YOU'RE FIRED!!! Joe Torre get the fuck out.

Of all the major sports in the US, baseball managers/coaches are blamed for losses the quickest. Fact is, they probably have the least amount of influence over the play of their team.

whoever that guy is looks like a boy mincing pedo

His name is Brian Cashman, Yankees GM.

if it wasn't for fuckin a-rod those clowns wouldn't have even made the playoffs. not that i give a fuck though. fuck the yankees!

Jimmy 'The Greek' agrees with you

A Rod will go to the Cubs, Clemens is finally done for good, Abreu will go to Dodgers, Posada and Rivera will stay with the Yanks and Giradi will be the new manager of the Yanks.

WEll Said!

This thread is fucking funny!

Time for changes indeed. I'm welcoming it

I don't think Arod goes to the Cubs....just because the sale of the team won't be finalized before the free agency period is over, and they're not gonna take on a contract of that magnitude until the deal is closed.

Yeah must suck making the playoffs every year.

Boneprone how about Romos game tonight. I thought u had our game in fantasy football all locked up but then 5 interceptions. LOL was great to watch in the stadium even though the ending sucked.

yayayayaya go indians!!!! Now time to whoop sox ass. Indians win world series

Arod is either going to the angels or to the cubs where he'l be a minority owner

The rumor was that A-Rod's salary would be put into an ownership stake of the Cubs after he retires.

I just don't think that would happen without them having an owner in place. Something like that might kill the sale and then it could take another year.

If it wasn't for the ownership issue I think he might end up there, but because of it I don't think he will.

Good. Fuck the Yankees. Torre will be lucky to get out of there. I bet he can't wait to manage a team that doesn't have some kind of delusional maniac for an owner. Steinbrenner is the reason why the team fails, but I'm sure he has a plan to get them back on track...just throw some money at them. That always worked in the past, right?

Don't see that happening. Boston's rotation is too deep for the Indians to keep up. Unless they figure them out quick, Boston will make quick work of the Indians pitchers, especially if they pitch like they did against the Yankees.

Who knows if that will happen. The cubs still have to be sold/bought and then lets see who the owners actually are.

As far as I know, Boneprone loves the Yanks. HE's a big fan of both Torre and A-Rod. You should see his house. Tons of personalize A-Rod stuff. Even a pic of him WITH A-Rod.

I think this is a work..

Not to mention he's not a Mexican.

the cubs pushed back the sale, its not going to happen this year. from what it sounds like is the tribune didn't get the bids they were looking for. Now they are going to decide to split things up or not

A-Rod is going to the Giants...

Good point, but all the over paid vets that can't produce like they used to like Moose, Rivera, Damon, and Giambi were brought in by Cashman. Abreau is almost in that list as well. Don't get me wrong, the guys I named are still pretty good players but NOT worth what they are paid. Cashman is the GM and responsible for bringing in new players. Yes Geroge has a lot of input on who is signed and so on but it's not Torre who completes the deals.

Joba, Hughes, Duncan, Cano and Melky are very good players that are young and should be around for sometime.

The Cubs are looking to trade Aramis Rameriz (15 mill a yr contract) so A Rod could end up with the Cubs. They have a lot of interest in A Rod.

I read on Foxsports.com that Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavs wants to buy the team. He said he was waiting to see where the bidding would start and then probably throw in an offer.

A Rod would be embraced by Cubs fans as a GOD, something that will never happen in New York.

It would be in his interest to go to another major market team and the Cubs would be the best option.

I can't post the url because I am to new.



The effort to sell the Chicago Cubs has slowed to a crawl as the team's owner brainstorms ways to reap maximum cash from its pinstriped asset.

Despite Tribune Co.'s official line that the Cubs will be sold in the fourth quarter, the team looks likely to stay in Tribune hands well into next year ? possibly through opening day. That means a new owner will have to manage a team with a roster assembled by corporate brass long maligned, but recently cheered, for payroll decisions.

The slowdown has mystified bidders, who months ago submitted applications required by Major League Baseball, but since have heard little. "It's maddening," says an adviser to one bidding group who, like most involved with the sale, requested anonymity. Offering documents won't be ready for weeks, a source familiar with Tribune's planning says.


