Also, no lollygaggers…Upton did it, paid the price when Madden benched him, apologized, and then returned. One wonders why Girardi, who we thought would be tough, supports these guys with really silly comments when he should come down on them….Cano, obviously, desperately needs Bowa, or a Bowa type to keep him in line.

As a “throw a-way”, and as much as it may be difficulty for many to digest, as the days move on, the likelihood of Manny wearing pinstripes next year increases exponentially.

what in the world did you just say?

I was a sportswriter for 10 years: I covered the NFL, the NHL, and edited the baseball desk for an international wire service, as well as work at two newspapers, one of them a major in a big city.

Therefore, I have plenty of experience talking w/players “off the record” and anonymously. SJ44 is trying to pull rank on people who have not been on either side of the sportswriter/athlete relationship first-hand. One thing I can tell you: players who anonymously call out a teammate always have an agenda. The Yankees have a lot of underachieving, aging veterans, some of whom won’t be re-signed. Cano is 25, and locked up.

Even if the player is being sincere, it is the context that is automatically suspicious – he is confiding it to a reporter for a reason: he wants it printed, and he knows it will be printed. Trisha, of course it is entirely possible – likely?? – that the unnamed player is envious of Cano’s position. How dumb do you think people are, SJ44? They’re all going to put their tails between their legs and scurry off in shame because an unnamed “player” knocked Cano??

As for SJ44 knocking Cano’s fluidity as a poor excuse for lack of hustle, I’m betting, with all of your wannabe connections and interactions, you are a learned pontificator but the notion of physical talent eludes you – for all your rhetoric, you don’t seem to know how to recognize it. And, I’d bet my bottom dollar that you were a not-good-enough player who didn’t have that “smoothness” you stupidly mock, because every time you raise the subject of Cano in the name of rationality, the bile drips all over the commentary.

We don’t all have to all dive and cause a cloud of dirt to reflect effort. That is the worst kind of cliched thinking there is,

Whether the Yankees do or don’t move Cano, whether he fulfills his potential by winning gold gloves and batting titles, or helps the team win a championship, or does not – you are the runaway champion of the most hackneyed kind of spin. The most cliched kind of “thinking.”

the season is over,he won’t be back and we need to get the kids pitching to see what we have and to increase trade values.