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I'd be pissed if I were Mo or Jorge.

This is the ultimate damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario for Cashman. As a Yankee fan, I'm glad glad they're pursuing it. But snowball's got a point insofar as Cashman reiterated ad nauseum in March and April that the Yankee policy is NOT to resign guys until the season is up. I'm sure Mo and Po are pissed, at least a little. And, if so, it's probably justified.

Yes, Mo and Posada being pissed is justified. But I like to think they would understand the uniqueness of the situation. And if Cashman is successful in this, maybe he tries to take care of those guys as well. (A girl can dream, can't she?)

I agree with both of you. Mo and Posada will probably understand the uniqueness, but I think somewhere deep down they might be a little miffed. And I have the same dream as you do, Jen. Maybe if we have a power in numbers kind of thing.

I'm not sure this is so cut and dry. ARod's contract is without a doubt unique, and his opt out clauses had to stay intact when they took his contrasct over from Texas. The Yankees normally don't give their players those clauses, so Cashman is really in a bit of a pickle.

It seems tho, that the smart move is to extend ARod during the year, despite it ruffling Jorge and Mo's feathers. Cashman has ways to 'make it up to them' when it's time for their contracts.

The most important thing here is that we're seeing that Cashman is realizing that ARod needs to remain a member of this team for the long term, and hopefully until he retires, because he is that good. This could turn out ugly, though.

Maybe you call Jorge and Mo into the office and explain to them what is going on? I'm really at a loss here.

"uniqueness of the situation"

Excuse me??? Mo and Posada are lifetime Yankees while Arod is a bought player have his best year on his "walk" year.

This is just another of those lies told by Torre and Cashman. It really is too bad George isn't the Boss anymore. Both should have been employed by other teams years ago.

I'm glad Cashman is talking to A-Rod now, so no complaints there.

I can see where you don't want to end up in a situation like you had with Bernie, who turned into a pumpkin towards the end of his deal (I still make that deal regardless), but I think every team has to realize there are some guys that need to be taken care of. For the Yankees, those guys are of course Jeter, Mo, and Posada. Mo and Po both should've been locked up to extensions before the season started, no questions asked. If they weren't willing to take 2-year deals, I can see where you move on or hesitate, but I think you had to at least offer two years. The thing is, the Yankees are going to really have to pay in the off-season whereas they both would've probably signed reasonable deals this spring/winter.

This is going to cause friction between Rivera and Posada -- I just hope it doesn't.

Hopefully they can sign A-Rod to an extension, and get Mo and Jorge after the season.

Larry "Lucifer" Lucchino on spending in baseball

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/canep...1s27canepa.html

Lucchino finds himself in a place where there is so much more money to spend, but he believes the playing field, thanks to revenue sharing, is starting to flatten – except for one place.

“We spend a lot of money because we have to,” he said, “but we're nowhere near our despised rival in terms of revenue or salary. The baseball universe is not 28 teams and the Red Sox and Yankees. It's 29 teams and the Yankees."[/quote]

Lucchino is a very smart man and extremely adept at the baseball business, but he simply cannot avoid portraying himself as both victim and hero. He really needs to STFU about the Yankees' payroll advantage; 28 other teams in the league simply do not care and the more he cries poor-mouth the lower his credibility falls.