And our best friend, Mike Lupica, was blessed with the opportunity to cover both deals! But lets run you over the details of each deal first.
Yankees get: New Babe Ruth, Cloned from DNA of Old Babe Ruth, age 25.
Red Sox get: Alfredo Aceves, Brett Gardner, Ian Kennedy, Mark Melancon & $20 Million Dollars.
Yankees sign New Babe Ruth to a 10-year contract extension worth $250 Million.
Mike Lupica's Coverage:
Theo Epstein, again, proves what an amazing general manager that he is, by fleecing a boatload of cash and four of the best Yankee prospects of the last 20 years out of Brian Cashman.
The Yankees offered fists-full of money for a guy who's not proven, who might well buckle under the pressure of playing baseball in New York. Who knows how Babe Ruth will respond to the media and the rigors of playing in New York City? Certainly not Cashman, who commits too many years, and too many dollars to a guy who's probably overrated.
And moreso, how does Cashman explain it to his spoiled fans, when Gardner turns out to be Bernie Williams? And when Kennedy and Aceves morph into Pettitte and Mussina? And best of all, if Melancon becomes the next great closer in baseball?
The Yankees have thrown away their future because they're desperate to get young, to get the big name, even if it comes with a big body. An overweight outfielder who's behavior off the field will never be as good as on it.
For Cashman's sake, he'd better hope those prospects are typical "Yankee Prospects." You know, the ones everybody loves until it's time to bring them up to The Show.
And now for the Mets deal:
Mets get: New Babe Ruth, Cloned from DNA of Old Babe Ruth, age 25.
Phillies get: Mike Pelfrey, Fernando Martinez, Daniel Murphy, Jon Niese, Nick Evans & $30 Million Dollars.
Mets sign New Babe Ruth to a 15-year contract extension worth $500 Million.
Mike Lupica's Coverage:
This was a deal the Mets had to make. Ruth is a big man who's ready for the big city. In fact, there's no other city big enough for him. The biggest thing about this kid is his talent. He solves so many problems for the New Mets, giving them a big bat in the outfield and an extra large persona inside the clubhouse. And the biggest thing of all for the big kid that's heading to Flushing, is the big hits he'll produce in the clutch.
People might say that the Mets gave up too much, or paid too much, or tried to hard, but there's just no way Omar Minaya could let this opportunity pass him bye. This changes everything for the Mets, who show that they won't back down from anybody.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Newsflash!!! Mets and Yankees Acquire Babe Ruth, Cloned from DNA!!
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Wait, wait, wait - are you implying that Lupica would slant the story to either paint the Yankees in a bad light or paint the Mets in a good light, all things being equal?
Do you expect me to sit here and believe that Lupica spins stories to support his own demented views, all while ignoring facts and statistics that clearly state otherwise?
Is it even possible that Lupica, that bastion of truth, would hide, disguise, and even omit facts like some modern Nazi propaganda machine while spewing flowery prose, all in a pathetically predictable effort to make either the Yanks look bad and/or incompetent, or make the Mets / Red Sox look amazing?
Look, I can suspend reality to a point, but I refuse to believe that Lupica would be able to hold even the most menial of jobs for over a week at the Daily News if he were shown to be so obviously biased, column after painful column!
What - he's worked there for over 20 years? I thought he was still with The National. Oh, right – he drove them into the ground.
Huh - guess it's little wonder that he's George Castanza's favorite writer.
It's spelled "Costanza." I hate Seinfeld, and I know that.
That said, why don't you write for this blog? Seriously. You should.
Letter to Il Douchebag
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.
You columns are a waste of space, and you ruin otherwise fine cooking shows. And thanks for all those wonderful, insightful political columns, which could be summarized by saying that Obama is the most wonderful person ever to walk on water since Christ, and Republican stink. Why waste valuable advertising space with that?Now that Mort Zuckerman has also been so ripped off by Madoff, he might appreciate this and send your whiny yuppie loser act packing.
Why should the Yankees expect Ruth to carry them on his back? Their other big star signings haven't panned out. Especially A Rod. Alex can't even pitch. Never has, never will.
- FaFa
Mark, if you are interested in writing for us, let us know - we both enjoy your take on Lupica and his nonsense.
- FaFa
I'd love to contribute any way I can to systematically destroy the hack.
My e-mail address is morder11@yahoo.com -
Let me know,
Mark
Mark,
You're being extremely harsh on Lupicrap. As a normal heighted individual you fail to see the terrible career obstacles the angry little man has had to overcome. His whole life he has only been able to read the News because his arms are not long enough to handle the NY Times. That is why he only knows little words. Your terrible, politically incorrect criticism towards the elf shows what a cold hard person you are. You must be a Yankee fan. Any Met fan would understand that Dwarf Boy is just misunderstood. He is like Wright, Reyes, Beltran and Delgado, who you probably think are losers and choke artists, but any Met fan knows that they are more like the little engine that could.
One day the final chapter of victory will be written. Maybe it will be this year when their $12.5 mil closer (You know, the guy that came for the Met's rich history and not because they were the highest and only bidder. Only Yankee free agent acquisitions do that) stops having declining velocity, or maybe they will be saved by David Wright, because AGAIN this year, he learned from the choke and he is going to work out really, really hard this offseason. Maybe JJ the Putz won't mind being converted to a set up man without being asked. It's a noble sacrifice to get in on the Mutts rich history and winning tradition.
You know the winning tradition. Don't discount that second Championship only 32 years ago. They powered their way to the title. That error that helped them win was through hard work and the Met "ghosts" of Champions past.
So please ease up on the literary genius and please enjoy his whitty little quips this weekend. I feel good about some very important insights coming your way via Mike. This is going to be a good Giant weekend for learning things like, "If the Giants beat the Panthers Sunday night maybe Jerry Jones won't invite T.O. to his house for dinner." but, if they lose we might get, "A Giant defeat against the Panthers could show that Plaxico's gun shot down the Giant season."
I can't wait.
Yeah, because all the Giants problems stem from Burress shooting himself in the leg. Nobody notices that maybe the Giants weren't that great when they were winning every week. They have weaknesses, especially against teams that can stop the run.
I will take his mother, Mrs. Beverly Lupica out for a wonderful seafood dinner, and never call her again!
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