That's the question in the Yankiverse tonight.
We just let go two proven winners in New York, two great Yankees, two World Series heroes, two clutch hitters, two great clubhouse presences... because we want to be cheap.
We're the richest team in baseball, but we want to be cheap.
We just let go two of New York's most popular players and replaced them with two wild cards. One hits .215 against lefties and played a key role the biggest team collapse of 2009. The other spends a month each year on the disabled list and has not in the last five years played for team that was going anywhere.
But we wanted to be cheap. And so we are.
Two questions:
How are we going to feel when Boston signs Johnny Damon?
How will we feel when Matsui has a great year in Los Angeles?
Have we thought of those yet?
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Nick Johnson replaces Hideki Matsui, and Curtis Granderson replaces Johnny Damon: Please tell me how we are better off?
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They're both younger and the Yankees aren't being cheap, they're are good deals to get out there and they are going after them.
Relax, Cashman already said that he doesn't want to spend this offseason because next offseason is going to have much better players.
Yeah, and we'll be spending big next ofseason, after we finish out of the playoffs in 2010.
Its downright disgusting what the Yankees have done. How can you replace Johnny Damon with Curtis Granderson. No more Johnny Rockets?...that is heart breaking. And replace a DH with a worse DH? After Matsui and Damon both had key moments in the playoffs to help win they show them no respect.
We are not better off. We are worse off.
RIP: Thrilla by Godzilla! & It's a Johnny Rocket!
Today is a sad day
We are better off because neither Johnson nor Granderson are zombies, nor are they aquatic humanoids.
Whoa whoa whoa. Matsui backstabbed us. He just up and signs with the Angels for the "Bobby Abreu special"? And says that he didn't want to wait for the Yankees? And the Angels said they'd try him in LF?
Damon? He lost all his money in that scandal, can't throw more than 50 feet, and is represented by a zombie death mask. He has to make millions to keep giving his wife plastic surgery and probably doesn't want to keep shaving his face anymore.
My conclusion: They're both old mercenaries at this point; let's get some younger guys in here (even though Johnson looks older than dirt at 31)!
Matsui and Damon performed brilliantly this year. But they're not the reasons we won. CC and Mo are.
A combined 15 years younger maybe?
Not signing Damon means that the Yankees won't trade Swisher, who means a hell of a lot more to the Yankees than Johnny or Hideki
Nick Johnson is good. I like him. He'll be a nice player.
It's sad to see Matsui go. Almost everybody would prefer him over Nick.
Damon had a chance to return, but 3 years for a 37 year old LF in a steep decline is too much. I doubt anybody will pay him what he wants.
I like that the Yankees got younger and cheaper. And Granderson is much better than you realize.
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