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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I had another thought about this Schilling business. Maybe Colangelo figured the Yankees were going to be much more desperate for pitching, what with losing Clemens and probably Wells and maybe Petitte, and figured he could take George for more. And knew that the Sox were not on Schilling's list (initially), and figured he didn't have as much leverage there.
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Oh, come on. Every GM knows that if Boston mentions a player they are interested in and the Yankees have or had made an offer for said player, the correct thing to do would be to start a bidding war between the two teams. So, Colangelo should have optimized what he got from Boston by keeping the Yankees in talks. Telling them he wants the sky and nothing else and then shutting them down doesn't really accomplish that.
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