These Yankees Need To Be Dismantled - Immediately

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Yankees' Notes and Quotes
Published 8/21/2008 by Mark Serio (munsoned1@yahoo.com) at BASEBALL HOT CORNER
... Too late: In an article titled, "These Yankees Need To Be Dismantled--Immediately" the author writes: "There is nothing left for the Yankees to prove in 2008. They've established themselves as one of the weaker sisters in club history." In the spring of 2007, I wrote an article suggesting that the Yanks trade off the over-the-hill gang and bite the bullet with kids in order to rebuild a solid foundation. I suggested a front office person with experience in this monumental task be hired and suggested Buck Showalter, who built the Diamond Backs from the ...

Thursday Applesauce
Published 8/21/2008 by Eric Simon at Amazin' Avenue
... off on instant replay to review disputed homerun calls. No timetable has been set for its implementation, but we already know that MLB is champing at the bit to get instant replay in place prior to this year's postseason. WUA president and face-spit recipient John Hirschbeck put the right spin on it, saying "I told our members that it's just another tool that we can use to get the play right, not to look at it as a negative, but a positive." Steven Goldman says the Yankees should be dismantled. Thursday reading: All you ever wanted to know (and more!) about ...

Diss Mantle? You don't do that in Yankeeland!
Published 8/21/2008 by Nick-YF at YFSF
... Steve Goldman, writing for the New York Sun, is not sanguine about the Yanks in 2009. He thinks it's time to dismantle the Bombers sooner than later: ...

Bronx Banter: What's Next?
Published 8/21/2008 at Baseball Toaster
Steven Goldman, writing in the New York Sun , thinks 2009 might be more of the same, or worse, for the Yanks. His suggestion? Bust 'em up, baby: With next year's pitching staff likely to be at least as unsettled as the current edition, the Yankees are in a difficult spot. If baseball teams don't decide when to rebuild, the gods of baseball tend to decide for them. There's a penalty to holding on too long, to having the issue forced: Your team might turn into the Baltimore Orioles (in the Yankees' case, Jeter standing in for the aging Cal Ripken). Hence, the Yankees should be ...

Baseball Today: Friday, August 22
Published 8/22/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... THEY'RE WIDE OPEN: That's not quite true. Steven Goldman, writing in the New York Sun, says that long-ago cry "Break up the Yankees!" should be revived . . . not from Yankee-haters this time, but inside the team's executive suite. Because if they don't, next season "could easily be worse than this one." ...