CC Sabathia wants to go home to California and play in the NL, where he can hit, but he is also realistic about how hard he expects the Yankees to pursue him. As a friend of Sabathia's said Wednesday, "he is mature enough and realistic enough to know that the Yankees might not make it close. And if it is not close - no matter how much he likes the West Coast and likes hitting - he is not going to walk away from $25 million. This is not rocket science. It is about how much more the Yanks will spend than anybody else." According to Yankee insiders, the mantra delivered to Sabathia will be, "Anything they can do we can do better - much, much better."