Mike Lupica is a man who is so stupid, he doesn't even realize who won.

Golly, I hope the Yankees don't regret their negotiating tactics during the Jeter talks. It would be costly if Jeter signed with another team.

Oh, wait.

Jeter signed with the Yankees:

"So here we are, close to what the Yankees wanted to pay. The Yankees acting as if they had some moral high ground on this. As if they were making some kind of big, loud statement. About the quiet captain of the team who helped win them five World Series, who was as valuable a player as they had between 1996 and 2000 when they were as great as any Yankee team ever has been.

You can't be a better Yankee than Jeter has been. It is the Yankees who will someday wish they had done things better on this."

I don't think the Yankees acted as if they had some moral high ground. I don't think the Yankees were acting as if they were making some kind of big, loud statement. The Yankees just wanted to bring Jeter's asking price down, and that's what they did.


This is nothing new. A successful negotiation with a free agent. What is the regretful consequence that Mike Lupica is referring to? Another nasty article by Mike Lupica?