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Fantastic news fans, the Mets have completed a trade for Johan Santana. The Mets will send Carlos Gomez, Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey.

It's weird, but this is one of the few times both fans of the Yankees and Red Sox can be happy. Neither fan base (or the authors of this blog) wanted to part with the players and cash it would take to attain Santana and seeing him go to the National League is great news.

Of course the Mets have to sign him and that may cost big, big bucks, but they have the $$ and the need, so I don't expect a problem.

If you are a Twins fan, my condolences. It looks to me like your club really blew it big time with this deal and you have every right to blast ownership.

What do you think? Vote below

Posted by Peter (Yankees) at 04:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBacks (0)

So yes, Andy just happens to be a Patriots fan and I happen to be a Giants fan, but I'm sorry if I just don't get the comparisons of that "rivalry" with the Yankees-Red Sox. Sure, Boston-New York is a good storyline, but the Giants and Patriots have played a total of eight times in 47 years. And, under the current NFL schedule, they will not play again until 2011 (unless it's the Super Bowl)

So, while we are going to be bombarded with countless comparisons (I have already heard the Patriots compared to the 1998 Yankees and the Giants compared to the 2004 Red Sox) and hype, it only reinforces in my mind how special Yankees-Red Sox is. 19 times a year in the regular season, three times in the last nine seasons in the playoffs and for almost 100 years these two teams have been going at it. You simply can't beat that.

I guess the best thing about this game from both sides is that the papers will be dominated with football stories and we won't have to suffer through another round of Santana to "x" for a couple of weeks!

Posted by Peter (Yankees) at 06:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Congress has gotten into the act and asked Clemens, Pettitte, McNamee, Radomski and Knoblauch to testify January 16th. I am not sure if asking is the same as subpoenaing, but it doesn't matter in Clemens' case. If he doesn't testify, his claims of innocence become totally absurd.

Now, if Clemens goes before Congress and proclaims his innocence does that change things in your mind about the case against him?

Posted by Peter (Yankees) at 06:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBacks (0)