Not Taking No/Not Taking Yes
for an answer.
Joe Giardi's sudden decision, in the wake of the Cubs hiring Lou, not to pursue any other mangerial positions this year suggests to me that he is not taking no for an answer--from the Yankees. George may have elected to make slow Joe "earn" his ridiculous salary in 2007, but not so slow Joe figures, rightly, that barring a championship, that will be it. He's circling the sky waiting for his mentor to collapse, eyeing the opportunity, now that Lou is out of the picture, to take the Yanks back to glory. I wish him luck; I think his year with the Marlins proved how right I was when I wished back in April that the Yanks would fire Joda and replace him with Joe G. but with another year gone, I think Mattingly, who by the way has never won anything, anywhere, is more likely to be the replacement. Mattingly may have proven a decent hitting coach, for those who would listen to him, but the failure of so many to do so hardly bodes well for his future as a manager.
On the other side of the ledger, after whining all April and May that the Yankees weren't picking up his option, Sheff is now refusing to take yes for an answer, proclaimiong that if they do. without giving him an extension, there'll be trouble. Here's the trouble there should be. If I had George's endless resources and could afford to blow off 13 mill, I'd pick up the option and park the son of a bitch in triple A for the entire season. Let him ride buses, make him play every day, and fine him heftily if he gets out of line. For someone who has sucked as bad as AROD every postseason, who has contributed exactly zero championships to this team, despite all the hype that surrounded him, who now is the fifth best fielding outfielder on the team, and a truly terrible first baseman, and who collected oodles of money last season for doing nothing at all, he has the gaul to complain about gwetting the verey thing he was demanding before he went down with the wrist. I mean give me a break. This guy is freakishly selfish and arrogant, even by the standards of pro athletes.
Joe Giardi's sudden decision, in the wake of the Cubs hiring Lou, not to pursue any other mangerial positions this year suggests to me that he is not taking no for an answer--from the Yankees. George may have elected to make slow Joe "earn" his ridiculous salary in 2007, but not so slow Joe figures, rightly, that barring a championship, that will be it. He's circling the sky waiting for his mentor to collapse, eyeing the opportunity, now that Lou is out of the picture, to take the Yanks back to glory. I wish him luck; I think his year with the Marlins proved how right I was when I wished back in April that the Yanks would fire Joda and replace him with Joe G. but with another year gone, I think Mattingly, who by the way has never won anything, anywhere, is more likely to be the replacement. Mattingly may have proven a decent hitting coach, for those who would listen to him, but the failure of so many to do so hardly bodes well for his future as a manager.
On the other side of the ledger, after whining all April and May that the Yankees weren't picking up his option, Sheff is now refusing to take yes for an answer, proclaimiong that if they do. without giving him an extension, there'll be trouble. Here's the trouble there should be. If I had George's endless resources and could afford to blow off 13 mill, I'd pick up the option and park the son of a bitch in triple A for the entire season. Let him ride buses, make him play every day, and fine him heftily if he gets out of line. For someone who has sucked as bad as AROD every postseason, who has contributed exactly zero championships to this team, despite all the hype that surrounded him, who now is the fifth best fielding outfielder on the team, and a truly terrible first baseman, and who collected oodles of money last season for doing nothing at all, he has the gaul to complain about gwetting the verey thing he was demanding before he went down with the wrist. I mean give me a break. This guy is freakishly selfish and arrogant, even by the standards of pro athletes.
posted by joe valente | 11:30 PM
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I have always located the problem in the coaching rather than the scouting, and I doubt Rasner and Karstens would have had the success they had last year was Stottlemyer still coaching. I think the deal for Sheffield could be brilliant, and since keeping him wasn't an option, and getting journeymen pitchers for him wasn't attractive, I have to say I'm pleased with the result. Every single one of these guys could turn out to have a good major league career, and while the odds against all of them doing so are long, if just one does it will ahve been worth it. I'm also pleased with the the focus on young bullpen arms. If the rotation of the future includes Wang, hughes, Clippard, Sanchez, Rasner, and/or Karstens, it pays to think about the rest of the staff. Acquiring Britton for Wright is very promising too, I think. Britton is just 23 and his WHIP out of the bullpen last year was a quite respectable 1.17. Wright was a cancer. he couldn't produce in clutch games and he sapped the bullpen in the other ones.
I'm going to post in the main space on not getting Matsutska.
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