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go yankees go...i think they ought to bring back the big unit and bernie williams and give giambi a huge contract....living in the past.

Yankees make record pitch for Rivera
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees have made a $45 million offer to keep reliever Mariano Rivera with the team, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The Yankees were waiting for Rivera to respond to a three-year offer that would make him the major leagues' highest-paid relief pitcher, the newspaper said on its Web site (www.nytimes.com).

The New York Mets' Billy Wagner currently tops the wage charts for relievers averaging $10.75 million a season.

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it's a tremendous offer for a 38-year-old relief pitcher," Yankees senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner told the newspaper.