A CC Reality Check

Brewer fans are starting to get excited. Not just because the Winter Meetings are coming up next week. But, because CC Sabathia hasn't signed the six year offer from the Yankees worth $140M. On top of that, word is that the Yankees are going to give Sabathia an ultimatum - sign the deal or it's off the table forever.

Brewer fans think because the Yankees are getting turned off by CC's perceived lack of interest, that because CC hasn't run to The Big Apple for the money just yet, that the Brewers have a chance to bring him back. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, I have a better chance at learning to ride a bike than the Brewers have at re-signing CC.

Look, the Brewers made the offer to Sabathia a couple of weeks before free agency started. Do you know what they heard back? Nothing. Crickets. Neither Sabathia or his agents have even bothered to tell the Brewers whether or not their offer was even in the ballpark.

Brewers GM Doug Melvin apparently wanted some sort of answer before last week's Thanksgiving break, but didn't get one. That alone should be enough of an answer for Melvin. CC liked it here, loved his teammates, and loved being the reason why they went to the playoffs for the first time since 1982, but the reported offer of $100M is just not going to get it done. There is not going to be a discount for the Brewers, even if they did rescue him from a bad situation last summer in Cleveland. It's simple $100M does not equal $140M.

Trust me when I tell you the Yankees will not be the only team in the big leagues to make CC that kind of offer. Even if the Yankees rescind it, someone will throw that kind of cash Sabathia's way.

It might be the Angels, who will have money to play with if K-Rod and Mark Teixeira sign somewhere else. It might be the Dodgers, once the Manny Ramirez situation comes to a conclusion. The Giants might even get into the sweepstakes, provided they could somehow, someway, find some sucker to take on the BLOATED contract they gave Barry Zito a couple of years ago.

Even if it's not any of those teams that I just mentioned, it'll be another team that's lying in the weeds. Let's go back to Texas' signing of A-Rod. Did anyone see that coming? Nope, no one did. I'm not saying it'll be Texas. I'm saying that some team that has more money than we think will come out of nowhere and make a big time offer to Sabathia.

Heck, didn't the Astros just give Mike Hampton a contract? He hasn't pitched a full season in two years now. And he just got a contract.

Granted it wasn't a big money contract, but if an injury prone Mike Hampton can find a job, you know that someone is going to make CC an offer he cannot refuse.

Just don't count on that someone being Mark Attanasio of the Milwaukee Brewers.