Since the Cliff lee saga is over and while everyone is either jumping off ledges or deciding that Lee is now Satan;I thought I might make a few trade proposals.  Let me acknowledge up front that i don't like Granderson as a player. I am speaking strictly in the baseball sense before I get the obligatory comments about what a great guy he is.  My motivation for including him and not Gardner in trades is partly my not liking him as a ballplayer and partly my growing respect for Gardner's skill.

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Let me start by saying that if it were not for the Yankees, Jets, Knicks and Rangers I would not be on this Earth.

I spent  years 4-17 hoping that I would not live to see another day only to want to wake up the next day to see how my teams did.  I was another kid lost in the system for many years: group homes, shelters, the streets; you name it I went through it.  Abuse at home and in the myriad of Foster Homes and Group Homes I was in but because of people like Fran Messer, Bill White, Joe Garagiola, Vin Scully, Mel Allen, Tony Kubek, Jerry Coleman, Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson, John Wooden and many others I found an escape from the misery of my life in sports

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I have watched the Yankees for 40 years and never have I felt ashamed of being a Yankee fan until now.  I listen to and read statements on blogs and from other “fans” of the team that I have loved all my life and I wonder what happened to us.

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Now before everyone calls me crazy, it's Friday I  am off work and bored out of my mind.  So with that in mind.

What about trying to see if the Blue Jays will give us Halladay without us giving up Joba/Hughes?Montero etc if we take back Wells?

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I thought I would throw this out there.  How about Ben Sheets and Rich Harden?  Sheets when healthy is a dominant pitcher as is Harden. If we could get them for Say 3 years for Harden and 2 years for Sheets with heavily incentive laden contracts we have protection for the back of the rotation, we have the ability to let the young kids develop even if they have to go down to AAA (Joba) and when one of them is injured the other will probably be healthy.  This gives us rotation depth to once again not have to overuse CC and AJ and Andy during the regular season and makes sense financially.  This also allows us to make a move at the deadline if we want to and have the flexibility to go after Halladay next off season when he is a free agent.

Since the pre-season I have seen a lot of comments concerning Dubinsky and his ability or lack thereof depending on who is talking to be a front line center.  It reminds me alot of the talk about Marc Savard when he was here as a young player we drafted to be a front line center and after about a year and a half of NHL playing time with the Rangers we shipped him off to Calgary where given the opportunity he became a serviceable second line center and after going to Boston has become the number one center man the Rangers thought they were getting when they drafted him.  I guess my question is do we give up on Dubinsky and say he will never be a front line center or do we go against our natures and give the player time to grow into the player we want him to be?