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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, January 06, 2009Andy Pettitte Rejects Yankees’ Offer, Making Return Uncertain (RR)
Steady trusty emesis basin...steady. Repoz
Posted: January 06, 2009 at 12:36 AM | 31 comment(s)
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Alternately, he will go to the Mets after the Phillies sign Derek Lowe.
This is what happens when you use Babelfish to translate Repoz into English.
Rangers could probably use him.
This piece by Kepner is laughable in that he skips over some rather relevant facts in his rush to declare Pettitte honest and sincere. Here, I'll fix it for Kepner, my additions being underlined:
Seriously now. Kepner's portrayal of Pettitte is just surreal. It's not just that Pettitte told a lie, but that he lied over and over again in a written statement, during which he had the gall to say "People that know me will know that what I say is true." And from that, Kepner concludes that Pettitte is "honest," "sincere," and "earnest."
Yeah; oftentimes the relevant factor for the player is not how much money he "needs," but how much he thinks he's worth. And Pettitte is clearly worth more than 1 year, $10 million. He's worth a multi-year deal for at least that much annually. On a 1 year k he's worth $15 million or so.
OUCH!
And to think some Primates have actually asked me why I switched my motherf*ck*ng handle!
How many times in their history did the Rangers have five starters who outperformed Andy's projected 2009?
I can barely remember when the Rangers have had five legitimate starters! '96? The Rangers were the closest MLB franchise to me for a decade or so when I was in Austin and I still have nightmares about watching the like of Dave Burba pitch in Arlington. It was fun to watch Helling and Sele have their struggles but win night after night.
The New York media will make a really big deal out of how Pettitte is the one who re-started negotiations and came crawling back to the upstanding front office, which was forced - forced! - to reconsider their otherwise unbending commitment to honor blustery ultimata, but the result will be just like any other perfectly normal negotiation.
And, really, if Pettitte wants to be in NY, why haven't the Mets gone after him yet?
I think if he walks away and doesn't sign elsewhere, the Yankees will sign him to a pro-rated $15 million contract if one of their starters goes down for the year or they decide to move Joba to the bullpen mid-season to control his innings.
Doesn't do enough coke. They want nothing to do with Gary Carter these days either. ;-)
I just assume Andy Pettite leads some kind of Bad Lieutenant-like double life.
I don't think Cashman's going to back down on this, but MCOA may be right. I'd still like to see them sign Sheets. I wonder how hurt he is.
I guess one could look at it that way, but I don't see why we should assume he wouldn't go elsewhere. As JC points out, he did already, once. And this time around the Yankees are lowballing him. And Torre is in LA.
I don't care that Pettitte used HGH; hell, I don't even care that he lied about it. But calling him "honest" is simply not accurate -- at least as far as his public life goes. I really have to wonder whether Tyler Kepner is retarded. I can't conceive of a rational thought process that results in concluding that Pettitte is a shining beacon of honesty and sincerity, on the heels of the events of the last year.
The Dodgers are looking at a 5th starter on the cheapish. They're not going to pay for Andy Pettitte over $10 million to play for the Dodgers. Heck, $10 million is the limit.
He's using a different "replacement" level for honesty.
You see, that's your mistake right there. Assuming that there must be thought involved, much less rational thought. Kepner's just saying what everyone knows to be true -- Andy Pettitte is an honest guy. Period. It's true because everyone knows it. Duh.
A Texas writer once referred to Burba's pitching style as "chuck and duck."
Roger Clemens's true Yankeeness trumps the Yankees themselves. Clearly you have to follow him wherever he may lead.
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