Now that Brian Cashman has been re-signed as Yankees GM, shortly after making a deal with CC Sabatahia, I have one request for him: To shut up about how oh-so-tough it is to be general manager of the New York Yankees. Boo bleeding hoo. Enough already. If the job is sooooo much for poor Brian to handle, then he should have taken his talents to St. Louis, or to Anaheim, or to Boston, or to Chicago. Oh, wait, he was never actually in the running for the Cubs job, now held by Theo Epstein. The talk that he was in the running there, like the talk that the Red Sox were considering him, was just media-driven fluff to make him see like he was in demand. Sheesh.
At any rate, I don’t think I can bear to hear another three years of Cashman talk about how stressful and difficult his job is. So I really hope he quits his whining.
You know what’s really stressful? Being unemployed. Trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you have too much month left at the end of your money. Being outsourced. There are millions of Americans suffering right now in this country’s poor economic state. I have empathy for them. For Brian Cashman, who is the 1% when it comes to MLB management, not so much.
And by the way, can we please, please get rid of the myth that working for the Yankees is infinitely tougher than any other team, because every season is supposedly considered a failure if the Yankees don’t win it all? Our enemies in Boston actually stick to that more than the Yankees do — Terry Francona was essentially shown the door, and Theo Epstein was given a strong hint to take his own talents to Chi-Town, only after they brought two World Series titles to a team waiting since 1918 for another World Series championship. The team’s September collapse this year made heads roll, the way heads should have rolled in the Bronx after the 2004 collapse.
Meanwhile, back in the Bronx, the franchise that claims that any season without a title is a failure just re-signed a GM who has brought the team exactly one ring since 2000.
The email I got from Yankees.com regardng bringing Cashman back emphasizes how the Yankees “have earned a postseason berth in 13 of his 14 seasons as GM,” and notes that Cashman’s “feat of reaching the playoffs in each of his first 10 seasons (1998-2007) remains unmatched in Baseball history.” But, but, aren’t those seasons all failures if there’s not a ring involved?
Look, as I noted after the Yankees lost in the postseason this year, I thought it was ridiculous for fans to flip out over it, given that the Yanks won the World Series just two years ago, and I also thought Randy Levine’s “failure” rhetoric was obnoxious. But at the same time, I really want to see this franchise stop with that myth that anything short of a title is a failure. Because it’s inconsistent, given that Levine still has a job, and Lonn Trost, and, yes, Brian Cashman. And you can’t have it both ways — bragging about making it to the postseason each year, at the same time you’re calling those years failures. Which one is it?
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