The Yankees have decided to purchase Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island in an effort to limit financial support and the fan base of the Boston Red Sox. Hank Stienbrenner was seen hanging on the roof of the new Yankee Stadium wearing a doo rag, eye patch and waving a sword, screaming "[censored] the ticket prices,a pennant at all costs!" Security was held at bay in attempts to rescue him by the MLB Players association reps and Scott Boras.

The most important signing the 'Bankees' made this Holiday Season was the signing of free agent extrodinaire......Santa Claus'.....I wonder what else he has in that sack of his....hmmm.

Well as a Dodger fan I hope the next one the Yankees sign is Andruw Jones!!

That's all I want for baseball Christmas.

I hear you Geo, but to bad he is still under contract to the boys in blue...we need to dump him, pay 1/2 or 2/3 of his salary to someone...then sign Manny for 3 years with an option for year # 4. I look at it if we can still sign a starting pitcher or 2 and strengthen our bullpen....signing Manny puts us in the World Series..and the cost if he takes us there and is paying him an extra year with him at less production is worth it.

Yeah Roboworm.... I think when you said a pitcher or two you were on the money.
Even with Manny the Dodgers crumbled. I could not believe the way Lowe and Billingsley did not come through.

I think the major obstacle to signing Manny is the fact that the Dodgers did not make the series this year even when they did have him. If they had done that he would already be signed!!!

Andruw Jones.. What really did happen there? No More Steroids? He used to kill the Mets as a Brave.

Yeah ukey, Jones was supposed to be the big stick the Dodgers needed. Whacked out more than fifty a year a couple of times while he was with the Tribe

They signed him up... 14 mil for two years. Now they are stuck with him.

Jones was a complete blow out. And it was not steroids. Steroids may make you stronger but they are not going to help you make contact with the ball.

His batting average was like 109 this year. It really was pathetic, and the way the guy would just smile all the time too, it made me sick. Even after striking out like three times in one game.

He is an excellent fielder and has a very strong arm though, can't take that away from the guy. Defensively he's still a quality player.... but at the plate... yikes. The dude is washed up in my opinion.

They say he had ankle and knee problems and was not able to turn on the ball fast enough. Personally I think the guy has had some sort of stroke that affected his vision and hand eye coordination.

A stroke!!?! Man for a funny guy, you've got a serious cold streak for baseball players! LOL After I saw your'e post I looked up his stats. The guys numbers just plummeted. I don't think I've ever seen a fall off like that, oh no wait. Yes I have. Every free agent the Mets have ever signed!!!!! ie: Tony Fernandez, Alomar to mention 2. Maybe next year ....right?

OK, well maybe I shouldn't have said he had a stroke..... it was me having a stroke every time he would come up to bat with men in scoring position when the Dodgers were trailing in a game.

I think during the whole season there was only one or two games where he drove in winning runs.

I used to be a lifelong Yankees fan because I grew up in the NY metropolitan area and started watching them in the late fifties. My dad used to get these killer box seats from his boss once in a while. Usually a few rows behind the Yankee dugout.

The first game I ever went to was the Yanks against the Orioles and believe it or not Whitey Ford was pitching that day. It was on a Sunday afternoon. I got to see Mantle, Marris, Berra, Rhicardson and all those guys in person.

I got to see Mantle hit a home run to deep center at the first game I ever went to.

It was like they were gods to us kids at the time. I got a real mean streak in me about baseball when the Yankees lost to the Marlins in game six at home in Yankee Stadium.

It was mentally anguishing for me to witness that...... afterwards I burned my satin Yankee team jacket.... thew away all my Yankee books and memorabilia and swore that I had divorced myself from being a Yankee fan and would never root for that team again as long as I live.

After moving to Los Angeles about twenty years ago I became a Dodgers fan but I would still root for the Yankees whenever I could watch them playing.

No more... the only way I will watch the Yankees is if they are playing the Dodgers and then be rooting for them to loose.

When I was a Yankees fan I couldn't understand why people hated them so much...
now I know.

yeap, u either love'em or hatem. and i hate them, why maybe because i am a orioles fan. my secound is the dodgers whenever the orioles are loosing, witch is all the time now.but anyway go o's and dodgers

You a Long Island Guy originally? I'm a New York fan but when there's crosstown action its Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers first. That may soon change. George and hopefully his kids have tried to put a top team out on the field and returned the millions earned back into the product on the field. If all owners did that, baseball would be better and more exciting. There are owners that do that in "small market " venues and they are always near or on the top of there divisions. So I don't have a problem with their $. I also like their professionalism. Clean cut, work hard and win mentality. So after watching the characterless Mets waste two years of top notch talent by choking and saying that its no big deal and watching the classless showboating at inappropriate times. I'm leaning back to the Yanks as my #1. The Nets may do the same as our Knicks are just to humorous to discuss. I go back with the Rangers to the mid 60's. Man time flies, don't it?

ukey, I was raised in NJ, went to college in Brooklyn and lived in Manhattan for a while. True, the Yankees have always spent a ton of dough to put a good team on the field. There is no argument that they are the greatest baseball team of all in terms of championships, World Series wins and appearances.

They are probably going overboard this year so everyone will forgive them for taring down Yankee Stadium. May the baseball gods forgive the.... I can't.

That stadium should have been saved intact as a National Historic Building and converted into a Baseball Museum of sorts. If any building in this country has "historic value" surely Yankee Stadium would be one of them.

I'll miss the stadium , but from what I hear the new one is classy with a lot of the archictectural devices that the old one had. Seems like the last one left is Fenway and why tear it down now that its been exorcised? Tight Lines.