With the biggest payroll and most resources, a team that has played in the postseason every year since 1995 it is quite frankly a dissapointment.
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Of course it’s a disappointment. What it’s not is a miserable failure tantamount to Wall Street’s collapse. The Yankees are in much better shape than the economy is, as unfortunate as that may be. Except…

In NY tabloid culture where the so-called Steinbrenner Doctrine was the Boss’s gift to idiot sports editors who can now always go back to the well for one more drink of that nonsense.
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Well, yeah.

In what universe, exactly, does an 89 win season qualify as failing?

I agree with the Steinbrenner Doctrine BUT that 89 win resulted in the Yankees not making it to October, pure and simple. Tampa and Boston got to go and the Yanks stayed at home. With the biggest payroll and most resources, a team that has played in the postseason every year since 1995 it is quite frankly a dissapointment.

NY fans are very passionate about their teams. Go to a St Louis or Cubbie game and it has a different more happy dickish type of feel. Better yet go to LA or Orange County and watch the LA Dodgers or Angles and see some passionless fans comparative to people here in NY. Expectations are certainly high for Yankes fans through the 2000s and the late 1990s, because of what the team has done the last decade plus.

Four Kings, BTW if this is an allegory to Dubya is Raissman the shoethrower?:)

In what universe, exactly, does an 89 win season qualify as failing miserably?
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In NY tabloid culture where the so-called Steinbrenner Doctrine was the Boss’s gift to idiot sports editors who can now always go back to the well for one more drink of that nonsense.

Remember, it’s not just NY fans who believe NY’s the toughest place to play. The media perpetuates that mythology because it gives them an air of importance. If NY is tough, it’s because they’re doing their job as crack writers who ask tough questions. Media loves “failure” because then they can write thousands of articles about it.

Worst. Column. Ever. At least until Raissman’s next one.

In what universe, exactly, does an 89 win season qualify as failing miserably?

Shining a light on Cashman is one thing; being a doofus is another.

How one judges him is certainly up for debate. But Raissman’s criticism is pretty silly and groundless.
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As is most criticism of Cashman. While I may not be the biggest Cashman fan, I really wish his detractors would bring more to the table. Pieces like the one posted, hardly help their cause.

mj – exactly. right or wrong, we won’t know anything about the non-trade for santana, or any of this winter’s signings, for at least a few years. it is impossible to judge now. we’ll know what was good and what was bad in 5 years or so.

After Cash Man came back instead of going to Philly, the light will shine even brighter on him now. If there are lazy people in Yankeeland they might be Hankenstein and Halstein, who should have been smart enough to look for a new vision. I’m not the biggest Cash Man fan( that’s an understatement)so this beacon that will be shining on him is quite welcome. Raissman ( I’m not a fan of either) loves to stir up the pot and Brainless should take it like a man. After last year, rabble rousers like Raissman will most certainly have a field day if the Yankees have another lost season.

his decision to invest heavily in Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy last season. In doing so, Cashman authored the Yankees’ version of the Wall Street collapse. He took a shot and lost. Happens to the best of them.

Cashman failed miserably and deserved to be pounded.
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This was the part that bothered me the most.

First, if the larger plan was to keep Hughes/Kennedy and sign Sabathia in lieu of trading them for Santana, then Cashman certainly didn’t “fail miserably” since that’s exactly what happened.

Second, although 2008 was not a success vis-a-vis the playoffs/championship, it’s too soon to call Hughes/Kennedy failures or to call Cashman a failure by sticking with two young pitchers with only parts of two seasons of MLB service time under their belts.

Cashman is a good GM for some and, for others, he is a horrible GM. How one judges him is certainly up for debate. But Raissman’s criticism is pretty silly and groundless.

hahahahahaha!!!!! this is hysterical. the good thing about this particular angle is that everyone knows a vast majorit of the media actually are idiots. there is no accountability in the profession. nice job fighting back here by raismann. insult him and he’ll insult you back, because he has the power to do so.

being that he knows, and everyone knows, that the media are idiots, cashman should not be worrying about them, however. not publicly, and more concerning not, not privately.

Hack job.

The media doesn’t like being called idiots so they use the poison pen. Doesn’t prove anything about Cashman’s acumen (or lack thereof, if you’re not a Cashman fan).

This piece was unneccesary but, then again, most of NY tabloid journalism is.