Yankees Draw Line in Sand, I Laugh My Ass Off
SI’s Jon Heyman is reporting that the Yankees have set a Monday deadline for their negotiations with the Twins concerning Johan Santana. The Yankees have constructed a package centered around top pitching prospect Phil Hughes and the wildly overrated Melky Cabrera.
That. Is. FUCKING. Rich. (I know. The period thing twice in 24 hours. I’m a douche.)
Wait, let me continue.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Yeah, the Yankees are such sticklers and tough negotiators. I’m really buying that they’re going to drop out of the Santana derby in the first 24 hours of the Winter Meetings if the Twins don’t take their shitty deal that does nothing to solve their team-wide struggles with hitting the ball. They really stuck to their word and let A-Rod walk away when he opted out. Then when he came crawling back, they really got the best of that evil Scott Boras, duping him and his MVP client into a contract that could be worth a paltry, nigh disrespectful, even humiliating $314 million. They showed A-Rod and now they’re gonna show the Twins how the Best Franchise in Sports History does business — by playing hardball.
New York is the best. The reason Yankee fans are so insufferable is because they buy into this crap. The Yankees have about as much credibility on hard deadlines as Saddam Hussein’s Minister of Information. Can Santana just get traded already? I’m really getting sick of the hour-by-hour updates on how the smell of Hank Steinbrenner’s farts mean Johan has always wanted to be a Yankee.
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:33 am
‘”We’ll see how it goes, but this is not an act. It’s not a bluff. It’s just reality,” [Steinbrenner] said. “Because as much as I want Santana, and you can make that clear — for his sake, to know that I do want him — but the fact is that I’m not going to play the game. We’ve made them the best offer. And at this point, it’s not going to get any better. So they can decide. At this point, it’s up to them. I don’t think they want to lose us in this thing, obviously. Nobody wants to lose the Yankees in a negotiation.”‘
What a cocky douchenozzle, pardon my French. First of all, yes, it is a bluff, and everyone knows it. Second, the Twins probably won’t mind “losing” you because the Sox offer is arguably better. Third, unbridled arrogance is not an attractive trait. The holier-than-thou shit is just amazingly ironic; like the Yankees have ever followed negotiating etiquette, if there is such a thing (there’s probably not). Finally, I love how he slips in the love note to Santana: “Hey baby, just ignore all this adult stuff, it’s all talk, we’ll still pay you $120 million dollars. XOXO Hank.”
God, I hope the Twins just tell them to shove it (and that’s not just because I want the ace of the Neo-Cons in red socks).
Oh, and here’s the link for that quote.