Out-On ESPN's "First Take" show yesterday, Boras made the mistake of trying to defend A-Rod's failures in the postseason as some sort of twisted media perspective that needed correcting.

He even blamed Mariano Rivera as a cause for A-Rod's problems, which may be the height of desperation.

The question posed to Boras was why Rodriguez's regular-season numbers haven't translated to postseason success.

"That's a characterization that, when you look at the data, is frankly inaccurate," Boras said. "If you look at Alex's first season in New York, I believe he was 7-for-16 with two home runs and five RBIs going into Game 4 in Boston.

"The brilliant Mariano Rivera, probably the only flaw he's made in a historic career over the postseason, if he got those three outs (in the ninth inning of Game 4), Alex would have been in the World Series and he would have been held to have a great postseason.
"When you look at his records with Seattle - and even this year - you're talking about a player whose postseason records are really up there with many of the superstars of the game."

For some reason, the interviewer did not respond with some obvious follow-up questions. Like:

What about Games 5, 6, and 7 against the Red Sox, when even one clutch hit, particularly in Games 5 and 6, might have changed everything?

What about 2005 against the Angels?