Saturday, November 27, 2010

AND THE BEAT GOES ON...

***JETER AND THE YANKS***
Jeter's agent, Casey Close, has stated that the 6yr/$25 million bid was completely untrue, but failed to offer 'correct' amounts. Okay, so now what? I like Rob Neyer's take on this. In case you aren't aware, Neyer is a writer for ESPN, and has no idea about baseball unless there is a number attached. He's the biggest sabre metric nerd on the ESPN site. In today's column, Rob says: 1) The Yanks & Jeter will agree to some compromise deal, 2) Jeter will accept the Yanks initial offer, 3) he will play for some other team for a lot less money. Now this is the way to predict the outcome of any negotiation: you pick BOTH sides and the middle. Way to go, Rob.

***A LOT OF MONEY IS BEING THROWN AROUND***
The talk is always about all the dollars the Yanks are going to throw at Cliff Lee, but there are three other teams who are at least talking about going big in the marketplace. Texas, who has always been in the game, the Angels, who are threatening to throw some money around, and now Detroit. They just put Victor Martinez in the fold, and with their pitching staff, this could be a dangerous team next year.

***I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE NO MATH***
From David Thomas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "You know, you'd think that in a game involving Northwestern, someone would figure out well beforehand that there was a space problem with putting a football field inside Wrigley Field."

***AS ADVERTISED***
The Iron Bowl was played in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, yesterday, and it lived up to all expectations. Alabama took a 21-0 lead in the first quarter and led 24-0 at one time, before taking a 24-7 lead into the locker room at the half. Auburn never gave up, however, and pulled out a 28-27 win, in what may be the best college game of the year. All this before more than 101,000 fans.

I didn't see the game, but the Syracuse Orange basketball team squeezed out a 53-50 win over Michigan. SU's top recruit, Fab Melo, the 7-foot freshman center was pulled in the first half and never re-appeared, scoring 0 points and 0 rebounds. From what little I've seen, he looks over-matched. Luckily, Boeheim doesn't have a lot more hair to lose. We'll see if there's any improvement tonight.

CP-








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