George Steinbrenner isn’t stopping his players from playing in the WBC (okay, he did with Jorge Posada), but he’s not particular happy about it. He’s got four of his studs playing in the classic, along with the chance for two others is they make their respective teams. Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Johny Damon are all playing for the U.S. and Bernie Williams is playing for Puerto Rico. Miguel Cairo is trying to make the Venezuela team and Ramiro Mendoza is hoping to pitch for Panama.
The other interesting news is Red Sox owner John Henry is doing his best George Steinbrenner impersonation. He’s fed up with the inequities of the league’s revenue sharing policy. While it’s never good to see yourself agreeing with anything to do with the Red Sox, it’s nice seeing the Boss will have someone in his corner when the CBA negotiations roll around.
And I wouldn’t really call this news, but the Yankees signed Scott Erickson to a minor league deal. Erickson has been nothing short of awful the last few years and he couldn’t even get the job done in Chavez Ravine, a pitchers park. Erickson had some great seasons in the 90s, but since the turn of the century, his ERA has been on the north side of 5.00.
