New York Yankees Season: Cashman's Job on the Line
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00:05 Let's bring Brian Cashman into the fold because the New York Yankees yesterday
00:09 did snap the losing streak as Aaron Judge said, all right, I'll just do this all
00:14 myself and remind everybody that I'm a brilliant, brilliant baseball player.
00:18 Brian Cashman yesterday talked a little bit about the Yankees and
00:22 this season let's hear from him first.
00:24 >> Brian, just how much of a shock has the losing been to you and your staff?
00:28 >> It's been a disaster this season and yeah, it's definitely a shock.
00:34 Certainly, I don't think anybody on our side of the fence,
00:40 from our player group, from our coaches, our manager, or
00:44 even outside the organization saw, would have predicted this, so.
00:47 >> Brian Cashman has certainly come under fire and again,
00:53 that's what you expect to hear when a team disappoints like this, the IRS.
00:57 And the thing with the New York Yankees is, I would say for
01:02 a while now, their seasons have ended to varying degrees of disappointment.
01:07 But obviously for the Yankees, it's one of those teams where you look beneath you
01:12 and you go, man, anybody would kill to be in our shoes.
01:15 But those teams, one, are the Yankees and you have to get over the hump.
01:19 And this was the year where people were like, man,
01:21 the Yankees better get over the hump, right?
01:23 Can't be the Astros in the postseason, can this team get to a World Series?
01:28 They've gone all the way back, there's no defense of it anymore.
01:31 This is not a last place team in a brilliant division who's above 500, but
01:36 they just can't crack through, no, no, no.
01:39 This is a team that's 17 games back of the Baltimore Orioles,
01:44 485-100, and they just finally snapped a historic losing streak for this franchise.
01:51 >> Brian Cashman's job being on the line, if it isn't on the line,
01:56 then what even are the New York Yankees?
01:59 Is this a team that, again, Donnie, they're not mediocre this season.
02:03 They're a bad baseball team, clear as day.
02:05 >> Yes, and when you bottom out, changes are supposed to come.
02:09 And this isn't one of those things where you say, well, Brian Cashman,
02:11 you didn't give him a chance, Kevin.
02:12 He only had three years to try to turn the franchise around.
02:15 No, he's been there for an extremely long time.
02:17 And sometimes, and yesterday, Mark Zinno was on talking with us, and
02:20 what he was basically saying is,
02:22 I hope they lose every single game all the way through.
02:24 I don't wanna see them make a September surge when it doesn't matter.
02:27 Man, we finished three games out of the wild card.
02:29 You know what?
02:30 Wait till Dominguez gets up here next year is the running joke that I have, and
02:33 that'll be enough to put us over the top to get a wild card spot.
02:36 That's not the New York Yankees.
02:37 It is boom or bust.
02:38 It's championship or not.
02:39 It's not we were close to making the playoffs or even getting a wild card.
02:43 That's embarrassing for a Yankees franchise at this point.
02:45 If I'm looking from the Steinbrenner position here,
02:48 you're the laughingstock right now of baseball because you had that high payroll,
02:52 high expectations were there.
02:54 And let's even talk about this, Kevin, the nine game losing streak.
02:57 It wasn't as if the Yankees season was over.
02:58 Could they were in the division?
02:59 No, they were never going to do that.
03:01 But if they played a game over 500 baseball,
03:03 you're still talking about wild card baseball at the start of September.
03:07 Keep a nice little hot streak there, and
03:08 you might be talked about in the final few weeks.
03:10 They buried themselves here.
03:12 The team basically gave up, and it's just not talented enough for
03:15 the money you spent.
03:16 So again, if I'm looking from an ownership group and I meet with Brian Cashman and
03:20 I say, okay, let's look at the numbers here.
03:22 You had the second highest overall payroll in baseball.
03:24 What did it do for us, Brian?
03:25 How we missed the playoffs?
03:26 Yeah, you're fired.
03:27 You can't do that.
03:28 You can't do that in New York City.
03:29 Changes have to be made.
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