I am sad that Joe will no longer be the visible head of the New York Yankees. In that capacity the Yankees will never find anyone who will perform better with the class and presence that Joe had. You also can’t ignore 12 post season appearance and four WS. But Joe did have unlimited resources [...]
0 comments October 19 2007 | Len | Discussion
Joe, as you correctly point out, Cashman probably didn’t endorse that offer AND has probably lost some power so he couldn’t fight it. I agree that I’m disappointed in how Hal, Hank and Randy have handled this. Reading between the lines, it seems like Hal and Hank are close to Randy which is bad. I [...]
1 comment October 19 2007 | Russ | Discussion
Russ, that’s a pretty good guess as to what happenned. My only disagreement is that Cashman, Trost, Levine, George and the 2 stooges had to know that Torre would decline that offer. I wrote the other day that the the Yankees should take as much time as they needed to get this right. Well they [...]
0 comments October 19 2007 | Joe | Discussion
This is the way I think it went down.
The brain trust was saddled with George’s comments during the Division Series. But, that was George speaking like it was 1987 rather than 2007. The brain trust (some of its members – probably Cashman, Newman, Michael) probably said after the loss to the Indians: “We counsel patience [...]
0 comments October 19 2007 | Russ | Discussion
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