Sabathia

Clemens, Farnsworth, Clemens again, A-Rod and most recently Swisher, Texeria, Burnett and Sabathia, All-Stars yes, but also guys content to some degree being the big fish in their little pond.  This isn't a little pond, this is New York City, as ponds go its the equivalent of the Atlantic Ocean.  Why can't they understand how much greater they'd be in the eyes of the baseball world if they just left the ego in the locker-room of the team they just bolted from?

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With C.C, sorry its now CC Sabathia coming to the Brewers and Rich Harden going to the Cubs, the race in the NL Central just got a lot more interesting. The Cubs are taking a big risk picking up Harden. If he can remain healthy, and thats a big if, he can give them an answer to Sheets-

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eems much more willing than Cashman to go to the wall to get what he wants.

Next chapter: With CC Sabathia waving off the Indians' four-year/$72 million offer (or so the reports say) he is sure to be wearing pinstripes at this time next season. The Yankees brass must be slobbering over the fact that they will clear out more than $40 million in pitchers' salaries at the end of 2008, by bidding bye-bye to Pettitte, Mussina, Pavano and Farnsworth. With those contracts out the door, their best-paid starter will be Kei Igawa at $4 million -- if he hasn't been shipped elsewhere. That means a huge opportunity to open the purse strings for Carsten Charles 

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