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George Steinbrenner apparently was afraid that he'd lose his title of "pro sports' biggest cry baby" to Kobe Bryant. How else do you figure that your manager with 13 straight playoff appearances should be rewarded with a pay cut?
Alex Rodriguez and his agent Scott "I'm the greediest man alive" Boras may know what they are doing by threatening to walk away from umpty guaranteed million dollars to try for more. But you'd have to call any team that would pay him more plain foolish. The Yankees have said they won't renegotiate. If so, the Red Sox, the second most spend happy team, could care less where he plays. The Cubs are in the process of being sold and a big new contract might actually lower their value. I guess the Dodgers have been spending money very unwisely lately. They might bite. The biggest winner if Rodriquez walks would certainly be the Texas Rangers who would finally be out from under the stupid 10-year contract they are responsible for in the first place.
In college football, South Florida got beat last night as everyone had been predicting they would since before the season started. The folks who voted for USF as #1 in the polls must be Big East fans. Otherwise voting a team from the Big Joke that high is hard to understand.
The last big-time undefeated teams Kansas, Arizona State, Ohio State and Boston College don't exactly have an easy road to the end of the season. Parity is fine in theory, but the old guard schools certainly never like it. I wouldn't be too surprised if there are rule changes for next year to slow down the high-flying offenses that have upset things this year.
Alex Rodriguez and his agent Scott "I'm the greediest man alive" Boras may know what they are doing by threatening to walk away from umpty guaranteed million dollars to try for more. But you'd have to call any team that would pay him more plain foolish. The Yankees have said they won't renegotiate. If so, the Red Sox, the second most spend happy team, could care less where he plays. The Cubs are in the process of being sold and a big new contract might actually lower their value. I guess the Dodgers have been spending money very unwisely lately. They might bite. The biggest winner if Rodriquez walks would certainly be the Texas Rangers who would finally be out from under the stupid 10-year contract they are responsible for in the first place.
In college football, South Florida got beat last night as everyone had been predicting they would since before the season started. The folks who voted for USF as #1 in the polls must be Big East fans. Otherwise voting a team from the Big Joke that high is hard to understand.
The last big-time undefeated teams Kansas, Arizona State, Ohio State and Boston College don't exactly have an easy road to the end of the season. Parity is fine in theory, but the old guard schools certainly never like it. I wouldn't be too surprised if there are rule changes for next year to slow down the high-flying offenses that have upset things this year.
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For the most part, as long as the manager's job is to implement front office directives (which it is for most teams) their success is going to be pretty much in-line with on-field talent. Unless they provoke a player revolt.
That said, my friends who are Cubs fans still hate Dusty Baker for (1) refusing to bench washed-up veterans in favor of young players who needed to play and (2) destroying Mark Prior and Kerry Wood by ignoring science on pitch counts.