Sammy's Back!

With the news of Mark McGwire's recent Hall of Fame rejection fresh in our minds, recent reports have Sammy Sosa, yes that Sammy Sosa, being offered a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers.

"Sammy came across as hungry and humble, just looking for an opportunity," Daniels said. "We're not placing any expectations on the situation. It's a second chance for him."

This seems like a desperate move, but as we know, the Rangers and Sosa have a history together. This is low risk, but why the fuck would you try to fix your mistake from 1989 now? Especially now that he is 38 and probably unable to hit over .175?

And in other baseball news...

Zambrano, who was paid only $6.5 million in 2006, is asking for a reasonable $15.5 million in 2007. The Cubs are offering $11.025 million. That's quite a gap. DCS was on top of this topic back in December. It's going to impossible for Hendry to convince Zambrano that he should be paid less than Ted Lilly. Frankly, I'm embarrassed that Hendry offered this amount to Big Z. He should just bite the bullet and get him signed to a long term contract before opening day now. You know you are going to pay him, just do it now and move on to other things.

The White Sox and Joe Crede, bad back and all, have agreed to $5 Million to avoid arbitration. That seems like a reasonable price, one that even Mr. Far could get behind.

Finally, next year is going to be last year of Yankee Stadium, the new $1 billion dollar ballpark will go up in 2009, so MLB is giving the seventies citadel one last hurrah by hosting the All-Star game there in 2008. They aren't going to blow up the stadium like Shea, but the Yankees won't play there anymore.

Less than a month before pitchers and catchers report...