NY TIMES SELLS HATRED, ENVY, & LIES ABOUT THE YANKEES

"Yankees Spend $26 Million for Rights to Igawa."

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Published: November 28, 2006

(This is the sensational headline the Times uses to keep baseball's awards voters in Minneapolis feeling outraged and justified in denying Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter. It's also false. The team did not "spend" for rights to Igawa. The money is not "SPENT" unless the player signs with the Yankees. It's a 'bid,' which the phony writer explains in the story, but not until he spreads hate.)

From the opening of the column:

"Two weeks after the Red Sox won the bidding to negotiate with the star Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, the Yankees came back to win the right to negotiate with the left-handed Japanese pitcher Kei Igawa, major league baseball officials announced tonight."