[SteveR]

Hank Steinbrenner announced today that he will personally take over the personnel decisions starting at the end of the season. He said the team next year will look nothing like the team this year. I read into that that Gerardi and Cashman are gone. I don't understand the Yankees front office mentality. They think that if it's not working at 110% today, fire everybody and see what happens tomorrow. They have a current streak of firing at least 60% of the team every off season for the last six years. What do they expect? It takes time for the players to get comfortable with each other and to know what to expect from each other and for the pitchers to get comfortable with the catchers. With all this crap going on, I can easily see the Yanks falling back into the slump of the '80's. With all the firing and threats, I can see New York once again being a city that players dont want to be traded to.