Never mind the pair of burnt flashcubes we received from Pittsburgh - and even if you add the geriatric tsunami, Ibanez and Chavez, figuring we signed them with the AJ money. None can pitch. Burnett's injury - after you get past snarking - serves to remind us how fast pitching disappears. A bunt - yer gone.
Of course, our own injuries will come soon enough. Exhibition games start this weekend.
Write this down: Pittsburgh will deal Burnett at the deadline to Boston, or Anaheim, or Texas, or somebody that hates us, doubling their hate, and we'll face him Kenny Rogers-style in October, and it will happen because we started to like the taste of sucking dimes.
When an organization's top priority is to cut spending, all else becomes lip-service. You see it with companies. You see it with governments. You see it with sports teams. The brass bloviates about "doing more with less," but in the end, it's just less.
Trading Burnett was moving toward less. Now, he's hurt. Haha, we're saved! But we're not truly saved. We're not saved from the mentality of cost-cutting. And I gotta think we'll face AJ again. Let's just hope he needs to bunt.
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Rooting here for AJ to come back and pitch with a mask. But what's wrong with sucking dimes? Better than nickels, and they pass easier if swallowed.
I hate to say this, but if you're going to keep harping so will I. AJ will help they Yankees more by nursing his broken face in Pittsburgh than he would have by shitting the bed for NY every fifth day. They could have traded him for a new Cashman stalker and it would have been a net gain.
O? You're going to celebrate Freddy Garcia's regular abomination?
Have they bought you off too?
That's a false equivalency that would have made Breitbart proud.
If Garcia sucks, they can sit him down or show him the door. He's not making forty zillion a year.
There you go: Pennywise, pound foolish.
We'll get the budget down to where you want it. In third place.
That's a straw man argument worthy of Limbaugh.
I never said we should get rid of AJ to save money. I said they should move him so he stops losing games for us. Recognizing that Garcia's contract makes him more conveniently disposable is not not the same as feeling concern for what the Yankees spend.
Stop lying about my record.
We got nothing for Burnett. And when Garcia gets hammered, or injured, or whatever, we will have nobody to replace him, because we gave away Burnett - for nothing.
No. I take it back. We saved the owners some money.
Does that make you feel good? If so, why don't you drive to Florida and offer Hal and Hank foot massages. You Foot-Massage-Yankee-Fans make me sick.
There you go again.
We did get something for Burnett. Something that will add wins.
Not having to run Burnett out there.
That's what we got for Burnett.
They're going to trade Burnett to the Angels, and he's going to pitch against us in the playoffs, and he's going to do a Kenny Rogers, and you're going to sit there and say, "Hooray, we got rid of Burnett."
Foot-Massage-Yankee-Fan. That's what you are.
If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts...
You are both wrong. We won't face Burnett in the playoffs because we won't be there. But no luxury tax in 2014!
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