Writer Russ Smith of SpliceToday.com is a lifelong Red Sox fan, who says that his “Yankee-hating bona fides are second to no one.”
Which is why it was shocking to read Smith defending the Yankees’ $423.5 million spending spree. Smith writes:
The recent commotion from baseball media commentators—in print, on the tube, online and at parties—after the Yankees signed free agent Mark Teixeira for $180 million has been the most knee-jerk, naive and plain dumb hyperbole that’s occurred in the past year. The Yankees are ruining Major League Baseball! The Steinbrenners Hal and Hank (and GM Brian Cashman) don’t play fair! Locking up three players—aside from Teixeira, they nabbed C.C. Cheeseburger and A.J. Burnett—for a total of $423.5 million is unseemly during a crippling recession and the world’s most famous sports franchise is once again spitting at people with prudence and manners!
What a load of hooey.
He’s not kidding about the hyperbole. Smith found an outrageous quote from would-be Red Sox Nation President Peter Gammons:
Gammons rebutted the whining about Boras with this zinger: “Boras doesn’t want to be the good guy, and doesn’t care who gets burned as long as his clients get the best deal; didn’t [legendary lawyer] Edward Bennett Williams do the best he could for Joe McCarthy and Sirhan Sirhan?”
Sounds like Peter is taking that whole Teixeira thing a little too hard. Sheesh.
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