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Hearing "It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."
Trading Places: Bonds and Giambi*
George Coztanza's Yankees Blog offers comprehensive offseason plans for the Bombers parts 1 and 2. It's pretty obvious that Coztanza knows the subject matter here (as he did blog about the Yanks in a verbose fashion damn near every day all season long) and has thought long and hard about what the Evil Empire should do from the front office all the way down to the end of the bench.
The juiciest (no pun intended) suggested move is sending Giambi and cash to San Fran for Barry Lamar Bonds. There are also some proposed free-agent signings (Brian Giles, B.J. Ryan, Jarrod Washburn), trades (a three-way deal with the Rangers and White Sox involving Sheffield, Pavano, Soriano and Rowand) and moves (Posada to 1B) involved, and, at least to me, it all makes a lot of sense.
So, without further adieu, I present the 2006 New York Yankees (according to George Coztanza):
Lineup:
1. Derek Jeter SS
2. Brian Giles RF
3. Barry Bonds DH
4. Alex Rodriguez 3B
5. Hideki Matsui LF
6. Robinson Cano 2B
7. Jorge Posada 1B
8. Ramon Hernandez C
9. Aaron Rowand CF
Bench:
1. Dave Dellucci OF
2. Bernie Williams OF
3. Erubiel Durazo 1B/DH
4. Miguel Cairo UT
5. Tino Martinez 1B
Rotation:
1. Randy Johnson
2. Shawn Chacon
3. Mike Mussina
4. Jarrod Washburn
5. Chien-Ming Wang
Bullpen:
1. Mariano Rivera CL
2. B.J. Ryan SU
3. Tom Gordon SU
4. Neal Cotts MR
5. Cal Eldred MR
6. Aaron Small LR
Andnot only is Coztanza's offseason plan extremely comprehensive and ambitious, but it's also a little funny ("Escort Kevin Brown out of the stadium and change the locks.")
In other Yanks news, Jeter doesn't deserve that new Gold Glove.
* I always loved the movie Trading Places. Seems to be one of the great underrated comedies of the '80s.
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Good, we get an over abundance of Yankee talk during the season, and now we get the Yank Christmas wish list.
George S. must think Christmas comes early and can sit back in his fine corenthean leather chair and play God of basebal and buy what he wants. Money is no object to the Wizard of Oz.
Lew -
"It was Cop-S... plural"
11/3/05 2:14 AM