What Will I Write About Once Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi Are Gone?

Brian Cashman is a mysterious man that makes a lot of big and mysteries decisions sometimes. Isn’t there at least one or two guys on the roster every single year that you kind of shake your head about and wonder why they are even in the major leagues, especially on a high profile team like the New York Yankees? You have Stephen Drew and Chris Capuano this year and for half of 2014, you had Alfonso Soriano for the first half of 2014, you had Vernon Wells in 2013 and you had Raul Ibanez for every month not named October in 2012. You also have the trades that make you scratch your head, Tyler Clippard for Jonathan Albaladejo anyone? Anyone? Cashman is a mysterious and a very, very frustrating individual at times.

Joe Girardi, Joe Girardi and that stupid binder of his. Girardi and his obsession with stacking left handed hitters in a lineup against a right handed pitcher. Girardi and his sometimes short hook for his starting pitchers that are doing well and Girardi with his line that has just a little too much slack at other times for those same starting pitchers who obviously don’t have it anymore that night. Girardi and his Circle of Trust and his dependence on veterans like Stephen Drew and Capuano when he has more than serviceable and comparable options already on the bench rotting away six days a week. The way Girardi likes to “ride the hot hand” of players like Garrett Jones and the way he continues to stick up for and make excuses for others, if Lou Gehrig was the luckiest man in the world Stephen Drew is the unluckiest man on the face of the Earth.

There is an old saying, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. We all complain about Hal Steinbrenner as the Yankees owner but it could be worse, we could have Jeffrey Loria. Fans out there complain about Cashman but what if the Yankees had a GM like the Mets have in Sandy Alderson that just can’t seem to find a way to plug the holes on the team and can’t find that player to get the team over the hump. Yankees fans want Girardi’s head and iPad (binder) on a torch in front of Yankee Stadium but what if the team had Bobby Valentine or (fill in the blank here because I’m sure you get the message by now) wearing fake mustaches and thinking he’s Buck Showalter when he’s more like Bobby Show-killer.

Steinbrenner, Cashman and Girardi are good for business. They are frustrating, they go against logical thinking and they just plain ole don’t make sense sometimes. It’s frustrating as a fan but it makes it so much easier to be the arm chair quarterback as a blogger. Keep being you guys, “Daddy’s gotta eat.” I don’t actually get paid to blog but it sounded good… stay with me.