I wanted the Angels to get him. Or someone outside of New York/Boston. Just once I wish a free agent would show some imagination and not sign with the red sox, yankees or mets. Why has nobody signed with the Rays? Granted, their revenue streams aren't even close to the NY/Boston teams, but they won the toughest division in baseball, beat the Red Sox in the ALCS, and they don't make any noise in free agency? That fanbase doesn't NEED another reason to get excited, but they'd be more than happy if you gave them one.

who was it that was saying that the NFL losing a salary cap wouldn't be bad because baseball was doing just fine without one?

Brock ... Rausch??



there was a couple of them

Sometimes I think they should add a third team in NYC. I know it will never happen, but the luxury tax does nothing to curb the Yanks or Mets spending. Put a third team in there and at least take some market share, however little it would be.
The Yankees are sickening. They have the whole NYC, NJ (millions), Long Island (millions), the counties upstate, Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany and even quite a bit of PA as media markets, not to mention nationwide bandwagon Yankee fans that watch on YES. I lived in Williamsport, PA for 3 years and saw more Yankee hats than Philly or Pirate hats.
I hate the Yankees. I hate bandwagon Yankee fans even more.

Hopefully he works out as well as Giambi did.

What a ****ing joke.

If the other teams start folding up like crazy then it will happen or attendance just bottoms out elsewhere...

Pettitte is currently a FA.

What would you do? Make the most money you could, or "show imagination"

Seriously. Don't blame players for doing what is smart.

He's waiting for God to tell him who's going to pay him the most money.

it's so smart that baseball is now getting is azz powned by football.

And still making $$$ hand over fist.

Baseball contract money is guaranteed. football isn't.

what does that have to do with the overall health of the sport?

Baseball WAS America's sport ... no competition.


stupid baseball union and weak ownership just gave that away.

the fact that the players don't give a shit isn't surprising at all.

There's no ****ing commissioner in baseball. it's run by the owners. after 1994 it was no longer America's sport.

well, they spent $220 million on a non-playoff appearance last year

Donald Fehr has had more to do with screwing up Baseball than Bud Selig ever thought about having.

stupid union get the power and ate it up ... what am i saying. The Players in baseball don't belong to a Union .... that's insulting Unions.