According to Yankee VP Kevin Reese, the "unusually high number" of vanishing acts testifies to the fine-tuned success of the organization. Hail Hydra!
In this era of A.I. cost-cutting, others might use another name: Purge.
Okay, consider my hands officially thrown up. From where we sit - Level 9 of the parking garage - it's impossible to judge these changes. Is this a Yankee version of Project 2025, or business as usual? Is the franchise stronger, leaner, without these dregs of deadwood? Or is something happening inside the box, something we cannot see? Are institutional secrets spilling out, or did that ship sail long ago, when Houston was banging garbage cans? Is this real, or is this Memorex? Honestly? I dunno.
Some moves look like promotions. For example, a minor league hitting coordinator named Joe Migliaccio is now the Marlins Director of Hitting. Congrats to Joe! We hardly knew ye! But some moves seem rather lateral. An assistant pitching coach named Desi Druschel accepted the same job with the Mets. Hmm. Did Stevie Cohen win another bidding war?
Again, no judgements. The 2025 season won't hinge on who writes the most entertaining emails. (If it did, Doug K would be our bench coach.)
But Yankee fans have every reason to wonder... WTF?
This has been a Yankee winter like no other in our lifetimes. Never before in history have the Yankees been so brazenly outbid and outspent by a crosstown rival.
This winter, the Yankees became New York's cheap team, the Bronx Bargains.
Every single move has hinged on money, with Food Stamps Hal's pockets pulled out, and Cooperstown Cashman validating every deal via the bottom line. We went to the mat on Soto, and we wouldn't cave on a luxury box. Ever since, we've been thumping our chests about frugality. Hail Hydra! Then again, you have to wonder...
Were we just outbid for the services of Desi Druschel?
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Does the new Bargains nickname entail . . . lower ticket prices?
First off - addition by subtraction. They sucked, so what? But we all know that, if they cannot attract retain even dregs, then we are more fucked than usual in this coming year of the smoking rat turd. Second, I never want to hear the term "cost cutting" regarding the Yankees ever again. Nepo baby bullshit. Just like I never want to hear another quote in the papers from Don Jr, or "he with no brains," as they call him in the Dakotas, I never want to hear about Hal saving money that he didn't earn. "And he's at the level where his money is making him more money than he needs to create the best team ever. It's pure spite and meanness that prevents this. And third, I don't give a fuck. These assholes have become Brian's personal parlor game. Which again begs the question, why does Hal let Brian get away with such grand ineptitude? Is there a pee tape or is it love? Only Brian's hairdresser knows for sure.
If Desi signed with the Mets, does that mean Dino, Desi and Billy won't be doing anymore concerts?
Moving on is the fate of all professional coaches, especially assistants, who are always in search of a better opportunity. But given the horrendous record of player development in this org, any wholesale change should be for the better.
Desi signing with the Mets means Lucy has some splaining to do.
Say it ain’t so ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG75RPuD_Fc
Great post, Bitty! But yes, I think we figured out HAL a little while back.
He doesn't want a really competent baseball man capable of building a great franchise from the ground up. That would just mean having a homegrown team down the road that the fans would be even MORE angry about letting them walk, when HAL didn't cough up his hard-inherited money.
HAL's vision for the Yankees is an endless status quo—save for his inevitable demand, in another 5 years or so, for yet another largely subsidized stadium (Probably with even fewer seats. Gotta find someplace for those new luxury boxes to go.)
And Joe FOB, you hit the nail on the head. Neither HAL nor any of the other, nepo-baby idiots running teams here in Loser City see them as in any way a public trust...no matter how much public money they are given.
Nor does this seem to be uncommon, nationally. Astonishing, during the NFL playoffs, to see all of the stunning, incredibly expensive, state-of-the-art football stadia that cities with real, pressing needs, have built for a cartel that is richer than God.
Bread and Circuses.
BITTY - after careful consideration I must say that it is likely both LOVE and a PEE TAPE (minidv, ntsc, very, very low res)
I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard that Fred and Ethel Mertz secretly ran a high-class whore house in that apartment building where they and the Ricardo's lived.
I've also heard the rumor that Mayor Adams suppressed a Steele dossier on the Hal Steinbrenner pee tape. There was also another tape involving Cashman and Hal engaging in an ass-and-mouth fetish. Where is the NY Times when we need their investigative reporting?
Hi8, AA…Hi8….
Per Jack Curry, Rōki Sasaki will not be signing with the Yankees. And will not be signing with the Mets...
Curry:
Source: The Yankees have been told Sasaki will not be signing with them.
Ver surprising!
Very, damnit, VERY
What's interesting is that whatever team he signs with and I guessing the Padres because he said he wants a smaller market, they will have to use all of their international money to sign him. What this means is, whatever deals they had with other international free agents will not be honored and will free them up for other teams. Maybe there is someone the Yankees can scoop up.
BTR...I hope you don't have a poster of the band on your bedroom wall, LOL!
When one person leaves an organization it's personal, including getting a better deal from someone else.
But when an organization faces sustained, high turnover, its either because the work burns the staff out, the pay is crap. the workplace is deeply dysfunctional or the boss is an asshole.
In the Yankees case, its clearly the later two reasons. Maybe all four.
Maybe that do not want to work for Captain Doofus Boone and Genius Cashman.
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