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Yeah, the Giants should look into giving him another year or two unless he thinks he can start somewhere else.

Holy shit. David Carr with a beautiful TD pass to Hixon. The Vikes are pathetic if they lose this game against the B-team.

Ward joins Jacobs as a 1,000 yard rusher. That's pretty much the only thing that was interesting for me in the game this week, especially now that David Carr is playing.

Carolina's pretty much wrapped up the 2 seed and Brees is not coming anywhere near Marino's record for yardage.

The Giants and their outstanding ability to let a RB go straight up the gut untouched with 8 in the box have just given the Vikings a division title.

That's the definition of overpaying. I don't see why Yankees fans can't accept this. It's not illegal within the structure of MLB. I just don't get why throwing $20 million on top of the top offer to a player is considered "normal" when no other team in any other sport does it. For a week I've been hearing that the Yankees didn't overpay for any of their three players they signed this year when the biggest deal anyone else has pulled down this offseason was for $37 million over 3 years.

No, the market price is what people are willing to pay. The Yankees set that number for any free agent they want. In the case of CC they offered him $140 million and then when no other higher bids came in they inexplicably drove it up to $161 million. His value didn't rise by $21 million. The price did. When no one else was bidding. It's the same thing the Rangers did with A-Rod many moons ago. The "market" was somewhere around $15-18 million per and yet they threw $252 million over 10 years his way when no one else was in the mix. To simplify things, if someone (admittedly brain dead) offered Aaron Heilman $15 million per, that doesn't mean he's worth that/his value is that high. It just means that he'll take that offer because he's rational and likes money. Now if a lot of idiots start paying the Aaron Heilmans of the world $15 million per, then that becomes the market value for mediocre pitchers who like to give up crushing homers in critical spots. It would also drive up the market price (and subsequently value) for pitchers better than Heilman as well because if a scrub like that can get $15 million, then someone with talent should make more.

Because the Yankees didn't play a bidding game with other teams. They took them out to begin with by making the market offer (so anything over that would be overpaying). If the Yankees offered 105, then some other team offered 110 and so on, it allows other teams to get into the bidding. Sabathia is making as much as Santana, and that's where his market lies. You don't understand the concept of overpaying or market value then. If I'm selling a box of pens and someone offers me $1,000 for them to make sure no else can bid on them, that doesn't mean the pens have a market value of $1,000. The pens are "worth" $1,000 to the buyer, but the market value is a couple of bucks because that's what a normal person ends up paying for pens elsewhere. Less specifically, "market value is a concept distinct from market price, which is “the price at which one can transact” (read: what the Yankees pay), while market value is “the true underlying value” (read: the price a guy would get in a Yankees free system) according to theoretical standards. The concept is most commonly invoked in inefficient markets or disequilibrium situations where prevailing market prices are not reflective of true underlying market value"

Why did CC get an extra $20 million over their own initial offer then? and what about A-Rod getting $300 million against no other offers? They routinely overpay, which is why their payroll is so inflated.

The Yankees are bad for baseball because their existence virtually ensures that a small market team can never keep a player in their prime unless they make a deal within their first year or two like Longoria or Braun did. It's somewhat asinine that the Yankees will lowball their own players until they hit FA status and then if they want to keep them will offer them far more than the market would offer since that's the advantage they have over every team. For example Wang is getting peanuts (relatively speaking) after being a consistent winner for the team, but a guy like Burnett's going to make three times as much as him because he's a FA that the Yankees coveted. I love the idiotic argument that I've been hearing all week on WFAN that because the Yankees sellout three road games a year for certain teams that they're a net positive to that team's bottom line when they steal their top players year after year.

But the NBA is horribly unbalanced this year. You've got 3 teams that can't even win 15% of their games and 6 under 30%. There's 3 teams winning over 82.5% of their games and 11 over 60% right now. There's a really good chance barring an injury to Kobe, KG, Pierce, Allen or LeBron that three teams might be in contention for the single season NBA record for victories AND there's also a chance that two teams in the NBA might have to wait until the final month of the season to win TEN games.

Let's be real here, a +9 or +10 in your win total in a season with only 16 games is impressive regardless of the situation.

They've won eight games more than they did last year. Shut up. It's nine already, and could be ten if the Jets roll over and die the way they have most of the last 4 weeks.

If the Pats somehow win this division without Brady then Belichick needs to be COTY and Cassel needs to get serious consideration for MVP.

My only consolation is that the 2014 or 2015 Yankees will be the highest paid team of aging/broken down superstars ever after Jeter gets his new contract in a couple of years. The Mets will probably find a way to blow another lead with 17 games left in the season.

I just heard it was for $180 million. There's no way that guy is worth anywhere near $22.5 million per. It's nice to know that the economy can circle the drain but the Yankees can still throw out nearly a half billion dollars in contracts during the offseason.

Tex is a Yankee according to Heyman.

That's the easy winner for me.

Due to the recording quality I can't understand either question asked at that press conference at the beginning He was basically asking if the D-Cord. was only still there because he's Marinelli's son-in-law. He found about 4 or 5 ways to ask that question.

I don't know how the Giants pulled that one out, but it was nice to see Mr. Playmaker get shut out after halftime. I'm sure we'll rest most of the starters next week giving Minnesota their division, but I honestly don't care at this point. I would love for Philly to win next week and give us a crack at either Arizona, Atlanta or Tampa Bay in our first playoff game.

It doesn't matter when the defense is leaving guys running 20+ yards down field untouched. Williams has time to get at least two more TDs.

Have the Giants stopped a team on 3rd and long since the Washington game? FUCKING PATHETIC!

I like how a helmet to helmet on Jacobs isn't called, but if someone hit Eli like that it'd be a fine and possible suspension.

Fucking pathetic.

This Giants "defense" is fucking pathetic.