Matt Taibbi on New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman
As I've stated here previously, I'm not really a big fan of New York Yankee fans. I'm sort of lukewarm on the team itself, I don't really that strongly about them one way or the other to be honest, but there's something so delightful in seeing the Yankees fail because their fans are so fucking insufferable. And as I've also noted here previously, I'm a big fan of Matt Taibbi's acerbic prose, so, naturally, on a day when the Yankees shit the bed spectacularly in their new stadium with a 22-4 loss to the Cleveland Indians, a team I'm positive some junior college squads could take in a seven game series, and a day I discover an amazing takedown of Yankees GM Brian Cashman written by Taibbi for Men's Journal, I mean fuck, how could I not take a couple of minutes on a Saturday to post a quote or two from it?
In its totality Taibbi's piece is spot-on and viciously funny, but here's the money quote(s) of the thing as far as I'm concerned...
Because objectively speaking, the job of New York Yankees general manager should be the single most failure-proof position not only in sports but in all of human society. Giving a normal, red-blooded, pattern-baldness-suffering American male access to the Steinbrenner fortune and asking him to buy 25 baseball players a year in an unregulated market is no different, in any meaningful way, from handing Sarah Jessica Parker a blank check and asking her to fill a three-bedroom apartment with shoes and dresses. And we’re not even asking her to get good deals. All we ask is that the outfits match…What Brian Cashman has accomplished as GM of the Yankees over the past few years, in turning a perennial World Series champ into a third-place also-ran, is like walking into a backstage party for Led Zeppelin with a two-pound bag of coke and a 28-inch penis and failing for a whole night to get laid.
Ouch.
Go read the whole piece here. Some may say it's a little over the top, but in my eyes it's perfect.
2 comments:
cb,
in regards your front page post and pic....
when was the last time you attended a ball game at the latrine?
and i dont use that word just because i hate the dodgers (i do hate them)
i have been attending games at chavez for close to 20 years
in that time i have watched both ball park and fan...devolve
the stadium is falling apart..and the fan base that attends is made up mostly of gang bangers who get drunk long before the first pitch is thrown (which means they have all been driving drunk, cuz bum fans dont show up until the 3rd inning)
i have only been to one game over the past 2 years, and went without my colors ( i am a giants fan)...for the last time i wore a giants cap, i was spit upon and had a baby bottle dropped on my head from an upper deck
the security is awful, and there are frequent reports of the accuser being tossed rather than the instigator
the latrine is the only park in the nation that sends out a security force onto the field inbetween innings....ya, great place to watch baseball
want a beautiful park and a great experiecnce? got to the belle (i hate calling it att...fuck em) or wrigley...or anywhere
but the latrine sucks
in fact...everything about the dodgers sucks...except for vinnie
i fuck that long haired hippie rasta who bats third for them
The Yankees are another team that started slowly but they’ve turned it around. Since Alex Rodriguez returned, the entire squad has played much better. They should keep going to keep pace with the others. I really like them; they’ve always been my favourite teams in MLB. Just read about them here:
http://www.yankeesground.com
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