What's Your Verb? - 12/22

I got Beef!

I know its the offseason and trust me, I think football is way more important right now, but someone has me ticked off!

The Steinbrenner's and Brian Cashman are out of control. I know I should have seen this coming because it happens every year but doesn't a line have to be drawn at some point?

I mean really, they got arguably the two top starting pitchers and now they are talking about getting Manny. That's right, Manny, as in Ramirez, as in the guy who played for Boston for how many years. The guy who quit on his team in Boston. Yea, that Manny.

To see Manny Ramirez play in Pinstripes would make me sick.

It would make me sick for two reason! One, the Yankees obviously have no boundaries. They would obviously go after Varitek if they could. Two, obviously some players don't care about anything but money. That is a subject for another day and maybe I'm expecting too much from Manny but wouldn't you think he would despise the Yankees enough to never want to play there. I don't know.

To me, that would be like Coach K going and coaching Carolina. It just shouldn't happen.

Getting back to the Yankees and their lack of restraint when spending money. I know they didn't make the playoffs last year for the first time in 14 years. So what? That's one year.

Do they really think going and adding this much more to their payroll will help them win.

I don't!

I think they need to start adding pieces and role players. Not the top 5 free agents every year. That's what they do. They look and see who the top 4 or 5 guys are and they offer them outrageous contracts and they get whoever is out there. It's stupid!

They don't have any team chemistry.

Adding Manny Ramirez sure won't help that. I loved the Sabathia signing only because I think he is great. He may struggle in New York only because he doesn't want to really be there but it was worth it to me for them to do that.

I am glad Big Tex hasn't made his decision yet. He is leaving all these teams waiting. I hope he goes to the Nats and is the face of that franchise and helps that team win.

I'm interested to see how long its going to take the Yankees front office to realize spending lots of money doesn't equal championships. Getting the right players does it.

I know Tampa didn't win it all last year, but ask Joe Maddon what its like to have the right players not the highest paid.

It's going to take a long time, I expect, maybe never, but until then I will continue to enjoy the Yankees spending lots of money and getting nothing in return.