Chase jettison8/7/2023 ![]() Cutting Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.) Active, expires Application number US11/624,754 Other versions US20080173763A1 Over this frozen weekend, the Daily News' John Harper - aka "the Whippany Whip"- opined that Team Cashman might be able to sign Yu Darvish at "a reasonable price," that is, somewhere around five years at $16 million per season.- Google Patents US7857260B2 - Fuel jettison systemĭownload PDF Info Publication number US7857260B2 US7857260B2 US11/624,754 US62475407A US7857260B2 US 7857260 B2 US7857260 B2 US 7857260B2 US 62475407 A US62475407 A US 62475407A US 7857260 B2 US7857260 B2 US 7857260B2 Authority US United States Prior art keywords fuel jettison conduit useable recited Prior art date Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. I don't know where Harper buys his underwear - are there 5-star Saudi Arabian hotel gift shops in Jersey? - because when bidding on ace pitchers, nothing is ever described as "reasonable." (See Price, David.) As a general rule, I'm all for Hal Steinbrenner spending his hard earned inherited money on whatever he wants - (I hear the Instant Pot is a "must" for happy kitcheners) - but if 2018 is truly be the year when Food Stamps Hal shrinks his Yankee payroll below the $197 luxury tax threshold, signing Darvish cannot be an option until Jacoby Ellsbury is wearing another team's insignia. ![]() I say this claiming no insider baseball knowledge. Hell, I can't tell Mussina's knuckle curve from Dice-K's gyro ball, or pick out Brett Gardner's bare feet from a police lineup. And if we sign Darvish before moving Ellsbury's dead-cat contract, I guarantee you that every GM in captivity will suddenly stop returning calls about The Chief, because one Iron Law remains intact among small market franchises: (Though I bet I could identify Yogi's.) Still, I know human beings, having been one for more than 60 years. When you get a chance to screw the Yankees, go for it!Īny real chance to sign Darvish depends on timing - and, frankly, time is not on our side. Unable to move Ellsbury at the winter meetings, Cashman now seems to be waiting for some 2018 contending team to lose an outfielder to a tweaked gonad or the #MeToo movement. Then he'll offer Ellsbury at half-price, with the Yankees picking up $10 million of his $21 million contract. That would give Cashman about $27 million to spend on the season, making Darvish a possibility. So here's the dilemma: Cashman must find a buyer - who satisfies Ellsbury's no-trade clause - before Darvish calls the cards. In four weeks, pitchers and catchers report. Darvish probably wants to sign before Feb. If there is any chance for Darvish, or any big free agent, this is the week Cashman must find a place for Ellsbury. Last week was spent crunching arbitration numbers. If he can't be traded, we must wait until spring training is underway, and by then, the big names will surely be gone. The Yankees lost out on Geritt Cole because the Pirates, in the end, wanted to stuff it to NYC in a bidding war. They forgot that, without Boston in the mix, we don't give a shit what the Astros do. We don't need to beat Houston in the regular season - just in a seven-game series next October, a long long time from now in a galaxy far far away. If we're actually looking at Darvish - or anybody, really - it means moving Ellsbury's contract first. NOW.Ī confession: I actually like soccer. 'Ski-jumping! Wow! How do they get the cajones to do that? And crew! Boy, that's 90 seconds of solid entertainment!' Much as I like seeing so many of those Olympic sports.once every 4 years. When I was a kid, I went to a public school so small, we couldn't even field an American football team. It was one of the few things we usually won at, in a league full of enormous, regional high schools.Īll of it was pretty primitive back then, of course. The basic idea was to make a long throw-in to the general vicinity of the goal mouth, where our guys would try to subtly trip, kick, and push enough of their guys over until the ball ended up in the net. We kept the field as rocky and bare as possible, so that the other team, bleeding and lame, usually just gave up sometime in the second half.Īnd hey, I had fun watching Pele when he came to play for the Cosmos, and drove Dick Young mad.īut international soccer today.aside from some of the World Cup, it just seems like a great big bore, devoid of character. Ads all over the uniforms, brand-new, cookie cutter stadiums replacing all the beloved old fields.
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