Cashman, Gammons to speak at SCSU
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Apr 20, 2009 
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Brian Cashman and ESPN’s Peter Gammons will be speaking at Southern Connecticut State University on Wednesday.
Here’s what the release said:
New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman will join legendary ESPN sports reporter Peter Gammons for a lively discussion about “The Yankees and the Business of Baseball.” The event, part of the Mary and Louis Fusco Distinguished Lecture Series, will be held at Southern Connecticut State University’s Lyman Center at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22.
Tickets are $23 for the general public, $18 for faculty, staff and active alumni, and $10 for students and children. They may be purchased at the Lyman box office: (203) 392-6154 or on line. A premium seating and reception package is also available for $125 per person.
A portion of the proceeds support Southern’s Endowed Awards of Excellence, a merit-based scholarship program.
Here is the link with information on the event,
Order tickets via this link.
Looks like a great cause. I hope we’re up in the standings, otherwise Gammons will be his insufferable HOF self.
fizirst.
too bad they cant have this at Manhattanville.
Are the front row seats in front of the podium $2,600?
cool! they have speakers from both the Yankees and the Red Sox organizations:)
As to Giambi, I would never boo him, but I certainly wouldn’t cheer him.
Re: Nady – I expect we’ll hear today. I know the doctors weren’t sure what was part of the old injury and what was new. In the post, I think Sherman reported that the Yankees are fairly optimistic that maybe they can get Nady back in June. How I hope that is the case……I doubt it, but I’m going to keep my fingers crossed.
As to Giambi, I would never boo him, but I certainly wouldn’t cheer him.
Re: Nady – I expect we’ll hear today. I know the doctors weren’t sure what was part of the old injury and what was new. In the post, I think Sherman reported that the Yankees are fairly optimistic that maybe they can get Nady back in June. How I hope that is the case……I doubt it, but I’m going to keep my fingers crossed.
Wow the general admission is less than a hot dog and a beer at the millionaire’s stadium!!!!!! What a guy the Cashman is!!!!!!!!!!
Did anybody see the absolutely scathing rip job that Matt Taibbi did on Cashman in Mens Journal. If you hate Cashman you’ll love it.
From MLB.Rumors-R-Us
***Regarding Xavier Nady’s elbow injury, Sherman says “the Yanks were privately a lot more optimistic by Sunday that Nady could avoid Tommy John surgery and that he might be able to return in June and form a righty-lefty DH platoon with Hideki Matsui.” Nady had a second MRI on Saturday, and the team doctor will speak with Dr. Lewis Yocum*** .
my cousin is going and said he would send along some thoughts…will post if they are of interest
Bronx Jeers,
Ouch. It sounds painful. He’s not the best and he’s far from the worst. You have to figure that he does his best working for difficult owners and in an organization that was convaluted to say the least. Credit him for streamlining the organizational chart and rebuilding the farm. Trenton and Scranton are bursting at the seams because the old farts are still playing in the Bronx.
So anyway, he may be a bad GM according to some, but he’s our bad GM. And unless Cashman gets caught in some Dateline sting (he does look a little like Pee Wee Herman) or the Yankees crash and burn because of his decisions he’s got my (and I suspect that of many others) support.
Mike Taibi, the guy that used to work for ch 4? I am a big Cash fan – I have no interest in reading a hack job on him, especially from Taibi.
Gammons doesn’t even pretend anymore, huh?
Before, or after, you read the Cashman article Taibbi wrote for Men’s Journal, know this:
“Taibbi spent his childhood in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi
From the other rumors, Brad wilkerson has told Boston that he’s retiring.
How screwed up is the Mets front office? Nelson Figeros was given an emergency start, good for 6 innings, 3 runs, 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. after the game, he was DFA’d so the Mets could bring up Casey (The Possum) Fossom. Figeroa would have been the Mets second best starter.
Oops, wrong guy, though I still have no interest in reading it.
More like Legendary Red sox fan Peter Gammons!!
“Are the front row seats in front of the podium $2,600?”
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Why would anyone want to sit in the front row and have to deal with the gangrenous stench coming from Gammons’ mouth.
Here’s a link to the Cash article by Taibbi. Do not even think about reading it if you have even the remotest admiration for Cash. If you hate him, dig in.
http://www.mensjournal.com/brian-cashman
O is still the prodigy. Rising to the top ranks of the Mets organization from the depths of poverty. Puke.
It’s amazing how he gets away with so much. Cashman gets killed for building up the Yankees through the farm, and Omar gets credit for doing things the old way. Decimate the farm to create a team of “all-star”. They fixed the bullpen, but have no rotation. Good luck with that.
If the title of the evening is “The Yankees and the Business of Baseball,” why is Peter Gammons there?
I guess he’s acting as moderator? Interviewer? Corporate Spy?????
I don’t know if Cashman is a good gm or a bad gm. I think he’s done some very good things and made some good decisions as gm and also made some bad or, rather, questionable, decisions.
I wouldn’t want his job.
I think for the most part he represents the Yankees well and from what I’ve read (elsewhere), he seems to have a good reputation among his peers and players don’t seem to mind him. I think it’s too easy to sit out here and criticize the moves he’s made.
