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The Daily News decided to give the Yankees the back page for the off-day after the All-Star Game. I guess they deserve it, seeing as the AL win will give them home field advantage in the World Series and all. But, for some reason, the News didn't want to talk about this year's postseason. Instead the focus on the Official Most Boring Day on the Sports Calendar edition was the year 2009, when the new Yankee Stadium will open, and specifically who will be playing for the Yankees then. I guess that's the sort of year it's been up there - the paper has resorted to saying "Wait 'til TWO YEARS from now!"
FenSheaParkway needs to know its enemy, so it was enthralled. What exactly will the dashing third place team of 2009 be wearing? Some of the names proposed for the rotation, aside from who's already there:
Johan Santana (obvious)
CC Sabathia (plausible)
Ben Sheets (The thing about Carl Pavano was, no one KNEW he was going to get hurt over and over again. with Sheets, you kinda know.)
Roy Oswalt (prediction made by someone who must watch zero Baseball)
Eric Bedard (2009's AJ Burnett)
Roger Clemens (heh)
To be fair, the pattern for each participant was to put an expensive free agent at the top and fill out the rest of the rotation with Chien-Ming Wang and other younger players, which is some combination of admirable, naive and forgetful.
The field had consensus and incumbant picks at SS, 2B, LF and C. The newcomers could end up being:
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Mike Lowell or Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Torii Hunter, CF
Miguel Cabrera, 3B or RF
Other random ones: Derek Lee, Eric Byrnes, Matt Holliday, Nick Swisher, Troy Glaus
It's obvious that this issue was all about selling papers on a slow news day because it's pretty dumb to speculate about Baseball 21 months from now. That extreme longview means such an exercise is sort of limited to the obvious, because you can't really predict who's GOING to become plausible. But what amused me about this whole thing is that the Daily News has been railing against the Yankees' all season for having their big-ticket approach seem to blow up in their face. To then turn that into an off-day project picking a bunch of big-ticket players for the future Yankees strikes me as a little cynical. They can't be saying this is what SHOULD happen, given their almost unanimous condemnation of the Yankees' roster construction. If the News writers are saying this is what they think WILL happen, in light of their (probably deserved) criticism of the Yankees philosophy, then not only do they not think the team is capable of changing its philosophy, but they are also trying to give their Yankee fan readers heart problems.
Maybe tomorrow we'll get to see what the Mets 2009 Citi Field lineup will look like.
FenSheaParkway needs to know its enemy, so it was enthralled. What exactly will the dashing third place team of 2009 be wearing? Some of the names proposed for the rotation, aside from who's already there:
Johan Santana (obvious)
CC Sabathia (plausible)
Ben Sheets (The thing about Carl Pavano was, no one KNEW he was going to get hurt over and over again. with Sheets, you kinda know.)
Roy Oswalt (prediction made by someone who must watch zero Baseball)
Eric Bedard (2009's AJ Burnett)
Roger Clemens (heh)
To be fair, the pattern for each participant was to put an expensive free agent at the top and fill out the rest of the rotation with Chien-Ming Wang and other younger players, which is some combination of admirable, naive and forgetful.
The field had consensus and incumbant picks at SS, 2B, LF and C. The newcomers could end up being:
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Mike Lowell or Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Torii Hunter, CF
Miguel Cabrera, 3B or RF
Other random ones: Derek Lee, Eric Byrnes, Matt Holliday, Nick Swisher, Troy Glaus
It's obvious that this issue was all about selling papers on a slow news day because it's pretty dumb to speculate about Baseball 21 months from now. That extreme longview means such an exercise is sort of limited to the obvious, because you can't really predict who's GOING to become plausible. But what amused me about this whole thing is that the Daily News has been railing against the Yankees' all season for having their big-ticket approach seem to blow up in their face. To then turn that into an off-day project picking a bunch of big-ticket players for the future Yankees strikes me as a little cynical. They can't be saying this is what SHOULD happen, given their almost unanimous condemnation of the Yankees' roster construction. If the News writers are saying this is what they think WILL happen, in light of their (probably deserved) criticism of the Yankees philosophy, then not only do they not think the team is capable of changing its philosophy, but they are also trying to give their Yankee fan readers heart problems.
Maybe tomorrow we'll get to see what the Mets 2009 Citi Field lineup will look like.