IDEA FOR A BLOG: F@*&# BRIAN CASHMAN

Sanchez is done for the season with reconstructive elbow surgery--and if you add him to Johnson, Ohlendorff and Pavano, you have to say Cashman is nearly as bad at his job as Torre is at his. None of the pitchers he acquires is either any good or very durable. Vizcaino looked lousy again tonight. Farnsworth certainly hasn't panned out. Jared Wright was awful. Bottom line: everybody agrees the Yankees pitching is in disarray, and if the blame for the bullpen goes to Torre's management, the blame for the overall situation must be shared with Cashman. He really has acquired a large number of pitchers over the past few years and almost all of them have been flops. Right now we have no major league return on Sheffield; we got nothing for the huge Johnson contract and nothing for Johnson in trade; we got nothing on the huge Jared Wright contract and nothing for Wright in trade; we've gotten nothing for the huge Farnsworth contract; nothing, of course, for the huge Pavano contract, and we couldn't trade him at this point if we tried. And let's not forget the obscene amount spent on Kevin Brown for three awful years. Brian Cashman has thrown around a fucking amazing sum of money for pitching and gotten squat in return. Let's see, 50+ for Johnson, 45+ for Brown, 38 for Pavano, 47 for Igawa, 36 for Farnsworth, 26 for Wright, that 's 252 million dollars for 3-4 years of miserable pitching, with only Igawa holding out any prospect whatever of panning out. Cashman's record of futility in this area is stunning and perhaps unprecedented. On the basis of these numbers, I think that someone could fairly respond to my repeated calls for Torre's head with the sentiment "not unless Cashman goes too."At different points ove the past 2 years, Steinbrenner wanted to fire both of them. If we weren't currently suffering under the all too gentle madness of King George he would have done so, and Yankee fans everywhere, whether they know it or not, would have been much better off.