So what’s the over/under on the number of lbs. C.C. is going to put on in the first six months in pinstripes? 500? 750? Remember, the idea is to get the most people to bet. So I’m landing somewhere near 600-625.

Yes, respect my obsessive consumption of Yankees-related blog posts. Now the real interesting question is whether we can land Sheets and Tex? We don’t have a MLB-ready 1st baseman in the farm (Duncan, I guess, but not really), and Tex looks like he’d be a solid investment.

And, continuing the thoroughly fruitless argument from the previous thread, I said that “not many other teams can offer that (a shot at history).” Note the hedge. That is not a function of any inherent value of the franchise, but rather an accumulation of circumstances. The Yankees operates in a very large, baseball-crazy media market AND have a ton of money AND have a storied history AND the most intense rivalry in baseball (the other half of which, it should be noted, is very wealthy and operates in a baseball-crazy media market).

So please, don’t try to spin this as me disrespecting Jackie Robinson or Koufax. Christ, that’s not the point at all. All I’m saying is that, for a certain caliber of player, playing for New York is going to grant you more visibility and enhance your “icon” potential more than, say, playing for Kansas City would.

Hell, everyone from NJ to MA knows who Aaron Boone is, and he wasn’t even all that good.