Sabathia has no desire to come to NY, so why force an unhappy marriage?

(NY Post, Sherman): "...the top starting pitcher in the free-agent market has no desire to be a New Yorker. None.

So who is going to motivate CC Sabathia to reconsider his Yankee aversion? Joe Girardi? What exactly is that phone call going to be like between the hardly fatherly, hardly forthright Girardi and the fun-loving, 300-pound Sabathia?

• "CC if you want to drag that hulking body through my marine boot camp spring training and live in a clubhouse where I ban sweets of all sorts from candy to ice cream to soda, and spend the next six years thinking up synonyms for humorless, boy, have I got a team for you."

Sabathia, for now, is prioritizing his native California and being able to hit in the NL, which leaves the Yanks in a big 0-for-2....

• Oh yes,

• the Yanks cannot even sell the certainty of the playoffs any more.

• All they will have is money....

In 2000, Mussina actually had offers from the Mets, Red Sox and Orioles in the same ballpark as the Yankees' proposal, and

• he asked his agent to stop soliciting bids

• in fear that the Yanks would drop out; that is how much

• (Joe) Torre had swayed him on wearing pinstripes New York Yankees . ...

"As badly as we want him, you have to ask yourself,

• 'Is this how your want to begin a marriage? By bribing someone to come here,' " a Yankees official said.

• "I think it sets you up for a bad relationship if you have someone here who doesn't really want to be here and came only because of the money.

And I think if you pay him a contract that blows away the last record (Johan Santana's six-year, $137.5 million deal),

• you are putting unreal pressure on him from the outset.""...

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