This Week on the Blog

Alright, this was a nightmarish week for Knick fans as they bailed on their rebuild and traded their franchise player for cap room this summer. We'll get back into that later.  The Yanks announced their non-roster invitees, Saquon won the Pepsi Rookie of the year, and the Rangers are on a little role.  Now let's see what's coming this week.

Yankees: This is the last week without Yankee Baseball till next November. Camp opens next week and it will be a big year.  They still haven't added a 6th starter, but they have enough guys ready if they need one, and later this year, guys like Deivi Garcia could be ready.  I'n the old, dynastic days, the Yanks could let Mickey Mantle make the team out of C ball, you don't see that these days because of big money blockers at the major league level for most teams, and they don't want to start arbitration clocks till they have to.  But I do think teams, including the Yanks, are starting at as if they know that players are more productive in their 20s then in their 30s, and that could take some real reckoning in the next round of CBA negotiations. Meanwhile, I didn't see anything about Captain's Camp, which is odd, but they probably have it going on.

Giants: The Giants won't do anything else till after the SuperBowl. I think they'll cut Jonathan Stewart this week, but, other than that, they'll probably start looking to open up cap room, and getting ready for the Combine.

Rangers: The Rangers, who have not abandoned their rebuild, are playing a little better lately.  Brett Howden is down for about a month, but Mika Zibanejad as well as Chris Kreider and Kevin Hayes have been terrific. And it's possible that all three will be traded for picks and prospects by the trade deadline.  There's a rumor about the Bruins trying to trade for one of the F's and both Kreids and Hayes are Boston boys, so who knows. They'd be fools to trade Kreider.

Knicks: The Knicks are fools. Interestingly, last year, when the Giants hired a new coach and GM, it seemed like they were required to  commit to Eli as a prerequisite for getting the jobds. Eli was old, and KP is young, but Dolan should have demanded that commitment from Perry and Fizdale, And he never should have promoteed Mills who's signature move so far was overpaying to bring back THjr, only to have to turn around and trade KP to get rid of him. That is abject stupidity, and betrayal of the rebuild plan, and franchise damaging.  Any imbecile off the street would have gotten better return if they'd convinced themselves they had to trade KP.  But they didn't have to trade him. They just had to keep him happy while they tanked, then got another lottery pick.  Instead, it's another Donnie Walshian sell off so they can big for FA's that aren't coming this summer. Sickening. Also, the NBA trade deadline is coming right up, so the Knicks will probably make more deals.

So there it is, Yanks, Giants, and Rangers keep on keeping on, and the Knicks change horses midstream. Have a great week!