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Please address any...Dear Anonymous Buck Showalter:<br /><br />Please address any and all further comments regarding Gene Michael's abilities to Robert Nederlander.<br /><br />Meanwhile, speaking of logic, I admire how adamantly you have ignored every single source cited by myself, ALL-CAPS, Tom, and everyone else here. <br /><br />Always remember: facts that refute your point of view aren't really facts! They're just a vile conspiracy by nasty people to upset you.HoraceClarke66https://www.blogger.com/profile/16965472730239358589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-67196561477698550022017-09-02T10:39:46.209-04:002017-09-02T10:39:46.209-04:00HEY DOUCHEBAG....
I'M GONNA MAKE THIS REAL EA...HEY DOUCHEBAG....<br /><br />I'M GONNA MAKE THIS REAL EASY FOR YOU....<br /><br />JUST WATCH THE LATEST GENE MICHAEL "YANKEEOGRAPHY".<br /><br />...... CASE CLOSED.<br /><br />BOOM!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-31749683862763055432017-09-02T03:24:11.269-04:002017-09-02T03:24:11.269-04:00HEY ALL CAPS--WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO ABOUT YOUR TW...HEY ALL CAPS--WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO ABOUT YOUR TWO MAIN PROBLEMS? TO WIT:<br /><br />A. TERMINAL ANGER MANAGEMENT: ONLY CHRONICALLY ENRAGED AND FRUSTRATED PEOPLE TYPE ALL THEIR POSTS IN ALL CAPS.<br />B. INVETERATE STUPIDITY: CASHMAN SAID IN THE INTERVIEW THAT MICHAEL WAS THERE IN THE WAR ROOM TO GIVE HIS ADVICE ON ALL THE TRADES. BUT YOU, OF COURSE, WHO WEREN'T THERE, WHO HAVE NEVER MADE A MORE IMPORTANT DECISION IN YOUR LIFE THAN WHICH HAND TO WIPE YOUR ASS WITH, KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS THAN CASHMAN. QUEL IDIOT!<br />C. GENE MICHAEL'S OFFICIAL TITLE--AND HIS OFFICIAL DUTIES--ARE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND SENIOR ADVISOR. HE IS NOT A MINOR LEAGUE SCOUT UNLESS DESIGNATED ON A SPOT BASIS FOR SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. SO YOU JUST PULLED THAT ONE OUT OF YOUR FAT ASS, PERHAPS GROPING IN THEIR FOR SOME REMNANT OF YOUR BRAIN STEM.<br /><br />YOU'RE AN IGNORAMUS, A HUFFING BLOWHARD, A BULLSHIT ARTIST WHO GETS NEARLY EVERY FACT WRONG, A HOT-AIR MACHINE OF EVERY RECEIVED, BRAIN-DEAD DISCREDITED BASEBALL CLICHE KNOWN TO THGE LOWER ECHELONS OF THE BASEBALL BLOGOSPHERE. YOU WATCH EVERY GAME, DO YOU? WELL SO DO CASHMAN AND GIRARDI, AND YOU WANT THEM FIRED, RIGHT? SO SOMETHING MORE THAN WATCHING EVERY GAME IS REQUIRED TO COMMENT INSIGHTFULLY ON BASEBALL, JUST AS SOMETHING MORE THAN WATCHING AN APPLE FALL FROM A TREE IS REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE ANY INSIGHT INTO ADVANCED PHYSICS.<br /><br />YOU'RE A CRUDE DUFUS AND AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THIS BLOG. GO AWAY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-68795489433993814962017-09-02T01:09:53.541-04:002017-09-02T01:09:53.541-04:00SORRY DOUCHEBAG anonymous.....
