Sheesh

... it's not exactly the way you said it; it's not quite like the Browns moving to Baltimore. Cleveland didn't get a new team till several years later, and the only reason they kept the Browns logo/colors is because fans there raised a stink. If that had always been the case, Baltimore's NFL team would be the Colts, and Indy would have another nickname.

Anyway, when minor league affiliations change, the parent club simply sends their players elsewhere. In the case of the Yankees, they'd take everyone who's now at Columbus (or likely, a different roster since next year's Triple-A team is going to have many different players) and assign them to Scranton. This change is being prompted by the fact that the Phillies (who currently have Scranton as their top affiliate) are changing to Ottawa for 2007 (and in 2008, Ottawa moves to Allentown, which makes sense from a Philly point of view).

If you're a Yankee fan in the NYC area, this should be good news -- Scranton is much closer to NYC than Columbus is, and thus, if you wanted to, you could more easily see the Yankees' farmhands play in person.

Hope this helps.

Al, visiting from Bleed Cubbie Blue

single A where my experience is. My team in Auburn was a Astros single A short season club. About nine years ago we switched to become a blue jay club. The Astros never owned the auburn club or the auburn ballpark. The Auburn Club provides the clubhouse, the field, concession staff, advertising, take care of promotions. The parent club is responsible for for supplying coaches, trainers, and players. More details are in the contract. For example when we were an affiliate of Houston they would send thier head groundskeeper every year. Places like Staten Island are provided uniforms helmets, gatorade, sunflower seeds, coolers, hot tubs...
Cheap teams like the blue jays have their single A affiliates play in the same jerseys for 10 years.

This is completely unrelated to anything discussed thus far, but did anybody see the interview Kim Jones did with Moose and is currently posted on the YES website?

It is roughly 7 minutes and most of the interview is about stupid stuff like Moose's famous obsession with crossword puzzles and his love for t-shirts featuring 1980s pop culture.

However, the one thing that really stands out and very noticeable in this interview was that I don't think I've ever seen Moose so laid back, positive, forthcoming, and completely relaxed in any interview since the day he put on the pinstripes 5 years ago.

During most interviews I've ever seen him do, he is always serious, rarely cracks jokes or smiles, and appears annoyed more often than not by the cameras around him and the reporters asking him questions.

I believe Moose wants to resign with the Yankees this off-season and finish his career in pinstripes because he is probably another good season or two away from being a borderline Hall of Famer (believe it or not) and he is smart enough to know that there are fewer sure things in MLB right now than the Yankees putting a good team on the field and competing for supremacy in the AL every year.

I would be very surprised if a deal didn't get done with Moose one way or another, albeit at a MUCH lower rate than the $19 million he is making this season.  A two-year deal and perhaps an option year is probably about what I would expect.

In my opinion, Moose's body language and attitude in this interview reflects the rest of the team.  They most definitely have their mojo going at full-speed and they all know that they are going to be very tough to beat this postseason.

This team reminds me a lot of the teams in the late 1990s right now and their monster lineup is only going to get better when Sheff comes back, probably next week.

Sheff knows he won't be back next season and he has something to prove, so don't be shocked if he starts raking from the get-go like Matsui has been over the last few games.