This Week on the Blog
Rangers: The Rangers are currently leading the Stars 2-1, in the Foxwoods Final Five. And, nope. The Stars just tied it. Typical. Anyway, the deadline approaches, and it's really important that the Rangers don't give away anymore #1's, or any of the young guns like Kreider, Miller, Skjei, Buchenevich or Shesterkin. We'll see if they are as trade dumb as they have been over the past few years, where they gave away 4 or 5 1's in deals that didn't bring a cup. The 2 1's for the ghost of Martin St. Louis should live in infamy. (Klein just scored, and the Rangers are now up 3-2 with 2:07 left.) Anyway, there's been a lot of speculation about Eric Staal. I don't think he'll be the "Butch Goring" move that leads to a dynasty. He's a declining player. And last year's overpay for Keith Yandle has killed the Rangers in a couple of ways. First, it cost them The Duke and a 1, and, second, AV doesn't use him enough or correctly, and they'll probably lose him as a Free Agent over the summer, because of all the dough they have tied up an Girardi and Staal. (Rangers just won! Goals my Kreider, McD, and Klein. Yandle with his 31st assist in limited minutes.) Anyway, big win for the Rangers, and they better not lose again at the deadline. They need help for the D, not so much the O. They should be looking to move Girardi, Staal and Nash, but they probably won't. They'll buy something, though.
Yankees: They've all reported to camp. And hopefully they can stay healthy and train sensibly. I believe the presason games start March 1 or 2. Let's hope Sanchez starts out hot and keeps rolling till they can trade McCann.
Giants: NFL FA doesn't start for another 12 days, but ahead of it the Giants might work on signing some of their own. As of right now they are short on DL bodies, and signing JPP or Ayers ahead of the open market would be wise. Perhaps Prince, too. Also, they will probably make a cap saving adjustment with Victor Cruz before FA, so that could also happen this week.
Knicks: The Knicks went into freefall several weeks ago and even a coaching change couldn't change much. I do believe they have an offseason plan; however, and hopefully that will include draft picks coming back. They will either be in good cap shape or great cap shape depending on what they do.
Okay, time to cross our fingers till the NHL Trade Deadline passes. Hope that works out and that everyone of you has a great week.
posted by Kalel9 @ 3:58 PM
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Motivation technique or clueless idiocy?
But Girardi cautioned that in spite of Severino's effectiveness last year -- he went 5-3 with a 2.89 ERA in 11 starts -- there were no guarantees that the 22-year-old right-hander would be in the Yankees starting rotation. "Your expectation is that he's going to be one of our starters from what we saw, but, we've seen that not always translate that second year," Girardi said of Severino. "He does not have a huge body of work."
Proobably projecting a false sense of competition among the other pitchers vying for a rotation spot, like Nova.
Mario Williams released
30 games no appeal
So they aren't re-upping Jimmer. Rambis is a fucking idiot who is as bad or worse than Fisher. And really, Jackson can escape blame for this crap. They play shit old players even though they aren't making the playoffs
CAN'T
Giants lead the NFL in games lost to injury for the third straight year. That's been a demonstrably huge factor.
Sure, but relying on Cruz, Beason, and Schwartz was a foreseeable problem, just as re-signing Prince would be.
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