LET ME SCHOOL YOU....SORRY DOUCHEBAG anonymous.....<br /><br />LET ME SCHOOL YOU....<br /><br />GENE MICHAEL IS ALMOST 80 YEARS OLD.<br /><br />EVEN THOUGH CASHMAN SAYS "GENE MICHAEL IS IN THE WAR ROOM ON THESE DECISIONS", IT DOES NOT MEAN HE IS SITTING THERE ON ANY OF THE DEALS!<br /><br />IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS A RESPECTFUL WAY FOR CASHMAN TO PRAISE MICHAEL, AND HIS DECADES WITH THE TEAM, AS HE STILL IS ON THE YANKEE PAYROLL...... BUT AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, MICHAEL HAS TAKEN A BACK SEAT AND IS NOW MOSTLY A LOW LEVEL MINOR LEAGUE SCOUT, WHICH HE LOVES DOING.<br /><br />GET IT?<br /><br />QUESTIONS?<br /><br />STILL THINK MICHAEL IS A DOPE?<br /><br />DOPE.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-56378999778444755962017-09-02T00:15:06.614-04:002017-09-02T00:15:06.614-04:00Parson Tom--your comments are incoherent. I didn&#...Parson Tom--your comments are incoherent. I didn't give Showalter credit for managing the Yankees from 1996-2001. I have him credit for pressing for the shift in orientation that emphasized developing young talent as opposed to trading for fading big names and guys who were supposed to be good five years earlier. Clear enough?<br /><br />As for your tortured logic about Judge--he is, based on the years's averages, by far the best hitter on the team. He has hit a prolonged dry spell either because of an undisclosed injury or because of a psychological ripple that he needs to work out. Demoting your most potent hitter to the bottom of the lineup is a sure recipe for accelerated team misfortune. He's already picked up the pace in the last few games. The way to develop young talent is to PLAY the young talent through ups and downs, not to shunt them to the margins in panic every time they slump at the plate. Did you check out Bernie Williams' offensive stats in his first year with the Yankees? There are countless other such examples from the Yankees and other teams. The smart people recognize the talent and nurture it. The Steinbrenners of the world and their lackeys disdain the young talent and quest--time after futile time--after overpriced underperforming "names." Wait . . . are you sure you're not the Ghost of the Fat Man himself, haunting this blog with your fractured logic and hotheaded impatience and overall baseball illiteracy? Nah--can't be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-35578821048349593642017-09-01T23:56:46.483-04:002017-09-01T23:56:46.483-04:00Dear Parson Tom--always good to get a sermon on bl...Dear Parson Tom--always good to get a sermon on blog decorum from someone who calls people assholes. In other words, do as you say, not as you do. Right, parson?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-9677593920938315802017-09-01T23:55:56.051-04:002017-09-01T23:55:56.051-04:00HEY ALL CAPS--IF I REPRODUCE THE LINK OF THE AUDIO...HEY ALL CAPS--IF I REPRODUCE THE LINK OF THE AUDIO OF CASHMAN'S INTERVIEW WITH MIKE FRANCESA WHERE HE SAYS THAT MICHAEL WAS IN THE WAR ROOM CONSULTING ON ALL THE RECENT MAJOR YANKEE TRADES, WILL YOU PROMISE NEVER TO POST ON THIS BLOG AGAIN?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-66856119829127940922017-09-01T23:54:11.526-04:002017-09-01T23:54:11.526-04:00HoraceClarke66 -- You think because Nederlander ma...HoraceClarke66 -- You think because Nederlander made the right--and pivotal--decision about hiring Showalter that his every utterance on every subject is then necessarily right? Which elementary logic class did you flunk out of? ONe thing we know for sure--almost nothing that you write is right--and that's just an empirical statement, not a logical inference from Mortimer Snerd's Book of Syllogisms.<br /><br />And I'm glad that you ratify my assertion that Michael preferred an incompetent with mangaerial experience, just as he and Cashman have always preferred incompetent players with major league experience over developing homegrown talent--to the fatal detriment of this franchise after Showalter's youth movement got old and retired.<br /><br />Please keep verifying all my key points for me--it saves me time. Thanks again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-36883498755309212902017-09-01T15:35:37.450-04:002017-09-01T15:35:37.450-04:00I think I can settle this whole kerfuffle.
Tom, a...I think I can settle this whole kerfuffle.<br /><br />Tom, a brilliant defense. And I had the same thought: Anonymous is obsessed with this issue, and claims to have a lot of inside info: IS HE REALLY BUCK "ANONYMOUS" SHOWALTER?<br /><br />But rather than dispute, point by point, all the acquisitions mentioned and who was responsible for them, I thought I'd call on the one guy—other than Buck Showalter—who Anonymous feels really saved the Yankees: ROBERT NEDERLANDER.<br /><br />The thing is, Anonymous: you're right.<br /><br />Michael DID want to hire "someone with major-league managerial experience" instead of Showalter. He admitted as much at the time. You can read it here, from the UPI, 10/29/91:<br /><br />http://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/10/29/Showalter-named-Yankees-manager/8447688712400/<br /><br />But you know what ELSE is here? This assessment from ROBERT NEDERLANDER, of Gene Michael:<br /><br />"'I TRULY BELIEVER THAT GENE MICHAEL IS THE BEST BASEBALL MAN IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY TODAY,' NEDERLANDER SAID."<br /><br />There you have it, Anonymous Buck. ROBERT NEDERLANDER, the (other) guy YOU credit with saving the Yankees and building the last dynasty, said that GENE MICHAEL was the best baseball man in the country.<br /><br />Case closed, I think.HoraceClarke66https://www.blogger.com/profile/16965472730239358589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-80460485038065375102017-09-01T10:49:33.877-04:002017-09-01T10:49:33.877-04:00.......AND IF YOU'RE INTO READING SO MUCH, TRY..........AND IF YOU'RE INTO READING SO MUCH, TRY READING THE ARTICLES THAT SAY IT IS TIM NAEHRING THAT CASHMAN HAS BEEN COLLABORATING WITH. <br /><br />......AND THE ARTICLE THAT READS, " GENE MICHAEL'S PATIENCE WITH DEREK JETER AND NUCLEUS OF YOUNG PLAYERS PAVED THE WAY FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP ERA."<br /><br />LIKE I SAID BEFORE anonymous,<br /><br />GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-6165038098838056542017-09-01T10:42:10.554-04:002017-09-01T10:42:10.554-04:00I'm mildly disappointed that the Blue Seat sug...I'm mildly disappointed that the Blue Seat suggestion has gotten lost in the shuffle here. We need our best engineers on it.I'm Bill Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08607527113929784452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-42094456224919625442017-09-01T10:31:42.551-04:002017-09-01T10:31:42.551-04:00HEY anonymous....
