[xkrndreamer]

will it be another 2002 year for the angels?
i just wanted the dodgers to pull through

[Unanimous]

LA Love baby!!!!
I was rooting of the Dodgers and Angels! Unfortunately for the Dodgers.... )-:

Tomorrow is the game! Back to Yankee Stadium we go. We better get out early and tie this series up!

[jurassic5]

LET'S GO PHILS! REPEAT!


do it for Philly!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZI76XNKkk

[xsilentangel]

Rooting for Philly!
Slow game but atleast Philly is leading.
Chase Utley

[dafleur]

crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrap! so much for a trifecta this past weekend

[dafleur]

Utley + Lee = HELL TO THE YEAH!

[LindySzeto]

Yeh let's go PHILLIES!!!!

[Pol2ns7al2]

T_T finally after all these years the yankees win
i became a fan in 03 cuz of matsui and that game 7 vs the sox
and he drives in 6 runs in the clincher
this moment is so sweet T____________T

[dafleur]

good series yanks... it only took you 100 million more dollars than the Phillies spend.

N.Y. Yankees - $201,449,289
New York Mets - $135,773,988
Chicago Cubs - $135,050,000
Boston - $122,696,000
Detroit - $115,085,145
Los Angeles Angels - $113,709,000
Philadelphia - $113,004,048

best baseball, money can buy!

[Pol2ns7al2]

good series yanks... it only took you 100 million more dollars than the Phillies spend.

N.Y. Yankees - $201,449,289
New York Mets - $135,773,988
Chicago Cubs - $135,050,000
Boston - $122,696,000
Detroit - $115,085,145
Los Angeles Angels - $113,709,000
Philadelphia - $113,004,048

best baseball, money can buy!

>_> another person sore with salaries
its the phillies management thats at fault
they're content with spending just enough on a team so that it'd win once in a blue moon
yankees dish out the most money, and therefore should have the highest chances of winning the ws

[jurassic5]

Well, the Yanks better spend a little more money this off-season to find more than 3 starting pitchers or else CC will be gassed by the time October comes around. 200 million and only 3 starters? haha. The Yanks should theoretically win the WS every year since they are usually the top spending team in the majors. But fortunately, for the past few years...money wasn't buying championships. this year, money did...although the Phils did their best to prevent it. Unfortunately, I think the gap between the rich and poor in baseball will widen. I am glad the Phils are a large market team so they won't struggle as much as KC, Pitt, TB etc. But everyone will always play catch up to the Yanks. 1.6 billion was spent by the Yanks since their last ring.

Would have loved to have the Phils repeat, but oh well.

[Ninja650]

Lol this reminds me of that idiot happyboy.

Yeah Matsui is so clutch man. SO CLUTCH. That's why he's the longest serving Yankee now without a ring. I'll just keep saying it SO CLUTCH SO CLUTCH. Maybe if I keep saying it, I'll go back on a time warp to 2002 when it was actually true. He's SO DURABLE too. That's also about as accurate as saying he's clutch. Wait, is it 2004 yet?

Oh yea don't you sound stupid now?

I'll stick to my argument of Matsui being the most clutch Yankee since he signed in 2003.

[dafleur]

>_> another person sore with salaries
its the phillies management thats at fault
they're content with spending just enough on a team so that it'd win once in a blue moon
yankees dish out the most money, and therefore should have the highest chances of winning the ws

they dish out the most money, but this is this first WS they've won in a decade. something's wrong with their math skills.

[Brianna<3]

What an interesting, emotionally draining World Serie. I would have love the Phils to win again and beat the "evil empire" but that wasn't the case. The Yankees was the better team this time. Matsui was so clutch. He deserved the MVP. Unfortunately, last year MVP wasn't so clutch. Cole pretty much went from hero to zero with his quiting comments and performance. He's still young (25) so I hope he gets out of his slump next season.

As a female fan, I'm going to miss Chase Utley's hottness <3. He sure was eye candy.

