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If you listened to the New York Yankee fans here in the Big Apple, you would think that Cliff Lee beat up their first born. I really can’t get over the reaction to a guy who made a decision that was best for himself and his family.

Yankee fans are reacting as if not getting Lee, the Yankees are going to win 60 games in 2011. Wake up people. Lee would have been a luxury.

The Yankees still have a $200 million payroll and a very talented team that will certainly be one of the top teams in the American League. If anything, this was a big blow to the Yankees’ ego internally. Lee was their guy and he said talk to the hand.

But not getting Lee is not the end of world, tomorrow will still happen, and the Yankees need to move on. So the question now is — where do the Yankees go from here?

Outside of bringing back Andy Pettitte, there isn’t much improvement they could make to their rotation. Obviously bringing back Carl Pavano is not a possibility and the Yankees are too worried about Zack Greinke‘s mindset to bring him into New York.

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