I DON'T HAVE TO READ A BOOK...HEY anonymous....<br /><br />I DON'T HAVE TO READ A BOOK...<br /><br />I WATCH THE GAMES!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-28162181840452116582017-09-01T09:19:49.232-04:002017-09-01T09:19:49.232-04:00When the going gets tough, the tough take a break ...When the going gets tough, the tough take a break and travel to Rotterdam for Heineken, vlammetjes and bitterballen. And a hideaway far from Evil Empires.<br /><br />Consider yourself invited. You need the break Urban Farmer formerly known as DutchFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04772911903343146627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-535732579745664092017-09-01T08:16:59.476-04:002017-09-01T08:16:59.476-04:00anon -- and on again:
You bring up some interesti...anon -- and on again:<br /><br />You bring up some interesting points and topics. It's a shame that you are unpleasant in how you do so.<br /><br />A few reactions:<br />The difference between the dumpster diving of this decade and the veteran acquisitions of the '90s was how the players were deployed. For instance, Overbay, Pronk and Berkman were plugged in as every day players while Strawberry, Raines and others who were good players at the end of their careers were used in favorable situations -- as I recall it.<br /><br />I do not fight the truth of advanced statistics, but I don't embrace them without reservation, either. You attempt to diminish Strawberry's contributions with his overall WAR, but I can point to several games that he turned around with three-run bombs. He was a potent weapon in the lineup or off the bench, and after he went away David Justice did a remarkable job in a similar role. Of course, not all of these things worked out, but the Yankees had a nice run of it back when they weren't penalized for outspending the rest of the league.<br /><br />The Brosius-Lowell decisions worked out poorly -- terribly -- as management invested in current returns rather than long-term assets. That has been one of the huge issues for the Yankees for nearly 40 years. Giving all the credit for a dynasty team to one member of the management team is silly, especially if you want to heap so much praise and credit for the 1996-2000 run on a field manager who was gone after the 1995 season. Many key moves were made after Showalter was dispatched. And he was an insufferable boor, as shown by the fact that two teams won world series the year after he left. (Hey, you're not Buck Showalter, are you? Posting comments late at night after another Baltimore bullpen meltdown?) Currently, Cashman deserves individual scrutiny -- along with Girardi -- because they have presided over nearly a decade of an also-ran, with a disturbing tendency to look like world beaters early in the season but old and tired at the end, as CAPS has noted.<br /><br />As for the lineup and Judge's place in it, we've all read articles stating that lineup orders don't matter, but you ignore two key points: <br />1. The sabremetricians do acknowledge that the guys at the top of the order get more at bats. Judge belongs at the bottom of the order because he is less productive.<br />2. Less tangibly but still meaningful (according to me): The guys at the top of the order know that they are supposed to perform, that they are under a microscope and that they have more opportunities to impact the game. Clearly, Judge has been uncomfortable and under pressure. Batting him 2nd, 3rd and 4th while he's striking out 50 percent of the time cannot be helping him emotionally. Yes, statistics tell the truth about performance, but there certainly is a human element to management and performance. Plugging the kid into the 3rd spot every day for 9 weeks while he was batting about .150 and striking out at a record pace was a rigidly dumb thing for Girardi to do.<br /><br />Finally, we are all Yankee fans here. You seem to have a lot of information and perspectives that I would enjoy reading, especially if you could manage to not be an asshole in how you state your case.