Zell's Pinstripe Blog

    Accoriding to SI’s Jon Heyman, the Red Sox made a pitch to the Florida Marlins for  Hanley Ramirez after missing out in the Teixeira Sweepstakes. The Marlins are hesitant in trading away their best player, and that’s understandable. The Red Sox made a mistake by trading him a few years ago. They did get Beckett and Lowell in return, but they gave up a superstar in the making. The Marlins need a center fielder, and the discussions were supposedly involving Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz. Nothing really developed after that.

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     Looks like the owners are starting to come out of the woodwork now. Now Astros owner, Drayton McLane is in favor of a salary cap. He is one of the wealthiest men in the country, but unlike Steinbrenner..he doesn’t want to put money into his team. They just pocket the money instead. People make it sound like these owners have no money, and it’s not true at all. The funny part about it is that the Yankees haven’t been winning with all this high spending. They haven’t won a World Series in the last eight years. Meanwhile..a smaller market team like the Florida Marlins has won the World  Series twice in the past 12 years.

“We would love to have a salary cap, but the (players’) union has been very resistant to that,” McLane said this past week.

“The Yankees are the Yankees and are always going to be in a position that is unique to the game from the standpoint of the revenues and what they’re capable of doing,” Astros general manager Ed Wade said.

“Our revenues jumped going into a new park (in 2000), but nowhere in the league of the Yankees,” McLane said. “They will certainly generate more revenue in their new stadium. We still have tough, tough economic times, and I hope they allot for that.”

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Other morning headlines…

Lauber: Yankees battle blues with lots of green

Red Sox Finally Spend, but the Sum Is Modest

Does Tex signing mean end for Jeter?

Wang, Joba, Cano, & Posada Key’s to ’09 Yanks