“Hopefully” Brian?
Via Jack Curry -
“The A.L. East is the best division in baseball by far, and a lot of that was because of the Red Sox and the Rays,” Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said. “Hopefully, we’ll still be a part of that conversation.”
You know, back in 1924, Emily Dickinson said:
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
And, that’s a nice thought. But, in any event, as a Yankees fan, do you really want to hear your G.M. ‘hoping’ that his team can keep up with the Rays and the Red Sox?
So which would you prefer — Hank’s “we’ll win it all in ’09″ or Cashman’s approach…?
Cashman will spend a lot of money on some good free agents ( CC,Teix) AND a lot of money on bad(Burnett and god knows who else). The Yankee spinmeisters like Waldman, Kay and Jones are already trying to prepare the Yankee faithful for AJ’s coming. Whatta bunch of propagandists. Burnett will be Pavano part 2, pure and simple. Then where are they gonna get pitching from? Cash Man’s bad drafting has made it very difficult to keep up with the Rays and the Red Sox. Those two teams are building from within, whereas the Yankees are going to buy talent and that is a recipe for disaster.
Cash Man’s bad drafting has made it very difficult to keep up with the Rays and the Red Sox.
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Hardly.
The draft is but one part of building a team. There is also the international market, trades, and free agency.
I’m sure the Yanks will be fine next year; in a year where the Yanks have lost as much personnel as they did, they still won 89 games and were in the postseason hunt.
He is just being humble. He knows that he has to put us back near the top of the game next season.
Raf, here you go again with the habitual contrarianism. What team are you watching? Get real….Compare the way Cash Man ( who pays more than any other team for bonus babies) drafts and the way Boston does. The Red Pox currently have a small gagle of kids playing their heart out and contributing to the bottom line. The Yanks have what the Hughes Kennedy experiment and Gardner? The Tankees will overspend again BUT it will be a short term solution to a long term problem. Cash Man’s build within philosophy is a flop, while Boston’s is a success.
The Red Pox currently have a small gagle of kids playing their heart out and contributing to the bottom line
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And who else is on the squad other than the small gaggle of kids?
I think you need to wait a little longer before you declare the Hughes-Kennedy combo a bust.
Look at things objectively, and you’ll understand the POV I’m seeing.
You know, back in 1924, Emily Dickinson said….
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Emily Dickinson died in 1886.
Yikes. Was John Edward around in 1924?
FYI, Hank said the exact same thing in the article you linked above:
“The AL East is unbelievable. Hopefully we will be better than them next year.”
So do *you* want an owner who says the same thing?
It’s obvious that even if the Yankees add CC and Teix no one knows how next season will pan out. And especially if Hank adds Burnett , that will be the greatest coup de flop of all time. The Yanks will be in the mix BUT judging at the youth on Tampa and Boston, the Yanks have no equivalent position player youth movement.