Newsday’s Yankees blog has an interesting note regarding the impending arbitration deadline:
[Friday] night is the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to their own free agents, but the process is different than past years thanks to the new collective bargaining agreement. Teams used to have to offer/decline arbitration to each one of their free agents, [...]
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Nov 30
The baseball arbitration deadline
Nov 30
The NCAA’s Tax Exempt Status
I am tired of the entire discussion around whether or not college sports deserve tax exempt status. In case you missed it, Representative Bill Thomas, Republican chairman of the Ways and Means Committee (for the next couple of weeks), questioned why the NCAA is legally considered a non-profit entity, and therefore tax exempt.
This is [...]
Nov 30
Memo to Yankees: Enough
MEMO
TO: Yankees GM Brian Cashman
FROM: SimPer Robert Schlesinger
RE: Starting pitchers
The old saying goes that you can’t have enough starting pitchers. The old saying is wrong.
Try this saying: If you have to stock your rotation with mediocrity, go young.
Nov 29
Type A, B & C Free Agents
I didn’t understand how the whole Type A, B & C free agency process worked. If a Type A leaves, you get two compensatory picks. A Type B gets one compensatory pick. With the new CBA, Type C free agents no longer get compensatory draft picks.
The Sporting News has a great web site [...]
Nov 29
The Chicago Headband Police?
First the city of Chicago bans Fois Gras; now the Chicago Bulls ban headbands.
Apparently Ben Wallace was benched for violating the Chicago Bulls team rule preventing wearing a headband during a game. According to the AP, John Paxson, executive vice president of basketball operations, “didn’t like the cavalier way the Bulls wore headbands when he [...]
Nov 27
The next HC of the NYG?
A bit of speculation I heard on ESPN radio this morning that I onpass simply to get a rise out of a fellow SIMPian or two: That the former BC head coach currently helming the New York Giants could be replaced by the current top man at Notre Dame.
Nov 27
Who-Rod?
Is it too early to hang the moniker E-Rod on the NY Giants quarterback?
Yes, but …
The comparison is becoming striking. Here are a pair of athletes with all the talent in the world who each seem to have problems holding up under sports’ brightest spotlight. And in each case, a critical complaint seems to be [...]
Nov 26
The root of the Belli-gini feud?
Fox Sports’ John Czarnecki has had a couple of interesting items related to the Bill Belichick’s deranged hatred of Eric Mangini. To wit:
Well, the real reason Belichick is mad at Mangini and the Jets revolves around their meddling in the Deion Branch holdout this past summer. In his heart, Belichick believes that if the Jets [...]
Nov 22
BCS Sucks……NOT so fast, my friend
I am one of those many out there that hate the way that Division IA college football decides their National Champion. This season is just another example of many where (at least as it stands right now), there is no clear way to put the top 2 teams on the field on Jan 8. I [...]
Nov 21
Yankee apologists…what else is new?
Justin Morneau won the American League MVP today over Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Jermaine Dye and others.
In no suprise, on the first day I lifted my self-imposed ban of the Dan Patrick Show based on his allowing Keith Olbermann to speak in public, Olbermann dropped this nugget in defense of his beloved Derek Jeter:
“I don’t think the writers [...]