Daily Archives: October 29, 2007
According to the New York Times, Paul Lo Duca and his partners will enter their horse, Grace Anatomy, in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders Cup’s Juvenile Fillies race at Monmouth Park.
Grace Anatomy is listed at 10 to 1 in the morning line.
Lo Duca, who is a free agent, as quoted by the Times regarding whether he wants to return to the Mets…
“One of the main reasons I want to come back is the fans. Especially with what I went through last year with all that stuff, the fans were always great to me. I love playing in front of these fans. That’s No. 1. No. 2 is that they have a corps that’s going to win for a long time. This is a team that’s always going to be in the thick of it every year. I want to be on a team that’s going to win. That’s why I want to be here. Plus, New York City, you can’t beat it.”
…i’m so torn on this…i like lo duca a lot…but, in talking with people connected to the team, i sense ownership and some coaches and players have soured on him, as they feel he was too negative during September, i.e., the team looked to him as an emotional leader, during which he was down and out and depressed - much like you and i…to me, he was probably just reflecting his honesty, which is a good thing to some extent, but i also understand how this can be bad…what’s more, i keep hearing that the team wants a catcher who works better with the pitching staff…and while i’m not totally sure what that means, the guy who is referenced as a better example is O’s C Ramon Hernandez, who is rumored to be available through trade, and who had worked quite well with Rick Peterson and their young pitching staff in oakland…
…if i had to guess, at this point, i’d say the Mets will pursue other options at catcher, while considering lo duca to be a fall-back position, knowing how badly he wants to return…personally, i’d just re-sign him…i think his heart, pride and intensity is something this club should be built around, but i will understand if they go a different direction…
…oh, and good luck Grace Anatomy…
Tagged Paul Lo Duca |According to the Associated Press, Alex Rodriguez has told the 
Yankees he will opt out of his current contract and become a free-agent.
Yesterday, the Daily News reported that the Yankees planned to offer Rodriguez a five-year contract extension worth roughly $140 million.
…the buzz from baseball has long been that if a-rod hits the open market, boras will seek a 10–year, $300 million deal for his client…so, considering his old contract, plus the extension offer from the Yankees, had he not opted out and accepted their proposal, he’d go in to next season with the Yankees playing with an eight-year, $236 million deal…he turned this down, suggesting he knows he can get more elsewhere…
In response, the Yankees issued the following statement through Hank Steinbrenner…
“It’s a shame, but we are all in agreement…If you don’t want to be a Yankee and paid what you’re being paid, we don’t want you, that’s the bottom line. You’d be hard-pressed to argue that point. If you don’t understand the magnitude of being a Yankee and understand what that means, and being the highest-paid player in baseball, I think it’s pretty obvious.”
…wow…we don’t want you…i love it…they really are the Hankees now, aren’t they…good luck with that…
…like most poeple, i believe a-rod and his agent, Scott Boras, already have an idea about where he will be playing the rest of his career and how much money he’ll be getting…hi, JD Drew…
In other words, like Rosenthal recently wrote at FOXSports.com…
“Boras doesn’t act on impulse…The more serious concern for baseball is the possibility that Boras already has shopped A-Rod to other clubs, winking and nodding if not outright tampering…When baseball gets done with the Mitchell investigation, perhaps it can start another one.”
In the Journal News, Yankees beat writer Peter Abraham lists the Mets, Red Sox, Cubs, Giants, Dodgers and White Sox among Rodriguez’s potential suitors.
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