[j_and_d_show]

now that its all over, all i can say is chan ho park can shave his beard... he might be able to star in those old-joseon dynasty dramas. he needs to wear the big hats and hambok.

[dafleur]

[gjak1117]

Not sure whether it's true or not that he's the first Korean to play for the Yankees, but looks like he's going to sign:

TAMPA -- The Yankees saw a good deal and – budget or not budget – could not resist it.

Late Sunday night the Yankees came to agreement on a $1.2 million contract with Chan Ho Park with $300,000 possible in incentives, The Post has learned. The Yankees are not officially announcing the deal because it is pending a physical and Park was in South Korea when the accord was reached. Thus, the Yankees expect it will take several days for the 36-year-old righty to join spring training.

The Yankees view Park strictly as a reliever, and not part of the battle for the fifth starter’s job.

Essentially, the Yankees had $2 million remaining in their budget when Randy Winn was signed for a $1.1 million. But as Park’s price kept falling, Yankees GM Brian Cashman continued to lobby ownership to expand the payroll because the organization viewed Park as one of the top relievers on the market.

And when the price fell further over the course of the week, from $1.5 million to $1.2 million, Yankees ownership finally approved the signing. Park had rejected a $3.25 million offer to stay in Philadelphia in the middle of the offseason, and his price has been steadily falling since then. The Cubs were among the teams hoping to sign him recently.

The Yankees had traded Brian Bruney at the Winter Meetings because they felt he would be overpaid. He lost in arbitration last week and was awarded $1.5 million. The Yanks view Park as far superior to Bruney, which was another reason the $1.2 million price tag was too hard to ignore.

This signing likely puts even more pressure on Cashman, however, to trade either Chad Gaudin ($2.95 million) or Sergio Mitre ($850,000) to bring down the payroll more to ownership’s liking.

The Yankees see Park deepening what they already considered a strong bullpen. Mariano Rivera, David Robertson, Damaso Marte, Alfredo Aceves and the loser of the Joba Chamberlain vs. Phil Hughes fifth starter battle and now Park are pretty much guaranteed pen roles. The Yanks would love to see Boone Logan assume the other role to give Joe Girardi a second lefty in tandem with Marte.

Even with the signing of Park, the Yanks are not currently considering sending the loser of the Chamberlain-Hughes battle to the minors to stay stretched out as a starter. But the presence of Park, at the least, can make the Yanks more comfortable with that option. Remember that in their best-laid plans, the Yanks imagine both Chamberlain and Hughes in their 2011 rotation, which would be easier if both stayed stretched out this year.

Park had been on the Yankees’ radar for the past two years, but he really left a positive impression by throwing 3 1-3 shutout innings over four appearances in last year’s World Series. As a reliever, the Yankees noticed, Park’s stuff played up; his fastball reached 96 mph and his curveball remained crisp. The Yanks also liked that Park had a reputation as a good teammate who works hard to stay in shape. In addition, he has been in the playoffs each of the past two seasons, for Joe Torre’s Dodgers in 2008 and for the Phillies last year.

Park was 3-3 with a 4.43 ERA last year in 45 appearances, including seven starts. But his ERA as strictly a reliever was 2.52.

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/hardball/yan...6wfmTlxUj1YKjFN

[xkrndreamer]

wow.
the yankees signs chan ho!
dayum.

[JaiNYc]

I see there's some Phillies fans here...I just want to say "Let's Go Mets" (and I hope they can stay healthy)

Honestly though, I think the Phils are going to be monsters this year. Look at what they accomplished with half a season of Lee last year, makes me wonder what they'll do with a full season of Halladay. The NL East is going to be good.

[j_and_d_show]

our hometown Washington Nationals' pitching phenom, Stephen Strasberg is starting his first MLB game (Spring Training). so much hype on this kid froM SD State. Excited about baseball for the first time (cuz we usually suck)