<br /><br /><br />Parson Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09312179928176617912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-39163712085304666962017-09-01T03:09:44.846-04:002017-09-01T03:09:44.846-04:00HoraceClarke66--go ahead and nominate Gene Michael...HoraceClarke66--go ahead and nominate Gene Michael for the Nobel Peace Prize if you must, but you miss the point that Michael was always a spineless factotum for Steinbrenner with no baseball imagination who was prodded to turn in the right direction only by the assertive presence of Buck Showalter, who was aggressive in pressing his views about player preferences and draft choices. And in fact Showalter would never have become the Yankees' manager if Nederlander had not overruled Michael's predictably brainless choice of Hal Lanier. <br /><br />Brosius had two good years for the Yankees but was otherwise a mediocre, overrated player who typical WAR was in the zero range or close to it. Gooden was terrible in his two main years with the Yankees, with an ERA of around 5 and a pitcher's WAR in negative territory. Showalter was opposed to the acquisition of Strawberry, whose WAR with the team always hovered around zero (he reached 1.5 in 1998--that was his PEAK with the Yankees). Same with Davis and Raines, whose combined average annual WAR with the team was less than one. In fact, it was Cashman--with Michael's blessing--who got rid of Mike Lowell in favor of re-signing a fading Brosius--one of the crasser blunders of the Cashman-Michael axis, but a typical one.These acquisitions and decisions foreshadowed Cashman's Michael-inspired penchant for acquiring washed-up big names and squadering young talent rather than concentrating on player development. That's the reason that, once the Big Five of the Showalter Era faded from the scene, Cashman has been unable to build a powerful, dynastic Yankee team--he knuckles under to the Yankee mafia's predilection for guys who made the All-Star team five years ago. And Michael is the continuing power behind the throne who guides Cashman in these follies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-32521210359738848912017-09-01T02:42:02.717-04:002017-09-01T02:42:02.717-04:00Hey All Caps--get your finger off the caps lock ke...Hey All Caps--get your finger off the caps lock key long enough to read a newspaper. Cashman has repeatedly said, in print and on-air interviews, that Gene Michael is in the trade "War Room" giving advice every time one of these shitty deals is hatched and closed. <br /><br />And while you're at it, read a book on baseball analysis. When it comes to dumbasses, you far surpass Gene Michael. You're in a class by yourself. TAKE THAT, DUMBASS!!!!! READ A BOOK AND FIND OUT WHY BATTING ORDER IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS YOU THINK IT IS!!! READ A BOOK AND FIND OUT WHY "PROTECTION" IN THE BATTING ORDER IS A MYTH!!!! READ A BOOK AND FIND OUT WHY SHAKESPEARE IS A GENIUS!!! READ A BOOK AND FIND OUT WHY THE HUMAN RACE MIGHT HAVE ONLY A HUNDRED OR SO YEARS LEFT ON THIS PLANET!!!!! READ ANY BOOK!!!! GET A LIFE!!!! GET LAID!!!! BUT ABOVE ALL, GET THE HELL OFF THIS BLOG SO ANYONE WITH A BRAIN DOESN'T HAVE TO FEEL EMBARRASSED ABOUT TURNING TO THE COMMENT SECTION!!!!!!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932285159851204335.post-36812101520842568702017-09-01T00:32:00.910-04:002017-09-01T00:32:00.910-04:00Anonymous—don't take my word for it. Read wha...Anonymous—don't take my word for it. Read what Reggie has to say about it, in "Becoming Mr. October."<br /><br />No, Michael didn't do it alone. Buck helped, and as Tom says, Bob Watson contributed. Read Golenbock's bio of Steinbrenner. He's got all these front office insiders talking about the job Michael did, along with his whole team. <br /><br />Read Ian O'Connor's bio of Jeter. He confirms the role Michael played in keeping him on the team.<br /><br />Or just read the record: Michael taught Cashman dumpster diving? Huh, well, in the 1990s the vets we got were the likes of Paul O'Neill, David Cone, Jimmy Key, Darryl Strawberry, Doc Gooden, Tim Raines, Chili Davis, Scott Brosius. <br /><br />No Pronk, no Vernon, no Todd Frazier. If Michael taught Cashman how to sift, he forgot a few lessons.<br /><br />I will say it was unfair of me to bring up Buck's blowing that Seattle game, though I remember at the time trying to physically thrust my hands through the screen to get at his throat.<br /><br />Showalter was a very good manager, who deserved better from the Steinbrenners. Michael was a top executive and judge of talent who also deserved better. Dysfunction on this team starts at the top.HoraceClarke66https://www.blogger.com/profile/16965472730239358589noreply@blogger.com