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What went wrong with the Yankees in 2008 posted on 09/22/2008
While some will say the Yanks' lack of hits with runners in scoring position was their downfall this year, and they're right, there was also some bad decisions on the part of Brian Cashman and others who were involved in evaluating personnel. We had heard over and over that the Yankees were not going to rush Phil Hughes, Ian Kennedy, Joba Chamberlain and other pitchers through the minors. Yet that's exactly what they did in 2007, and 2008. While Chamberlain has made the leap, Hughes and Kennedy have not. Clearly, they were not ready this year, and both could have used this year as a full season in Triple A. As a general manager who wanted control over the baseball operation, and got it, Cashman has to take responsibility for these decisions. A skilled talent evaluator knows when young play

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Goodbye Yankee Stadium posted on 09/22/2008

The place used to shake. That's one thing I'll always remember with great joy. During a rally, or in a close game, no matter where you were sitting...the whole place just shook. I never experienced anything like that before. And I probably never will again.

I'm going to miss that old place just like so many other people. So many memories, and fun experiences. I tend to prefer "new" places and things, but Yankee Stadium is the exception. I hope the plans to make the site into a beautiful park for that neighborhood are followed through.

Great speech by Derek Jeter at the end.  And Bernie Williams may have summed it up best when he said, "It was more the people than the stadium. You talk about magic and the aura, but what really made the stadium was the fans. Concrete doesn't talk back to you. Chairs don't talk back to you. It's the people that are there, that root for you day in and day out. Tht's what makes this place magical."

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The Mets have been a joke for 46 years posted on 07/01/2008
Willie Randolph is better off to be rid of the Mets. This is an organziation that has been a joke for all 46 years of their existence, through different owners and management. From trading Tom Seaver and then losing him in the draft, to allowing drugs to permeate the clubhouse in the '80's, to the present, with letting Omar Minaya run the baseball end of things. Disarray, no leadership from management, no accountability at the top. Tony Bernazard is a fool as well. He was a scrub as a player, and not nearly the secondbaseman that Willie Randolph was. Was he jealous of Willie? Is that why he undermined him? Some director of player development - young players in the minors who are chubby and out of shape. Does he have any kind of conditioning program in place? They're eating too many burrito

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Mets fired the wrong guy posted on 07/01/2008
For years I've been wondering how people in major league baseball get their jobs. More and more it seems to me that it's not very different from the real world. It's just somebody's friend or someone who fills a quota.  Omar Minaya has no organizational skills, based on how he handled the Willie Randolph firing - sending an e-mail at 3:00 a.m. New York time is so gutless, as well as a bush league move - and has little baseball acumen. He blew money on over-rated free agents like Carlos Beltran and Pedro Martinez, and paid no attention to other parts of the roster, parts that can make teams winners.  Firing the manager is rarely the solution to a baseball team's problems. Minaya is just like so many others in baseball. A B.S. artist and a complete phony.

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Brad Childress should be a politician posted on 06/30/2008
Brad Childress has the "coachspeak" thing down. He was recently quoted as saying that he's not worried if left tackle Bryant McKinnie misses a few games due to a suspension because he's confident that the backups can get the job done. Oh really? Then how come they aren't starting for the Vikings, or another team?  I hope I'm wrong, and that Artis Hicks, Chase Johnson, Marcus Johnson, or someone else can step in and do the job. If not, Tavaris Jackson better grow eyes in the back of his head, or make sure the premiums on his life insurance policy are up to date.  Childress seems to have a bit of Dennis Green in him, in that he's said in the past that he prefers to take a "prospect" and "knock the edges off" and then in "two or three years you'll

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