agdaddy04 said:
But at this point I'm sure she's not happy that the Astros didn't try to resign him.
Farmer1906 said:
Between not being able to negotiate an agreement with the players and now being busted for covering up cheating, Manford's head should be on a spike outside of MMP.
We all hate(d) Selig, but Manford has lapped him by now. **** that *****.
None of this makes sense to me. Agreed if I had nothing to hide I would stand by simply stating, "There is nothing factually different in the memo but we stick by the principles of the privacy agreement between the Yankees and MLB. As any other member of society would agree, we do not wish to share information provided confidentially between two private parties." End of story.Thinice said:
How can the Yankees argue they didn't do anything but releasing the memo would cause "significant reputational injury,"?
We will see what's in this memo but it may confirm what we have been saying all along. A league wide investigation should have occurred to root out all the "bad"actors. Not doing so opened themselves up to this very event.Beat40 said:Farmer1906 said:
Between not being able to negotiate an agreement with the players and now being busted for covering up cheating, Manford's head should be on a spike outside of MMP.
We all hate(d) Selig, but Manford has lapped him by now. **** that *****.
I was indifferent to Manford until he displayed no backbone when Evan Dreleich and Ken Rosenthal came out with the original story on the Astros' cheating. The fact that he didn't say the league has handled the situation showed he's weak to me. I turned on him at that exact moment.
EastCoastAgNc said:
League statement:
Thinice said:
How can the Yankees argue they didn't do anything but releasing the memo would cause "significant reputational injury,"?
Beat40 said:
This is beautiful. My goodness, I know y'all hate on Carlos for getting injuries too much, but that boy has some damn fire. His attitude is exactly what this team needs, I loved him calling out Bellinger before spring training got started, and I love him talking smack to Judge. Carlos has made me a huge fan of him.
If we don't get to play this year, it would be a travesty. I originally wanted to play that 50 game proposed plan just to see the Astros and Dodgers play, but I want whatever schedule allows the Astros and Yankees to play. Those series would be so chippy, and it'd be glorious.
I wish the Astros players should say they want to take whatever deal at this point just to smash the Yankees.
Can we afford to lock up 70 M for 3 position players?W said:
Correa would be expensive. He would also only be 27 years old when he hits free agency.
as of this moment, the Astros have 2 big contracts on the books for 2022: Altuve & Bregman.
same for 2023 & 2024. There could/should be room for a third
Consider we will have no one else under contract after 2021. We have some guys entering arbitration but should easily still project around $100M without any other moves. We should actually be looking to extend more than just 3 guys (or find players in free agency).Farmer1906 said:Can we afford to lock up 70 M for 3 position players?W said:
Correa would be expensive. He would also only be 27 years old when he hits free agency.
as of this moment, the Astros have 2 big contracts on the books for 2022: Altuve & Bregman.
same for 2023 & 2024. There could/should be room for a third
MaxPower said:Consider we will have no one else under contract after 2021. We have some guys entering arbitration but should easily still project around $100M without any other moves. We should actually be looking to extend more than just 3 guys (or find players in free agency).Farmer1906 said:Can we afford to lock up 70 M for 3 position players?W said:
Correa would be expensive. He would also only be 27 years old when he hits free agency.
as of this moment, the Astros have 2 big contracts on the books for 2022: Altuve & Bregman.
same for 2023 & 2024. There could/should be room for a third
irish pete ag06 said:Beat40 said:
This is beautiful. My goodness, I know y'all hate on Carlos for getting injuries too much, but that boy has some damn fire. His attitude is exactly what this team needs, I loved him calling out Bellinger before spring training got started, and I love him talking smack to Judge. Carlos has made me a huge fan of him.
If we don't get to play this year, it would be a travesty. I originally wanted to play that 50 game proposed plan just to see the Astros and Dodgers play, but I want whatever schedule allows the Astros and Yankees to play. Those series would be so chippy, and it'd be glorious.
I wish the Astros players should say they want to take whatever deal at this point just to smash the Yankees.
Carlos has quickly become my leader.
The Beef01 said:
As soon as this news broke over the weekend about the memo and the Yankees I thought that it wasn't that big of a deal....as soon as the obfuscation machine ramped-up directly out of NYY-friendly media, I realized that it's very problematic for them.
It won't surprise me if the end result here is a scorched Earth lawsuit by someone affiliated during the time with the Astros that forces discovery and that will likely be the end of Manfred and many of the people associated with trying to cover all of this up and railroad the Astros as part of that process.
Oh, this 100% feels like the equivalent of invoking the 5th and hoping that you can memory hole it later.Deluxe said:
Understood that there's a variety of reasons why they don't want the letter released (some more damming than others). But at the very least, this is a really bad look for them. I like it.
