This Week on the Blog

Alright, this week it became Trey Burke's World and we're just living in it.  A good organization would know what to do -- but let's see what the Knicks do.  Otherwise, the Giants started assembling an impressive staff, the Yanks continued showing Cashian patience, and the Rangers finally look like they are selling. Cool stuff.  Let's take a look at the week ahead.

Giants: The Giants have named most of their defensive staff, the only the Wide Receivers coach on their offensive staff.  They are either still talking to coaches or waiting for coaches who are in the Super Bow -- and probably a little of both. Meanwhile, clues are that they will be very "multiple" on O, and we're going to see Olivier Vernon standing up more.  We might also go back to taking some of those "tweeners" who can pass rush, like Reggie Torbor and Clint Sintim, and this time letting them RUSH THE PASSER.  How novel.

Knicks: The Knicks have veteran problems.  First, Lee said he'd be fine with a trade, next Noah left the team, and third, and most problematically, Jarret Jack is playing more than Trey Burke and Frank Ntilikina, and that's just really stupid. It's both stupid for now and the future.  Frank, who's still just 19 has looked a little confused, as he should be, by the coach's decision to take Frank's minutes and give them to Burke, and not Jack's minutes.  Frank and Trey should be splitting the minutes now.  That's the only way for Frank to go, and not have to go through the multi-year sojour that has brought Burke back as a star.  Now they have to find out what they have in both Frank as well as Burke, but cause they don't want to make the same mistake with a 25 year old Trey Burke that they made with a 25 year old Jeremy Lin.  Sheesh -- should be really easy to figure out.

Yankees: Nearly 2 months ago, after the Stanton Deal, Randy Levine bragged that the Yanks weren't done.  Well, we're waiting. And waiting.  Over the past two decade's Cash's patience -- which runs totally counter to the Boss's old impatience -- has really paid off of the Yanks.  Let's see if it does again. Remember, we got ARod over Valentine's Weekend 14 years ago.

Rangers:  Larry Brooks and the other beats are reporting that the Rangers are ready to sell, sell, sell. While that is the appropriate strategy, it's all about the take back.  The Yanks got  literally nothing for Gary Sheffield and Randy Johnson when they sold them off, but 10 years later, they kicked ass during their sell off.  The Rangers sold Leetch and others about 15 years ago and literally got nothing.  Now they have to make sure they're more like the 2016 Yanks, than either of their last attempts. Picks and prospects, please.

So there it is, the Giants have a staff to fill, the Knicks have policy to make, the Yanks could strike or not, and the Rangers need to run a successful fire sale.  So there it all is.  Have a great one, peeps!