Yankees Schmankees

Baseball, America's pastime and my second favorite sport(College Basketball is king). The approaching onset of the 2011 season is a mere 2 months away and there is almost no way to describe the feeling of excitement building inside me. We got Adrian Gonzalez, then we got Carl Crawford, then the Yankees got... some other guy named Soriano. Now, well, the Yankees are "talking about" Andruw Jones, according to Buster Olney. I love hearing the words "Yankees" and "Andrew Jones" together, it's almost harmonic, of course it would be if every time I heard anything about the Yankees I didn't puke in my mouth a little.

This "interest" proves something that has long escaped us. The Yankees are in desperation mode. With their captain enjoying a notable contract despite reduced range and sub standard offensive production last season, who wouldn't be? This team is aging at a less than graceful pace and what better way to compliment it than the ever growing balloon that is Andruw Jones. He used to be good, really good, then he gained some weight and became a paper weight for a hot dog wrapper blowing around center field.

Last season with only a .230 average and no sizable stats offensively there is little to love on either side of the ball. He used to be a perennial gold glover, now he has the outfield range equivalent of Derek Jeter, god I love it when the Yankees over pay for reputation.

I mean the Yankees are still a dangerous team every game. They have a few decent pitchers... right? NOT, with Pettitte likely to move on to greener pastures in retirement it is likely their rotation will be a mess. They couldn't land any of the top free-agents and now look to sign the rotting bottom of the barrel so they can save face. Ohh yeah, and Cashman isn't so stoked on this Soriano signing demonstrating just how up in arms this entire organization is. I guess the Sox will just have to fight it out with the Rays in the AL East. And to the Yankees, it's only preseason, but you can adopt the former mantra of the Red Sox as your own now- "There's always next year".