No, he's not!

Maybe Gerrit Cole becomes an Astroglider. Maybe not. Who knows?

No one.

But if the Yanks are reported to be "uninterested," it may be time to measure him for pinstripes.

Consider the sources

Small-market would-be evil empirettes the redsocks have begun their 2018 disinformation campaign. 

Sad! Bigly!

From arch-enemy Fox-News-of Baseball NESN 

And Pravda on the River Charles: 

1. You hear a lot of stuff at the Winter Meetings. Here’s one rumor told to me by a longtime, major force in the baseball world. It involves the Yankees and Giancarlo Stanton. The story goes that after 2018, the Yankees deal Stanton to the Dodgers and sign Bryce Harper. Your first reaction is, “Wow! Never happen.” Then you start to think about it. Stanton is an LA kid. The Dodgers didn’t have great interest in Stanton this offseason, but perhaps by the end of next year? The Yankees have always coveted Harper and his lefthanded stroke at Yankee Stadium. It starts to make more sense, doesn’t it?

Uh, sure it does. (is that our old pal Pete Abe on the right?)

Torre: "It's Proctor's fault. He's stupid."

Now that Joe Torre doesn't have to rely on Scott Proctor's arm every six innings on both coasts, he can speak freely about the sturdy reliever's injuries.

And what does he say?

He's a dumb-ass for pitching so much.

"There's playing hurt, and then there's playing stupid," Torre said.

Awesome.

Spam blog?!?

Attention Google douchebags: Please make a left turn here.

Oblique Strain for Hughes

Well, that's the diagnosis, anyway, so Phil Franchise is the Yankees' DL Addition of The Day. Congrats, Phil!

Suzyn is hoping that Darrell Rasner gets called up. Her excitement is palpable (and kind of icky, actually.)
Maybe what's required now are some Oblique Strategies, a system of dealing with challenges, co-created by non-musician and former Roxy Music member Brian Eno, producer of U2 and the imminent Coldplay album.

They need hits, too. Couldn't hurt.