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On today’s Mike and the Mad Dog, Mike Francesa started by saying he overheard a caller call in and say how to make A-Rod the king of New York. This caller is completely right.

First step is for Alex Rodriguez to call a press conference. He then comes out and says that he will resign immediately with the Yankees on two conditions:

1) He extends his new contract to a reasonable dollar amount for both parties keeping the money received from Texas in the new contract.

2) Joe Torre gets a 3 year deal as manager.

New York would come out and love him. Not only is he willing to stay on reasonable terms, but he is protecting Joe Torre who the fans love and don’t want to go. A-Rod wants to be loved by the fans. This certainly would do it.

After the Yankees lost last night, the YES Network put on a great postgame that over an hour long. Everyone said their opinion with nothing held back. Most said that Joe Torre should remain as manager.

The most interesting one however was how they attacked Arod for saying he hasn’t thought about opting out. David Justice said there is absolutely no way he hasn’t given it any thought. He kept going saying if he wanted to stay, all it takes is a call saying lets sign a contract and not opting out.

I agree with his assessment. Arod may be in it for the money and he has every right to be. However, he shouldn’t say he hasn’t thought about it and that its not about the money. Teams will drop a player at a minutes notice if they don’t preform so its completely understandable for a player to be in it for the money. Just don’t say it isn’t.

Any talk of the MLB postseason has to begin with the Mets and their lack of being in it. Their collapse is the biggest regular season collapse in baseball history with them blowing a 7 game lead in 17 games. All other media outlets are discussing the on field situation so I’m going to discuss the TV aspect.

As was covered today on WFAN on Mike and the Mad Dog, the SNY broadcast team on CW did a great job. They covered the game extremely well, giving both sides and not straying from what the team’s problems were or making excuses. After the game, there was absolutely no postgame on SNY. How does the TV home of the Mets, a channel owned by the team, not cover a postgame for the last game of the season? If the Mets would have won, they would have gotten reaction for all that is happening and discuss the one game playoff they would have played. With the loss, it would have gotten a huge rating showing the reaction of the players and Willie Randolph. I completely agree with Mike and the Mad Dog that whoever made the decision to not air a postgame yesterday should be fired. In the all the years of YES they have never not aired a postgame following a big game, even if its a monumental postseason loss.

Now that the postseason is here we will be doing some live blogs of some games. More on which later in the week.

You are reading the title corectly. I am calling for a Yankees comeback and that they will win the American League East.

Why would I say such a thing? It is because I have no faith in the Red Sox to maintain the way they are playing. On the flipside, I think the Yankees will play much better and get closer. The rotation of Wang, Pettitte, Clemens, and Hughes (soon) is as good if not better then any other team. The big question mark, just like every other teams questions marks, is the bullpen. I’m going to say the bullpen will improve because the starting pitching is better now then it was opening day leading to a more rested bullpen.

As for old timers day, it is a great event. O’Neil and Brosius look like they are in such great shape that they could still play. I think this is a game that should get nationally televised. The regular Yanks Angels game after the old timers game was on Fox. Why did Fox not want to add the old timers game? I said the same thing about the NHL game that was played outside a few years ago. These special games I think would be able to hold a national rating and possibly increase the rating of the normal game around it. Not to mention Fox has nothing else on at 2PM on a Sat.