2008 Woodie Awards
An easy way to fix the Yankees
Michael McCrae
Issue date: 10/19/06 Section: Sports
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200 Million dollars can buy a lot of things. 4000 Porsche's. An entire country in South America. Anna Nicole Smith's hand in marriage.
But apparently one thing it cannot buy is a world championship in major league baseball.
Someone should tell George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees, about this very important fact.
Apparently, he hasn't received the memo.
The team hasn't won a championship since 2000, which is 6 years too long for Yankee fans, players, and front-office staff. This year, after winning game 1 of their series against the Detroit Tigers, the Yanks lost 3 straight to be eliminated. New York was out-played in every facet of the game, and one got the sense that Detroit just wanted it more.
After such a painful loss, one expected a knee-jerk reaction out of Steinbrenner.
But just when you thought George Steinbrenner was surely going to fire everyone in the organization, right down to the parking attendants, something strange happened.
GEORGE DIDN'T FIRE ANYONE!
It was an incredible act of humanity by a man who was once known to fire people at the drop of a hat. Joe Torre, who has guided the team to the playoffs every year since he got the managerial job in 1996, was surely the first victim. But after a week of speculation, with ex-Yankee Lou Pinella being rumored as Torre's replacement, the Yanks front office brass decided to stick with their manager.
The decision was a good one, but what's next is more important. What are the Yanks to do with their overpaid, aging, and emotion-less team that seemed to quit in Detroit.
Here's what the Yankees should do: 1st on the to-do list, is try to trade Alex Rodriguez. One hitch in this plan is this recent statement by G.M. Brian Cashman.
"I fully expect him to be here," Cashman told the Associated Press on October 10th. "We're going to figure this thing out together."
Apparently Cashman has failed to watch the playoffs the last 3 years. A-Rod has done nothing during the stretch. In fact, A-Rod statistically had one of his worst seasons; a season in which he was constantly serenaded by boos from Yankee fans.
But apparently one thing it cannot buy is a world championship in major league baseball.
Someone should tell George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees, about this very important fact.
Apparently, he hasn't received the memo.
The team hasn't won a championship since 2000, which is 6 years too long for Yankee fans, players, and front-office staff. This year, after winning game 1 of their series against the Detroit Tigers, the Yanks lost 3 straight to be eliminated. New York was out-played in every facet of the game, and one got the sense that Detroit just wanted it more.
After such a painful loss, one expected a knee-jerk reaction out of Steinbrenner.
But just when you thought George Steinbrenner was surely going to fire everyone in the organization, right down to the parking attendants, something strange happened.
GEORGE DIDN'T FIRE ANYONE!
It was an incredible act of humanity by a man who was once known to fire people at the drop of a hat. Joe Torre, who has guided the team to the playoffs every year since he got the managerial job in 1996, was surely the first victim. But after a week of speculation, with ex-Yankee Lou Pinella being rumored as Torre's replacement, the Yanks front office brass decided to stick with their manager.
The decision was a good one, but what's next is more important. What are the Yanks to do with their overpaid, aging, and emotion-less team that seemed to quit in Detroit.
Here's what the Yankees should do: 1st on the to-do list, is try to trade Alex Rodriguez. One hitch in this plan is this recent statement by G.M. Brian Cashman.
"I fully expect him to be here," Cashman told the Associated Press on October 10th. "We're going to figure this thing out together."
Apparently Cashman has failed to watch the playoffs the last 3 years. A-Rod has done nothing during the stretch. In fact, A-Rod statistically had one of his worst seasons; a season in which he was constantly serenaded by boos from Yankee fans.
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