Oh man...Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui a Yankee...this is gonna be Ichiro mania times 10.

pacmanssportscards

3 years @ 21 million.

Supposed to be better than Ichiro and Bonds put together??? wtf?

LiveAndLearn

Sounds more like the setting for a flop...but...we'll see.

Quiksilver77

hardcore! our OF last year was attrocious at fielding and hitting, so this should be awesome for us...

***Yankees WS Champs 2003***

pacmanssportscards

Could be a flop, after all he has used up many of his good years in Japan like Ichiro so he won't have a very long career.

pacmanssportscards

Why do all Japanese/Chinese players have their first names on the back of their jerseys?

oasurfer7

they think its cool

EHTHOCKEY09

At least hes in the AL, now Byrd can still win the ROY


Ichiro is to Matsui as Pujols is to Byrd


Sounds good to me

pacmanssportscards

Almost every Byrd card dropped almost 50% this month. Glad I'm not you.

oasurfer7

well, you know that the nl will now try and find a "star" rookie besides byrd to competer with matsui

pacmanssportscards

Are you saying Byrd isn't a "star?"

EHTHOCKEY09

<< <i>Almost every Byrd card dropped almost 50% this month. Glad I'm not you. >>



That's actually good, now i can get them cheaper. BTW, the month before that they went up about %50, now there just cooling down again.

vladdyraddy77

its gonna be the hideki yankee curse...irabu bombed, this guys gunna hit .108 with like 4 home runs and error after error and hes gunna sign with some bad team and have a long, bad career. should be interesting to watch this...

phillyfan36

thats if he passes his physical for the yankees though

Quiksilver77

<< <i>its gonna be the hideki yankee curse...irabu bombed, this guys gunna hit .108 with like 4 home runs and error after error and hes gunna sign with some bad team and have a long, bad career. should be interesting to watch this... >>


are you slow, or just dumb?



<< <i>thats if he passes his physical for the yankees though >>


why would you say that?

Allen

So now we have the LeBron James of baseball. I say the people who buy their SPx rookies will be jumping off buildings at the end of the season. It will be like the depression of the sports card market. These guys will set the hobby back further than Don West did.

phillyfan36

they said on sportcenter earlier today that he has to pass a physical from the yankees before he signs

joestalin

wether or not you think this guy is going to stink, this is good for baseball,
as is James good for basketball. I can now put both these guys on my
"cards I will never pull from packs" list! Look for the first product that has
him in it, have his rookie card numberd to 50...and then all the companies have
to make lower numbered cards!!

Kevin

oasurfer7

im sure we all remember when ichiro spx jsy/auto was selling at 900+??? well look at them now. that is all this guy will be

Bobstar

The "craze"over Matsui won't be anywhere near as big as Ichiro was.One reason is he will be playing on the east coast.Nowhere
near as many Japanese fans will be willing to travel that far like they were able to with Ichiro.
Also,this guy is older as well;not as much of his peak career time is left.Baseball is grabbing at anything to try to save its' fan base.1st
the Pete Rose deal & now this.It won't be near enough as far as we're concerned.
We have boycotted buying any new baseball product;bunch of greedy jerks-players & owners.We'll just collect the Ripkens we need & some vintage cards of players we like.
When we want to see a ball game,we'll spend our money with our class A ball club here in town;at least we'll be watching players playing the game because they love the sport.

Quiksilver77

bob, couldnt agree more...baseball has gone way downhill in the past few years, and that pete rose thing is bs, he is a legend, and should be recognized as one, even though he screwed up...matsui will be a good hitter for the yankees, they can sure use it...and no, he wont be nearly as big as ichiro because it has been done before, this is nothing new for baseball.

Metros69

<< <i>Almost every Byrd card dropped almost 50% this month. Glad I'm not you. >>



LMAO! that has to do with him being any good? wow, didn't think people could be that dumb but OK. You will see when Byrd wins ROY

Remster

Hopefully the owners will wake up and see what the spiraling salaries are doing to the game.There is a definate movement this year to try to keep salaries at some sort of "realistic" level...even the big spenders are paring back...the Red Sox nixed a trade because Montreal wanted them to take on Tatis salary...the Dodgers trying to dump Ashby's salary before they sign a Kent or Floyd...the list goes on

It will be interesting to see if this follows through next year when it looks to be a bonanza of possible free agents

vladdyraddy77

<< <i>bob, couldnt agree more...baseball has gone way downhill in the past few years, and that pete rose thing is bs, he is a legend, and should be recognized as one, even though he screwed up...matsui will be a good hitter for the yankees, they can sure use it...and no, he wont be nearly as big as ichiro because it has been done before, this is nothing new for baseball. >>



oh yea...a great hitter...just like irabu was a great pitcher right? the point i was making before you called me dumb...they say he was the equivalent to like nolan ryan in japan now hes the equivalent to american crap and its going to be the same thing with matsui...the yankees have a pitching problem, so lets let go a reliever that can get the job done and sign a hitter that can hit meatballs off japanese pitchers...did you see the americans vs the japs? i dont believe the ball touched mr godzillas bat...either that or someone had to translate "swing" for him...the yankes cant use hitting....they have clutch hitting which is what they need pitching is their problem....the rocket is old...pettite is inconsistent....weaver would be good if baseball games were 4 innings long....so whos the slow one?

pacmanssportscards

vladdyraddy hit it on the head.

EHTHOCKEY09

he sure did, i hope this Matsui guy flops.

vladdyraddy77

i would just like to say one more thing....the yankees need hitting????? i just read that over...man i know....i mean giambi ONLY hit like .300 with 30 homeruns and was a pathetic little mvp candidate for a while....and then soriano...dont get me started on soriano... .300 with 30 homeruns? what does he think he is a second baseman?!?! bernie williams...all those hitting streaks....my grandma could get better hit streaks than that....and the fact that jeter hits .300 is just a waste...so only 4 solid hitters and ventura and vander wal and posada coming up great in the clutch is horrible...they really need to get better hitters....pathetic in my opinion...glad to see pacmans knows something about baseball

zimmy3

In response to the person who asked about them putting their first names on their jerseys, I think in Japan they call the persons name in reverse, so it would be Suzuki Ichiro, so naturally he'd put Ichiro on the back of his jersey. Of course I could be wrong, but I think that is a good assumption

vladdyraddy77

yea that is what they do in japan i heard that somewhere too