Sam Zell, left and John Canning Jr.
But Tribune is in no hurry as it decides whether to sell the team, Wrigley Field and other assets in one piece or individually.

"There's no hard deadline, and I don't think that the interest in this asset is going to dwindle," says the person familiar with the planning.

"The groups that you've heard publicly that are interested in this deal, none of them have said, nor do I expect they will say, 'If I can't own it by April 1, 2008, I'm taking my money and I'm going home.' "

If offering documents don't go out until next month, it's unlikely the team will be sold until spring, says Michael Rapkoch, president of Sports Value Consulting LLC in Dallas, who is not involved in the sale.

Tribune is going private in an $8.2-billion buyout led by Chicago billionaire Sam Zell. The deal ? announced April 2, the Cubs' 2007 opening day ? hinges on the sale of the Cubs and Tribune's 25% stake in cable channel Comcast SportsNet Chicago. A Tribune spokesman says the fourth-quarter Cubs sale date hasn't changed.

The team, the cable stake, and Wrigley Field and affiliated real estate could be shopped separately, the person familiar with the planning says. Such a move could lure new bidders daunted by the price tag for the whole package, estimated at $600 million to $1 billion.

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For instance, Comcast SportsNet might attract buyers who don't want to own a baseball team. The regional cable network is co-owned by Tribune, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia-based Comcast Corp. The other partners would have first dibs if Tribune relinquishes its stake, but regional sports networks elsewhere have attracted interest from outside the sports world.

The person familiar with the planning projects the sum of the parts could yield a 20% to 50% premium over selling the assets together. "It changes the calculus," this person says.

"I'm not sure how you're going to get 20% to 50% more," Mr. Rapkoch says. "Potentially, you can get more value if you split up the regional sports network and kept the team and stadium together."

Splitting the Cubs and Wrigley is unwise, an investment banker not involved in the sale says.

"It's a much more attractive asset if the stadium is with the team," says Jeff Phillips, managing director at Stout Risius Ross Inc. in Virginia.


"We want to raise revenue so we can . . . make a long-term commitment to this ballpark," says Cubs President John McDonough. Photo: Erik Unger

Still, splitting up the assets could create new competition for bidding groups thought to have the upper hand, including one led by Chicago private-equity executive John Canning Jr., a friend of MLB Commissioner Bud Selig. Mr. Canning didn't return calls.

With almost $13 billion in debt after going private, Tribune will be under pressure to sell. But the first payment on its buyout debt doesn't come due until December 2008. Last week, it announced the receipt of $286 million in a tax settlement, money that could lessen the load.

In the meantime, Tribune is exploring ways to create new revenue streams to help fund the Cubs' player payroll, which was a team record $110 million this year.

"We want to raise revenue so we can continue to put a winning product on the field and do everything we can to enhance Wrigley Field and to make a long-term commitment to this ballpark," Cubs President John McDonough said in a recent interview. He declines to discuss the sale.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3054807

Here is where I read about Cuban wanting to buy the Cubs. Pretty funny how he wants to be a bleacher bum in right field! If he becomes the owner, The Cubs payroll will definite go up.

Jake

That's not correct. Prior to this year the yankees GM was just a glorified head scout.
He did all the leg work but it was Steinbrenner's decision.

Not until this year did Cashman get total control and final say. (That was part of his contract, he said if he didn't get that he would leave)
This year, with him in charge, they finally stopped overpaying for over the hill veterans and kept their young players.

The yanks sign and draft a great crop of young players every year...the problem has been that every year they trade them away for guys like the ones you mentioned above.

You can't really "blame" anybody, except Steinbrenner, and he's not gonna get fired.

Imagine how lame GFY would be if the Yankees owner ran it.

This thread is too funny. Talk about cry babies because the poor over priced players of the Yankees, AGAIN, choked in post season play. Their season was over months ago. When Jeter choked in Baltimore on a sac bunt, bases loaded, bottom of the 9th and didnt know to throw the ball home, that was the writing on the wall....

Fuck the Yankees.. Im a Red Sox fan.

Its official now.

No more Torre.