He's gotten hissy with the Gammonites. Fine. But here's one for the next news conference.
Who orchestrated that miserable, wretched, 2005 Randy Johnson trade with Arizona?
The trade that sealed our doom.
No trade in recent years have crushed our future so deeply. To refresh your memory: We got The Big Unit at age 41, when he was a ghost of himself. He charged a TV cameraman on the streets of NYC. It was all downhill from there.
To get him, we gave up Javier Vasquez, Brad Halsey and Dioneer Navarro.
Vasquez? He's serviceable. Halsey? Nothing. But Navarro...
Future best catcher in baseball. Maybe already. Switch-hitter. Great energy. We gave him away him at age 21.
The death deal. The trade that sealed our downfall.
By the way, a lot of people -- I'm talking garden variety fans -- saw it immediately as a horrible, rotten, terrible deal. (Somehow, the Gammonites applauded.) We got a 41-year-old pitcher. Yeesh.
OK, I know what you're thinking. It's well known that George Steinbrenner loved Randy's four-foot-long butt. Everybody assumes the old man pushed the deal. Thus, we cut Cashman slack -- never blame him -- and he, quite conveniently, never says otherwise.
My question, Mr. Cashman:
Who made the deal that crushed us?
If it was George, please say so, publicly, so that we can feel confident in your judgments.
If it was you, please take responsibility.
And by the way... If it WAS George, but you don't DARE say such a thing in public... then how much control will you ever really have in guiding the Yanks' future?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The One Question We Would Ask Brian Cashman
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Sheesh. Get it right fellas!
Cash Money wanted Beltran. Old George wanted Randy. End of story...
Its only been written about 1000 times since 2005.
Beltran wanted to be the heir to Bernie so bad that the day he signed with the Mets, HE called the Yankees and said he would sign with them for less.
But with a rock solid OF of 'Deki, Bern Baby Bern and the Sheff, George told Cash Money 'No!'.
Remember it was also Al Davis.... er, George, that went ahead and signed the Sheff HIMSELF at a diner, while Cash had a deal worked out for Vlad.
Imagine this OF over the last few years:
Deki, Beltran, Vlad.
We could argue all day, but I'd say with that OF and those bats, the Yanks would have won the Series a few more times.
With that OF, we'd be clamoring for number 30, not 27....
The Steins also pushed the ARod deal, which C-Money acknowledges, but getting him to point fingers is a big waste of time.
Let's get the lowdown on the Fred McGriff deal, too.
Not.
We have to demand accountability of our appointed officials.
Cashman has never taken full public responsibilty for the trade.
He needs to step up to the plate.
I agree with the duke, Brian Cashman should be our DH.
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