The Boss giving up control of the Yanks

[J0nnD0ugh]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txyankeessteinbrenner&prov=st&type=lgns

[SPTO]

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Yep I read that just a while ago. if this was a few years ago i'd be jumping for joy but not really right now. Cashman seemed to have seen the writing on the wall and actually started building up the Yankee farm system. Yes there's going to be a major adjustment period but the Yankees will actually spend reasonably and not blow everyone out of the water with contract offers.

I wonder if monkey see monkey do will apply here and the Red Sox stop with some of those outrageous contract offers as well? Nonetheless I bet the Yanks will have a payroll around 80-100 mil rather then 200 million. LOL

Personally i'll miss not having Steinbrenner there because love him or hate him he made baseball in NY larger then life itself. He's also the last of the outspoken, outrageous type owners that MLB has seen. I don't think we'll ever see ownership like that in pro sports again. Cuban is fun but he doesn't have the idiosyncrasies of a Steinbrenner, O'Finley and Turner.

[NYJets]

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I don't think so, the Yankees will always probably spend a ton of money. They are going to have to spend a lot this offseason to keep A-Rod, Rivera and Posada. They'll get a lot of relief next offseason when Giambi and Pavano finally come off the books, but at the same time if a guy like Santana reaches the market they'll go after him hard. Texiera is also a possibility.

Yankees are smarter with Cashman in charge, but if there's a big time free agent available that makes sense I doubt they'll ever really pass on them.

[Blzer]

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Sad day, IMO. I'm no Yankee fan, nor am I a Steinbrenner fan, but I won't appreciate the Yankees as much without him. He's just a face that I know too well in baseball to let go, and he's not even on the field.

[tWoSour]

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Even as a Red Sox fan, it's kind of a sad day.

Defiantly sad to see that health was the big factor.

[oakfan162]

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Even as a Red Sox fan, it's kind of a sad day.

Defiantly sad to see that health was the big factor.

Exactly, you hate to see it end like that. I'm afraid we are also heading down this road with Al Davis.

[nyisles16]

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ps- the sons have already said Jobba will be in the starting rotation next year

[SPTO]

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Exactly, you hate to see it end like that. I'm afraid we are also heading down this road with Al Davis.

Davis has really really bad arthritis but his mind is still there.

[oakfan162]

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Davis has really really bad arthritis but his mind is still there.

I understand that, but I mean holding on until health forces him out. I'd like to see him groom a replacement and maybe take a lesser advisory role with the team.

Disclaimer: I'm no Raiders or Yankees fan, quite the opposite actually, but they are traditional tenets of their sports that I feel are historically important.

[ehh]

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ps- the sons have already said Jobba will be in the starting rotation next year

Glad to hear that, I was terrified that Torre would ruin his arm by next July.

I hope the two sons take a more hands off approach and let Cashman do a majority of the transaction and front office work.

Sad to see George is finally gone. It already hasn't been the last the last few years without him in the public eye, but now that there's some closure it hits you a little harder. The greatest owner the sport has ever seen, even if he was a complete ******* at times. The one thing you can never take away from him is that he always put the fans' interest first.

Thanks George, for all the memories and all the championships.

[tWoSour]

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very happy to hear Joba is gonna be a starter, the guy scares the hell outta me coming out of the pen.

[SPTO]

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I was listening to the pregame tonight and Jayson Stark said that George still has overall control of the team meaning, he still has say over managers and management. It's his sons that are taking over the day to day stuff.

So it's not like Steinbrenner is totally going away. Still I doubt we'll hear from him as much as we did in the past.

[CMH]

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tom_verducci/10/15/fivecuts.monday/index.html

5. OK, you've probably heard too much already about those infamous sacrifice flies of Cleveland, the mighty midges that, unlike almost all AL hitters, knocked Yankees phenom Joba Chamberlain off his game. But this is too good not to pass on: When the bugs started swarming Chamberlain, a local insect expert in Cleveland telephoned the Indians with an urgent message -- those bugs are called midges, and whatever you do, do NOT use insect repellent; midges are attracted to the stuff. The Yankees practically bathed in bug spray; the more Chamberlain put on, the more the bugs swarmed him. So there you go. The Yankees can spend $190 million on payroll and still leave a blatant weakness: no, not their middle relief -- their lack of an entymology expert.

[NYJets]

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Unbelievable.

As for the thread, I doubt this is anything really new, it was just announced. Too many signs that George has been in bad shape for awhile and hasn't been able to run the Yankees.