First of all, if the Yankees want David Price, they should sign him in the off season.

Secondly, David Price isn't going to help the Yankees if their gutless swing-for-the-fence overpaid bozos continue to score zero runs:

"One can only imagine the churning feeling in Brian Cashman’s stomach as he watched David Price methodically mowing his way through the Yankee lineup Saturday, allowing barely a threat and making a statement about what his presence in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform is going to mean over the last two months of season."

I know Price is good. I'm not saying he isn't good.

I think it's also important to point out that the only qualification to mow through the Yankee lineup this week was to be an animated mound of human flesh and toss a baseball towards home plate ... and I'm not sure about the animated part.


"Before Cashman could say, “I’m in,” Dombrowski had traded Price to the Blue Jays for their top pitching prospect, Daniel Norris, and two other minor leaguer pitchers, in the wee hours of July 29. With the Jays having made their blockbuster deal with the Rockies for Troy Tulowitzki the day before, the American League East, where first place has been the Yankees’ exclusive domain since July 3, experienced a seismic tremor."

"Since July 3rd" isn't very long.

The Yankees started the season 1-4 and I thought they'd never see .500 again.

The Yankees were in third place on June 30th.

The Yankees are a mediocre team who had a great July. I'm not really sure why that happens sometimes, but it happens sometimes.


"According to Gibbons, he got a call from his boss, Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos, around midnight on the 30th, telling him the deal for Price could be made, and when he woke up the next morning he had a second marquee player for the stretch run. 'I only know Alex was on (Dombrowski) constantly, asking him what he was going to do, and that Dombrowski promised him he’d call him as soon as he decided.'

The fact that Cashman had so many other well-regarded 'chips' beyond his top three — second baseman Robert Refsnyder, catcher Gary Sanchez, pitchers Bryan Mitchell, Branden Pinder and maybe even Ivan Nova, who matched zeroes with Price through the first five innings before giving up the grand slam to Smoak in the sixth — leads one to believe that Dombrowski had his sights set on Norris and that Anthopoulos made sure not to let him waver."

So many well-regarded chips beyond his top three?

Gosh, I hope that's true, because that bodes well for the future.


No need to ruin that future on the off chance they make the playoffs and win the World Series with a mediocre team.