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CC STILL SITTING ON YANKS' OFFER

Are the Yankees headed for another Randy Johnson situation when dealing with CC Sabathia?
Johnson orchestrated his way out of Arizona to The Bronx for one reason: Yankee dollars.
As Johnson discovered, money often doesn't buy happiness in New York.
Now it appears Sabathia, who is light years ahead of Johnson as a teammate and person, may only land in the new Yankee Stadium
because of the $140 million offered across six years.
Though Sabathia's wife, Amber, would like her husband to pitch for the Giants, and though the Angels have the money, neither
club has shown a strong interest in the 28-year-old lefty, who
went 17-11 with a 2.70 for the Indians and Brewers last year.
Sabathia - who reportedly was offered a fiveyear, $100 million deal to remain in Milwaukee and offered arbitration Monday by the Brewers - is from the Bay Area.
According to several sources, the Giants have money to invest in Sabathia, but can't come close to the Yankees' deal.
A week ago it was reported the Angels were preparing an offer for Sabathia, but that seems to have cooled.
That leaves the Yankees as the only horse in the race. And since the offer has been out there for more than two weeks, it makes you wonder why Sabathia hasn't inhaled it.
As for A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe, free-agent hurlers in whom the Yankees have interest, the Braves were linked to Burnett and a five-year deal that some don't believe is real. The Yankees are wary of a fifth year for Burnett.
Lowe wants an East Cost team with a chance to win. That means the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets or Phillies.
One day after the Yankees didn't offer Andy Pettitte
arbitration, no new developments in the standoff surfaced.
The Yankees want the 36-year-old lefty back but not for the $16 million he made last year, when he went 14-14 with a 4.54 ERA
and was bothered by a left shoulder that was examined and found not to have structural damage. Their offer was for $10 million.
Because Pettitte said at the end of the year that his return wouldn't be about money and that he would pitch for the Yankees or retire, there are some heads within the Yankee organization shaking over Pettitte's strategy, which includes talking to the
Dodgers, who are interested.
Of course, when Ryan Dempster got four years for $52 million from the Cubs ($13 million a year), Pettitte had to believe he
was worth $3 million a year more than Dempster