On Nov 21, 6:01 am, Grimm-RHD <billjill.dw
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hal is all blustery and arrogant when the Yankees offer the "Premptive
> Strike" offer to CC. How no other team will be able to compete with 6
> years $140M and he's probably right. There is only 2-3 teams that
> could feesably offer more. But I love the fact that he's now getting
> impatient. It's only been a week since the offer. CC has rightfully
> waited, and will continue to wait through the December GM Meeting (my
> favorite time of year). It's as if he truly does believe that all
> players want to be in pinstripes at any cost. CC's wants the biggest
> check...and it may just be pinstripes he gets it in. But he has all
> December and January to make up his mind if need be. And if Hal pulls
> his offer because he's impatient. Then that only hurts the Yankees. I
> am all for it.
> From SI.com
> Hal is pacing the floors and has thrown down the first
> ultimatum...sort of.
> "We've made him an offer. It's not going to be there forever," Hal
> Steinbrenner said.
> The offer isn't even a week old, and the GM's haven't even gotten
> together yet.
> This is a new type of impatience that even his father never showed.
> Grimm-RHD
He knows pitching, CC specifically, is the key to the whole 2009
Yankee season. Mussina retired and Pettitte will likely follow him out
the door. Yankees know that without CC it will be a repeat of 2008 or
worse. This has all the makings of CC using the Yankees. Either he
doesn't want to go to Yankees and he's using them to drive up his
offer from the Angels or Dodgers, or he's trying to pretend he will
sign elsewhere in order to get the Yankees to bid against themselves.
Still, its hard to believe CC would do this for an extra 5 or 10
million when he could already get 140 million. I think he's going to
the West Coast, like he always said he would.
