WHY IT COULD BE A TEXAS “YU” STEP

I hate the waiting game. The baseball world is watching. I think about how the Mets are in this funk right now and realize it could be worse for the Yankees, after all they have a real good ball club, but for Christmas all I really want is a starter. The waiting game for Yu Darvish is draining.

Watching Peter Gammons refer to the Nippon Ham Fighters as “Foo Fighters” was at least relief during this waiting game. I heard him say it last night on MLB and I have to admit, I laughed. I guess we have to laugh because if I had to predict, it would be the Texas Rangers who will be the ones who win this sweepstakes for Yu.

The Yankees reportedly made a “modest” offer for negotiating rights, read HERE and to be honest, I don’t know if I believe it or not. The way this winter is going for the Yankees, it almost makes sense that they would push hard for Yu and then, all this hurry up and wait the Yankees are doing would all make sense. I just don’t know what to make of it.

I remember how exciting it was when the Yankees signed Hideki Matsui and the lead up to it had a true live energy in Yankeeland. I remember when Daisuke Matsuzaka was being bid on, there was an exciting energy in New York that we might get him. True, he went to the Red Sox, but the energy was different than it is now with Yu Darvish. New York seems flat right now, like we know it's not going to happen for us. There was confidence among Yankee fans then, not now.

This waiting game for me is personally nerve racking, not exciting. The information is coming out in drips and drabs and while there are a lot of teams that put a bid in, I just am not so sure the Yankees have this one in the bag. Again, I feel like it’s the Rangers. Which brings me to another point. Would Yu even decide at that point he’s coming to the states? It’s been reported that he’s perfectly happy staying with the Nippon Ham Fighters, which, to put it simply, it would have to be a pretty good team to want to come to the United States...a team with a true chance to win. I have no doubt that the Yankees need to be that team, but I put nothing past Texas. They lost CJ Wilson and they’ll need a leader on that rotation. Yu could be that leader where in New York, CC is our leader. That being said, ego needs to take a back seat to winning as a team and I just hope the Yanks have lied to us all and the bid for Yu is more than modest, otherwise… there’s a very big chance the Texas Rangers would win this battle. I hope not. After all, it just wouldn’t be Christmas without a big gift under my tree this year.

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