But, like m, he’s got my support.
My real problem with Cashman has always been that it seems that when he wants someone bad enough, for example Carl Pavano or Kyle Farnsworth, he’s willing to ignore all the buzzers and blinking lights and warning signs that surround the move. I don’t think that makes him the worst GM in baseball by any means, but it is maddening.
You do know we paid Pavano less than the Red Sox offered him right?
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It’s especially amazing in light of the last 2 crash-and-burn finishes the Mets have had, and the disastrous way he dealt with Willie Randolph’s situation.
He hasn’t won anything with the Mets yet.
It’s the same old double standard. There’s judging the Yankees, and there’s judging everyone else.
Everyone wanted Pavano. Farnsworth stuff was sexy. And Girardi actually had him fixed, but we “needed” Pudge. Damaso Marte might be a better example. Except there were no warning signs there.
Cashman is class. We might not like what we hear, but the players know that he won’t rip them in public. He did slip with Alex, but understandable after they committed big money to him, only to find out that he had a tainted history. Like I said, lucky thing the hip thing came out or that stuff would still be festering.
Doreen,
Good catch on the topic/”panel” thing.
I’m looking forward to reading a recap of the evening.
What were the buzzers and blinking lights surrounding the Pavano and Farsworth acquisitions?
I am really unfamiliar with the Farnsworth signing, but I do remember at the time that my husband thought it could be a good one.
And Pavano was sought after by many teams. I guess they ignored all the signs, too?
I really think that what did Pavano in was not his injuries, per se – people get injury – but how he dealt with them. I also think Pavano is just one of those individuals most people wouldn’t like no matter what line of work he was in – just a clueless guy.
Win, lose or draw, Cashman will get less credit and more blame because of the sheer size of the Steinbrenner bankroll. Like Doreen said, it’s really difficult to say whether Cashman has done a good job or not, mainly because there’s no real way of knowing just how much influence on player selection is his or the Tampa Mafia.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04.....165321.htm
How come the Mets blunders aren’t getting more airtime…this is ridiculous
Yeah, wasn’t Pavano a horse at the time? No signs of the brittle Pavano that would grace our presence.
I think it’s just Murphy’s Law. If it’s bad, it’ll happen to the Yankees. But we have our share of luck and success, too.
sox with bases loaded and one run already in — 0 outs in the bottom of the 1st
I think we can permanently do away with the notion of the Orioles as being for real this year. They are a decent hitting team but their pitching staff is one of the five worst in all of baseball.
When you run retreads like Mark Hendrickson out there, whose fastball tops out at 88 mph, you bascially have no shot to win.
The Orioles might as well have not even shown up for this series with the Red Sox.
Mets are clueless. Why not have all the great Mets sign the wall. Although they likely wouldn’t fill more than 1/4 of it.
In all seriousness. I’ve heard a number of people complaining about the lack of Met’s stuff. Seriously in the bar they have no pictures of the Mets? Really what is up with that?
I knew when the Orioles blew that 7 run lead on Thursday, they wouldn’t recover.
The Sox are a great team, we just have to accept it. Good thing Tampa looks vulnerable.
Thanks for posting that link, Rishi. The Mets are a joke.
Citi Field has more Dodgers/Giants history in it than Mets.
“Replays appeared inconclusive. In one, the ball seemed over the wall. In another, it appeared to hit the wall and come back in play. In yet another view, it seemed fans interfered.
“My argument was the fan and the glove were coming together at the same time on top of the fence so it was still in play,” Wedge said.
Crowe said if no fans had been involved, he would have caught the drive easily. But Crowe killed any Indians protest by being brutally honest. He said his glove “was on the home run side of the wall,” under the fans’ reach. He’s a rookie.”
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04.....165333.htm
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jennifer
April 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Mets are clueless. Why not have all the great Mets sign the wall. Although they likely wouldn’t fill more than 1/4 of it.
In all seriousness. I’ve heard a number of people complaining about the lack of Met’s stuff. Seriously in the bar they have no pictures of the Mets? Really what is up with that?
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I can see the point that the Mets front office is trying to make, though. If they wanted all of the Mets greats to sign the walls, it would look pretty tacky with just 3 names up there.
I wonder how the NAdy situation is handled..
what if they want him to play out year/in June, and it can cause offseason surgery and rehab to affect his next year?
who gets final word? the player or team?
If you look very closely, the ball actually hit the back side of Crowe’s glove after it hit the top of the wall , then the fan and then, back on the field. Imagine the arguement if Crowe had held onto the ball when he hit the ground and landed on his back, though.
When the ball is over the wall (it was) the fans have every right to interfere. It was a homerun.
“I wonder how the NAdy situation is handled..
what if they want him to play out year/in June, and it can cause offseason surgery and rehab to affect his next year?
who gets final word? the player or team?”
I think Nady already indicated he doesn’t want surgery. Neither do the Yanks.
If I were Hal Steinbrenner, I would strongly advise Cashman to keep his distance from Gammons.
The entire baseball world is aware of where the loyalties of Gammons are.
pictures of met greats in the bar would cause the sudden urge for some to find something to buy off someone, other than the bartender…
**** gammons