not a word of this in the game article. it’s not just this paper – the NY Times article was just as bad.

the beat writers for the Yankees are really awful. it wasn’t that long ago when, if you read about a game you didn’t see, in most papers you’d get the key points spelled out. now – forget it. they describe games about as well as Giambi throws to 2B.

i would not sign burnett,maybe sheets,perez.dempster scares me.
maybe sheets and mak a trade for a good young pitcher.

anyone wan’t to see fielder on this team at first base,trade cano and then some for a peavey type.

this is where tabata,olendorf,karsens would come in handy.package cano,tabata,olendorf,karsens for peavey or volquez or someone similar.

a good pitching staff wouldn’t hurt either.

i’ve been around a lot of pro baseball coaches in my lifetime because of living in sarasota in the winter most of the past 25 years. the orioles have had a minor league complex there forever( used to be major league), white sox, pirates are also there. i’ve known them from being in spring training locker rooms as a bullpen catcher and from taking their money on the golf course( i get to practice more than they do).

baseball coaches are not rocket scientists. what they know is baseball from a lifetime of experience. different coaches have totally different life experiences when they played. the coaches who were really good players are a bit different than the ones who had to give up pro baseball early because they just weren’t that good.

i’m not saying a coach can’t be good if he couldn’t do it himself, but experiencing something you are teaching doesn’t hurt. for instance torre and mattingly are very good hitting coaches. the present yankee coaches are all(except pena) ex players who were journeymen at best.

again some great coaches come out of this pool. but last year the yankees had coaches who were stars. mattingly,torre,guidry,bowa,etc. on a team like the yankees that will always have star players i think you’d better have some coaches that these stars can look up too.

the reason is that one of the first thing players on a team do is check the mlb credentials of a coach. they won’t say it on the record ,but they do.this present staff has little mlb experience. no way the players on this team listen to them the way they did with last year’s staff.

this year they stayed the same path,it didn’t work from day one and on the last day it doesn’t work.

they should of tried to trade cano with prospects for a good young pitcher,taken ponson and rasner out long ago,started aceves earlier,maybe coke.

that pitching staff was doomed as soon as wang wen’t down,it was easy to see.pettitte,rasner,ponson are not the answers,all have around a 5 era or higher.

instead they trade 4 or 5 good prospects for 2 players that we do not need and will have to be let go or signed for big money.they could of used tabata and the others to get this team right.now they lost 5 good prospects that could of been used properly to fix this mess,especially tabata.

cano,tabata,olendorf,karsens and the others could of brought a good young pitcher,center fielder or first baseman,very bad move.

the cops will let you pass the barrier if you need to pick up tickets in the main office—you walk right by the gate where the players come in ( i got to walk right by mariano once that way)