- Thank the world famous Repoz for the link here as Mike Greenwell is miffed that he lost out on the 1988 MVP to Jose Canseco. This quote was the best:

Every time you renegotiate a contract, if you’re an MVP, you have a different level of bargaining power,” he said. “But in honesty, I don’t care about the money.”

Honestly, he doesn’t. Well hopefully Mike can take solace in the fact that he wasn’t even the best player on the Boston Red Sox that season. Mike, a left fielder, put up a line of .325/.416/.531 in 1988. The man that would be heading to Cooperstown seventeen years later that was playing directly in front of him at the hot corner posted a .366/.476/.490 line.

- You know, it’s no wonder that so many morons buy into this “real Yankee” shit. As long as the opposition continues to trip and fall and slobber all over themselves to elevate the mere donning of pinstripes, the stigma will hang around. This story from the AP broke broke yesterday.

Boston’s outfielder praised Rodriguez’s playing ability but said New York’s third baseman wasn’t the “Yankee type.” “I don’t look at him as that. He might be in a lot of people’s eyes,” Nixon said. “He’s done some great things on the field. He’s one of the best baseball players in the game and probably will be when it’s all said and done. “But when people ask me about the Yankees, I tell them about (Derek) Jeter and Bernie Williams and (Jorge) Posada. I don’t tell them about Rodriguez. … He can’t stand up to Jeter in my book or Bernie Williams or Posada.”

I don’t know about anybody else, but the non-stop blabbering from Schilling, Millar, Nixon or God only knows who’s next is starting to become a little irritating. “We won the World Series…weeeee!!!…A-Rod’s not a real Yankee and he slaps pitchers and is a deadbeat Dad! Yeah.” I know A-Rod made some disparaging remarks a while back but who cares? You won the World Series, now act like a champion for crissakes. I’m all for a little animosity in a rivalry but this off-season has devolved into a media catfight. It’s petty and trite.

- Former ESPN writer John Sickels has a new blog that’s aptly called minorleaguebaseball.com. As ESPN collaborated more and more with Baseball America, I think ESPN decided that they no longer needed Sickels’s services. ESPN’s loss is our gain, however, as we can expect more frequent commentary from the Minor League guru.

- Goldman has a bit up on the problematic Bernie Williams. His fielding makes him a liability at CF and his weakening bat precludes the possibility that he could be an effective player after a leftward move on the defensive spectrum.

- I hope Pedro kicks ass this year.

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