Cash Is One Cool Cucumber
From a Mike Lupica piece this morning:
Cashman was in Tampa because of baseball’s draft. He is involved big with the draft because he is the most powerful guy in the organization now after George Steinbrenner. When Cashman picked up the phone last night, the first thing he asked for was the score. He was told that it was 8-2, Yankees, that Cabrera had scored all the way from first on a wild pitch in the first inning and then Andy Phillips, another guy ready when his name got called, had hit a three-run homer off Josh Beckett in the second as the Yankees were scoring seven runs and having their biggest inning against the Red Sox since September of 2001.
The Red Sox are in Yankee Stadium. The teams are a half-game apart. It’s Beckett-Mussina. You’re the G.M. of the Yankees – and you’re not listening to the game (or have it on the T.V. in the background)?
Wow.
OK, sure, yeah, I understand the draft is tomorrow. But, it’s around 8 pm now, and the draft is something like 16 hours away. If you’re not ready for the draft at this point, you’re never going to be ready.
Why not watch the game? What if something happened there that requires some action on your part? Just imagine if something happened, and Stein saw it – and then called you. What are you going to say – “I didn’t see it. I was talking to someone here about our pick in the 29th round tomorrow”?
Cashman has nerves of steel, I must say.
*shrug*
The matchup may have been fun to watch, but it was over early. And Cash may have wanted full concentration on prepping for the draft. Couldn’t hurt to go over his notes one more time.
As for the 1/2 game in the standings, it’s only June.
And for all we know, Cash may have tivo’ed the game, or he can catch the replay on Yankees encore…