What Is Everyone Drinking?

Interview, no interview.  Pitching coach?

Are you shitting me?  David Cone?

Get real folks.  David has a ton of money, a star like gig, the best seats in the house, and baseball when he wants to see it.

You think he covets the groveling, down and dirty of traveling with the team all year?  Spring training. Spitting seeds, Sweat and languages he doesn't understand?

Pitching coaches are guys who would otherwise be drinking from a paper bag in their motel room,  can't hold a real job that pays better than $35K per year, and used to play the game.  Maybe even well.

But the money thing changed it all.  A quality pitcher like Cone made multiple millions for many years.  It was the old guys...the Rothchilds of the world...who never made big bucks and are thrilled to have a Yankee coaching job.  They need it for rent, cars whiskey and steaks.  It is their family income.

The Cones and the Marianos and the Pedros and the John Smoltz's of the world already travel first class and in limos.  They  don't want or need the grime, the grit the hyper focus, the blame....there is nothing for them in coaching.  They have already earned all the awards and acclaim.

For a young, tech-focused pitching coach from U. Michigan, the Yankee job remains Nirvanna.  There will be a new regime of pitching and hitting coaches, and they will all come from a new source.

So stop with the David Cone talk.

Or send me some of that rum that has loosed your tongue and your brains.