Cheapskate Yankee Brass Ought to Get in the Game

Baseball needs another collusion probe -- or maybe the Yankees need one -- because this crapola about us "keeping a tight budget" reeks of back room back rubs, and everybody knows who is bringing the medicated balm. Somewhere in the discussions with Bud "$18.5 mllion a year salary" Selig, we opted to poormouth, and the New York sportswriters bought it. That means Papa Bear, Hal, Hank, Jennifer, Jessica and Joan -- who have enough money to buy the states of Michigan and Utah -- can get away with talking about the leftfield situation in terms of Reed Johnson?

Reed Johnson? WTF?

How can we let the Yankees plead poverty when seats cost $1,000, we pissed TARP money into the luxury boxes, the NY logo is everywhere, chased by armies of lawyers. We ditched Johnny, Hideki, Chien-Ming and Nady -- if it's really this bad, why the hell are we keeping Jose Molina? -- and the big budget signing thus far is Nick "Eight home runs a year" Johnson.

The line troweled by YES, the official Yankee News Agency, is that we're waiting for next year's free agent class, which is absurd at best. Who really believes Cliff Lee, Joe Mauer, et al will go on the market next Thanksgiving? Never happen. They'll get traded. They'll get extended. Come 2011, flush with their Scrooge money, the Yankees will announce they have a new tight budget.

This is our management strategy:

Be cheap bastards until we fall out of the playoffs, then overpay like hell.

Reed Johnson? Nick Johnson?

How about somebody in the Steinbrenner clan showing his Johnson?