Guess who wasn’t in the Bronx today?
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jan 06, 2009 
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Ken Davidoff mentioned this on his blog today:
Hal Steinbrenner, Jennifer Steinbrenner and Jessica Steinbrenner’s husband Felix Lopez all attended. In a related story, Hank Steinbrenner finally got around to seeing “American Pie Presents Band Camp.”
It’s pretty sad what a pack of chumps New York baseball writers were a year ago (myself included), lining up to quote Hank. Meanwhile Hal was actually running the team.
Hank keeps drawing the short cigarette, so he has to stay home and watch these events on TV with Dad.
You’d think he’d catch on. Everyone else has Marlboro 100′s – Hank has the short box of Reds.
You wouldn’t have happened to be one of those chumps, would you Pete?
I know it’s not important, but it amuses me that every time, almost without fail, last year that Hank would come out and rail against the Yankees, the Yankees would respond.
Not scoring enough runs?
They score 18 the very next game.
Moose needs to pitch like Jaime Moyer?
He finishes the season with 20 wins.
It makes me laugh.
Moose needed to pitch like Jamie Moyer as in, into October
I think Hank’s job is to leak rumors to his buddies he made in the NY press. (sorry Pete, maybe you didn’t make the buddy list)
Whenever I see “according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations” or “according to a person close to the situation” – I look for the trail of Marlboro smoke in the wind…
Rebecca, Nick:
have you noticed that all of our posts from 30 mins ago were completely gone?
I remember sometime shortly after the 2007 season there was some clip of Hank on ESPN or someplace, and he was going on about how not it was him “in the big chair” and how different things were going to be. It kind of struck me in a pop psychology way that he wanted to succeed (or be perceived as succeeding) where his father had recently failed to live up to what Big Stein had accomplished, but Hank seemed to be burdened with too much bluster and goofiness. I suspect the Yanks are better off without an Oedipal drama being played out in the owners’ box.
Hal just seems smooth and confident without the bluster. What’s really amazing is that he’s made a ton of progress in that regard in such little time. Here he was just 15 or so months ago:
http://tinyurl.com/7gkdm2
Ed: Huh, fancy that.
Rebecca,
the posts about Mel being MIA, and Dave’s long posts were all gone.
Which posts? I just peeked back in the last thread and I think my posts are still there…?
Nick,
read the comment above your reply.
Whatcha talkin’ about Ed. All the posts are there.
Ed: Mine are all still there–at least the ones I remember posting
Ed, I just checked, refreshed, and checked again. My posts that mention mel are still there, at least on my laptop:
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/200.....ent-635146
Maybe this was mentioned earlier today – I didn’t sift through all the press conference posts. (hey, someone has to work)
When Cashman went to the microphone – and that crazy loud feedback noise happened – (Cash’s look was priceless) –
All I could think about was the Cashman Winter Meetings whoopie cushion he used with the beat writers. Was this retaliation or just karma at work?
At least Pete had an alibi… he wasn’t there.
Ed-
Are you trying to pull some Tom Foolery on us?
ahh..never mind. I was seeing stuff before. I saw posts that went from 1030-1215. Nothing between those hours.
Ed, your goofy conspiracy theory stomped all over my elaborate Hal picture joke, boooooo!
Hank is a very busy man. He spends his day…um:
Watching cartoons?
Playing with one of his horses?
Buying packs of cigarettes?
Working on various sketches of horses to show Matsui?
Talking on the phone to his imaginary friends?
I’m getting the increasing feeling that the final slot in the rotation is going to be Andy Pettitte or Phil Hughes.
I don’t think they are going to target another veteran starter if Pettitte doesn’t return.
Now I like Hughes as much as any Yankee fan and I believe he’ll be a good one for many years, but he did miss three months of the season in 2007 and another three months in 2008.
This cannot be ignored.
Given the injury history of Burnett – the Yanks are just one DL stint away from having both Hughes and Kennedy/Aceves in the rotation and starting 40% of your games with Joba on an innings cap.
Seems to me like a pretty big gamble, especially after what happened last season with all the injuries and subpar pitching by the youngsters even when they were healthy.
Whether it’s Pettitte or someone else, they really need that innings eater at the back end of the rotation.
Pettitte would give the Yanks an edge over either the Red Sox or Rays pitching staff and that’s very significant in the toughest division in MLB.
Guiseppe Franco-I agree it will be Andy Pettitte or Phil Hughes. I’m okay with that but it kinda sux because I’d really like them to come around to Ben Sheets. I know he’s an injury risk too but when healthy he makes 30+ starts and has ace stuff. Plus we’d still have Hughes,, Coke, Aceves and others to fill in when there is an injury. Randy Wolf, while no where as good would be a solid lefty signing to give us 180…200…or more innings. IMO John Garland is an under rated starter on the market as well. But I think in the long run either Andy comes back or Hughes is our #5. But we shouldn’t decide its in ink because there’s plenty of time for a signing or trade to change it all. Swisher and/or Nady could bring us another starter as well.
Kevin, if you actually read Pete’s remarks in full BEFORE jumping on your keyboard with both feet, you would be aware that he says ‘myself included’.
It looks like Andy and Yankees are at an impasse, I’m not holding my breath for him to come back, the Andy money has been spent. That being said, I think Aceves is a more natural fit into the #5 role this year, he pitched a bunch of innings between Mexican ball and the minors, and he isn’t tremendously young like the other guys. He is our innings eater. It’s useless to have all of this pitching dpeth and not be comfortable throwing these guys out there.
“It’s pretty sad what a pack of chumps New York baseball writers were a year ago ”
Pete,
Not sure what your reference to one year ago is. Sure a year ago was ridiculous but only one month ago rumors reached a fevered pitch over the yankees interest in Manny – the source of which was repeatedly cited as being Hank’s interest in Manny.
It’s remarkable that journalists are still using Hank as a source and ignoring the inconvenient fact that he has ostensibly little say in the operation of the team – but they are still quoting and citing Hank on personnel moves.
If Andy keeps pouting I can envision a scenario in which Joba, Hughes and Aceves each makes about 18-22 starts. However it makes a full season of AJ even more imperative.
With the market being so scarce they might be able to sign a pretty damn good starter for the $ 10 million they budgeted for andy n a one year deal so the guy could try the market again next year.
“American Pie Presents Band Camp.”
Does anyone know what theaters this is playing at? Sounds good!
Starting to get real tired of Petes anti girardi anti Yankee stuff