*&%$!#*&$$# the Yankees!!!!!!!

Damnit! The Yankees are reportedly close to trading Alofnso Soriano and a freaking prospect for A-Rod. What a joke. Click here for the story.

Alfonso Soriano is a good player. Great speed. Good power. But he was a real liability defensively in this year's playoffs for the Yankees.

And now the Bronx Jackasses get to trade him for, arguably, the greatest shortstop ever? Well, he'll play third base for the Yankees but this unbelievable. Baseball needs a salary cap big and bad. Sure the Yanks lost a good chunk of their pitching staff and they need to get a second baseman if Soriano is traded, but come on. The rich keep getting richer in baseball and the poor get poorer.

The Twins, like the Yankees, just unloaded a good portion of their talent but they sure as hell didn't get a player like Alex Rodriguez in return. And don't forget the Yankees added Flash Gordon and Kevin Brown to their pitching staff along the way.

I still love the Twins, but part of me will be pulling for the Royals this year. They seem like the best small market hope this year to unseat the rich carpetbaggers in Boston and the Bronx.

Here's hoping that A-Rod is to the Yankees as Ken Griffey Jr. is to the Reds.

Fuck the Yankees! Fuck baseball's George-Bush-style economics!!!