This Week on the Blog

This past week, we saw the Yanks slide a bit, the Giants welcome their rookies, Knicks brass attend the NBA Combine, and the New York Rangers disgrace themselves and their fanbase against a lesser opponent.  This week will probably be less painful, and could be sort of great.  Let's take a look.

Yanks: The Yankee veterans, this week, sort of regressed to their recent means, and that was bad news for the team.  Both CC Sabathia and Jacoby Ellsbury individually cost the Yanks a loss, and Chase Headley has returned to last year's form.  What's more, Aroldis Chapman has been awful and was seen shaking his arm last night. Also, Greg Bird is still experiencing pain, so can't start his rehab yet. The good news is, Tyler Austin should be back soon, and will probably mean the end of Chris Carter on the roster.  And Chance Adams is probably just a few more CC meltdowns away from making his Yankee debut. At the very least, Judge and Sanchez should start raking again, soon.

Giants: The Giants are in the midst of their rookie mini-camp.  At the conclusion of the camp, the rooks will just join the rest of the team in the offseason program and OTA's. Those will last about four more weaks before they begin their annual 6 week layoff before camp begins. There will probably be more roster turnover as the camp breaks up tomorrow and try-out players are signed, as well as all the way through training camp. We'll see what the moves are.

Knicks: The NBA Lottery is this week and the Knicks haven't won it in 32 years. It's sort of amazing that expansion teams, that needed quick builds, like Orlando have won it multiple times, but the Knicks have gonet 18 years badly in need of some of that "luck" and gotten none of it.  So let's hope it finally arrives, or that the Knicks AT LEAST don't fall further back in the lottery.  The PG's are going to go fast and the Knicks will be lucky to even get one at 7.  At the combine, the Knicks were seen talking to some players who could end up in the second round, where they do have two or three picks already.

In other Knick news, KP's brother, who is also his agent says KP wants to stay in New York, but, KP reportedly didn't respond to a text from Coach Hornacek.  This is a little ridiculous, and KP is behaving like a spoiled child, and that's not what we ever thought he was.  And it really seems like he's upset about the way Melo is being treated, and that's really none of his business or what he's being paid to do.  Let's hope they win the lottery and KP jumps back onboard.

Rangers: The Rangers season ended this week in utter disgrace. Now it's  time to clean house. They never should have extended AV abd should fire him straightaway, after the loss the other night, he blamed the players and took no responsibility with how he used the players, which was the biggest problem, aside from a constitutionally leaky D, with the team.  So he needs to be fired.

The D needs to be improved and it might be time to trade Stepan to that end.  What's more, it might be time to trade Hank. Goalie Igor Shesterkin is the Rangers best prospect and he's playing in Russia now. If and only if, they can get him over for next season, the Rangers should try to trade Hank for a combination of young players and #1 picks before this year's draft.  Hank has been a great Ranger, but he's never been that "hot goalie" in the playoffs who takes a team all the way.  And somehow, they have to get rid of Staal and Girardi, as well as Holden.

We'll have more on this as it develops, but the Rangers are at a crossroads and major changes are needed.