This situation has been framed incorrectly. Mariano has repeatedly given away all his power by saying he wanted to finish his career as a Yankee. His agent Fern Cuza should’ve been fired long ago. What happened here is similar to what they did with Pettitte. If you have a franchise player who’s asked for a phone call, you don’t have to sign or pay him,
just call. Say we’re looking at things, we have concerns, but wanted to give you the same freaking courtesy we’d give a dog, instead of letting you twist slowly in the wind. No phone call, weak agent, Mo gets peeved, has no power, starts talking about respect, and most of this wouldn’t have happened if they had shown him a tiny bit of it.ie, a lousy phone call. Now, the media has framed the discourse looking only at money, ignoring this pattern Steinbrenner has had of humiliating his best, most loyal players and driving them away. I’ll say good-bye to Mo, because I think he has to leave and should leave after this kind of treatment. Mike Lupica, who’s probably seen more of Mo’s pitches than most Yankee fans, said separately in 2006: Mariano may be ‘the most important Yankee of all time.’ And, he is ‘the greatest money athlete of all time.’ You’d never know either of these things from watching the YES network either. That’s why Mo should leave.

Now there’s a mental image I did not need. So much for lunch!

Grant,Young and Young’s son-in-law were all sleeping together on the Seaver trade.

The whole Seaver/Grant/Dick Young thing was much deeper than that.
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I would suspect it to be more Seaver & Grant than Seaver, Grant & Young.

For whatever reason, some owners/teams didn’t want to go along with free agency; remember Finley attempting to sell some of his players around the same time frame

Sometimes I just wish athletes would shut up with the respect crap when referring to contract negotiations and just admit that they’re greedy bastards. On the one hand, Mo’s earned 70 million in his illustrious career, while a close friend of mine has been teaching in an inner-city school for six years and still cannot afford a down payment on a mortgage.

The whole Seaver/Grant/Dick Young thing was much deeper than that.

However, is the potential money saved with this risk analysis approach worth the P.R. nightmare of seeing Mariano Rivera closing games for the Boston Red Sox in 2008?
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Seeing as we almost had a CF platoon of Gerald Williams & Chad Curtis with Albert Belle in LF, with Bernie manning CF for the Red Sox, I’d say the PR aspect doesn’t mean much.

Barring any unforseen circumstances, I think Rivera will finish his career as a Yankee.

Given that the Mets weren’t going anywhere, I can see why they moved Seaver & Kingman