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sounds like comments from a typical Bosox fan. Have to love it. If Boston got Clemens, nobody would have anything negative to say about...the pro-Boston ESPN boys (Gammons and Ravitch), along with knucklehead John Kruk..great story they would say -Clemens going back to where it all started.

Clemens brings toughness to NY, something Boston has not had since '04..there are still 100+ games to go...hey can Boston say it went to the playoffs 12 straight years???

Let's not forget that starting pitchers only play 1 out of every 5 games. Even if Clemons won every single start, which would be next to impossible, You'd have 4 games between his starts for mediocrity on the mound. Andy's been ok, but the rest of the rotation needs get better. Cashman should be trying to wheel-and-deal for D-Train; or some other up-and-coming pitcher on a low budget franchise to help solidify the rotation. They should also start looking for Riveria's future replacement as the next big closer.

Gotta love sk49, spouting the cliches about the glories of the Yankee past (all those Division titles really make you guys happy, eh? The Yanks- still haven't won a World Series this century), as if that wins every argument, and acting as if the media hates the Yanks. Seriously, Luft ( and how can you say Luft is a Red Sox fan? Did you read his article right after the Sox won the World Series?) isn't bashing the Clemens deal. He's saying that Clemens can't save the Yanks this season, and that the media hype over his return is going to end up being a circus. That's a legit point. And if he'd gone to the Red Sox? He'd be going to a team that's 11 games ahead in their division... how WOULDN'T that be an interesting story?

As for the Yanks, it's no less legit to argue that the Yanks aren't going to pull out of their hole as it is for sk49 to spout that there are 100 games to go.

It wasn't a boston slanted article. He was stating the obvious. One, that clemens return is probably too late to resurect the yankees. Two, that clemens should be playing a full year.

j1b,

great...they were not 11 games in front when he signed...here is Bosox fan, always worried about what the Yanks are doing..instead of taking care of their own ship...cannot wait till it sinks again...crying over NY payroll...that excuse is over...$100 million for Dice K...less homegrown talent staring right now than NY

jb1,

don't forget to cite the world series total count.......are you guys in the ballpark yet?

sk49, it was a good article. Shut up and think before you post mindless pro-Yankees crap. Not everyone who points out that the Yankees happen to now be 13 1/2 games out of 1st place (tied with that bastion of baseball tradition, Tampa Bay) is a Red Sox fan. And NOBODY said anything, in the article or the posts in response, about NY's payroll, except you.

These forums should have a mandatory minimum IQ to be able to post. Jeez.

dback....

way below the belt my friend.....watch out what you say...why don't you think before you post.....

It doesn't matter whether Clemens went to the Yankees or the Red Sox. He's still a mercenary **** who doesn't care about his team. And as another poster pointed out, even of he were to win every start, the Yanks most likely still wouldn't be within a whiff of first, with the way they're playing.

I wonder if the AAA Scranton Yankees had to add extra parking lot space so Clemens could park his ego.

wow how sad it is to see someone like sk49 wasting our planet's resources by being alive...In case you didn't notice Pedroia and Youk are home grown and Varitek might as well be since we've had him long before he became anything special. Our closer is home grown and Wakefield has been a Red Sox for almost all of my life. Not to mention Lester will be joining out rotation as a homegrown starter. So take your cliched Yankee fan excuses elsewhere

mlbfan 16.....wow...thanks for saving our planet..now i get the reason our natural resources are dwindling..much like Bosox fan's minds...****.

varitek came from Seattle....then should I count Matsui from Japan??? Who is mindless now????

sk49 you're a typical whining Yankee y sycophant (being a Yankee fan you'll need to look that one up.) Orlando Cabrera of the Angels said it best this weekend when he opined about Yankee fans, "They don't appreciate good baseball," he said. "They just appreciate the Yankees beating up on everybody." "In Boston, they admire baseball," Cabrera said. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.--even the players think you su*k.

no because Matsui had made something of himself already, varitek was an unknown

ralphie....I have plenty of words I can have you look up you loser

and yes I do care about the planet because I actually have an education and understand the implications facing us

mlb16..yeah how much edu????? don't go there

keep it on sports

DBack - Way to go...The sad thing is, even a losing season won't teach the Yankee organization, or their fans, a much needed lesson.

Orlando Cabrera was dead on. Most Yankee fans aren't baseball fans. They're George Steinbrenner fans. They root for some old loon's wallet so they can walk around like bullies. New York misses the real Yankees that used to be, decades ago.

mlbfan16...

think before you post..maybe someone on the other end can have, or has survived a serious illness