Now that we are in the thick of the hot stove season, Lupica is doing his annual rant about the Yankees overspending for free agents.
I just wanted to take this moment to look back at all the shit that Lupica wrote about Santana last year.
Remember when everyone thought the Yankees were going to get Santana? This is what Lupica wrote:
They're ready to break the bank for Johan Santana and thereby go against all the data on signing starting pitchers to longterm deals.
And this:
Why won't Santana break down sometime during the length of his contract?
And this:
Put me down as somebody who thinks that Johan Santana is a wonderful pitcher, but not the second coming of Sandy Koufax and not somebody I would pay $150 million on a bet.
So, since the Yankees were about to get Santana, Lupica immediately started slamming the deal.
Then, after the Yankees had no intentions of giving up their future for Santana, the Mets stepped in and made the trade for him.
Look how fast Lupica changed his tune:
The Mets finally showed up for the baseball winter, beat the Yankees and the Red Sox to Santana
Yes, the Mets "beat" the Yankees to Santana…
And this:
This is one deal the Mets have to close.
Suddenly, he goes from "don't sign a pitcher to a long term deal!" to "Mr. Wilpon, I'll wear that cute little French maid number if you get Johan!"
…it is going to cost between $110 million and $120 million in the end…
And, as we all know, it cost $31 to $41 million more than Lupica predicted, and $1 million more than Lupica would have paid on a bet, whatever the fuck that means.
I'm just bringing this all up now, because for the entire 2009 season, no matter how good Sabathia does, we are going to hear about how much the Yankees overpaid for him, and I wanted to remind you how quickly Lupica switched gears about Santana once the Mets made the trade for him.
Let's move on to all the bullshit Lupica wrote in the last few days, starting with the K Rod free agent signing…
There is no binding deal, yet, or physical, but the Mets get the guy they want now, before the Yankees get the big guy they want, which means CC Sabathia, who is big in all ways.
Mike Lupica, who, in a pinch, could take a bath in a thimble, is making fun of Sabathia's size.
Irony - gotta love it.
You can look at it this way: If Frankie Rodriguez is the Mets closer in the 2006 National League Championship Series, the Mets go all the way to the World Series.
When he had his very best chance on a team good enough to win it all - the 2002 Angels, before he was the Angels' closer - he was all you could ever want.
That's pretty impressive. Unfortunately, that was also SEVEN seasons ago.
K Rod's post season stats since he became the permanent closer for the Angels in 2005:
Since 2005:
8.3IP, 8Ks, 6BBs, 13 hits, 5.40 ERA
How about the last two post seasons?
2.7IP, 3Ks, 3BBs, 6 hits, 13.48 ERA
Um…ouch?
I guess Mike was too busy fellating Omar Minaya to look at K Rod's stats past 2002.
Next up, the CC Sabathia free agent signing…
No matter what kind of Christmas story the Yankees try to write on CC Sabathia, this has to be the first time in all recorded sports history that a team practically had to beg somebody to take an offer of $161 million
Sabathia said he wanted to go to the west coast and stay in the NL - did you think lowballing the guy would have been a better plan?
The Yankees did what they had to do with Sabathia: Money-whipped the guy they decided they absolutely had to have.
Correct - they had to overpay for a guy they had to have.
He is also not the pitcher that Santana is, Santana being a guy who probably would have pitched the Yankees into October last season
Just like he pitched the Mets into October last season?
It is also worth mentioning Sabathia has about the same postseason record as Chien-Ming Wang.
Post season records:
Wang - 1-3
Sabathia - 2-3
And, just for fun:
Santana - 1-4
Wow, look how bad everything gets when you cherry pick stats.
Maybe CC Sabathia, who is young and has the arm and carried the Brewers on his back in August and September, will turn out to be the guy who puts the Yankees back on top after so many other free agents and superstars did not. Jason Giambi (remember the Yankees bidding against themselves on him?) wasn't and Mike Mussina wasn't and Roger Clemens wasn't the second time around and neither was Randy Johnson. A-Rod sure hasn't been.
Hold the phone, Mike.
Has Pedro? No.
Has Santana? No.
Please, the Mets couldn't even reach the postseason with him.
When was the last time a SINGLE PLAYER "carried" him team to a world series title? When the Yankees had their dynasty in the '90s, who was the one player who carried the team? Jeter? O'Neill? Tino? Rivera?
Let me know when it happens, because it hasn't yet.
Nice job singling out ARod there. I guess two MVP awards in 5 years means you are worthless.
Next up, Lupica wrote some shit about the Yankees trying to get more financing for the new stadium. I don't really understand this shit, so I'll let Brian W from Brooklyn sum it up…
Mr. Lupica-
So, in a week during which the Wilpons and their partners found out that a. Citibank might not be able to pony up for "Citifield" naming rights due to bankruptcy and b. they had been swindled out of half a billion dollars, the Yankees are a fiscal blight. Got it! Save us all the trouble of reading your gibberish. Just write "I HATE THE YANKEES" in the biggest size font possible.
Missed where you were an expert on finance or economics, but when has the fact that you know nothing ever stopped you? May be you could've left your Connecticut mansion and found out that Mr. Madoff was taking his clients' money and wasting it on Democratic pols. But that would involve actual reporting.
On to the stupid blurbs…
I can't be sure of this, incidentally, but I think the governor of Illinois was also in on the bidding for Sabathia and Burnett .
I love when Lupica tries to mix politics, baseball and humor, all in the same sentence!
Someone let me know when he learns anything about, well, politics, baseball and humor.
Recently, a Met fan friend of mine asked me why I hate Lupica so much. I told him because he rips on the Yankees and all the NY teams, except the Mets.
Let's see how many NY teams he rips here…let's start with the Giants…
We keep hearing that the Giants, if they keep winning, get home-field throughout the playoffs, and they do.
Except off the way they played last Sunday in Meadowlands weather, you wonder just how much of an advantage that is actually going to be.
We know that Simms and LT and them used to love to play at home when the wind was blowing around like something from the Weather Channel.
So I guess what Lupica is trying to say is that the Giants are no good in playing in bad weather, correct?
So how does he make his point?
They were total champions in the cold of Lambeau Field in their NFC Championship Game.
Um, right - I guess that game was played in good weather?
And lost to the Panthers, bad, the last time they played a home playoff game.
Just something to consider.
Did you consider that that game was played three years ago?
What a douche.
Moving on to the Jets…
I guess my question for the Jets goes something like this:
If all they wanted to do was throw short passes, which is all they threw against the 49ers, why didn't they just keep Chad Pennington ?
Maybe because he SUCKED as a Jet?
Moving on to the Rangers…
When the Rangers lost to the Devils, 8-5, on Friday night, who was playing goal - Dolan ?
HAHAHAHAHAhaahahaha!!! Oh Mike, you are too funny!
And too short.
Back to the Yankees...
I'm not the world's biggest Andy Pettitte fan, but I wouldn't take a dime less to come back to the Yankees.
Because this isn't about what they think is right with him.
It's about how they want things to look.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Pettitte's 4.54 ERA, right Mike?
So there you have it. A week's worth of bullshit and Mike gets in all his knocks against the Yankees, Giants, Yankees, Jets, Yankees, Rangers, and the Yankees.
And the Yankees.
I can't wait to read his shit for another baseball season.
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