Tex For Christmas

The reports where sure fired guarantees, at any moment the off season’s jewel slugger was about to call the city of Boston his new home and jack the Red Sox to the preseason throne of the A.L East. It was bound to happen, sure to happen! It didn’t happen, but the fact that it didn’t happen does not eat away at Red Sox fans but the team that did sign him sure does. Tex is going to be wearing pinstripes this spring instead of an old English B on his forehead and the difference was $12 Million. That’s $12 Million that says to the people of Boston, sure we want to win, but not really THAT much. Let’s face it, Yankees management cares, if that’s a problem then sports is really going down the tube. The Mets play in the same market but don’t really feel like spending enough, the Red Sox have developed a national following the is beginning to rival the Yankee’s , but always seem to come up $12 Million short. [A-rod in ‘04 and now this]The Royals owner [David Glass] owns Wall Mart for Christ’s sake! He bathes in thousand dollar bills, he’s practically as rich as Jesus and he can’t afford to thrown 2% of his fortune at making the Royals competitive? Because he pockets every dime he makes and doesn’t feel like throwing the team a bone, and that, believe it or not, is not the fault of the Yankees. Stu Sternberg [ Ray’s owner] made a fortune and a half in the stock market but Tampa, although they won the American League, can’t afford to spend more money then the Yankees do on the left side of the infield. Sports richest owner resides in Minneapolis [yes poor, small market Minnesota] as Carl Pohlad keeps a closed wallet and just pockets the cash he makes from running the Twins. He is said to be worth $1.8 Billion, more then enough to go out and try to get Tex.

The Yankees go out and spend more money then any other team, but don’t actually say that out loud because your missing the point by a huge margin. The Yankees in reality have no more money then any other team, the Steinbrenner family is probably not even in the top half of richest owners in baseball, because for every dollar that they make of owning the Yankees 100 cents goes back into making the franchise a well oiled winning machine. People who say the Yankees spend too much money are looserist, people who apparently think that there is a problem with wanting to win. The Yankees want to win and fans who have balls-less owners always cry and complain about it. If David Glass wanted to go out and offer Mark Teixeira $200 Million he easily could, and then he could turn around and offer C.C Sabathia another $200 Million and still not dive into half his fortune, but I guess he doesn’t think that Kansas City deserves a winner.

In a previous post I said that after signing C.C Sabathia and A.J Burnett the Yankees need to win the world series or some people should be fired. The Yankees possible pitching rotation looks like this:
C.C. Sabathia
A.J Burnett
Chein-Ming Wang
Joba Chamberlin
Andy Pettite [ possibly]

And the lineup:

1.Johnny Damon
2. Derek Jeter
3. Mark Teixeira
4. Alex Rodriguez
5. Hideki Matsui
6. Jorge Posada
7.Robinson Cano
8.Nick Swisher
9. Melky Cabrera

I’m sorry but if your Joe Girardi and you do not win it all with that lineup then find a job somewhere else. Tex is good for 7 years of hitting over .315 and has 5 more gold gloves in him, C.C has won a Cy Young in the A.L and Burnett has ace stuff when healthy, Girardi has to understand that this is his chance to show us that he deserves to be a Yankee. I love how the Red Sox had to take almost a month to get Teixeira to almost sign with them but the Yankees submitted an offer at noon today and had the deal done in four hours. It’s the difference between the Yankees and Red Sox I guess, the Red Sox try to poke and prod at clients while the Yankees do whatever they can to sign them.

So it turns out that Sabathia and Burnett where the opening act, and Tex the main attraction, all I know is this, there is a new favorite in the A.L, and the pre season throne is back where it belongs, in the Bronx.

Just a thought.