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Title: The Yankees have A-rod! Celebration time!
Post by: General Throatstomper on February 16, 2004, 05:43:45 pm
The yankees have Alex Rodriguez! The Mvp!!!!!! One of the best players all time!!!!! Bud ceily okayed the trade this afternoon, Start the celebrations  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  B)  But if you're a red sox fan,  :ph34r:  :ph34r:
Title: The Yankees have A-rod! Celebration time!
Post by: SadisticMystic on February 16, 2004, 05:44:01 pm
Give us back our tax cut.
Title: The Yankees have A-rod! Celebration time!
Post by: General Throatstomper on February 16, 2004, 05:48:14 pm
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Give us back our tax cut.
No, I'm sorry, but just because the yankees are ridiculously rich, it doesn't mean we steal from the government. Steinbrenner is a billionare. multi-billionare
Title: The Yankees have A-rod! Celebration time!
Post by: Rolken on February 16, 2004, 10:28:40 pm
Never cared when the Rangers had him, don't care now (I'm from Texas).
Title: The Yankees have A-rod! Celebration time!
Post by: SuperSonic101 on February 18, 2004, 01:35:25 pm
Damn them yankees.
Title: The Yankees have A-rod! Celebration time!
Post by: wheatrich on February 23, 2004, 08:37:40 pm
well the trade was almost a wash for both squads actually.  Although A-rod was the mvp--they gave up soriano, who had better road stats than a-rod did last season.  Other than the massive upgrade defensively between the two.  The yankees didn't really get that much greater.

The flip side--Texas is still paying 10 mil a year on a-rod's deal, and 5 mil a year on soriano's.  So they save 10 mil this season, but if revenues decline by 10 mil because they traded him away, they basically did nothing.  Plus getting rid of juan gonzalez and others couldn't have helped the team's performance this or next season--we'll see how they fare a few years down the road when they don't have to pay so much of a-rod's deal.