A COUPLE MORE NOTES

***THE SOX NOT HAPPY***
It appears that some Red Sox officials felt they were being used to get the Yankees ultimate offer to Tex raised. It's hard to believe that that bastion of fair play, Scott Boras, would sink to that kind of stunt. ...wouldn't it? ...um,..well,..maybe.
There is evidence that an aggressive bid by the Sox early in the negotiations may have swayed the deal in their favor, but it appeared they tried to 'cheap' it out, never a good tactic when you're dealing with Boras. Well, at 19 games a year for 8 more years, we'll see how both sides react.

***YANKEES SIGN ANGEL BERROA***
WHY? What's the matter with Cody Ransom? WHY? Angel is a career .260 hitter (& I use the term 'hitter' loosely) with an OBP of .308. Is he supposed to sweep out the clubhouse? WHY??

***YANKEES SHOPPING SWISHER AND***
...(GULP)Nady. Nady's no Mickey Mantle but he's no Angel Berroa, either. I can't believe this is serious. Poor Swisher may have been a pawn in the Teixeira negotiations, but I don't think I'd like to see him go, either.

***MEMORIES, MEMORIES***
Just like ugly girls in bars, baseball memories look better the further away you are. Bill Skowron, former Yank 1st baseman (50's & 60's), tells a story about how the game was played back then. He hit a homer off Ike Delock of the Red Sox, who promptly hit him in the head, the next time up. Once on first, Skowron took out the 2nd baseman, Gene Mauch, on a potential DP groundball, breaking his leg and knocking him out of the majors as a player. Interesting story, however, researchers discover that it never happened that way, at least not at the same time. Skowron had hit a homer off Delock and Delock did hit him, but not in the same game. And Skowron did take out a 2nd baseman, but not in either of those circumstances...and not Mauch. Ah, yes, I remember it well.

***MANNY IS STILL FREE***
Well, not free but reasonably priced. Well, not reasonably priced, either. But he's still Manny.