Have we forgot how awful the yanks were in

the post season ,like they were paid to take

a dive.

Hire some new kids on the block maybe sort of straight

from the little league.

"Have we forgot how awful the yanks were in

the post season"

Uh... no, those of us who actually watched and remember the post-season haven't forgotten that, because we know it didn't happen.

What the Yankees did in the post-season: sweep the opening series against a division champion, and lose a seven=game series in six to a hot team that took their own division with 90 wins and a dominating 51-30 home record. That coming after losing one of their starting star players to injury.

Awful? Not at all, unless you're taking the misguided point of view that the Yankees should automatically win a championship every year. The team had a very good season, and was beaten by another strong team in the ALCS.

"New kids on the block"? Bringing prospects through the system until they develop into players who can contribute certainly isn't foreign the the Yankees' way of thinking. Among Yankee draft picks on the current roster are names like Jeter, Cano, Posada, and Rivera.

C'mon Jay don't get your Yankee underoos in a bunch over this. Considering the Yankees spend more money than any other team, there is that perception that they should win it all. Otherwise why the hell are they spending that much to not win? But you play the games on the field and that is why they lost. The bats were invisible against Texas. But that's okay, Arod and the rest of the group will bounce back and make Yankee fans happy to be alive in a few months!!!

As much as I love Jeter, he isn't a spring chicken anymore. I want to see him stay but it's hard to rationalize the money.

The Yankees' current offer (which we should even know about at this point because it should be kept private) is way more than fair. He'd still be the best paid middle infielder in the game. Let him look around and if he wants to bolt then say goodbye.

The real problem with keeping Jeter around is where to play him. Declining players usually end up at first base or maybe DH. The Yankees already have an excellent, younger player locked up for years at first (Teixeira is also a switch hitter with power)and too many older players who might have to play first (Posada, A-Rod in few years?). And Jeter never had the homerun power to be a DH, even in his prime.

When Cal Ripken couldn't play shortstop anymore, Baltimore moved him to third base because that team wasn't going anywhere. The Yankees cannot do the same thing.

I see the business value of having Jeter on the team for a few more years and especially if he has a farewell year. But the question is how long can he play and who replaces him? I don't follow the team enough to what they have in the farm system. And if they have to go out and get a free agent do they really want Jeter on the payroll at the same time?

The Yankees would be insane not to sign Jeter. Jeter is not a great player (anymore, at least, but he never really was spectacular) and he knows that; he also knows how valuable he is to the Yankees. He is the defining player for the team in the last 15 years. He is not worth $20million or even $15million but they should pay what he wants.

Also I am a Red Sox fan so, really, so I hope they don't re-sign him and I don't have to keep watching highlights of his deceptively-good plays.

Yanks will be paying big bucks for a player well past his prime. His fielding range is diminished and it seems inside-out blooper hits are about all he can produce at the plate.

He is the captain and team leader. And the teenage girls still love him (although he's old enough to be their dad by now). But he's becoming a figurehead - an expensive one that may handicap the team's offense.

Maybe a role as player/manager in the future for the Yanks?

I hate the Yankees but must say that Jeter is total class. He has more to lose, but can still stick it to them and go somewhere else for less money if he's comfortable with how rich he already is. I'm not saying he is or will, but the Yankees have plenty to lose without Jeter as captain and mentor even though he can't get as much money anywhere else.

Fans will not appreciate the organization if the perception becomes that they didn't do enough to keep a legend where he should be. Last I checked, the Yankees and their fans like bragging about all their legends and will certainly have wounded pride if this doesn't pan out the way they expect it to.

It's hard to imagine sour feelings towards Jeter prevailing as the lasting perception even if he goes elsewhere.

Too bad he couldn't just start taking steroids like he could have if this were 10 years ago, then he'd be great until age 42.

Why would he go somewhere else for less money? Out of spite? If he really is comfortable living on the $250mil + insane endorsements than maybe he should wake up and take a look around the league. How many 35+ aging SS with limited range and coming off a bad career year asking for mega bucks? Granted he should get a bit more than the average SS, but really baseball today is more of a business than a national past time. Going to another team out of spite - nice ending for a legacy, I'm sure it would look great on his HoF plaque.

I'm blaming this fiasco on the agent and Yankee management for being idiots and grandstanding in the media. Both sides should get off their high horse and come up with a better solution. Both sides have such a great potential to add to Yankee history and also baseball in general. Only losers here are the fans.

"I'm blaming this fiasco on the agent and Yankee management for being idiots and grandstanding in the media."

Know what? There is no "fiasco". Blame the perception that there is on the media who are trying to create that appearance.

To believe that there really is one means that you believe that Jeter, his agent, and the team management are unaware that the the media are pawing all over this and looking to sensationalize it as much as possible. In fact, they're all very much aware of it, and are playing PR games themselves. But anyone who's paid attention to these negotiations in the world of sports over the past several years knows that anything said publicly during negotiations is just talk, and once a contract is signed the parties involved will be scrambling to "correct" the "distortions" that were in the press.

In the end, whatever is written and whatever those of us who are not actually in involved in the talks might read will be pretty close to irrelevant to whatever the final resolution turns out to be.

So we should ignore what Cashman and Steinbrenner have said? It isn't a fiasco but a major bore. Jerek's last contract paid him over $189 million dollars. If anything this shows how out of touch Yankee fans are when they demand he be paid whatever the hell he wants...

How about the Yanks give him 50K and pay for their own effin' stadium!